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Re: St Peter ( Sheffield Cathedral ) burials

Evening,

I have found the following baptism on Family Search

Name John Stephenson
Sex Male
Father's Name Matthew Stephenson
Father's Sex Male
Event Type Christening
Event Date 14 Mar 1762
Event Place Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

This bears out with his apprenticeship age.

I also found on my old CD's SPC Burials of two children born to John a scissorsmith and buried in 1804 & 1806. Joseph & Matthew respectively.

The Cd's were from SDFHS.

I believe I also found a brother for John called Samuel who was also buried SPC in Oct 1772. The father is listed as Matthew.

More digging on FAMILY SEARCH is needed.

Elaine

Re: St Peter ( Sheffield Cathedral ) burials

Elaine in Ottawa
Evening,

I have found the following baptism on Family Search

Name John Stephenson
Sex Male
Father's Name Matthew Stephenson
Father's Sex Male
Event Type Christening
Event Date 14 Mar 1762
Event Place Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

This bears out with his apprenticeship age.

I also found on my old CD's SPC Burials of two children born to John a scissorsmith and buried in 1804 & 1806. Joseph & Matthew respectively.

The Cd's were from SDFHS.

I believe I also found a brother for John called Samuel who was also buried SPC in Oct 1772. The father is listed as Matthew.

More digging on FAMILY SEARCH is needed.

Elaine

Hi Roger,

From our Baptisms over to the left.

STEVENSON, Joseph (of ~, born 1802-05-27).
Baptised July 25, 1802, by ~ at Sheffield Parish Church, Church Street, Sheffield.
Parents name(s) are Jane & John (Scissorsth).

Just a thought. I can not see Matthews (1806?) baptism.

If and I am sure John did complete his apprenticeship I have a feeling that he would always be called a scissor smith throughout his life. I have a number of scissor smiths in my tree and they died as scissor smiths. Not many burial grounds around at that time.

Does it not seem funny that we can only spot two children for him and Jane. Does that mean he died shortly after their births OR he left Jane.

Family history can be a mystery at times.

Elaine.

Roger use our Parish Records and just enter their surname (Stevenson) and parents first names.

Re: St Peter ( Sheffield Cathedral ) burials

Good afternoon and my sincere thanks to all of you that have contributed to my post !
Now sat here scratching my head.
Decisions to be made on who is who.
Fascinating as usual.

I often wonder why and have done so for the past 40 + years of family history research, that apart from known Stevenson family members, I haven't had any enquiries from Stevenson folks with roots in Sheffield and looking back through history there have been a lot of Stevenson's in this town and city.