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Alan Hepburn [Parents]

Ethel Spensley


Thomas Hepburn Jr [Parents] was christened 1 on 5 Feb 1775 in Pelton, Chester-le Street, Durham, England. He died 2 on 4 May 1801 in Pelton, Chester-le Street, Durham, England. He was buried 3 on 6 May 1801 in Pelton, Chester-le Street, Durham, England. He married 4, 5 Catharine Nicholson on 5 Apr 1795 in Pelton, Chester-leStreet, Durham, England.

CHILD-SPOUSE: Parish Register, Chester-le-Street Baptisms; 1780-1811; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 91090; page 110; Copy in possession of Theodore Stephens, Palo Alto, CA; NOTE: Birth Register of Thomas Hepburn listing Thomas Hepburn and Catherine Nicholson as parents.

CHILD-SPOUSE: Parish Register, Chester-le-Street Baptisms; 1780-1811; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 91090; page 123; Copy in possession of Theodore Stephens, Palo Alto, CA; NOTE: Birth Register of Margaret Hepburn listing Thomas Hepburn and Catherine Nicholson as parents.

CHILD-SPOUSE: Parish Register, Chester-le-Street Baptisms, Birth and Christening of Joseph Hepburn; 1780-1811; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 91090; page 154; Copy in possession of Theodore Stephens, Palo Alto, CA; NOTE: Register lists Thomas Hepburn and Catharine Nicholson as parents of Joseph Hepburn - born 25 Dec 1799, christened 2 Mar 1800.

Catharine Nicholson [Parents] was christened on 25 Jun 1775 in Pelton, Chester-le Street, Durham, England. She married 1, 2 Thomas Hepburn Jr on 5 Apr 1795 in Pelton, Chester-leStreet, Durham, England.

CHILD-SPOUSE: Parish Register, Chester-le-Street Baptisms; 1780-1811; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 91090; page 110; Copy in possession of Theodore Stephens, Palo Alto, CA; NOTE: Birth Register of Thomas Hepburn listing Thomas Hepburn and Catherine Nicholson as parents.

CHILD-SPOUSE: Parish Register, Chester-le-Street Baptisms; 1780-1811; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 91090; page 123; Copy in possession of Theodore Stephens, Palo Alto, CA; NOTE: Birth Register of Margaret Hepburn listing Thomas Hepburn and Catherine Nicholson as parents.

CHILD-SPOUSE: Parish Register, Chester-le-Street Baptisms, Birth and Christening of Joseph Hepburn; 1780-1811; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 91090; page 154; Copy in possession of Theodore Stephens, Palo Alto, CA; NOTE: Register lists Thomas Hepburn and Catharine Nicholson as parents of Joseph Hepburn - born 25 Dec 1799, christened 2 Mar 1800.

They had the following children:

  M i Thomas Hepburn III
  F ii Margaret Hepburn was born in Pelton, Chester-le Street, Durham, England. She was christened 1, 2 on 5 Nov 1797 in Pelton, Chester-le Street, Durham, England.
  M iii Joseph William Hepburn Sr

John E Foss was born 1 in 1877 in Indiana. He died in Indiana. He married Lillian M in 1899.

Lillian M was born 1, 2 in 1882 in Indiana. She died 3 in 1930 in Porter, Porter County, Indiana. She married John E Foss in 1899.

They had the following children:

  F i Mabel Foss
  F ii Alice Foss
  F iii Lenna Foss
  F iv Margaret Foss

William Rice was born 1 in 1814 in New York. He married Angeline.

Angeline was born 1 in 1825 in New York. She married William Rice.

They had the following children:

  F i Harriet Rice

Nicholas Ehlen was born in 1836 in Rhineland, Germany. He died 1 on 24 Dec 1878 in Porter, Porter County, Indiana. The cause of death was Gunshot Wounds. He married 2 Barbara Schleier in 1868 in Porter, Porter, IN.

SPOUSE-CHILDREN-STEPCHILDREN-RESIDENCE: 1870 Indiana Census, Porter County, Westchester Township; 1870; U S Federal Archives, San Bruno, CA, Film # 351; Page Number 16, Family 125; Film viewed and recorded on 7 January 1993 by Theodore R Stephens, Palo Alto, CA; COMMENT: Age 31, living with wife Barbara and step- children Charles, Ella, Johnny, and Frank Stephens and children Thebe and Allice Ehlen.

Barbara Schleier [Parents] was born 1, 2 about 1834. She died on 11 Sep 1877 in Porter, Porter County, Indiana. She was buried on 13 Sep 1877. She married 3 Nicholas Ehlen in 1868 in Porter, Porter, IN.

Other marriages:
Stephens, Balthasar

SPOUSE-CHILDREN: Living Biographies - Theodore Stephens; 1956; Duneland Historical Society, Chesterton, IN, Volume II, Number 4, April, 1956; pages 1-4; Copy in possession of Theodore R Stephens, Palo Alto, CA or Reference Section, Chesterton Public Library, Chesterton, IN; NOTE: Balthasar's sister Kathryn married Barbara Schleier's brother.

CHILD: Certificate of Death, Charles A Stephens; 1918; Indiana State Board of Health-Vital Records, Certificate # 6323; Certified Copy in possession of Theodore R Stephens, Palo Alto, CA; NOTE: Certificate lists Balthasar Stephens and Barby Kleinschmidt as parents (Frank Stephens-brother was informant). Subsequent information found in the National Archives showed that Barbara had a sister living in Dubuque, IA whose name was Kleinschmidt.

SPOUSE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCE: 1870 Indiana Census, Porter County, Westchester Township; 1870; U S Federal Archives, San Bruno, CA, Film # 351; Page Number 16, Family 125; Film viewed and recorded on 7 January 1993 by Theodore R Stephens, Palo Alto, CA; COMMENT: Age 30, living with husband Nicholas Ehlen, children Charles, Ella, Johnny, and Frank Stephens and children Thebe and Allice Ehlen.

They had the following children:

  F i Elizabeth B Ehlen was born 1 on 15 Aug 1868 in Porter, Porter County, Indiana. She died 2, 3 on 31 May 1941 in Porter, Porter County, Indiana. She was buried 4 on 2 Jun 1941 in Chesterton Cemetery, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana.
  F ii Francis Ehlen was born in 1876 in Porter, Porter County, Indiana.

Thomas Hepburn III [Parents] was born 1, 2 in Feb 1796 in Pelton, Chester-le Street, Durham, England. He was christened 3, 4 on 27 Mar 1796 in Pelton, Chester-le Street, Durham, England. He died 5, 6 on 9 Dec 1864 in Newcastle, North Umberland, England. He was buried on 10 Dec 1864 in Heworth Churchyard, Gateshead, Durham, England. He married Mary about 1814.

Other marriages:
, Alice

BIOGRAPHY-OCCUPATION-ORGANIZATIONS-RESIDENCES: Sidney Webb, THE STORY OF THE DURHAM MINERS (1662-1921); 1662-1921; 1921, The Fabian Society, 25 Tothill Street, Westminster, London, SW1; pages 28-37; The Miners Hall, Durham, England; NOTE: Book covers Thomas Hepburn's activities in organizing the coal miners of Durham in 1831-1832.

HONORS: United Kingdom, HRM Postal Service, Commerative Postage Stamp; 1976; Postage Stamp issued in honor of Thomas Hepburn - Social Reformer and Union Organizer, 1830-1831; Original stamp in possession of Theodore R Stephens, Palo Alto, CA.

Mary died before 1819. She married Thomas Hepburn III about 1814.

They had the following children:

  F i Ann Hepburn was born in 1815.

Jesse Bartlett Deming was born on 20 Nov 1892 in Cornish Flat, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. He married Hazel Robinson.

SPOUSE-CHILD: Interview with Norman Deming and Caroline Tooker; 1993; at the home of Ed & Polly Tooker, Los Alto, CA; April 1993; notes in possession of Theodore R Stephens, Palo Alto, CA.

Hazel Robinson

They had the following children:

  M i Norman R Deming

Malcolm Alexander Kirkland

Martha Ruth Deming [Parents]

They had the following children:

  M i Alexander Deming Kirkland
  M ii Jesse Alexander Kirkland

John Andrew Murphy

Joan Elizabeth Deming [Parents]

They had the following children:

  F i Amanda Regina Murphy

Thomas Hepburn Sr was born in 1754. He died after 1794 in Harraton Colliery, County Durham, England. He married 1, 2 Elizabeth Hull on 25 Dec 1772 in Brancepeth, , Durham, England.

Elizabeth Hull.Elizabeth married 1, 2 Thomas Hepburn Sr on 25 Dec 1772 in Brancepeth, , Durham, England.

They had the following children:

  M i Thomas Hepburn Jr
  F ii Margaret Hepburn was born in 1777.
  M iii John Hepburn
  M iv Henry Hepburn was christened 1, 2 on 25 Dec 1782 in Pelton, Chester-le-Street, Durham, England.
  M v Robert Hepburn
  F vi Elizabeth Hepburn
  M vii Michael Hepburn

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