50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge - Day 25

Fragments of Family History – The Family of William Stephens & Mary Newman Buckman – Mary Theresa Stephens

Jennifer Jones from TRACKING DOWN THE FAMILY has initiated a 50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge. This is a big writing commitment, but I have decided to participate. I have decided my topic will be “Fragments of Family History”. I will write short posts of newspaper items or single stories connected to my family history. This may expand over the 50 days.

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Mary Theresa Stephens

Mary Theresa Stephens was born on 29 April 1838 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England.¹ Her parents were my 3x Great Grandparents, William Stephens and Mary Newman Buckman. Mary Theresa was their third child. She died in the July quarter 1838 in West Bromwich.²

Mary Theresa was baptised at St Michael & the Holy Angels Catholic Church, West Bromwich by Reverend George Spencer on 6 May 1838.³

If they were following the English naming pattern for their children, she should be named after her mother, which she was, Mary. Having Theresa as a second name suggests she was baptised Catholic, which she was.

Bildnis eines Mädchens mit rosa Maschen im Haar, Dorotheum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

1. FindMyPast, England Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms, Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, P304/1/1,1832-1855, p26.

2. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., FreeBDM, General Register Office, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915, Vol. 18, Page 339.

3. FindMyPast, England Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms, Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, P304/1/1,1832-1855, p26.