Hi Linda, Checked my Reunion notes and don't find them. Not to say that we aren't connected though. Ever since David and Helen left Scotland they have been travelling. First to VA, then NB, then ME. Everywhere they settle, there are STEVENS' who I cannot connect to, but must have been relatives. My STEVENS' are originally from Cirencester in Gloucestershire ENG. I have not found many family searchers who are tracing their families to ENG yet, but feel that there will be a connection breakthrough at some point. Happy hunting Jay > >X-Message: #10 >Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:13:49 -0400 >From: Linda <ljak1@rogers.com> >To: CAN-NB-NORTHUMBERLAND-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <3D3DAAED.64930D49@rogers.com> >Subject: [CAN-NB-NORTHUMBERLAND-L] STEPENs Stevens >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi Jay...... >In my McKinnon line at Blackville, ALICE MCKINNON daughter of CHARLES >MCKINNON bn...1845 married John STEPHANS/Stevens......and her sister >Jane married James STEPHANS / STEVENS.......and had children Emma and >Sarah Jane..........do those connect with yours ?? >Linda > -- Jay

At 06:57 AM 7/29/2002 -0400, Jay wrote: >Hi Linda, >Checked my Reunion notes and don't find them. Not to say that we aren't >connected though. Ever since David and Helen left Scotland they have been >travelling. First to VA, then NB, then ME. Everywhere they settle, there >are STEVENS' who I cannot connect to, but must have been relatives. My >STEVENS' are originally from Cirencester in Gloucestershire ENG. I have >not found many family searchers who are tracing their families to ENG yet, >but feel that there will be a connection breakthrough at some point. >Happy hunting >Jay I too am related by marriage to the STEPHENS families of co. Gloucestershire, Eng. who appear in the Stephens pedigree in the "Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623. Here's what I wrote in my book in 1992: Stevens Family 387. Thomas STEPHENS, Gent. of Gloucester, England. [Page of London pedigree: "Visitation of Middlesex, 1663", p. 71] This Thomas Stevens is no doubt from a cadet branch of the Stephens/Stevens family to which a Thomas Stevens of Eastington, Gloucester, who was an attorney and counselor to Henry Prince of Wales and Prince Charles, sons of King James I, was granted arms in 1609. The attorney and counselor had an uncle, Richard Stevens of the Middle Temple, a counselor of London. [Stephens pedigree, "The Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623", H.S. Pub. 21, p. 151; and "Grantees of Arms to the End of the XVII Century, Part II, p. 243] Richard probably also had a son, this Thomas, whose daughter Mary, married Edmund PAGE. Thomas the counselor to the Princes had a son, Edward of Sodney, who married Anne the daughter of Sir Thomas Crew, Knight, of Steine, county Northampton. Edward and Anne Stevens had children: Thomas Stephens, age 4 in 1623; John Stephens; and, Edward Stephens. [Stephens pedigree, "The Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623", p. 151] Recall in the will written in 1641 by Edmund PAGE, Gent.(52), the Haberdasher of Lombard St. in London, that Edmund mentioned his brother-in-law, Thomas Stevens. Edmund also gave 4 pounds to his `cousin' Thomas Stevens, and 5 pounds to each of the cousin Thomas' children: Thomas, John and Ann. Thomas Stevens, Gent. married an unknown woman. Children: +388 i. Mary Stevens. 388. Mary Stevens (Thomas, Gent.) Born c. 1600 in (Gloucester or London), England, the daughter of Thomas Stevens, Gent. of County Gloucester, England.[Ibid]. She married Edmund Page, Gent. (92) of London and had PAGE issue: i. Mary, b. 1641, m. James BARRETT of St. Faith's under St. Paul in London, Gent.(b. 1636); ii. Rebecca, bapt. 22 Mar. 1642 at Woolchurch, London - d. 23 July 1663 in the same parish, of Hackley, co. Middlesex, m. in London (License 27 Nov. 1660) Charles MITCHELL of St. Mary Woolchurch, the son of Edward and Joan (Danvers) MITCHELL of Chitterne and Boyton, Wilts. iii. Anne; iv. Elizabeth; v. Hannah m. George ELLIS of St. Mildred parish, Bread St. London and salter there. Judging from naming patterns and the will of her father-in-law, Edmund Page, her father, Thomas Stevens, was probably also the father of the John Stevens who came from Kent, with his sons (Thomas and William Stevens) and daughter, Mary, and emigrated as one of the first settlers to Guilford, Connecticut, and was there during the first division of lands. "Goodman" Stevens was fined for neglect of fencing in 1645. By his wife Mary he had four children: Mary, born about 1623; Thomas, born about 1628 - died 10 November 1685; William, born about 1630 - died January 1702/3; and, John, born c. 1632 - died 1 September 1670 in Guilford, Connecticut. ["History of Guilford..., p. 126] His daughter, Mary Stevens, married firstly, Henry Kingsnorth who died in 1668. She married secondly on 2 June 1669 at Guilford, Connecticut, John Collins Jr.! [Atwater, p. 633; and, Hon. R.D. Smith as communicated by Bernard Steiner. "John Stevens of Guilford (Conn.) and His Descendants" in "Genealogies of Connecticut Families," Vol. III, pp. 443-449] GWP