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    by Janet McNeilly  © 2002

24 August 2008

Stephen Wallis 1815

Baptised at St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington on the 28th of June 1815 son of Jonathan - a tailor and Jane Brownless.
Worked as a tailor.
Married Ann Spetch at St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington on the 10th July 1836.

The census entries show:
1841 -Post House Wynd, Darlington
Stephen Wallis 25 tailor
Ann Wallis 25
Jane Wallis 4

1851 - Post House Wynd ( St Cuthbert's parish)
folio 310
Stephen Wallis- tailor born Darlington
Ann 35                              
Jane 14                              
Stephen 9                           
William 6                           
Henry 4 
William 18 nephew apprentice born Dorsetshire
Thomas Hamilton cousin 17 born Darlington 

1861 - Cobden Street
Stephen Wallis - 46 - merchant tailor employing 7 boys + 17 men
Ann Wallis wife 43
Stephen Wallis son 19 - foreman tailor
William Wallis son 16 - apprentice tailor
Henry Wallis - son 14 - apprentice tailor
Fanny Wallis daughter 12 - scholar
Sarah Wallis daughter 9 - scholar
Annie Wallis daughter 7 - scholar
Charles Wallis son 4 
? Bellerby 21 - servant

Mercer + Crocker Directory for Northumberland, Durham + Newcastle 1868 - Stephen Wallis + Son - tailor -shop at 4 Prebend Row, S Wallis Snr residing at Eastbourne, Darlington - S Wallis Jnr residing at Pierremont Terrace, Darlington. 

1871 census - 
Cobden Street, Darlington
Stephen Wallace head married 56 Tailor Master employing 21 men, 3 boys + 2 girls born Darlington
Ann Wallace wife 56 born Darlington
William George Wallis son 26 Tailor Assistant to his father born Darlington
Fanny Wallis daughter 21 born Darlington
Sarah Wallis daughter 19 born Darlington
Ann Wallis daughter 17 born Darlington
Charles Wallis son 14 scholar born Darlington
Harry Wallis son 4 scholar born Darlington ( I have found no record of Harry but the 1881 census shows a Henry Wallis 14 Grandson to Ann Wallis, widow of Stephen)

Stephen died 1st of June 1871 in Darlington.  Ann died at Cobden Street, Darlington on the 15th of November 1886 and was buried at Darlington's West Cemetery on the 17th - on unconsecrated land,  plot B TT 153. Monumental Inscription states-

In/Memory/of/STEPHEN WALLIS/of Darlington/who died June 1st 1871/Aged 56 years/Also of JAMES LUKE GREENWOOD/of Darlington/who died April 5th 1878/Aged 42 years/Also of ANN, wife of the above/STEPHEN WALLIS/who died November 15th 1886/Aged 69 years/Also of Jane, wife of the above/JAMES LUKE GREENWOOD/who died August 6th 1916/Aged 79 years/Also of ANNIE BUCKLE/Daughter of the above/who died October 26th 1884/Aged 30 years

 

 click on the sign for addresses held by Stephen, along with source

Stephen and Ann had at least 8 children:-
bulletJane Wallis- Click for more. 
bullet Stephen Wallis born 1842. Click for more.
bulletWilliam George Wallis- 1845. Click on his name for more.
bulletHenry Jonathan Wallis- Baptised in St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington on the 26th of February 1847.
In 1851 was living with his family at Post House Wynd, Darlington.
bulletFanny Wallis- Baptised at St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington on the 2nd of May 1849. Click for more.
bulletSarah Ann Wallis- Baptised at St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington on the 14th November 1851.
In 1881 was living with her mother at 1 Cobden Street, Darlington.
In 1891 was living with her sister Jane at 4 Prebend Row, Darlington and employed as a domestic housekeeper. In 1901 was employed as a housekkeeper at Brankin Moor farm, the home of nephews John and Robert, sons of her sister Fanny.
bullet Ann Wallis- Click for more.
bulletCharles Wallis-  click on his name for more. 
 

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