Todd, Stephen (1832-1906)

Family

Stephen was born in 1832 at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to parents Robert, a shoe maker (1841), and Maria. He was baptised on 24 October 1832 at St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth.

Census returns identify the following occupations for Stephen.

1851 a tailor’s assistant
1861 PM minister
1871 Independent minister of Ruffles’ Memorial Chapel, Liverpool
1881 Independent minister of Oxford Rd Congregational Church, Putney
1891 Congregational minister
1901 retired Congregational minister

He married Rebecca Cranstone (1832-1896) in the summer of 1857 in the Hackney Registration District, London. Census returns identify four children.

Rebecca Mary Matilda (1859-1931) – a schoolmistress (1891); a boating hose keeper (1911)
Stephen Robert (1860-1936) – a science inspector, London County Council (1911)
Jessie Maria (1862-1936) – a schoolmistress (1891); a boarding house keeper (1911)
William Cranstoun (1864-1933) – a merchant’s book keeper (1891); managing clerk to chartered accountant (1911)

Stephen died on 7 December 1906 at Putney, London