Birth: 1839 White Horse, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: George Marden 1798-1869
Mother: Elizabeth (Elisabeth) Hall 1810-1879
Christening: 7 April 1839 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: July-September 1886 Worthing, Sussex, UK
Unknown
I cannot find an entry for his Registration of Birth, but I assume he was born at The White Horse Headley which his father took over in 1837.
Christening of Stephen Marden in the IGI on 7 April 1839 in Frensham, Surrey, parents George and Elizabeth Marden. The same information is in the West Surrey Family History Society Frensham Baptisms adding his father was a carpenter.
In the 1841 census as Stephen Marder (sic - in the index, correct on the origin) aged 2, born in Hampshire and living with George and Elizabeth (parents?), George and James (brothers?), Frances, Mary and Sarah (sisters?), James Hall (his uncle?), Elizabeth Baker (daughter of Stephen and Mary?), William Cempter, Stephen Harding, William Larby (son of James and Maria?), William and Mary Lawrence, John Manel and Richard Saunders at I assume Frensham Pond House or the White Horse, Headley. It is not clear whether all are at the same address.
In the 1851 census as Stephen Marden aged 12, born in Headley, and living with his parents (George and Elizabeth), brother (Richard), five sisters (Catherine, Elizabeth, Frances, Mary, and Matilda), at Frensham Pond, Headley, Hampshire (this was later the White Horse and Frensham Pond Hotel).
In the 1861 census as Stephen Marden aged 21, born in Headley, unmarried, employed as a carpenter and joiner, and living with his parents (George and Elizabeth), brother (Richard), three sisters (Amelia, Elizabeth and Matilda), his aunt (Sarah Hall), and a lodger (Henry Collins aged 59, born in Kinsham in the index, Frensham on the original, Surrey and employed as a destroyer of vermin) at Frensham Pond House, Headley.
His father died in 1869.
In the 1871 census as Stephen Marden aged 31 born in Healey (sic), unmarried, employed as a carpenter and joiner and living with his widowed mother (Elizabeth), brother (Jame), two sisters (Amelie and Elizabeth), niece (Elwin Marden) and a servant James Carpenter (aged 15, born in Frensham and employed as an ostler) at Frensham Pond.
In the 1878 Headley Directory it states that Mrs Mary Ann Marden was victualler at the White Horse, but I do not know who she was.
His mother died in 1879
In the 1881 census as Stephen Marden aged 42, born in Headley, Hampshire, single, employed as a carpenter and joiner, and living with his sister (Amelia) a general servant (Ruth Hibberd aged 47, born in Brighton Sussex (sic - on the original, but was the daughter of David and Ellen Hebberd and was born in Bighton, Hampshire)), and an ostler (George Fullick - my granduncle) at the White Horse Frensham, Headley, Hampshire (now Frensham Pond Hotel).
In Frensham Then and Now by Henry Baker 1948 p19 "This fishing took place, from time immemorial, with great regularity every fifth year, in the months of September and October, until the death of Stephen Marden, last of a family who had for several generations rented the Pond and occupied the Inn now known as the Pond Hotel, but in those days and until recently as the White Horse Inn.These Mardens were great cricketers, and many of the most famous players of Surrey and Hampshire have at times played on the south side of the Pond, now the Recreation Ground, which has fallen into disuse since Churt aquired their present extensive playing-fields. It was in their time, about 1860, that pike were first introduced into the Ponds. [...] The big pike in the glass case at the Hotel, which weighed 28 lbs, was taken out of the Little Pond in 1885, the year of Stephen Marden's last fishing".
Death of Stephen Marden in FreeBMD in July-September 1886 aged 47 in E Preston (2b 216) which included Worthing from which I assume he was living with his married sister Frances Coupland.
In the 1889 Headley Directory it states Pond House was in the hands of Frank Clerke, and in the 1891 census the White Horse had passed passed into the hands of the Forsyths.
Stephen Marden was my first cousin three times removed.
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