Birth: 1821 Cumnor, Berkshire, UK
Father: Stephen Pusey 1793-1868
Mother: Mary Spiers 1795-1864
Christening: 4 February 1821 Cumnor, Berkshire, UK
Marriage: 12 January 1848 Islip, Oxfordshire, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Pegg 1820-1887
Death: April 1897 Islip, Oxfordshire, UK
Burial: 7 April 1897 Islip, Oxfordshire, UK
Elizabeth Pusey [Luff] 1848-1890
Mary A Pusey ]Lansdown] 1850-1933
Emily Frances Pusey 1852-a1861
Stephen William Pusey 1854-1933
Ckara Pusey 1859-a1881
John Thomas Pusey 1859-1912
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 and in England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 for Stephen Pusey baptised 4 February 1821 in Cumnor, Berkshire, parents Stephen and Mary Pusey.
In the 1841 census as Stephen Pusey aged 20, born in Berkshire, and living with Stephen and Mary (parents?), Edwin, John and Richard (brothers?), and Emily, Emma and Mary Ann (sisters?) in Botley, Cumner, Berkshire.
Entry in Ancestry U.K., City and County Directories, 1600s-1900s for Stephen Pusey baker at Botley in the Combined 1847 Post Office Directory.
Marriage of Stephen Pusey and Elizabeth Pegg in FreeBMD in January-March 1848 in Bicester (16 53).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Stephen Pusey and Elizabeth Pegg on 12 January 1848 in Islip, Oxford.
Entry in Ancestry Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 for Stephen Pusey full age, father Stephen Pusey, and Elizabeth Pegg on 12 January 1848 in Islip, Oxfordshire. "Page 18 [...] 1848 Marriage solemnized by Licence in the Parish of Islip in the County of Oxford. [No.] 36 Janry 12 Stephen Pusey [of] full [age] [a] Bachelor [and] Baker [of] Islip, [father] Stephen Pusey [a] Baker, [and] Elizabeth Pegg [of] full [age] [a] Spinster [and] Baker [of] Islip, [father] William Pegg [a] Grocer. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England".
His children were born in Islip.
In the 1851 census as Stephen Pusly (sic - on the original), aged 30 born in Cummer, Berkshire, a master baker, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), two daughters (Elizabeth and Mary A), and two lodgers (Frederick Smith aged 22, born in Hampton, Middlesex, and a rail porter, and John Longhurst aged 28, born in Mickleham, Surrey, and a rail plate layer, both single) in Rectory Square, Islip Oxfordshire.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833-1956 for Stephen Pusey aged 30, height 5 ft 7 in, and station master at Islip Station on 7 March 1852 paid 24/- increased to 70 on 1 July 1877, resigned 26 January 1881.
In the 1861 census as Stephen Pusey aged 40, born in Abingdon, Berkshire, a station claerk (railway), and living with his wife (Elizabeth), two sons (John T and Stephen), and four daughters (Clara, Elizabeth, Emily F and Mary A) at Railway Station House, Islip, Oxfordshire.
Entry in Ancestry U.K., City and County Directories, 1600s-1900s for Stephen Pusey Station Master at Railway Station, Islip in 1869 Kelly's Directory.
In the 1871 census as Stephen Pusey aged 50, born in Abingdon, Berkshire, a railway clark, and living wih his wife (Elizabeth), son (John T) and daughter (Clara) in the Railway Station, Islip, Oxfordshire.
Entry in Ancestry U.K., City and County Directories, 1600s-1900s for Stephen Pusey station master L. and N.W. in the 1876 Harrod's Directory.
Resigned as station master, Islip on 26 January 1881.
In the 1881 census as Stephen Pusey aged 60, born in Abingdon, Berkshire, a licensed victualler, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (John), daughter (Clara), a lodger (Thomas Key aged 12 and born in London, Middlesex), and a visitor (Frederick Clarke aged 14 and born in Oxfordshire) at The White Horse, Stanton St John, Oxfordshire.
His wife died in Forest Hill and was buried on 4 April 1887 in Islip.
In the 1891 census as Stephen Pusey aged 70, born in Abingdon, Berkshire, widowed, living on his own means, and living with his son and daughter-in-law (Stephen W and Mary A) and granddaughter (Lilian E) at 83 Bullingdon Road, Cowley, Oxfordshire.
Death of Stephen Pusey in FreeBMD in April-June 1897 aged 76 in Headington (3a 423).
Entry in Ancestry Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1965 for Stephen Pusey buried 7 April 1897 in Islip, Oxfordshire. "Page 44 Burials in the Parish of Islip in the County of Oxford in the year One thousand eight hundred and ninetysix [...] Stephen Pusey No. 351 [of] Oxford [on] Apl. 7 1897 [aged] yrs 76".
Entry in Cumnor Parish Record "2335 Pusey Stephen b.1793 Abingdon - d.1868 Cumnor m.Mary ..... b.1795 Botley -d.1864 Botley, baker at Botley, living on W. side of Hinksey Lane, turn from main road. 1861 census: chn:10-3 inc twins, inc Mary 1819.Stephen 1821, Richard & Emma, 1823, Frederick 1824, John 1825, Edwin 1831, Emily 1836, Edburn".
There are twelve entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Stephen Pusey, but some his birth in Islip, Northamptonshire.
Note that Cumnor (sometimes spelt Cumner) is a 5.5 miles N of Abingdon and 3.5 miles west of Oxford, and Botney is nearer Oxford on A420/A34. Being south of the Thames both were in Berkshire, but transfered to Oxfordshire in 1974. Forest Hill was a parish 6 miles SW of Islip which is 7 miles north of Oxford.
Stephen Pusey was the father of Elizabeth Pusey, wife of Alfred Luff, my half first cousin twice removed.
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