I can directly trace my line back to Stephen Favell who married Elizabeth Clarke at Pidley in Huntingdonshire in 1798.  Their son John was born in Hemingford Grey in 1805.  In 1828 John married Lucy King at Hemingford and they went on to have 12 children, one of whom was my 3 x Great Grandfather Stephen, born in 1834.  

 Stephen married Elizabeth Corbett at Houghton in 1858.  The couple (pictured right) went on to have a family of 10 children, the eldest George Stephen being my Great, Great-Grandfather.

The children were George Stephen (1859);  Lucy (1861);  Albert (1862);   Caroline Coventry (1863); Priscilla (1867);  Herbert (1869);  James (1870);  Jesse (1874);  Emily (1876); and Charles (1878):

The photograph on the left shows George Stephen, taken around the time of his marriage to Ellen Coulson in St Pancras, London 1886.  Ellen, like Stephen, was born in Hemingford.  They left the Hemingford for London and settled in Kentish Town before moving on to Bayham Place in Camden Town. 

Lucy married Frederick Read and they also settled in Bayham Place, Camden Town.

Albert became an Insurance agent and raised a family in Woodbridge in Suffolk.

Caroline Coventry married Jasper Dale and settled in Ealing

James is known to have lived with Lucy's family in Bayham Place for a while and was there on the night of the 1901 census, with his occupation given as a Shepherd.

Herbert also moved to Camden Town for a while,  before returning to Huntingdon to work for the council.

Jesse married Charles Stockley and lived in Rasper Road Whetstone, then a village in Middlesex, but now part of North London.

The photographs below are probably Caroline Coventry, Priscilla, Albert and Jesse.

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