 Stephen was listed in White's "History, Gazetter & Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire" for 1837 as resident at 25 Templars Street, with a butcher's business at 2 Cheapside, Leeds.He married at Leeds Minster (St.Peter's, - where he had been baptised), Ann (1809–1888) daughter of William Spink, a Yeoman of Wintringham, East Riding of Yorkshire, by his spouse Mary Topham.They had two children