John Stevenson (18?? - ????)

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Hessie Stevenson

Children:
1880 Hessie "Hettie" Stevenson
1884 Emily Stevenson
188? John Stevenson


John Stevenson was a well-sinker ...

I did an Internet-search for "well sinker" and got 439 (!) entries back.

Just looking through the search results, not the sites themselves, turned up things like ..

... Not only here, but over the whole county of Norfolk, the well- sinker might carry his shaft down many hundred feet without coming to the end of the chalk;

... He is also listed as a Well - Sinker and was reputedly very good at his job. Perhaps he was good with a divining rod to find where the water lay. ...

... A well sinker, named Larry O'Toole, is credited with finding the first opal in Mintabie in the 1920's.

... etc, etc.

I suppose when you couldn't just ring up the water-works and ask them to supply water, the well sinker must have been quite in demand.