Stephan Samuel Schwabe was born in 1803, the son of Sampson Benjamin Schwabe.  He married Eliza Sykes.  Stephan died in 1878 aged 75 years. Eliza was born in 1817 in London and is pictured below.

The children of Stephan and Eliza are:

1. FREDERICA SARA
2. MARIA AMELIA
3. ADELHEID LOUISA
4. THOMAS BENJAMIN
5. ROBERT  STEPHAN  (some details on Robert can be found below)
6. WALTER
7. EMMA OTTILIA
8. EDWARD (whose daughter,Julie, married Thomas Adolphus Falcon)
9. CHARLES MORITZ
10. HENRY MERRILY
11. HELENA ALBERTA
12. HERBERT
13. ERNEST EDGAR
14. LAWRENCE (see Randolph Schwabe)

Stephan and family appear on a number of census records:

Four of the above children appear in the 1901 census as resident together at Ashton-upon-Mersey in the county of Chester.  They are all single and are: Maria (aged 64), Adelheid (aged 63), Charles (aged 52), and Helena (aged 49).  The original sheet from the 1901 census can be viewed here in PDF.  Child No. 13, Ernest Edgar, is recorded as having died aged 23 (death registered in the Salford district, Sept 1/4 1878).  Three of Stephan's children: Frederica; Edward; and Lawrence married three members of the Ermen family, two siblings and a cousin: Edward married Julie Ermen; Lawrence married Julie's sister Octavia  Ermen and Frederica married Julie and Octavia's first cousin Henry Ermen.

Sons Thomas, Walter, and Herbert emigrated to Australia and there are descendants of these three. Later, some of these descendants emigrated to Canada.

The fifth son on this list, Robert, married a Japanese lady, Kini Myandera.  According to family tradition they lived in Yokohama and their house was furnished in two distinct styles; some rooms were Western and others Eastern but never mixed. They had three daughters:

1. Minnie Agnes Schwabe  (see book citation below)
2. Nellie Edith Schwabe
3. Clara Ethel Miyadara Schwabe