Richard Elias STEPHENS?

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JamesVerlander
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Help Required.
I've hit a brick wall with one ancestor from Shrewsbury/Shropshire and hope someone can help.
His name is Richard STEPHENS.  I know he married Fanny JONES on 22 May 82 where he stated he was 29 (so born 1853ish) and didn't name his father.  He was a chimney sweep living in Healings Passage, Frankwell with his wife and children (Frances Ann STEPHENS b1886, Thomas Percy STEPHENS b1890 and Florry Louise STEPHENS b1895) on both 1891 & 1901 census's.
He also had another daughter Alice Jane STEPHENS b1884 (my ancestor).
He died and was buried in a common grave at Longden Cemetery as Richard Elias STEPHENS on 23 Dec 1908.  What I can't find/don't know is anything about his birth (date, place, Mother, Father) or where he was up to 1882 when he married Fanny.  I have found a christening for an Elias STEPHENS born in Ludlow to Elizabeth and William STEPHENS in 1848 but can't follow that trail at all.  On the census he claims to have been born in Shrewsbury or Shropshire and some of his children are registered as STEVENS on GRO.
Any help would be greatly received.