Hello,
The first Indiana was one of the children of the "original" John Stephenson, father of John Atlantic. He worked for the East india company and spent a lot of his time overseas with his family. John Atlantic Stephenson was so named because he was born in mid-Atlantic, on Waterloo day - John and his wife Elizabeth had a tendency to give their children flamboyant names. Indiana's name was given to her because she was born in the East Indies - the name at that time for the area which now includes Malaysia, Indonesia etc. Her younger brother, my wife's ancestor, Albert Peak Stephenson, was so named because he was born after the East India Company days, when the family was back in England. John was working for the Peak Alum Works on Peak Hill, Staintondale, between Scarborough and Whitby. Leonard was given the middle name of Quintus because he was the fifth child. Similarly, Alfred, the seventh child's middle name was Septimus. It was in the 3 year period between the birth of Albert, the sixth child and Alfred, the seventh, that the the family moved to the Gateshead area. John also died some time between Alfred's birth (or conception) and the 1851 census in Gateshead. We are all trying to find out whether this was before the family moved there and what were the circumstances of his death, because by 1851, the family's status had taken a bit of a plunge. They were living in a pretty rough area and the two sons old enough to work, John Atlantic and Henry, were just glass cutters - no sign at that stage of John Atlantic's celebrity status. Finding the father John's death record is proving to be difficult because it is such a common name in the north east. I believe Valda or Maggie has posted a list of possibilities.