1849

1st Prize for daguerreotypes - Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society - Fine Arts Section.

1851

3rd Prize for daguerreotypes - Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society - Fine Arts Section.

1851

Submitted daguerreotypes to Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.

1855

Making Daguerreotype Likenesses at West End, Redruth.

c.1858

Believed to be taking photographs at Perran Foundry workshop.

1862

Listed as a photographer at High Street, Falmouth.  In April 1862, it was reported that:  "a fire destroyed a small and very old house occupied by Mr Stephens, photographer in the High Street, Falmouth.

1864

J C Stephens has a photographic studio at Church Street, Falmouth

1865

J C Stephens & Co - photographers in Falmouth

mid-1860s

Appointed Manager - later Secretary - of the Art Union of Cornwall

1866

Appointed Assistant or Deputy Secretary of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.  He was awarded a First Silver Medal for managing this department and a Bronze Medal for vignetted portraits.

1872

Listed as a photographer at 42 High Street, Falmouth

1870s

Photographic studio of Stephens & Co / Stephens & Siddons at 42 High Street, Falmouth