The Stephens and Staight familes are long established in the village.   They were the village blacksmiths and butchers and farmed at both Bank and Cullabine Farms.   Ann Staight is the subject of "The Blacksmith's Daughter" by Susan Oldacre.

The Villa, in Dumbleton was the former home of Ann Staite whose diaries covering the period 1880-1892 are outlined in Susan
Oldacre's The Blacksmith's Daughter 1983. The house is deecribed on the Historic England website as a:

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House. Early C19. Red brick; slate roof; brick stacks.Rectangular plan to main body with large service range/former
smithy at right angles to rear. Two storeys. Symmetrical 3-windowed facade: two canted bays with 16-pane sashes to the ground
floor; three 16-pane sashes to the first floor. Central late 18-early C19 door now with 4-glazed panels and two flush panels,
fanlight over within a gabled porch with lattice-work sides and decorative column supports on an artificial stone plinth.
Segmental-headed casements; two half dormers with sash windows and C19 fixed casements with glazing bars to the north front of the
service range/smithy. Gable-end stacks with brick dentils to the main body. Interior not inspected. 

Robert Staight of Toddington was a blacksmith.   He died in 1793.   He had several children -

a son John who was blacksmith at Toddington and married Sarah Smith of Toddington on 7 December 1797,
a son James who was blacksmith at Didbrook  (died 1803),
a son Robert who was blacksmith at Dumbleton  (died 1811),
and a daughter Elizabeth who married a John Kendrick of Withington on 28 July 1787.

John and Sarah Staight had a least one child, William Pitman, who was baptised in June 1809.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth and John Kendrick had several children -
Margery who died in infancy in 1794,
Margaret - baptised October 1799,
William - baptised May 1801,
Richard - baptised November 1802,
James - baptised September 1804,
Susanna - baptised September 1807

The archives contain an account of the childhood of Joseph Harry Stephens in Dumbleton between 1917 and 1933 

Also the following letter was received by Annette Lyes from Peggy Stephens in October 2001"Dear Annette I was in Dumbleton today to plant some bulbs on the family graves and I happened to see your letter in the shop. I was born at Cullabine Farm in 1918 so I thought I would send you a bit of house/family history in case it might be of interest. My uncle George William Stephens lived with his family at Cullabine Farm before my parents, who went there in 1918. My grandfather Joseph Harry Staight was then at the butcher's shop at the top of the village, and my father, Harry Curnock Stephens and my mother and family lived there too, until taking over at Cullabine Farm in 1918 as tenant farmers in the Dumbleton Estate. Sadly, my father Harry Curnock Stephens got pneumonia in 1922 and died aged 36. I hardly knew him and my mother was expecting her 8th child. Grandfather Pitman Staight was then at Bank Farm and was farming there and he took us all in and we spent our childhood there. I remember them saying that a Colonel Halkett was previously at Bank Farm. Ingham Staight took over Cullabine Farm then. When grandfather Joseph Harry Staight died in 1927 his son Thomas Pitman Staight, who lived at Wormington then, farmed Bank Farm and he and his family moved into Bank Farm in 1933, and my mother and family moved to Woodmancote. This is mostly family history but perhaps it may help you with some of the past history of Cullabine and Bank Farms. Best wishes with your research. Yours sincerely Peggy Stephens"