When Robert Stevenson was born in April 1747, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, his father, Robert Stevenson, was 27 and his mother, Margaret Fulton, was 19. He married Jean Drummond on 4 December 1768, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died about 1785, in At Sea, at the age of 39.
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English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Steven, Stephen (see Steven ) + -son. This surname is also very common in northern Ireland (especially Antrim and Down), where it has been interchangeable with Steenson and Stinson . In North America, this surname has also absorbed various European cognates, such as Danish, Norwegian, and North German Steffensen or Stephensen ; see also Stevens .
Scottish: variant of Stevenston, a habitational name from Stevenston (Ayrshire), Stevenson in Newlands (Peeblesshire), or Stevenson in Haddington (East Lothian). The placename in each case derives from the personal name Steven + Older Scots toun ‘farmstead, settlement’.
English: habitational name from Stevenstone (Devon), meaning ‘Stephen's farmstead’.
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