When Thomas Stevenson was born in 1757, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, his father, Robert Stevenson, was 37 and his mother, Margaret Fulton, was 30. He married Margaret Smith in 1770, in Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 15 March 1845, in his hometown, at the age of 88, and was buried in Glasgow Cathedral Burial Grounds, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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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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