![]() ![]() Migration of the Stevenson family to Ireland The United Kingdom ranks Stevenson as 155 th with 34,021 people. New Zealand ranks Stevenson as 85 th with 4,418 people. Australia ranks Stevenson as 240 th with 14,208 people. And in Newfoundland, Canada, the name Stevenson is the 689 th popular surname with an estimated 63 people with that name. However, in Canada, the name Stevenson is ranked the 297 th most popular surname with an estimated 14,772 people with that name. In the United States, the name Stevenson is the 345 th most popular surname with an estimated 77,097 people with that name. More information is included under the topic Early Stevenson Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Early Notables of the Stevenson family (pre 1700) The Stevensons extend in force across the Scottish border, but do not usually reach beyond the Forth and the Clyde." Generally speaking, however, it is absent or rare in the southern part of England, where its place is supplied by Stephens and Stevens. Strangely enough it has an independent home in Sussex and Berks, where Stevens is also common. It is also well established in Lincolnshire, and has made a substantial advance into the midlands as far as Warwickshire. The name is "confined for the most part to the northern half of England, being especially frequent in county Durham, and afterwards in the North and East Ridings and Northumberland. Another early Scottish record of this surname dates back to 1372, when one Nichol fiz ('son of') Steven, chaplain of Scotland, was given a license to take shipping at London or Dovorre. By 1150, they had moved north to Scotland in the parish of Newlands in Peebles (now part of the Strathclyde and Border regions), where Stevene Stevenson swore an oath of allegiance (recorded on the Ragman Rolls) to King Edward I of England during the latter's brief conquest of Scotland in 1296. The surname Stevenson was first found in Northumberland, where they were established since the early Middle Ages at Knaresdale Hall, and at Newcastle on Tyne. ![]()
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