Kenny Marshall speculates that because John Stevenson was probably at at sea Mary Ellen Stevenson choose the Browns’ home to give birth to her first child Hugh Grant Stevenson . On the baptism registration this is at least the registered address for Hugh Grant Stevenson . Note that Hugh Stevenson is registered as the father…

40 Newstead road was THE family home to most of the Stevensons between 1930 and 1956. I remember it as having a huge beamed attic which was accessible via stairs. We kids played hide in seek there while our mums and dads went about their business downstairs. John & Mary Ellen Stevenson shared their home…

4 Maitland street was the home to two generations of Stevensons. No wonder that Mary Stevenson mentions Maitland street in her memoires, she was born there, as was George!! Later after John Stevenson and family moved to Newstead road, John Egbert Stevenson married Vera Dunn of 5 Maitland street and they started their family at…

When John Stevenson completed his examinations and became Master Mariner he and Mary Ellen were sharing a dwelling with the Brown family. Accoding to the 1911 census they were still sharing but by then Hugh (3) and Harriet (1) had been born. John Brown (a Danish master mariner) was married to John Stevenson’s half sister…

10 Exe street is where the family home of Mary (Stevenson) and Bert Smith was located. However aunty Mary first lived at 12 Exe street the home of Bert Smith’s mum . Strangely 12 Exe street was falsely entered as the residence of both Alec McGowan and Brenda Frances Prince when they married into the…

14 Lily Grove was in 1912 the registered birth place of John Egbert Stevenson . John & Mary Ellen Stevenson certainly moved around a bit every child seems to have been born at a different house. Lily Grove no longer exists but it was a located where Lybro Way now is, halfway down Dorothy Drive…

John Brown was married to Mary Fowler (John Stevenson’s half-sister). In 1911 they were sharing their house on Chatsworth street with John Stevenson and his family (see census record for 1911). 34 Chatsworth Street was also registered as being Harriet’s birthplace. Hugh and Harriet Stevenson were the only Stevenson children at that time. John Stevenson…