Where is my name origin? STEVENSON?

I want to know where I come from. Can you tell me everything you know about my name? Anything!

Where is my name origin? STEVENSON?
%26gt; I want to know where I come from.





Trace your genealogy. There is no other way. To take an extreme example, if your 3rd great grandfather was a slave who took the surname of the Union Cavalry officer who told him about the Emancipation Proclamation, then his son married an Eskimo he met while digging for gold in the Yukon, you are 1/16 African, 1/16th Eskimo and 7/8th something else.





Besides, 15 of your 16 gg grandparents were not Stevensons. The one who was may have changed it from whatever "Son of Steven" was spelled in German, Hungarian, Polish or French to "Stevenson". Lots of "Millers" today were "Mueller" in Germany.
Reply:Google geneology and the name itself and you should find something....
Reply:Most people did not have surnames until the 14th century. When they took them or were assigned a name they did so based on





1. being a son of some one. Sons of men named Steven frequently became Stevenson or Stevens.





2. their occupation, baker, taylor, clark(clerk) fisher, miller, smith etc.





3. where they lived. Sam Hill lived on a or near a hill. Maybe the town they lived closed to or a castle or river. Just because you have an ancestor that had the same surname as the castle they lived close to that is no reason to think they were kin to the lord of the manor.





4. some characteristic, black (black hair), short, stout, little etc etc





Legitimate sons of the same man could have wound up with different surnames still each shared their surnames with others with whom they were not related.





The same surname can often be found among people or more than one national origin.
Reply:scottish...............
Reply:This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name.


Stevenson


Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Steven. As a North American surname, it has assimilated some European cognates such as Stefan and Steffen and their derivatives.


Hope this helps.
Reply:English/Scottish and it means, ready for this? It's going to blow your mind... Son of Steven.
Reply:Stephenson is a sept or family name of the Stewart Clan of Scotland. It is a Norse form of the name of Son of Stephen. The Stewarts were Normans and immigrated Northward following the Battle of Hastings-whereby, William the Conqueror took the throne of England. Thus the form used of Stephenson, rather than the Scots Gaelic form of MacStephen. Notable Stewarts were the Kings of Scotland, up to James I of England/IV of Scotland, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Mary Queen of Scots and so forth. There are several different branches of this Clan and it is impossible for me to go into them or project which one you are most closely associated with. One branch was involved in offering succor to the survivors of the Glencoe Massacre (a particularly ugly chapter in Scots history). Most Royal Stewarts followed the Catholic faith and this is what led to their losing the throne of England in the end. The Stewarts participated in the the last battle for Scots independence under Prince Charlie-the lost Battle of Cullodeen, many left Scotland seeking their fortune following this battle-thus many ended up in France and other European nations, many others came to the Americas and so forth. I would recommend checking out the Stewart Clan website at www.stewartsociety.org.