Robert Alexander Stevenson, 18401916 (aged 75 years)

Name
Robert Alexander /Stevenson/
Surname
Stevenson
Given names
Robert Alexander
Family with parents
father
1872
Birth: Kirkcudbright, Scotland
Death: 6 May 1872Kirkcudbright, Scotland
himself
Family with Adelaide Pettigrew
himself
wife
18361926
Birth: 22 December 1836 19 Dungannon, Ireland
Death: 14 January 1926Cowra, NSW
Marriage Marriage14 October 1865Cowra, NSW, Australia
10 years
daughter
18751944
Birth: 15 December 1875 35 38 Cowra, NSW
Death: 25 September 1944Sydney, NSW
-8 years
son
19 months
son
18691876
Birth: 27 September 1869 28 32 Cowra, NSW
Death: 24 January 1876
21 months
son
1871
Birth: 16 June 1871 30 34 Cowra, NSW
Death: Sydney, NSW
15 months
son
18721918
Birth: 24 August 1872 31 35
Death: 2 January 1918Cowra, NSW
18 months
daughter
18741876
Birth: 10 February 1874 33 37 Cowra, NSW
Death: 3 June 1876
4 years
son
7 years
daughter
18851943
Birth: 25 April 1885 44 48 Cowra, NSW
Death: March 1943Sydney, NSW
Note

Robert Alexander Stevenson arrived in Australia at midnight on 14 January 1862, the ship he was aboard, the George Marshall, being wrecked some miles from Flinders Island, for which he made in an open boat of 16 January. He remained there with the other passengers for 11 days, then was taken off in a small steamer to Launceston, then on to Melbourne and then to Sydney.

From here he travelled to Cowra, NSW; he is thought to have had a relative in the town. He remained there basically for the rest of his life, becoming a leading resident and establishing the Cowra Guardian newspaper.

He married Adelaide Pettigrew at Cowra on 14 October 1865. The Pettigrew family came to Britain with the Norman Conquests (the name means 'mall foot' or 'thin leg' or 'crane' in old French, depending on who does the translation. Today the family is spread all over the United Kingdom, and subsequently the world, but Adelaide seems to have descended from the Irish branch. The family's crest is a crescent moon, with the motto: "Sine sol nihil" (nothing without the sun).