John
Edward
"Honest John"
Stevenson
Born in Lanark, Scotland, UK
Ancestors 
Son of John Stevenson
and Agnes (Davidson) Stevenson
Brother of
Robert Stevenson, William Stevenson, Sarah Stevenson, James Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson
Husband of
Henrietta (Paterson) Stevenson
— married
29 Sep 1893 (to 1921) in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Husband of
Anne Margaret (Vincent) Stevenson
— married
1938 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
John Stevenson, Edward Paterson Stevenson, Jane Clark (Stevenson) Beatty, Agnes Davidson (Stevenson) Alexander, Henrietta (Stevenson) Taylor, Ella Doreen Stevenson, Mary (Stevenson) Jones, Lilian Margaret (Stevenson) Ralphs and William Stevenson
Died
at age 67
in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Profile managers:
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Biography
Was a soldier in the Anglo Boer War for the British, decided to move to SA after the war. Was from Glasgow Lived in Turffontein and was a city councillor for Joburg as well as a race horse trainer/owner. He died the year he was running for mayor. (year uncertain) There was a tram line laid in his street for him - Tramway Street Was known as Honest John and has a Park and a Street in the Turffonteiin area named after him. - Daphne Lesser
Sources
- Birth Certificate
1870 Statutory Births -648/00 0173 Page 58 13 178 District of Lanark County Lanark John Stevenson born 1870 September eighth 0h 30m AM
Source Information Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Source Citation
Parish: Lanark; ED: 10; Page: 17; Line: 8; Roll: CSSCT1871_146
Source Information Ancestry.com. 1871 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Original data: Scotland. 1871 Scotland Census. Reels 1-191. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Description The 1871 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 2/3 April 1871. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb.
Source Citation
Parish: Lanark; ED: 10; Page: 24; Line: 11; Roll: cssct1881_261
Source Information Ancestry.com. 1881 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Original data: Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. Reels 1-338. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Description The 1881 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 3/4 April 1881.
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Brenda (Ansell) Huber
ESTATE PAPERS 1933?
posted 3 May 2016 by Brenda (Ansell) Huber
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #B466202
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~12.50%
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