Crossword-Solution: STEVENSONS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Stevensons of Hirdmanshiels, in Midlothian, rode in the Bishops’ Raid of Aberlady, served as jurors, stood bail for neighbours—Hunter of Polwood, for instance—and became extinct about the same period, or possibly earlier.

The Smith pedigree has been traced a little more particularly than the Stevensons’, with a similar dearth of illustrious names.

And in the household of the Smiths and Stevensons the women were not only extremely pious, but the men were in reality a trifle worldly.

Never was such a massacre of the innocents; teething and chincough and scarlet fever and smallpox ran the round; and little Lillies, and Smiths, and Stevensons fell like moths about a candle; and nearly all the sympathetic correspondents deplore and recall the little losses of their own.

Footnotes: {2a} An error: Stevensons owned at this date the barony of Dolphingston in Haddingtonshire, Montgrennan in Ayrshire, and several other lesser places.