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 will show that he could not have been Robert Stephenson, 1st, the oldest son of Henry Stephenson, the shepherd. We learn from history that when Robert Stephenson, 2nd, went to England, he was a young man. He went to Wylam about the year 1773. He married Miss Mabel Carr in the early part of 1778. He and his wife were young people when they married. They seemed to have been about the same age. He and his wife reared a family of six children. James, the oldest, was born March, 1779, and George, the engineer, in June, 1781. The assumption that Robert, 1st, the oldest son of Henry Stephenson, the shepherd, was the father of George, the engineer, would make him (Robert, 1st) between forty-four and forty-five years of age at the time of Miss Carr's marriage, in 1778. The assumption is not reasonable. Again history relates that the father of Robert, 2nd, was a Scotchman and came into England in the employ of a gentleman. Henry Stephenson, the shepherd, at the time the father of Robert Stephenson went across the border into England as an employe to a gentleman, would have been not less than seventy-five years old.

It could not, in reason, have been Henry, the shepherd, who crossed the border at his then advanced age. Nor is it supposable that he would have left his other children in Scotland, and have followed Robert, the eldest, to England. The father of Robert, 2nd, who crossed the border was Robert Stephenson, 1st, the son of Henry, the shepherd, when he was fifty years old. The story as told by the Stephensons in South Carolina, in regard to their ancestors losing their property in Ballymoney corroborates the story as told by the niece of George Stephenson in England, in giving the reason why her great-grandfather, Robert Stephen-