Ah...just reading a little more from that family bible. We mentioned George and wife Jane Laidlaw and their issue:
318 RULEWATER AND ITS PEOPLE
....George Stevenson,^ John''s eldest son, bom
in 1760, served his time in the blacksmith's shop with his father.
He married Jane Laidlaw, and by her had two sons and three
daughters. Of the daughters Agnes married Alexander Baptie,
and Jenny became Mrs. Amos at Dovesford in 1816. John, the
eldest son, died in 18^ ; and Andrew, the other brother, bom in
1795, succeeded him as blacksmith at Bonchester Bridge. Bom
and bred there, he worked as smith for many a day. He could
neither read nor write, his education at the parish school being
retarded by an impediment in his speech. To return to the
Baptie connection : — Alexander Baptie, who married Agnes
Stevenson, enlisted in the King^s Dragoon Guards and was at the
battle of Waterloo. At the close of the war he was discharged
on a small pension, and, being well educated, he obtained the post
'of schoolmaster at Falstone-on-Tyne. In this situation he
remained for some years. He went under the name of *01d
Sandy.** He had a son George who was a blacksmith to trade.
For some time he worked and assisted his uncle Andrew at the
Bridge. Greorge lived a long life, and was for many years in the
•employment of Mr. Veitch of Inchbonny. One of the thin^ he
most valued was his father^s Waterloo medal, which at his death
he left to the Jedburgh museum....
Link as before,
https://archive.org/stream/rulewaterandits01tancgoog/rulewaterandits01tancgoog_djvu.txt