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Dear Chris,
I am not going to be able to keep up with you. I am a "Two fingered Typist" and I am going to be 80 next month!
My Smith and Stephenson records don't go back very far. George Smith's father was John Smith and I think that I found the right family, but it is very difficult to know for sure. If I am right George had a brother Charles.
Elizabeth Stephenson and her Father is my limit on that side.
John Anderson Smith Married Elizabeth Roskilly and had 6 children, but only 2 produced Grandchildren - Cyril and Winifred. Winifred married Richard Pentony and had one son who died young and 3 daughters who all married and had children and grandchildren.
My father, Cyril, has a story that is more complicated as he married twice. He had an illustrious career - first going out as a teenager to the Boer War as a Sapper running a searchlight. After returning he became a Civil Engineer and went to India to build enormous bridges for the railways. He later taught Engineering in Poona and wound up as Principal of the College. He was also involved with the military and became Colonel of the Poona Rifles. There is a good bit more, but it will have to wait till I can use Email for it.
Thank you again for your quick reply.
Mike.

Chris,
My father was Cyril Graham-Smith, and his father, John Anderson Smith, and Fanny Wood (Smith) were brother and sister. He also believed that he was descended from George Robert Stephenson.
I checked with The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, who had kept a comprehensive Stephenson Family Tree. I believe that he was their first President. They stated there definitely was no link.
There was an Elizabeth Stephenson in their Family Tree but she had no children.
We must be distant cousins!
Mike.