His father was a Dublin-born flax-dresser, his mother from Paisley and his English-born but Scots-raised, elder brother, John, would also be a professional footballer, over fifteen years with several clubs north and south of the border, notably Nelson, St. Johnstone and Falkirk. And George Stevenson did so seemingly having married in Dalry in 1932, his bride local girl, Isabella Thomson, they having a daughter, also Isabella, the following year born in Paisley. Isabella Snr. was to die aged seventy in 1975 in Wishaw, Isabella Jnr. in Hamilton, two years earlier. So what, you may ask, is the Highland connection? The answer is that George would die there in 1990 at the age of eighty-four. Officially place of death was Dingwall, Inbhir Pheofharain in Gaelic, "Peffermouth" but actually it was at the Ravenscroft Guest House in the Victorian spa-village of Strathpeffer, five miles up both river and, well, strath to be buried for reasons as yet unknown still in Ross-shire in Fortrose on the Black Isle.