 There were nine children of each marriage and at the time of Stephen's death, he had 66 grandchildren.He was knighted in 1846 and was a made a CB in 1862, in 1874, GCMG in 1884, and privy councillor in 1893.Of Stephen's sons, Alfred Hewlett Stephen, born in 1826, entered the Church and in 1869 became a canon of St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.