Descendants of John Dawson
(ca 1774 - aft 1844)
Born Silsoe, Bedfordshire.
Died Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
married 28th Nov 1799 in Leighton Buzzard, Ann Blackhill (or Blackell) (1781 - ), daughter of Jonathan and Mary Blackell.
Born: Billington, Beds
St John the Baptist, Flitton by Silsoe
Mainly 15th century; rich in 17th century and later monuments; De Gray mausoleum.
Guide to English Parish Churches: John Betjeman
- Charles Dawson (21 Apr 1801 - 4 Oct 1844)
Born Silsoe, Bedfordshire.
Died Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
Butcher:
married 4th Apr 1820 at Hockcliffe, Sarah Cook ( - ?24 Jan 1877)
Born: Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire
- Emma Dawson (25 Mar 1821 - 1887)
Born Hockcliffe, Bedfordshire.
Died Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
married 1844, James Kendall (22 Feb 1820 - 4 Sep 1873)
Southwark, Surrey
Born: England.
Died: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Watchmaker
Family emigrated to Somerville, Massachusetts, USA on the Yorktown in 1849.
- Emily Agnes Kendall (1846 - )
married 28 Oct 1873, William F Brown (Dec 1842 - )
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Born: Prospect, Maine, USA
Watchmaker & Jeweller.
- Emma F Brown (Oct 1874 - )
Born: Massachusetts, USA.
Musician
- Lillian F Brown (Dec 1877 - )
Born: California, USA.
Music teacher.
- William Franklin Brown (1 Dec 1880 - 26 Jan 1951)
Born: Denver, Colorado, USA.
Died: Alameda, California, USA.
Accountant for Shell Oil Co.
married 1912, Claire L Edwards (ca 1890 - )
California, USA
Born: California, USA.
- Virginia C Brown (ca 1916 - )
- Franklin Kendall Brown (13 Jan 1918 - 2 Aug 1996)
Born: California, USA.
Died: Alameda, California, USA
- Child Brown -
- Frederick James Kendall (1848 - 16 Jan 1890)
Born: Marylebone, Middlesex.
Died: Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
Watchmaker and Jeweller
married [1] 9 Nov 1871, Elizabeth T Warren -
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Born: Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
- James Frederick Kendall (12 Aug 1872 - )
Born: Massachusetts, USA.
- Frederic Kendall (18 Jul 1873 - 30 Jul 1873)
married [2] Cora D ? (ca 1847 - 1887)
Born: Maine, USA.
Died: Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
- George Edward Kendall (19 Aug 1879 - )
married [3] 26 Oct 1877, M Olivia Fuller (ca 1848 - 1899)
Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
- James Edwin Kendall (3 Oct 1851 - )
Born: Massachusetts, USA.
Brush Maker
married 16 Oct 1878, Mary C Blanchard (1855 - 15 May 1912)
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
- Ella Elizabeth Kendall (17 Oct 1883 - )
Born: Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
- Charles R Kendall (1855 - )
Born: Massachusetts, USA.
Caretaker, Private Estate
married [1] Unknown -
married 1880, [2] Annie T Weston (Apr 1855 - )
Born: Massachusetts, USA.
Post Office Assistant
married [3] Bessie M Wells (18 Sep 1872 - )
Born: Bridgton, Cumberland, Maine, USA
- William Theodore Kendall (7 Jul 1858 - bef 1918)
Born: Massachusetts, USA.
Post Office Clerk
married 1897, Mary Ann Cody (Mar 1877 - )
Born: Cincinatti, Ohio, USA.
- Emma Louise Kendall (Nov 1898 - )
Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Book-keeper for Chamberlain's Wholesale Beef Co
- William Theodore Kendall (1900 - )
Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Salesman for Chamberlain's Wholesale Beef Co
married 1930, Lucy ? -
- Frederick James Kendall (11 Jun 1906 - )
Born: Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.
Margin Clerk
- Roy Franklin Kendall (10 May 1909 - 27 May 1975)
Born: Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.
Died: Barnstaple, Massachusetts, USA.
Book-keeper
- Walter H Kendall (1860 - 1862)
- Arthur B Kendall (16 Mar 1866 - )
Born: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- William Dawson (4 Sep 1825 - 12 Nov 1889)
Born St Pancras, Middlesex.
Died Deptford, Surrey.
Printer and Compositor
married, Feb 1847, Susannah Deborah Allen (30 Oct 1820 - ca Dec 1863)
Born: Shoreditch, London.
Died: Holborn, London
- William Charles Dawson (23 Nov 1848 - )
Born Finsbury, Middlesex.
Vellum Binder
- Edwin Alfred Dawson (1856 - 1917)
Born Clerkenwell, Middlesex.
Died Wanstead, Middlesex
Commercial Clerk
married [1], 29 Oct 1876, Mary Ann Simmons (ca 1856 - bef 1889)
Bermondsey, Surrey
Born: Gravesend, Kent.
Died: Limehouse, Middlesex.
- Alfred Thomas Albert Dawson (1878 - )
Born: Limehouse, Middlesex.
Engineer's Clerk
married 1899, Florence Wardale -
West Ham, Middlesex
Born: Islington, Middlesex.
- Edwin George Dawson (3 Dec 1899 - Dec 1985)
Born: Upton Park, Essex.
Died: Cornwall
- Hannah Louise Dawson (1882 - 18 Jan 1958)
Born: Mile End, London.
Died: Epsom, Surrey
Spinster
married [2], 13 Jul 1889, Joanna Jackson (ca 1864 - aft 1918)
Limehouse, Middlesex
Born: Bethnal Green, Middlesex.
- Alice Dawson (21 Aug 1890 - 28 Jan 1961)
Born Limehouse, Middlesex.
Died St Mary's, Jersey, CI
married 18 Sep 1918, Cyril Charles Wall (24 Jul 1891 - 25 Aug 1975)
Wanstead, Middlesex
Born Wandsworth, Surrey.
Died Eastbourne, Sussex.
War Office librarian
- Lilian Dawson (29 Apr 1895 - 4 Jan 1985)
Born East Ham, Middlesex.
Died West Ewell, Surrey.
Doctor's Receptionist
- John Arthur Dawson (1857 - 21 Apr 1874)
Born: Clerkenwell, Surrey.
Died: Drowned at Deptford, Surrey
- Edith Emily Dawson (28 Aug 1863 - 1912)
Born: Holborn, London.
Died: Epsom, Surrey, England.
Book Folder
married 1884, William Henry Sidgwick (26 Apr 1866 - 1914)
Born: Lambeth, Surrey.
Died: Greenwich, Surrey, England.
Engine Pattern Maker
- Edith Ethel Sidgwick (1887 - 1888)
Born: Greenwich, Surrey, England.
Died: Greenwich, Surrey, England.
- Samuel Charles Dawson (ca 23 Mar 1832 - )
married 13 Mar 1849, Catherine Lambert (6 Oct 1829 - )
Southwark, Surrey
Born: Woolwich, Kent.
Emigrated to USA on the Abeona arrived 1 Jun 1849
- Katie Eliza Dawson (5 Oct 1853 - 11 Jul 1854)
Born and Died: Boston, Massachusetts.
Sources:
William Dawson's poetry, papers and Will
Edwin Dawson's Will
Hannah Dawson's Will
Letter from Samuel Dawson to his brother William, 1855
US Census - 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
With grateful thanks to Bob Bowers, Tara Larkin, ecunningham, Ray Scanlon, 'MikeS' and 'Huntersglenn' for much help with US information.
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