St John the Baptist, Flitton by Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England.
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, England.
  Died: Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England.
  Butcher:
  married 4th Apr 1820, Sarah Cook ( - ?24 Jan 1877)
  St Nicholas, Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, England
  Born: Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire, England
  • Emma Dawson (25 Mar 1821 - 1887)
    
    Born: Hockcliffe, Bedfordshire, England.
    Died: Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
    married 1844, James Kendall (22 Feb 1820 - 4 Sep 1873)
    Southwark, Surrey, England
    Born: England.
    Died: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
    Watchmaker
    Family emigrated to Somerville, Massachusetts, USA on the Yorktown in 1849.
    • Emily Agnes Kendall (1846 - )
      Born: Lambeth, Surrey, England.
      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 - )
          Born: California, USA.
        • Franklin Kendall Brown (13 Jan 1918 - 2 Aug 1996)
          Born: California, USA.
          Died: Alameda, California, USA
      • Child Brown -
    • Frederick James Kendall (1848 - 14 Jan 1890)
      Born: Marylebone, Middlesex, England.
      Died: Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
      Watchmaker and Jeweller
      married [1] 9 Nov 1871, Elizabeth Tobey Warren -
      Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
      Born: Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
      • James Frederick Kendall (12 Aug 1872 - )
        Born: Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
        Conductor
        married 27 Jun 1900, Rose L Reilly (1872 - )
        Born: Ireland.
        • Mary E Kendall (1903 - )
          Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
        • Frederick Kendall (1904 - )
          Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
        • Ester Kendall (1907 - )
          Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
      • Frederic Kendall (18 Jul 1873 - 30 Jul 1873)
      married [2] Cora D ? (ca 1847 - 1887)
      Born: Maine, USA.
      Died: Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
      married [3] 26 Oct 1887, M Olivia Fuller (1849 - 25 Apr 1899)
      Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
      Born: Belfast, Maine, USA.
      Died: 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
      • George Edward Kendall (17 Aug 1879 - )
        Born: Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
        Foreman
        married [1] 24 Dec 1899, Susie L M Brown (ca 1879 - )
        Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
        Born: Nova Scotia, Canada.
        married [2] 24 Nov 1909, Mary Isabel Stone (18 Oct 1884 - )
        Melrose Heights, Massachusetts, USA
        Born: New York City, New York, USA.
        Operative
      • Ella Elizabeth Kendall (17 Oct 1883 - )
        Born: Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
    • Charles R Kendall (1855 - )
      Born: Massachusetts, USA.
      Caretaker, Private Estate
      married [1] Unknown -
      married [2] 1880, 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 - 28 Dec 1914)
      Born: 29 Grove St, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
      Died: Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.
      Post Office Clerk
      married [2] 1897, Mary Ann Cody (Mar 1877 - )
      Born: Cincinatti, Ohio, USA.
      Book Keeper
      • 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 ? (1900 - )
      • 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, England.
    Died: Deptford, Surrey, England.
    Printer and Compositor
    married, Feb 1847, Susannah Deborah Allen (30 Oct 1820 - ca Dec 1863)
    Born: Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.
    Died: Holborn, London
    • William Charles Dawson (23 Nov 1848 - )
      Born: Finsbury, Middlesex, England.
      Vellum Binder
    • Susan Dawson (1850 - ca 1855)
      Born: Finsbury, Middlesex, England.
      Died: Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England.
    • Edwin Alfred Dawson (1856 - 1917)
      Born: Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England.
      Died: Wanstead, Middlesex, England.
      Commercial Clerk
      Manager of a biscuit manufactury, possibly Spratts
      married [1], 29 Oct 1876, Mary Ann Simmons (ca 1856 - bef 1889)
      Bermondsey, Surrey, England
      Born: Gravesend, Kent, England.
      Died: Limehouse, Middlesex, England.
      • Alfred Thomas Albert Dawson (1878 - 1949)
        Born: Limehouse, Middlesex, England.
        Died: Surrey, England.
        Engineer's Clerk
        married 1899, Frances Edwina E Wardale (ca 1877 - )
        West Ham, Middlesex, England
        Born: Islington, Middlesex, England.
        • Edwin George Dawson (3 Dec 1899 - Dec 1985)
          Born: Upton Park, Essex, England.
          Died: Cornwall
          married 1933, Ellen B Barnes -
          Romford, Essex, England
      • Hannah Louise Dawson (1882 - 18 Jan 1958)
        Born: Mile End, Middlesex, England.
        Died: Epsom, Surrey, England.
        Spinster
      married [2], 13 Jul 1889, Joanna Jackson (1864 - 1927)
      Limehouse, Middlesex, England
      Born: Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England.
      Died: Epsom, Surrey, England.
      • Alice Dawson (21 Aug 1890 - 28 Jan 1961)
        Born: Limehouse, Middlesex, England.
        Died: St Mary's, Jersey, CI
        married 18 Sep 1918, Cyril Charles Wall (24 Jul 1891 - 25 Aug 1975)
        Wanstead, Middlesex, England
        Born: Wandsworth, Surrey, England.
        Died: Eastbourne, Sussex, England.
        War Office librarian
      • Lilian Dawson (29 Apr 1895 - 4 Jan 1985)
        Born: East Ham, Middlesex, England.
        Died: West Ewell, Surrey, England.
        Doctor's Receptionist
    • John Arthur Dawson (1857 - 21 Apr 1874)
      Born: Clerkenwell, Surrey, England.
      Died: Drowned at Deptford, Surrey, England.
    • Edith Emily Dawson (28 Aug 1863 - 1912)
      Born: Holborn, London, England.
      Died: Epsom, Surrey, England.
      Book Folder
      married 1884, William Henry Sidgwick (26 Apr 1866 - 1914)
      Born: Lambeth, Surrey, England.
      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 - )
    Born: Lambeth, Surrey, England.
    married 13 Mar 1849, Catherine Lambert (6 Oct 1829 - )
    Southwark, Surrey, England
    Born: Woolwich, Kent, England.
    Emigrated to USA on the Abeona arrived 1 Jun 1849
    • Katie Eliza Dawson (5 Oct 1853 - 11 Jul 1854)
      Born and Died: Boston, Massachusetts.

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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