Dawson (No. 1.) family genealogy

Arms: Gu. on a bend engr. or, three martlets. Crest; A talbot pass.[1]

Under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation (1661-1665), Captain John, Richard, and Thomas Dawson obtained grants of land in Ireland, much of which has passed away from the family; and many members of the family are reduced to the condition of tillers of the soil. This Captain John Dawson was one of the “Forty-nine Officers;” his descendants were as follows:

1. Captain John Dawson, of Drummany, county Monaghan.

2. Richard: his son; had a sister Mary, who married Patrick Mór Duffy. (See No. 2 on the “Duffy” pedigree, p. 423, Vol. I.)

3. James: his son; settled in the county Cork. Had two sons:—1. Richard, of whom presently; and 2. James.

4. Richard: eldest son of James; settled at Moneens, in Kinalmeaky. Had four sons:

1. Richard.
2. James.
3. John.
4. Daniel.

Was twice married; the first two sons were by his first wife. Daniel lived at Moneens, but, owing to a fire, was obliged to give up his land, and, with his family, to emigrate.

5. Richard: son of Richard; settled at Curravardy (Mount Pleasant), three miles north of Bandon; married Susanna, dau. of James Good (by his wife Susanna Stanley), and had by her:

1. Richard, who married a Miss Morgan, and had issue; emigrated to North America.
2. John, of whom presently.
3. William, who mar. Rebecca Williams, and had two sons: 1. Richard, of Cork, who mar. his cousin Susanna Dawson, and has by her—Richard, Charles, Alfred, Anne, and Whelhelmina; 2.Paul, 3 Mary; 4. Kate, d.s.p.; 5. Rebecca; 6. Hester; 7. Lizzie; and 8. Georgiana.
4. Susanna, who married a Mr. Graves, of Bandon.
5. James, who married a Miss Hosford, of Knockskagh, and had: 1. William, mar. Mary Williams; issue extinct; 2. Joseph; 3. James; 4. Richard, d.s.p., mar. Miss Carroll, of Bandon; 5. Kate, m. William Reid, no issue, living at Barnstable, in 1887.
6. Mary, m. a Mr. Kingston.
7. Benjamin, m. and emigrated to North America.

6. John: son of Richard; mar. Anne Forde, of Bandon; lived at Mount Pleasant and Farranavane, near Bandon; had issue:

1. John, of whom presently.
2. Charles-Graves, of Farranavane, who mar. Bessie Atkins, of Dunmanway, living in 1887.
3. Benjamin-Richard, emigrated to North America.
4. Susanna, married her cousin Richard Dawson, of Cork.
5. V., VI., and VII., were sons who died young.
8. Anne, mar. in America, and has issue.
9. Mary, mar. Benjamin Kidd, of London, and has issue— Benjamin, Charles, Albert, Wesley-Dawson, and five girls.
10. Harriett, m. John Hosford, of Lis-na-ban-righ (Queen’s fort), and has issue: Samuel-Richard, John-David, Benjamin-Eldon, Charles-Joseph.

7. John, of Bandon: eldest son of John, of Mount Pleasant and Farranvane; mar. Mary Jane Talbot, of Dublin, and by her had issue:

1. William-Arthur.
2. John-Wesley-Fledcher, died at age of 3 years.
3. Charles-Wesley-Whitfield.
4. and V. (Twins) Annie-Eveline, and Marion-Talbot; and
6. Benjamin-Herbert-Spencer.

Notes

[1] Dawson: Some members of this family in Munster say that the name was originally the French D’Ossone; while, in p. 402 of Vol. I. of this Edition we give it as one of the anglicised forms of the Irish MacDaibhidh, derived from David Mór, who is No. 122 on the “Davidson” pedigree, and who lived in the beginning of the 15th century. Some of the descendants of that David Mór may have emigrated to France, and there assumed the name D’Ossone; but some of them settled in England, whence some of their descendants afterwards came to Ireland, under the name Dawson.