'Dawson04'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Dawson of Charlesfort, Dawson of Clare Castle, Dawson Lord Cremorne, Dawson of Dawson's Grove

BP1870 reports of this family that "The Dawsons, originally from Yorkshire, removed to Ireland towards the close of Queen Elizabeth's reign."
Thomas Dawson of Armagh (a temp James I who r. 1603-1625)
1. John Dawson (d 1704)
  The following comes from BP1870.
  A. Walter Dawson of Dawson's Grove
  m. Frances Dawson, heiress of Dawson's Grove (dau of Richard Dawson)
i. Richard Dawson of Dawson's Grove (d 29.12.1766, MP and banker)
  m. (1723) Elizabeth Vesey (dau of John Vesey, Archbishop of Tuam)
  a. John Dawson (d 1742)
  b. Thomas Dawson, Lord Dartrey, Viscount Cremorne, 1st Lord Cremorne (b 25.02.1725, d 01.03.1813)
  m1. (15.07.1754) Anne Fermor (d 01.03.1769, dau of Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret)
  (1)+ issue (dvp) - Richard (d unm 03.03.1778), daughter (d young)
  m2. (08.05.1770) Philadephia Hannah Freame (dau of Thomas Freame of Philadephia by Margaretta, dau of William Penn (founder of Philadephia))
  (3)+ other issue (dvp) - Thomas (b c1771, d 09.10.1787), daughter (d young)
  c. Richard Dawson of Ardee (d 1782)
  m. (1758) Ann O'Brien (dau of Sir Edward O'Brien, Bart of Dromoland)
  (1) Richard Dawson (d 03.09.1807, MP)
  m. (1784) Catharine Graham (dau of Arthur Graham of Hockley)
  (A) Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Lord Cremorne (b 31.08.1788, d 21.03.1827) had issue
  m. (10.03.1815) Anne Elizabeth Emily Whaley (dau of John Whaley of Whaley Abbey)
  (B) Penelope Catherine Dawson (d 1837)
  m. Jean Fidelle D'Hersant
  (C) Anna Maria Dawson
  m. Simon Bunbury Isaac
(D) Eliza Dawson
  (E) Louisa Dawson
  m. C. Coote of Bellamont Forest
  (2) Thomas Vesey Dawson (b 1768, dsp, Dean of Clonmacnoise)
  m. (17983) Anna Maria Balfour (dau of Blayney Townley Balfour)
  (3) Mary Dawson (d 1831)
  m. (1783) Windham Quin (Colonel)
  (4) Henrietta Frances Dawson
  m. Charles Rawdon (Colonel)
  (5)+ other issue - Edward (b 1767, Lt. Colonel), Lucius Henry (d 1795, Captain RN)
d. Frances Dawson
  m. (07.1748) Windham Quin of Adare (b 1717, d 04.1789)
  The following comes from BLG1886.
  B. Thomas Dawson of Termonmaguirk, co. Armagh
  m. Mary
  i. Chapell Dawson of Dulbin (b 1699)
  m. (06.1731) Hannah Maria Townley (dau of Thomas Townley of Dromroosk)
  a. Thomas Townley Dawson of Kinscaly
  m. (11.1759) Joanna Saunders (dau of Anderson Saunders of Newtown Saunders)
  (1) Katherine Maria Dawson (b 1760-1, d 24.02.1851)
  m1. James Tisdall of Bawn
  m2. (04.06.1798) Charles William Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville (b 30.06.1764, d 31.10.1835)
b. Hannah Dawson
  m. Archibald Richardson
  c.+ other issue - Jane (b 15.05.1733), Mary (b 29.06.1734), Charity (b 28.03.1736)
  ii. Walter Dawson of Clare Castle, co. Armagh
  m1. Elizabeth Newton (dau of Rev. Edmund Newton of Umrigar)
  m2. (06.1731) Katherine Grattan (dau of Henry Grattan)
  m3. Elizabeth Bennett alias Fenton (widow)
  Not clear which wife was mother of which child.
  a. Thomas Dawson of Clare Castle
  m. Sarah Miles
  (1) Charlotte Eliza Dawson
  m1. Rev. Charles Dawson just below
  m2. John Charles Archdall (Archdeacon of Ferns)
  b. James Dawson of Forkhill
  (1)+ issue - Richard (dsp 1866), Vesey Thomas (had issue)
c. Charles Dawson of Charlesfort, co. Wexford (b 1745, d 1833)
  m. Deborah (dau of John Bury, alias Palliser, of Comragh)
  (1) Walter Dawson of Charlesfort (d unm 1859)
  (2) Charles Dawson (Rev.) had issue (1 dau)
  m. Charlotte Eliza Dawson (dau of Thomas Dawson of Clare Castle) just above
  (3) Richard Dawson of Bunratty (d 1817) had issue
  m. Ellen Studdert
  (4) Eliza Dawson
  m. (1815) Clement Wilward of Tullogher (Admiral RN)
  (5) Jane Dawson (d 1859)
  m. (1813) Montiford Westropp of Mellon (b 1781, d 1843)
  Charlesfort passed to one of their sons who took the name Westropp-Dawson.
  iii. Charity Dawson
  m. John Lyndon of Glasnevin
  iv. Mary Dawson
  m. _ Fulton
  v.+ other issue - Edward, Elizabeth (d unm 1775), Margaret

Main source(s): BP1870 (Dartrey), BLG1886 (Westropp-Dawson of Charlesfort)
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