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Information from Patrick Wilton, Families in Romney Twsp. Kent Co. Ontario, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd S. Waldron, Wesleyan Methodist Minister (p. 86 & 87):
Joseph Dawson, to Jane Coatsworth, both of Romney Twp. 5 Aug. 1844, Romney Twp., by Licence. Rev. Waldron. Wit. Salm Snider and Susan Waldron, both of Gosfield.

United Presbyterian Church of Blenheim & Harwich, Marriages 1854-1894, transcribed by the Kent Branch of the OGS:
Emerson Isaac, 28, born Canada, lives Mersea, s/o Jonathan Emerson and Anne Dawson;
Dawson Jane, 25, born Canada, lives Romney, d/o Joseph Dawson and Jane Coatsworth;
Married 1 Jan 1873; Witnesses: - .

1881 personal census, Romney Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Dawson Joseph, M, Married, 67, born England, origin: English, Church of England, Farmer;
Jane, F, Married, 59, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England;
Frances Stella, F, 20, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England.

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 791:
George H. Dawson, a prosperous agriculturist and leading citizen of Romney township, County of Kent, is a grandson of one of the pioneer settlers of that township. The father, Joseph Dawson, was but four years of age when the family left the homestead in the County of Durham, England, and settled in Canada. They were eighteen weeks on the ocean and the ship was wrecked off the Orkney Islands, the passengers and crew escaping. The Dawson family finally made their way to Montreal, then westward to Longpoint, where they remained some time, the head of the family securing employment of Col. Nichols. Again going West, the family located on land in Mersea township, some three miles west of Wheatley, on property now owned by Russell Fox. After a short stay there, they moved to Romney township, where the family has since been closely identified with the growth of the township.
     Joseph Dawson grew to manhood in Romney, and at the age of twenty-one years he settled on the west half of Lot 187, while his brother Thomas secured the eastern half. This lot had been taken up from the government by a Mr. Butler. Upon this property Joseph Dawson began his life as a pioneer farmer, and he lived to see his land all placed under cultivation. Later he purchased the farm owned by his brother Thomas. Being an industrious and thrifty man he greatly prospered, and at his death, in 1895, he was counted among the well-to-do residents of Romney township. He was fond of reading, possessed a wonderful memory, and was well posted on current affairs. His wife was a Miss Jane Coatsworth, a daughter of the well known Robert Coatsworth, and to them were born children as follows: Robert, a resident of Romney township; Jane, who married Isaac Imerson, of Mersea; Sarah, who married George Coatsworth; Maria, who married Levi Coatsworth, of Chicago; George H.; Fannie, who married E. H. Brown, of Romney township.
     George H. Dawson was born on the farm where he now resides April 2, 1855, and received the advantages of the home schools. When twenty-one years of age he began his business life by conducting the homestead property. Later the entire lot of 200 acres came into his possession, and he carries it on very successfully, having become one of the representative farmers of County Kent. Like the elder members of his family he is a Conservative.
     In Raleigh township he married Rachel Jane Goulet, daughter of Alexander Goulet, and to them were born these children: Roy M., at home; Kemp W., in business in Chicago; Nellie, who married Frank Baldwin, of Chatham; and Edna, Reginald and Donald, all at home.

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 178-179:
William Dawson, a prosperous and enterprising farmer of Romney Township, County Kent, is a son of John Dawson, one of the pioneers of this locality.
     John Dawson, a son of Thomas and Hannah Dawson, was born near St. John's Chapel, Parish of Stanhope, County Durham, England, July 6, 1789. He was married in England, Sept. 21, 1812, to Sarah Potts, who was born in the same place July 8, 1789, a daughter of Joseph and Jane Potts. In the handwriting of John Dawson is found an account of his coming to Canada, which reads as follows: "John Dawson with his wife Sarah, and his sons Joseph and Thomas, and his daughter, Hannah, emigrated from England to Canada, British North America, sailed from Sunderland in the County of Durham, May 21, in the year 1817, and lost the vessel they sailed in on the Orkney Islands, and landed at America in New Brunswick, in the month of July, 1817."
     Upon landing the family came directly to Long Point where the father secured employment under Col. Nichols, but after several years he moved to Mersea township, County Essex, and settled upon a farm some three miles west of Wheatley, now owned by Russell F??, and there his wife died in October, 1823. Later, in Gosfield township, Mr. Dawson married Mary Edwards, a daughter of John and Sarah Edwards, who was born Sept. 2, 1808, and died Dec. 16, 1882. To John and Sarah (Potts) Dawson were born the following children, the first three in England, the others in Canada: Joseph, born July 6, 1813; Thomas, born Jan. 16, 1815; Hannah, born Nov 1?, 1816; Robert, born at Long Point, May 20, 1819; Walter, born at Long Point, July 22, 1821; and John, who died young...
     In the early twenties John Dawson came to Romney township, settling upon Lot 194, where he underwent all the privations incident to pioneer life, but he was rewarded by seeing the country change from a wilderness to a thickly settled community. He cleared a good part of the land upon which he settled, and the second house which he erected is still standing. As soon as his land was under cultivation, he engaged in tobacco raising, shipping his product by boat to Montreal. For some years he carried on a store in his house for Col. Little, of Raleigh. In politics he was a Conservative, but he also believed that in local events it was wiser to considered the worth of the man rather than the party. His death occurred Oct 1?, 1872, when he was eighty-three years of age...

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