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Mary Jane
Dawson
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, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Emerson Isaac, M, Married, 37, born England, origin: English, Wesleyan
Methodist;
Jane, F, Married, 33, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Sidney, M, 7, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Joseph, M, 6, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist.
1901 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, K2-11,12:
Emerson Isaac, M, Married, 23 March 1846, 55, born England, immigrated 1847, origin: English, Can, Meth, Farmer;
Mary J., F, wife, Married, 2 Oct 1848, 52, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Francis, M, son, Single, 2 June 1879, 21, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, Farmer's Son;
Ella M., F, daughter, Single, 9 Aug 1881, 19, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Herbert, M, son, Single, 2 Dec 1883, 17, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Archie, M, son, Single, 6 Feb 1890, 11, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, 10 months in school;
Robert Vernon, M, son, Single, 26 June 1894, 6, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, 10 months in school.
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.
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