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Maria
Dawson
Marriage record, Romney Twp, Kent Co., ON, from Mary Crandall's
site:
4012-75 Leonidas COATSWORTH, 23, farmer, Romney, same, s/o John & Hannah,
married Maria DAWSON, 24, Romney, same, d/o Joseph & Jane, witn: George Henry
DAWSON of Romney & Rachel Jane GOULET of Raleigh, 29 Dec 1875 at Romney.
1881 personal census, Romney Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS Can 1881
census household record:
Coatsworth Leonidas, M, Married, 28, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan
Methodist, Farmer;
Maria, F, Married, 30, born Ont, origin: English,
Weslayan Methodist.
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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