marquette
26-09-13, 23:04
Like Merry, I have been having a sort-out. I started going through my folders of certificates, census records and emails and bits and pieces to sort them back into some kind of order.
When I looked at 4g grandma Mary Dawson in the 1841 census, living with Sarah Christie and her children in Princess-street, Rotherhithe Surrey, I wondered who the Christies were.
A quick check of the St Mary Rotherhithe records showed that George (b1829) and Ann (b1833) Christie were the children of William Christie and Sarah Susannah Dawson. William and Sarah Susannah had married in 1811 - he was a master mariner and that explains the long gaps between his children.
Now, I did not have Sarah Susannah in my Dawson family, but found her baptised in St Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, father Joseph a mast maker in 1789, fitting nicely as the first child of Joseph and Mary Dawson who then baptised all the rest their flock at St Mary Rotherhithe.
William and Sarah Susannah also had a son John Dawson Christie. The trail of this little family also explained why my first cousin 3 times removed, born in 1883 in Newcastle NSW was called George Christie Dawson !
In 1876, John Dawson Christie named his daughter Matilda Bright Christie (Bright was the middle name of George Christie Dawson's mother, Abigail Bright Cates). Ann Christie Coper also gave one of her children the middle name Bright !
This Dawson family has been so interesting to track down, I thought I had them all, now I have a whole new group to track through the census and look for more links !
Mary Dawson had two sons and at least 3 grandchildren who came out to Australia and New Zealand. They have links to the Brazill, White and Rutter families, but who knows where the Christies will lead me !!!
I am so excited to have more do, that the tidying up the folders has been put aside again.
Diane
When I looked at 4g grandma Mary Dawson in the 1841 census, living with Sarah Christie and her children in Princess-street, Rotherhithe Surrey, I wondered who the Christies were.
A quick check of the St Mary Rotherhithe records showed that George (b1829) and Ann (b1833) Christie were the children of William Christie and Sarah Susannah Dawson. William and Sarah Susannah had married in 1811 - he was a master mariner and that explains the long gaps between his children.
Now, I did not have Sarah Susannah in my Dawson family, but found her baptised in St Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, father Joseph a mast maker in 1789, fitting nicely as the first child of Joseph and Mary Dawson who then baptised all the rest their flock at St Mary Rotherhithe.
William and Sarah Susannah also had a son John Dawson Christie. The trail of this little family also explained why my first cousin 3 times removed, born in 1883 in Newcastle NSW was called George Christie Dawson !
In 1876, John Dawson Christie named his daughter Matilda Bright Christie (Bright was the middle name of George Christie Dawson's mother, Abigail Bright Cates). Ann Christie Coper also gave one of her children the middle name Bright !
This Dawson family has been so interesting to track down, I thought I had them all, now I have a whole new group to track through the census and look for more links !
Mary Dawson had two sons and at least 3 grandchildren who came out to Australia and New Zealand. They have links to the Brazill, White and Rutter families, but who knows where the Christies will lead me !!!
I am so excited to have more do, that the tidying up the folders has been put aside again.
Diane