Descendants of Peter Dawson

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Descendants of Peter Dawson



A family that settled in Jersey after the Second World War and became allied by marriage to that of Alexander Moncrieff Coutanche, Jersey`s wartime leader

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  • 1 Peter Dawson (1776- ) [1] m (1799, Mortlach) Helen McCulloch (Mortlach)
    • 2 Margaret Dawson (1799-1885) m (1824, Kearn) James Yool
    • 2 James Dawson (1813-1892) (Towie, Aberdeenshire) [2] m (1846, Cairnie) Isabella Shearer
      • 3 Anne Dawson (1835- ) [3]
      • 3 Isabella Dawson (1847-1927) m (1866, Aberlour) Duncan Munro [4]
      • 3 James Dawson (1850- ) [5] m Maggie McPherson (with issue) [6]
    • 2 Alexander Dawson (1816-1903) (Towie, Aberdeenshire) [7] m Elspet Garrow (1817-1878), daughter of Peter and Jane, née Cameron (Mortlach)
      • 3 Peter Dawson (1855-1938) (Mortlach) [8] m Jane Maria Thompson (1860-1946)
        • 4 Alexander Thompson Dawson (1885-1968) [9] m Isobel Margaret Mearns ( -1975)
          • 5 Rupert Alexander Dawson (1911-1969)
          • 5 James Mearns Dawson (1914-1999)
          • 5 Peter Michael Dawson (1916-1979) [10]
          • 5 Christopher Dawson ( -1956)
          • 5 Alastair Benedict Dawson (1922-1978)
          • 5 Jean Veronica Dawson (1925-1977) m (1949) John Alexander Gore Coutanche (1925-2006) [11]
          • 5 Eileen Juliette Dawson (1925-1983) m 1 (1960) William Thomas Scarborough; [12] 2 Sydney Frederick Green
        • 4 Rupert George Dawson CB (1887-1975) (Perth) [13] m (1911, Montreal) Maria Alexina Juliette Wilson (1888-1962), daughter of Joseph Marcelin (1859-1940) [14]
          • 5 Marguerite Alexina Wilson Dawson (1913-1962) m Alexander Stewart Buchanan (issue)
          • 5 Lucienne Jeannie Wilson Dawson (1915-2009) [15]
          • 5 Madeleine Dorothy Dawson (1916-1976) [16]
          • 5 Peter Dawson (1920-2009) [17] m (issue)
          • 5 Joseph Marcel Archibald John Dawson (1921-1997) [18]
        • 4 Margaret Smith Dawson (1890-1964) [19]



Notes and references

  1. ↑ Farmer, farming at White Hillock, employing 3 men, in the parish of Cairney (Cairnie), Banffshire, aged 65 in 1841: UK Census, Scotland (1841), Cairney, Banffshire. In 1851, he was an annuitant, age given as 78, living with his son James at the same address, Cairney. His parish of birth was given as Strathdon, his parish of residence at the time of his marriage
  2. ↑ Farmer and Carter, farming at White Hillock 100 acres, comprising 46 acres of pastureland and employing 3 men: UK Census, Scotland (1851), Cairney, Banffshire. By 1861, he had moved with his wife and two children to Keith, in the same county, where he was a Carter, as he was in 1871, when he and his wife were living in Aberlour, Banffshire. He remained there, living in the High Street, until his death. In the 1891 Census, the household included his son, daughter-in-law, four grandsons and two grand-daughters. The National Probate Index, Scotland, (1895) has him as “James Dawson senior of Aberlour, farmer and carter, who died in 1892”. He is buried at Aberlour, Moray. His memorial inscription includes his wife Isabella and their children James and Isabella
  3. ↑ Anne was probably born of an earlier marriage of her father. She was living with Peter Dawson at Cairney at the time of the 1841 census, aged 5. In 1851, she was living with James and Isabella, being then aged 15 and described as daughter
  4. ↑ A daughter, Bella Munro, aged 10, was staying in 1881 with her grandparents at Aberlour: Census, that year
  5. ↑ Of Aberlour, Carter
  6. ↑ Issue included, living with their grandfather in Aberlour in 1891, James (then aged 13), Alexander (aged 5), Maggie (aged 4), Bella (aged 2) and William (aged 7 months)
  7. ↑ Of Mortlach, Banffshire, Ploughman (1861) and Labourer (1871), then (Grain?) Agent (1881), living with, and no doubt assisting, his son Peter at Mortlach, Grain merchant (1891) and Annuitant in 1901: UK Census, Scotland, Banffshire (1901)
  8. ↑ Seedsman at Mortlach (1881), then Whiskey Merchant and Distiller, of 82, Great Clyde Street, Glasgow (1886-1903) and of Perthshire, where he died
  9. ↑ Scotch Whiskey Company Director, who retired after WW2 to Jersey, purchasing Portelet House, St Brelade. He served in WW1 as a Lieutenant, 3rd Highland (Howitzer) Brigade (1914) and then as a Temporary Captain (1918), Royal Flying Corps (tech.)
  10. ↑ Of La Jeannerie, formerly La Jeanerie, St Ouen, which bore the name of its owners during many centuries, the Jean family of St Ouen
  11. ↑ Lieut-Commander RNR, company director, Jurat and Lieut-Bailiff of Jersey
  12. ↑ Captain
  13. ↑ JP, DL, of Orchil, Braco, Perthshire and La Hague Manor, Jersey (1946), distiller (1920) and merchant (1923). Educated at Stonyhurst, he served in WWI from 1915 as an officer of The Scottish Horse. He took part in the fighting at Gallipoli and elsewhere, becoming a Major. After the war he served in the Territorial Army and, from 1920, was commanding officer of The Black Watch Territorials, with the rank of Lieut-Colonel. In WW2 he remained with the Territorials; in 1945 Brevet Colonel and Chairman, Territorial Army Association for the County of Perth, for which he was made a Companion of the Bath. Retiring to Jersey, he purchased in 1946 from Margaret Elizabeth Le Cornu, La Hague Manor and some associated fiefs, with the exception of Niesmes and Sauvalle, which had been inherited by Miss Le Cornu`s sister Evelyn
  14. ↑ Of Montreal, Spirit Merchant, and Senator of Saurel, Quebec
  15. ↑ Unmarried
  16. ↑ Unmarried
  17. ↑ Of La Ruette, Rozel, Trinity (1973) and afterwards of Les Nouettes, St Clement; sold La Hague Manor after the death of his father
  18. ↑ He served in WW2 from 1943-1945 as a 2nd Lieutenant, Indian Army
  19. ↑ Unmarried
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