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Henry Dawson
Hoping you can help, please.
I’m a descendant of Peter Baker of Liverpool. I’m trying to confirm details about his grandson Henry Dawson (my 3rd Great Grandfather).
My 5th Great-Grandfather was Peter Baker, Baker & Dawson Shipbuilders, Liverpool (b. 1732, d. Feb. 1796 during his term as Mayor of Liverpool)
- Peter Baker married Ann (possibly Charnley). - Had one Child – Margaret Baker, (b. about 1757)
Their daughter, my 4th Great Grandmother Margaret Baker married Captain John Dawson (he of the Carnatic fame and slave-trading infamy). They had 14 children and lived in Carnatic Hall, Mossley Hill. We understand that the first 12 children are all named in Peter Baker’s Will of 1796, another 2 were born after that date.
Of John and Margaret Dawson’s 14 children, it is their son Henry Dawson (my 3rd Great Grandfather) who presents a block for us.
Questions about Henry Dawson:
- Where, when was Henry Dawson born? Likely Liverpool?
- Did he marry Alice Pedder? (their son John named the first daughter Alice Pedder Dawson)
- Hanry/Alice moved from Liverpool and lived in Lancaster, Lancashire, England.
- Had 2 sons, John Dawson, (b. 1799, d. Nov. 19, 1871, West Derby, Lancashire.) and a son William Henry Dawson, b. 1803
- Henry was apparently a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, said to have died in India.
- Dates of death for Henry Dawson, Alice Dawson?
Henry and his wife died when their 2 boys were young. Their son John Dawson was taken to Carnatic Hall to be raised with his aunts and uncles and grandparents John Dawson and Margaret (Baker) Dawson). It was Henry’s son John Dawson (my 2nd Great Grandfather) who inherited his grandfather’s shipbuilding business. He married Jane Mulvey, they had 8 children and we have detailed confirmed records on John and Jane and family. Their daughter Laura Ann Dawson was my Great Grandmother.
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From: admission register of the Manchester School, Volume 3, Part 2, p. 211 ,
"Robert, son of John Dawson, esq., merchant, Liverpool, Lane. July j. This scholar, son of John Dawson, csq., of Mossley hill, near Liverpool (who died at Bath in 1813), and grandson of Peter Baker, esq., who died whilst mayor of Liverpool in 1795, and whose sister Anne married Dr. Frodsham Hodson (see p. 116 <'n ii), attained the rank of major in the service of the late hon. East India Company, seeing good service in India, but retiring from the army before the stirring events of recent years, and died at Brussels, s.p., in 1841. The family of Dawson is said to have come originally from Cumberland, and to have been represented from an early period by substantial and respectable yeomen. Two brothers of this scholar, but not educated at the school, died in India : Peter, an officer in the 21st dragoons, who died before Seringapatam ; and Henry, a lieutenant in the royal navy. The youngest sister, Fanny, married admiral H. B. Tremlett, a distinguished naval officer, of whom there is a biographical notice in the Gentleman's Magazine of December 1866. For a younger brother, Frederick Ackers Dawson, H.A., now rector of Buscot, Berks, see Register anno iSii..
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