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- Of another Irish peer, Viscount Cremorne, (Thomas Dawson, created Baron Dartry), of Dawson Grove, in the county of Monaghan, grandson of Walter Dawson, who died in 1718, it is stated by Stockdale that his family, which was originally of Yorkshire, settled in Ireland in the reign of James the Second. But according to Burke’s Peerage, the ancestor of this peer in Ireland was Thomas Dawson, who removed from York (Westmoreland?) towards the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and became in the succeeding reign a burgess of Armagh. The viscounty became extinct in 1813, but the barony of Cremorne descended to Richard Thomas Dawson, of Castle Dawson, Monaghan, grand-nephew of the above-named viscount. It may be noted in passing that the second wife of Viscount Cremorne was Philadelphia Hannah Freame, of Philadelphia, a grand-daughter of William Penn. One of the sons of Walter Dawson, above-named, was Richard Dawson, and eminent banker in Dublin, 1723-1776, and other members of the family, being excluded from succession to their ancestors’ titles and estates through the law of primogeniture, entered the army or navy, or took holy orders; while the same law which forced them into these professions must have carried their descendants back into the common walks of life. The descendants of these, as well as of the minor branches of the Earl of Portarlington’s family, must be numerous. There are or have been other families of our name in Great Britain possessing hereditary titles, but it will not serve any useful purpose in this connection to inquire further into their origin or history. The above facts have been referred to simply as furnishing data by which to trace the rise and spread of the family name, and without any intention on the part of the compiler hereof of claiming connection for any American Dawsons with the noted families of our name in Great Britain. Among the younger branches of those families, constituting the gentry of the country, very many cases must have occurred where individuals became tradesmen and yeoman, losing all recollection of their connection, not even preserving the family arms or other memorials. It is not improbable that some of this class may have emigrated to this country. “None are so apt to seek foreign shores as those deprived by fortune of the position of their ancestors;” but where there is no evidence from records or other contemporary writings of descent from illustrious families, it will be most reasonable to conclude that no such relationship exists.
source: Dawson, Charles C. A Collection of Family Records, with Biographical Sketches and Other Memoranda of Various Families and Individuals Bearing the Name Dawson, or Allied to Families of that Name. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1874.
- The family of Lord Dartrey came originally from Yorkshire, removing to Ireland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
THOMAS DAWSON, of Armagh, was father of
JOHN DAWSON, Esq., whose son,
WALTER DAWSON, Esq., died in 1704, leaving two sons, the elder of whom,
WALTER DAWSON, Esq., married Frances, daughter of Richard Dawson, Esq., an officer in Cromwell's army, with whom he obtained the estate of Dawson's Grove, in the County of Monaghan. He was succeeded at his decease by his only surviving son,
RICHARD DAWSON, Esq., of Dawson's Grove, an eminent Banker and Alderman of the City of Dublin, and M.P. for the County of Monaghan. This gentleman married, in 1723, Elizabeth, daughter of the Most Rev. John Vesey, D.D., Archbishop of Tuam, by whom he left, dying in 1766,
THOMAS DAWSON, Esq., who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland May 28th., 1770, as BARON DARTREY, and advanced to the dignity of VISCOUNT CREMORNE, June 9th., 1785. He married, first, the Lady Anne Fermor, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Pomfret, by whom, who died in 1769, he had a son and daughter, both of whom died in youth. His lordship married, secondly, May 8th., 1770, Philadelphia Hannah, only daughter of Thomas Freame, Esq., of Philadelphia, by whom he had another only son and daughter, who also died young. He was further created, March 7th., 1797, BARON CREMORNE, with remainder to his nephew, Richard Dawson, Esq., and his heirs male. At his death, March 1st., 1813, the Viscountcy of Cremorne expired, but the Barony of the same devolved on his great-nephew,
RICHARD THOMAS DAWSON, second Baron Cremorne, born 1788, who married, March 10th., 1815, Anne Elizabeth Emily, third daughter of John Whaley, Esq., of Whaley Abbey, in the county of Wicklow, and left at his decease, in 1827,
RICHARD DAWSON, third Baron Cremorne, of Dartrey, K.P., formerly a Lord in Waiting on the Queen, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Monaghan, born September 7th., 1817, created BARON DARTREY, September 20th., 1847, and EARL OF DARTREY, July 12th., 1866. He married, July 12th., 1841, Augusta, daughter of Edward Stanley, Esq., and Lady Mary Stanley, daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale, and had with other children,
VESEY DAWSON, LORD CREMORNE, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards and M.P. for the County of Monaghan, born April 22nd., 1842.
source: Morris, Francis Orpen. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, Volume 3. London, UK: William Mackenzie, 1880.
- Lineage – The DAWSONS, originally of Yorkshire, removed to Ireland towards the close of Queen ELIZABETH’S reign.
THOMAS DAWSON, who became, in the following reign, a burgess of Armagh, was father of
JOHN DAWSON, of Armagh, who m. Annie Richardson, and had issue
source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth P. Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage, Seventy-Sixth Edition. London: Harrison and Sons, 1914.
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