My Dawson ancestors from the Lincolnshire fens

My connection with the Dawson family is that Mary Dawson is my 3x great grandmother through her marriage in 1802 to Thomas Godley (1775-1837).

We have accumulated a lot of information about the Dawson family for the period 1750 to early 1800's from Parish records, inscriptions in St John the Baptist Church, Great Hale, Lincs, and so on.  Trying to piece it all together is proving rather difficult as there were numerous Dawson families in the area  - they may all have been related but it still makes for potential confusion  and plenty of opportunities to jump to wrong conclusions!  We believe the relationships shown below are correct and that John (husband of Anne) is related to John & Martha, perhaps their son, BUT there are several conundrums, including some aunts and uncles we can't fit in.

If you have knowledge of any of these people, their descendants, or their predecessors, I would love to hear from you. The data I have includes some more information about them, and photographs of the familiy graves and memorials in Great Hale church.

• John Dawson (b bet 1690 & 1720 ) married Martha (b bet 1710 & 1720 d age 64) in abt 1738
  • John Dawson (bapt 23 Aug 1739 Hale. d: 12 Nov 1741)
  • Mary Dawson (bapt 22 Apr 1741 Hale)
  • John Dawson (bapt: 27 Jan 1742 Hale )
  • Martha Dawson (bapt 01 Jan 1745 Hale, d: 10 Mar 1748 )
  • Rebecca Dawson (bapt 15 Dec 1748 Hale)
  • Martha Dawson (bapt 15 Nov 1751 Hale^.  d 25 March 1769)

• John Dawson (b bet 1713 and 1753) married Anne Thompson (b bet 1735 and 1753) on 18 Jun 1772 Great Hale
  • Edward Dawson (bapt 28 Jan1773 Hale)
  • Mary Dawson ( bapt 1777 Apr 3. Bur 1825 12 30 ) married Thomas Godley in Gt Hale on 17 Mar 1803
  • William Thompson Dawson (b 10 /6/1775^.  bapt 07 Jul 1775 Hale. d 15/6/1844 ) married Penelope Watson (b 8/4/1783 d 7/4/1821) on May 5 1804
    • Edward John Dawson  (b 1803/4 died 31 Jan 1853) married Elizabeth Tidesley
      • children
    • William G Dawson (b prior to 1810) married Anne
      • William T. Dawson (b 1833)
      • Penelope A Dawson (b 1834)
      • Edward T.(Dawson b 1836)
      • Robert W Dawson (b 1838)
    • Charles Dawson (b 1811)
    • Robert H. Dawson (b1813) married Ann
      • William Dawson (b 1834)
    • Catherine A. Dawson (b 1815 d an infant)
    • Penelope Dawson (b 1817)
    • Joseph W Dawson (b 1818)
    • George Dawson (b 1819)
    • Eleanor Dawson (b 1820)

    William married Mary Ann Watson (b abt 1791) in 1825

The major issue in the conundrum is that Edward, Mary and William Thompson Dawson had aunts / uncles who do not appear to be children of John & Martha!

• Edward Dawson (d abt 1816)
• William (who had died by 1812)
• A sister who had married George Hall, but had died by 1812

Place names relevant to these people include:

• Great Hale, Lincolnshire, also known as Hale Magna
• Little Hale, Lincolnshire, also known as Hale Prava
  • Great and Little Hale are adjacent villages, served by one Church and are often just referred to as Hale.  Both are in the Sleaford registration district.
• Leverton, Lincs
• Boston, Lincs
• Castle Donnington, Leicestershire
• Stanmore, Middlesex
• Snow Hill, London

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