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Personal data Henry Dawson 

  • He was born in the year 1795 in Charlwood, Surrey. England.
  • He was baptized on December 25, 1795 in St. Nicholas, Charlwood, Surrey. England.
    Baptism
    Henry Dawson
    1795–1861

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    25 Dec 1795
    St Nicholas, Charlwood, Surrey, England
    From Freereg
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 1821 Cabinet Maker.
    • in the year 1861 Superintendant of the Model Houses for families.
      Model Houses for Families (now Parnell House), Streatham Street, London
      RIBA Ref No RIBA17631
      Architect/Designer Roberts, Henry (1803-1876)
      Country UK: England
      City London
      Subject Date 1845
      Image Date 1849
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      Medium Print
      Library Reference Periodicals
      Orientation Portrait
      Colour Info Black and white
      Credit RIBA Collections
      Subject At Home in Britain: Flats ; Flats
      SOURCE: Builder, vol. 7, 1849 July 14, p. 326 NOTES: Roberts's block of flats for 48 families was one of the early philanthropic housing schemes in London. This is his earliest housing project still standing and featured fireproof construction, access by wrought-iron balconies, and water-closets in each flat - revolutionary for working class dwellings at the time. The block was restored in 1956 by Sir Frederick Gibberd & Partners.
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1851: 75 Welldale Street, Reading, Berkshire.
      Name: Henry Dawson Age: 55 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1796 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: James Dawson
      Gender: Male Where born: Charlwood, Surrey, England Civil Parish: Reading St Mary County/Island: Berkshire
      Country: England Registration District: Reading Sub-registration District: St Mary ED, institution, or vessel: 1n
      Neighbors: Household Schedule Number: 193 Piece: 1692 Folio: 286 Page Number: 42 Household Members:
      Name Age
      Henry Dawson 55
      James Dawson 52
    • in the year 1861: Office, Model Houses for families, Bloomsbury, Middlesex.
      Name: Henry Dawson Age: 65 Estimated Birth Year: 1796 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Jane Dawson
      Gender: Male Where born: Surrey, England Civil parish: Bloomsbury St George County/Island: Middlesex
      Country: England Registration district: St Giles Sub-registration district: St George Bloomsbury ED, institution, or vessel: 11 Neighbors: Household schedule number: 173 Piece: 167 Folio: 47 Page number: 27
      Household Members Age Relationship
      Henry Dawson 65 Head
      Jane Dawson 63 Wife
  • He died on October 6, 1861 in The Office Middle House Streatham Street, St. George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, he was 66 years old.
    SEE PHOTO of DEATH Cert.
  • A child of JAMES DAWSON and name unknown
  • This information was last updated on April 8, 2023.

Household of Henry Dawson

He is married to Jane Masters.

They got married on February 15, 1820 at St. George's Hanover Square, London. England, he was 25 years old.Source 1

Name: Jane Masters
Marriage Date: 15 Feb 1820
Marriage Place: St George, Hanover Square, London, Westminster, England
Spouse: Henry Dawson

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Child(ren):

  1. Jane Dawson  1821-1915
  3. Henry Joseph Dawson  ± 1826-????
  4. John Dawson  ± 1827-????
  5. Hannah Dawson  1831-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Henry Dawson

JAMES DAWSON
± 1775-????
name unknown
± 1775-????

Henry Dawson
1795-1861

1820

Jane Masters
± 1799-????

Jane Dawson
1821-1915
Henrietta Maria Dawson
1823-1909
Henry Joseph Dawson
± 1826-????
John Dawson
± 1827-????
Hannah Dawson
1831-????

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Historical events

Christening day December 25, 1795

  • The temperature on December 25, 1795 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1795: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 16 » French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later.
    • August 31 » War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
    • September 15 » Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
    • October 3 » Slave rebel leader Tula is executed in Curaçao.
    • October 4 » Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
    • December 28 » Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).

Day of marriage February 15, 1820

  • The temperature on February 15, 1820 was about -2 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1820: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 30 » Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
    • March 6 » The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
    • August 24 » Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
    • October 9 » Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
    • November 17 » Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
    • November 20 » An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)

Day of death October 6, 1861

  • The temperature on October 6, 1861 was about 17.1 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
  • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 29 » Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
    • March 11 » American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
    • August 5 » American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in 1872).
    • August 5 » The United States Army abolishes flogging.
    • August 6 » Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
    • October 21 » American Civil War: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia


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