A2Z Blogging Challenge - D

SURNAMES ON MY FAMILY TREE BEGINNING WITH D

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• Dalrymple - Scotland
• Dane - Qld, Australia
• Davis - US
• Dawson - Stirlingshire, Scotland
• Dawson - Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire, England

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• Dawson - Willoughby on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire, England
• Dawson - Durham, England
• Dawson - Blythe, Northumberland
• Dawson - Blair Logie Perthshire, Scotland
• Day - NSW, Australia
• De Le Houilliaire - Middlesex, London, England
• De Lorenza - Beunos Aires, Argentina
• de Rosalez (Rosales) - Argentina
• Deiss - Ehingen, Alb Donau-Kreiss. Baden- Wurttemberg, Germany
• Deiss - Beutelsbach, Germany

Beutelsbach, Baden-Wurttmeberg, Germany Wikimedia Creative Commons

• Delmer - Qld, Australia
• Deschamp - Australia
• Devine - Ireland
• Dibble - Bridgewater and Wilton, Somerset, England
• Diebold - Germany
• Diemer - Konnigsbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
• Dignan - Ireland
• Dimmey - Ireland
• Dinnie -Scotland
• Dipple - Holborn, Middlesex, England
• Dipple - Shropshire, England
• Ditty - Moneymore, Londonderrry, Northern Ireland

St John's Moneymore, Wikimedia Creative Commons

• Ditty - County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Dodds - Seghill, Northumberland
• Doherty - Scotland
• Dohni - Baden-Wurtttemberg, Germany
• Dolderer - Beutelsbach, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Beutelsbach in Winter, Wikimedia, Creative Commons

• Donatelli - Italy
• Doncaster -England
• Donelly - County Clare, Ireland
• Donelly - County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Dorr - Germany
• Dorward/ Durwood - Brechin, Angus, Scotland

Brechin Cathedral, Brechin, Wikimedia, Creative Commons

• Dougherty - Scotland
• Downs
• Dripps - Northern Ireland and New Zealand
• Duff
• Durance/ Dorrence/Durants/Durant - Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, England
• Durward - Aberdeen and Angus, Scotland

DAWSON OF WILLOUGHBY ON THE WOLDS, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND

St Mary and All Saints, Willoughby on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire,Wikimedia, CC

If you happen to have ancestors from Willoughby on the Wolds in Nottinghamshire, the GENUKI website has some excellent information about this rural village here.

Generation 1.  Mary DAWSON, my fourth great grandmother, was born in early 1783 in Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire to William Dawson and Jane BONSER [1]. Mary was baptised in Hawkhurst, Nottinghamshire (the parish her mother was from) on January 26, 1783 [2] and married weaver, William Morley in Farnsfield on November 26, 1801[3] . 

Marriage of Mary Dawson and William Morley [3]

Generation 2.  William DAWSON, my fifth great grandfather was baptised in Willoughby on the Wolds on July 29, 1759 [4]. His parents were John Dawson and Millicent COOK who married in Willoughby on the Wolds on January 5, 1756 [5]. 

Generation 3.  Millicent Dawson nee COOK was born in Shepshed, Leicestershire [6] but it is unknown where John Dawson originated from. This marriage is the earliest Dawson record I have found in Nottinghamshire. Since Willoughby on the Wolds is quite close to the border between Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, it is possible he came from either county and this Dawson line is still a work in progress. 

DAWSON SURNAME ORIGINS

According to some sources, the surname Dawson derived from the 'son of David' [7]. Forebrears offers a similar explanation of the name Dawson:

From Dawe, diminutive of David + son. John Daweson was a merchant in the service of Archambaud, earl of Douglas in 1405 (Bain, IV, 697). John Dawson is recorded in Kethyk in 1466 (Cupar-Angus,. I, p. 146), and James Dawson was godson of King James IV (ALHT.[8]

The British Names website gives the following origin for the surname Dawson:

Said to be a corruption of the Nor. Fr. D'Ossone, from the town of Ossone, in Normandy. Camden, however, thinks it a contraction of Davison, the son of David, which is the more probable derivation.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.[9]

FOOTNOTES

1.Birth of Mary Dawson, 1783, Nottinghamshire, England, Extracted Parish Record for Nottinghamshire, 1538-1837, Ancestry.com.

2.Baptism of Mary Dawson, 1783, England and Wales, Christening Records, 1530-1906, Ancestry.com.

3.Marriage of Mary Dawson and William Morley, 1801, Pallot's Marriage Index for England, Ancestry.com.

4.Baptism of William Dawson, 29 July 1759,  England And Wales, Christening Records, 1530-1906, Ancestry.com.

5.Marriage William Dawson and Millicent Cook, 1756, England Select M1538-1973, Ancestry.com.arriages, 

6.Birth of Millicent Cook, 1732, England, Select Births and Christenings,  153801975, Ancestry.com.

7. Surname Dawson, Surname Database, Shttps://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Dawson

8. Surname Dawson. Forebears, https://forebears.io/surnames/dawson

9. Surname Dawson Meaning, British Surnames, http://britishsurnames.co.uk/surname/DAWSON