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John Lawson
1791 - 1860

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Full Name: John Lawson Parents
ID Number: 1695 William Lawson
Born: Catherine Moore
Christening: 21 August 1791 Rushen
Death:
Buried: 14 March 1860 Arbory
Marriage: 5 October 1815 Elizabeth Gick

CHILDREN
Edward (1703) Baptized: 28 January 1816 Married 1: Eliabeth Corlett
Married 2: Margaret Moore
Catherine (1704) Baptized: 1 March 1818
Elizabeth (1705) Baptized: 18 March 1821 Married: Thomas Comish Buried: 2 January 1879
Jane (1706) Baptized: 9 March 1823 Married: William Moore Buried: 13 July 1864
John (1707) Baptized: 6 January 1826 Died: 19 August 1853
Margaret (1708) Baptized: 6 January 1826
Ellinor (1709) Baptized: 1 March 1829 Married: Thomas Comish Died: 26 January 1900
Ann (1710) Baptized: 21 August 1831
William (1711) Baptized: 17 July 1833 Married 1: Eleanor Caine
Married 2: Catherine Wright
Buried: 24 February 1916

John Lawson was baptized on the 21st of August, 1791, at Rushen. He married Elizabeth Gick on the 5th of October, 1815, at Malew. He was buried on the 14th of March, 1860, at Arbory, although a gravestone would indicate that he died on the 5th of May, 1860, aged 69 years.

In 1841 John and his family were farming at Oatlands, Santan. By 1851 the family had moved to Ballacomish, Arbory, where John was farming 21 acres and employing one man.