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William Lawson
1833 - 1916

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Full Name: William Lawson Parents
ID Number: 1711 John Lawson
Born: Elizabeth Gick
Christening: 17 July 1833 Santan
Death:
Buried: 24 February 1916 Malew

Marriage 1:

11 December 1856 Eleanor Caine Malew

CHILDREN

Robert William (1749) Baptised: 8 November 1857 Married: Jane Gale Buried: 9 March 1904
Ann (215) Baptised: 19 May 1859 Married: William Henry Corkish Died: >1901
Eleanor (1750) Baptised: 23 December 1860 Buried: 22 November 1869
Elizabeth (1751) Baptised: 29 June 1862
Margaret Jane (5752) Baptised: 30 October 1864
Emma (5777) Baptised: 8 June 1866
James (1752) Baptised: 6 April 1869

Marriage 2:

19 August 1871 Catherine Wright Malew

CHILDREN

William (1753) Baptised: 19 May 1872 Married: Catherine Faragher Buried: 24 May 1948
Eleanor (1754) Born: ca 1873
Thomas (1755) Born: ca 1877
Margaret (1756) Born: 1882

William Lawson was baptized on the 17th of July, 1833, at Santan. He married firstly his 7th cousin, Eleanor Cain, on the 11th of December, 1856, at Malew, and secondly Catherine Wright on the 19th of August, 1871, at Malew. He was buried on the 24th of February, 1916, at Malew, when his age was recorded as eighty-four years.

He apprenticed as a shoemaker and was employed as such at the 1861 census. By 1871 he was employed as a labourer at the lime quarry where he appears to have spent the rest of his working life.