The DAWSONs were farmers in Calverley.  The DAWSONs then moved to Pudsey.  Then some of the DAWSON men and their families moved to Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham.  

Israel DAWSON (6Aug1850-????) was a "Boilermaker" (1871, 1881, 1891), a "Boiler Plater" (1886), a "Boiler Smith" (1901) and a "Bridge Plater" (1906) in Stockton-on-Tees.  Israel married Ann CAWOOD on 1 Jun 1873 in Leeds, West Riding Yorkshire.  

Their children were:

• Bessie DAWSON
• Emma DAWSON
• Samuel DAWSON
• Fred DAWSON
• William DAWSON, Mar 1881
• Annie Elizabeth DAWSON
• Frances DAWSON
• Edwin Cawood DAWSON
• Ruth DAWSON
• Florence DAWSON
• Ernest John G. DAWSON
• Edward DAWSON
• Betsey DAWSON
• Jessie DAWSON
• John DAWSON
• Laura DAWSON

His brother, Job DAWSON (8Aug1847-????), also moved his family to Stockton.  Job was a "Cloth Fuller" (1861) in Pudsey, a "Labourer in Iron Works" (1871), a "Labourer at Foundry" (1891) and a "Blacksmith's Striker (1901) in Stockton.  Job married Annie HARRISON of Liverpool, Lancashire.  They married in 1878 in Liverpool.

• Hannah DAWSON, 1880
• Charles DAWSON, 1881
• Charlotte DAWSON, 1884
• Mary Ellen DAWSON, 1886
• Elma DAWSON, 1887
• Elna DAWSON, 1887
• Eleanor DAWSON, 1889
• Emma DAWSON, 29 Nov 1890

Another brother, Paul William DAWSON (12Nov1841-1901), also moved to Stockton but then married and moved on to Halkyn, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales.  He was an "Engine Fitter" (1881) in Stockton.  In Wales, Paul was also employed as an "Fitter" (1891) and an "Engine Fitter (1901).  Paul died there between July and September 1901.

Generation 3

William DAWSON (Mar1881-????) married Laura Ann SEDGEWICK on 6 Jan 1906 in the Middlesbrough Register Office, County Durham.  Their children were:

• Elsie DAWSON
• Doris DAWSON
• Frank DAWSON
• Annie DAWSON