John Dawson, Esquire of Armagh

1617 - Bef 1691  (< 74 years)

• Name	John Dawson  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Suffix	Esquire of Armagh
  Birth	1617	Armagh, Northern Ireland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Name	John Dawson of Armagh  [1, 4, 5]
  Residence	Armagh, Northern Ireland   [1]
  Death	Bef 19 Nov 1691	Armagh, Northern Ireland   [1, 4]
  Person ID	I44	Dawson Genealogy
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Dawson, Esquire of Armagh,   b. Abt 1575, Spaldington, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 1611, Armagh, Armagh, Northern Ireland (Age ~ 37 years)
  Family ID	F40	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Richardson,   b. Abt 1619, Loughall, Armagh, Northern Ireland
  Children	1. Walter Dawson, Esquire,   b. Abt 1635, Armagh, Northern Ireland d. 1704, Armagh, Armagh, Northern Ireland (Age ~ 69 years)   2. Margaret Dawson  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F21	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  JOHN DAWSON, Esq., whose son, WALTER DAWSON, Esq., died in 1704, leaving two sons, the elder of whom, WALTER DAWSON, Esq., married Frances, daughter of Richard Dawson, Esq., an officer in Cromwell's army, with whom he obtained the estate of Dawson's Grove, in the County of Monaghan. He was succeeded at his decease by his only surviving son, RICHARD DAWSON, Esq., of Dawson's Grove, an eminent Banker and Alderman of the City of Dublin, and M.P. for the County of Monaghan. This gentleman married, in 1723, Elizabeth, daughter of the Most Rev. John Vesey, D.D., Archbishop of Tuam, by whom he left, dying in 1766, THOMAS DAWSON, Esq., who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland May 28th., 1770, as BARON DARTREY, and advanced to the dignity of VISCOUNT CREMORNE, June 9th., 1785. He married, first, the Lady Anne Fermor, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Pomfret, by whom, who died in 1769, he had a son and daughter, both of whom died in youth. His lordship married, secondly, May 8th., 1770, Philadelphia Hannah, only daughter of Thomas Freame, Esq., of Philadelphia, by whom he had another only son and daughter, who also died young. He was further created, March 7th., 1797, BARON CREMORNE, with remainder to his nephew, Richard Dawson, Esq., and his heirs male. At his death, March 1st., 1813, the Viscountcy of Cremorne expired, but the Barony of the same devolved on his great-nephew, RICHARD THOMAS DAWSON, second Baron Cremorne, born 1788, who married, March 10th., 1815, Anne Elizabeth Emily, third daughter of John Whaley, Esq., of Whaley Abbey, in the county of Wicklow, and left at his decease, in 1827, RICHARD DAWSON, third Baron Cremorne, of Dartrey, K.P., formerly a Lord in Waiting on the Queen, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Monaghan, born September 7th., 1817, created BARON DARTREY, September 20th., 1847, and EARL OF DARTREY, July 12th., 1866. He married, July 12th., 1841, Augusta, daughter of Edward Stanley, Esq., and Lady Mary Stanley, daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale, and had with other children, VESEY DAWSON, LORD CREMORNE, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards and M.P. for the County of Monaghan, born April 22nd., 1842. source: Morris, Francis Orpen. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, Volume 3. London, UK: William Mackenzie, 1880. JOHN DAWSON, of Armagh, who m. Annie Richardson, and had issue, WALTER, his heir. Margaret, m. Nov. 1696, Richard Chapell. Mr. d. 1691, and was s. by his son, WALTER DAWSON, of Armagh source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth P. Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage, Seventy-Sixth Edition. London: Harrison and Sons, 1914.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] Evelyn Philip Shirley, The History of the County of Monaghan, (London, UK: Pickering and Company, 1879). [S9] John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, (London, UK: Henry Colburn, 1839). [S10] William Courthope, Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, (London, UK: J. G. & F. Rivington, 1838). [S15] Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, 47th Edition, (London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1885). [S19] Institute of Bankers in Ireland, Journal of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland, Volumes 3-4, (Dublin, Ireland: Hely's Limited, 1901). [S21] Francis Orpen Morris, A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, Volume 3, (London, UK: William Mackenzie, 1880).