Al Dawson's Comments

Hi Al! Sorry for the loooonnnnggg delay in response. I'm a retail worker so I was an essential worker during covid. I never "officially" had it but was pretty sick at the begining of 2020 before they said it was in the U.S. so I think I may have had it before they knew it was here but was diagnosed as a severe respiratory infection. I'd never had respiratory infections last that long (my cough lasted a couple weeks after the other symptoms went away) 

Thanks for your kind thoughts. I am staying home and safe for Covid19 and hope you and your family are, too.

I am, sadly, not a descendant of the Mayflower Hopkins. My Hopkins are more recent immigrants. 

I do have other early colonial ancestors, but have not yet found any who traveled on the Mayflower.

Doing my best, Al. Social worker at a children's hospital so kind of on the front line. Have done screening at the front door, put down x's every six feet (front entrance, parking and within the Resource Centre where I work), and other "duties as assigned". Expect to be seconded or deployed elsewhere next week as our staffing will rise a bit.

Not that I know of but the Dawsons are a brick wall for me.  The ones I have are in New York and New Jersey

Hello Mr Dawson,  it has been yrs  I think  I chatted with you about my Cox family.  I am intrested in sharing information with you if you are still  on this site,  please e mail me at tadmore137@yahoo.com  I get the messages faster there than on this site

Hi Al, Newark is about 30 minutes from Paterson, so it's in the same area.  Thanks for adding me to your friends list. ~Jan

Tried to answer your facebook msg - darn thing's on the fritz!

Ah well. At least this system works!

Al Dawson

October 10, 2012 at 1:56pm

"Are your TAYLORs from Ontario? Do any have HADDON as a middle name?"

Hi Al. No, the Taylors I am connected to are in Nova Scotia and it is only by marriage.

Nope, Bonham-Carter from Kent.

No Dawson in the places you mentioned.

most of my Frazee.s lived in Iowa  But my 5th Great grandfather was born in  New Jersey,and my 4th Great Grand parent were Jousha Frazee and Nancy reed and they where married in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania

No, mine are in the north of England.

No. It is a very common name though so a blanket shout out probably isn't going to do you much good. Good Luck

No Al,  my Dawsons are in Australia and before that they came from Lincolnshire in England (Corby near Grantham)

Hi, Sorry, no Dawsons in Michigan or Canada. We're all Southerners. —Jill

I'm still working on Jefferson and Harden Williams and the Rouse/Dawson connection.  Few documents are surfacing for that early time period.

Thank you for the information on FGS.  I was hoping to get more training in Genealogy this year, either in my personal time or by attending conferences.  I will see what I can do about making the trip.  My Taylor and Smith line starts somewhere in Pennsylvania or New England, with no trace to Europe.  They may have come from Europe to US or from Europe to Canada to US. However, all my ties to the Northern European ancestry is from the early Colonial times, when many of the families from Europe migrated into the US.  It is hard to trace the lineage back to Europe since that was around 1600-1700 already.!!

However from DNA testing, I matched with someone who originated from Ireland.!!

One, Dick Shea wrote: Jim and I have common ancestors who lived in Co. Kerry, Ireland.  The surnames are: Shea; Richardson; Moloney; Herbert; and Eagar.  Our ancestors lived in several different locations in Kerry, namely Kenmare, Killarney, Tralee, Duagh, and Listowel. Also they are tied with Smith who moved to England.