When John Crossley Dawson was born on 16 February 1897, in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, his father, James Samuel Dawson, was 28 and his mother, Frances Ann Millicent Reynolds, was 20. He married Dorothea Saft on 26 December 1922, in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 24 June 1961, in Queensland, Australia, at the age of 64.
English: patronymic meaning ‘son of Dawe’, from the Middle English personal name Daw(e) (see Daw 1 and 2), which is sometimes a pet form of David (see 2 below) but more generally of Rauf or Raw (i.e. Ralph ), of which Daw(e) is a rhyming form. Alternatively, the patronymic could mean ‘son of Daud(e)’, another Middle English pet form of Ralph evidently used interchangeably with Dawe. Dawson is one of the most numerous patronymics.
Scottish: patronymic, ‘son of Dawe’. In Scotland Dawe is a diminutive of David (compare 1 above).
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