If there is anyone out there researching these surnames who can help solve the following mystery, they will be forever in my debt as this has me stumped:- (It makes for interesting reading anyway!)
This is also posted on the Leicestershire board
John Thomasson Harrison was born in Tugby Leics in 1854 (chr 8 Oct) to Thomas Harrison of Great Glen and Elizabeth Humphrey Ray of Marylebone, London, their only child
In June 1855 Thomas's sister Susannah married a Daniel Thomasson Rowson (son of Daniel Rowson and Judith Thomasson of Macclesfield, Cheshire) in Tugby - they had no children and Daniel died of scarlet fever in 1860, I have not located a will
Daniel was orphaned at age 6 and in his father's will everything was left in trust for him and he was brought up for a while by an uncle or cousin of his mother's - he called himself a gentleman and in 1851 he was to be found on the census with said Thomas Harrison and wife Elizabeth in Tugby!
Why did John have the Thomasson in his name unless he was possibly Susannah's child born before the marriage in 1855 and then taken over by Thomas and Elizabeth? or maybe Daniel was his godfather and took him under his wing?
Then in 1879 it becomes more complicated as John Thomasson Harrison seems to have added Rowson to his name as well !
Marriage cert reads John Thomasson Harrison-Rowson married Sophia Hardy in EDMONTON, MIDDLESEX
John and Sophia had no sons, only 3 girls (Margaret, Ruth, & Theodosia, born between 1880 & 87 in London) who all had the surname Harrison-Rowson. I do not know what happened to them or if there are any descendants - they all received jewelry items in Susannah's will in 1896
John was a stockbroker in London and I believe he died in 1888 but somewhere along the line he must have inherited something from Daniel to have taken on the name
It would be great to know the full story
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