I am looking to find the year of death and possible burial place of my great great great grandfather, Isaac Dawson. He was baptized in West Yorkshire on Dec 16, 1813 at Emley Church. His parents were John and Hannah and they lived in Skelmanthorpe. He married Hannah Chappel in 1833. She died in 1853 and then he married Martha Dutton in 1859. I find him in the census reports up to the 1881 one, but nothing after that.
I found some information on a website that said an Isaac Dawson was buried in 1886 in the Tongue cemetery in Bolton. But I would have to pay to get more info. I already pay for ancestry.com and would prefer not to do that. I also found a list of names of people buried there which also says the list is not complete and it does not list Isaac Dawson. Do any of you know of any website which may show the year of birth of this Isaac Dawson who may be buried there? On the census reports, he gives ages that could make his year of birth as 1815, 1816 and 1817. But he was baptized in 1813, so I think he was quite “flexible” with his age!
Free BMD also shows an Isaac Dawson who died in June 1899 at age 88 which would mean he was born in 1811, though baptized in 1813. They show the district was Skirlaugh,
Isaac spent his life in Droylsden working as a baker and near the end of his life, he may have been a grocer.
I feel like I gathered quite a lot of info on this Isaac, including his children’s names, etc., but I would kind of like to wrap things up on him. Someone wrote on his son’s Benjamin’s Find A Grave that Isaac was born in 1814 and died in 1893, but they got that info from a book which I think was incorrect. There was an Isaac Dawson whose father was Robert who was born in 1814. I don’t know where they came up with the year 1893 for the death.
