'Rawson4'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Rawson of Brookside, Rawson of Wardsend

                               
Hunter identifies the arms of the following family as "Quarterly sable and azure, a quadrangular castle argent, on a chief ermine three bulls' heads caboshed gules".
Richard Rawson (a 1476)
1. Robert Rawson of Brookside (a 1476, 1494)
  A. Richard Rawson of Brookside (a 1494, 1546)
  i. Robert Rawson (dvp by 1547)
  a. Richard Rawson of Dungworth Storrs (in Bradfield$) & Brookside (a 1546, d before 30.09.1591)
  m. Jennet (bur 20.03.1597)
  (1) Richard Rawson of Brookside (bpt 03.06.1560, bur 07.05.1636)
  m. Alice
(A) Robert Rawson of Brookside (bur 14.09.1664)
  m. Alice (d before 1664)
  (i) Richard Rawson, last of Brookside
  m1. ?? m2. ??
  (a)+ issue - Robert, Richard, Thomas
  (ii) Tomas Rawson (a 1665)
(iii) Robert Rawson of Wardsend (bpt 22.08.1621, bur 07.02.1666)
  m. (24.08.1650) Mary Rawson (dau of Edward Rawson of Walkley, m1. Jasper Bosville of Wardsend)
  (a) Thomas Rawson of Wardsend (b c1665, bur 23.05.1728, youngest son)
m. Hannah Swift (bur 24.06.1714)
  ((1)) Thomas Rawson of Wardsend (b 1694-5, d 09.1766)
  m. Douglas Carr (dau of (Joseph) Carr of the Edge & Southey by Jane, dau of Nicholas Steade of Onesacre)
  ((A)) Thomas Rawson of Wardsend (a 1817)
  m1. _ Barker (d 25.05.1794 dau of John Barker of Bakewell)
  m2. (1797) Frances Roe (dau of John Roe of Everton)
  ((B)) John Rawson of Nether Hallam (dsp 1819, surgeon)
m. (1801) ?? Mason (dau of Rev. Edward Mason of West Retford)
  ((C)) Hannah Rawson of Wardsend
  ((2)) James Rawson of Sheffield had issue
  m. Elizabeth Simon (dau of Ezra Simon of Sheffield)
  ((3)) Edward Rawson (d young)
  ((4)) Hannah Rawson
  m. (Peter) Birks of Hansworth
  ((5)) Sarah Rawson
m. _ Elliot of Sheffield
  ((6)) Mary Rawson
  m. (Edward) Vicars of Sheffield
  (b)+ other issue - Robert (dsp), Edward (dsp), John (dsp), Martha
  (iv) Helen Rawson
  m. John Beighton of Smallfield in Bradfield
  (v) Anne Rawson
  m. (17.06.1641) Edward Adamson of Bradfield
  (vi) Mary Rawson
  m. Robert Eyre of Dungworth in Bradfield
  (vii) Alice Rawson
  m. Christopher Greaves
  (2) Alice Rawson
  m. (11.02.1585) William Swycket
  (3) Anne Rawson
  m. John Spoone
  (A) Richard Spoone
  (4) Jennet Rawson (d unm before 28.01.1592)
  (5) Helen Rawson
  m. Thomas Dungworth

Main source(s): 'The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York' ('Hallamshire', Joseph Hunter, 1819, 'Pedigree of Rawson of Brook-Side and Wardsend', p267)
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