WILLIAM LAWSON
MY GREAT GREAT GRAND FATHER IN THE ROWS
By David Lawson
I AM LOOKING FOR MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WILLIAM LAWSON. HE WAS BORN IN GREAT YARMOUTH ABOUT 1820. HE MARRIED A MARY ANN IN GREAT YARMOUTH. THEY HAD THREE SONS, WILLIAM, HARRISON, BEN. THEY WHERE ALL FISHERMEN IN NORFOLK.
WILLIAM MARRIED REBECCA NEWMAN IN 1846. THEY HAD EIGHT CHILDREN.
A STORY IN THE LOCAL PAPER AN OLD MAN NAMED ISAAC NEWMAN. HE WAS ALOUD BY THE WORKHOUSE TO VISIT HIS DAUGHTER WHO LIVED IN THE ROW 13. WHILE PASSING DOWN THE ROW 13 HE COLAPSED AND DIED. AT THE INQUEST SAID HE DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES. THIS WAS REBECCAS FATHER.