Census references given for 1841 and 1851 did not match with Thomas Lawson, born circa 1790, in Ancestry or FindMyPast indices. There is a St. John's parish in Newcastle upon Tyne as well as Lee St. John parish, near Hexham (a rural area of western Northumberland).
Census references given for 1841 and 1851 did not match with Thomas Lawson, born circa 1790, in Ancestry or FindMyPast indices. There is a St. John's parish in Newcastle upon Tyne as well as Lee St. John parish, near Hexham (a rural area of western Northumberland).
Residence: Elswick, Newcastle (parish of St. John)
Thomas Lawson, age 52, stone mason, born "in county"
listed with wife Hannah and children Thomas, James, William, Stephen, John, Ann
FindMyPast website, in England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. ( Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.) HO107/2416, p 201.
Residence: Haltwhistle, Northumberland Thomas Lawson, lodger, widr, 63, woolen weaver, born Warwick, Cumberland
This may not be the same individual. It was the only Thomas Lawson of the indicated age range found in Northumberland in the 1851 census.