J.W. Dawes family newsletter
(Microfilm, Microfiche)

3 Per Annum

Frequency varies: Quarterly (vol. 1-28), with only two issues in 1968; three per year (vol. 29 and thereafter), published January, May, and September.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (July 1968) -

Editor: Merle Ganier; Irene B. Dawes Knudsen; Ardath Dawes.

Published: Crescent City, California; Fort Worth, Texas; Greenville, Pennsylvania.

Some pages are torn, or otherwise hard to read. Best copy available.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (22 Nov. 2005).

Includes indexes.

Some Roman numerals and dates are misprinted. In 1989 volume number 26 is repeated. In 1990 volume number 30 repeats and continues.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Dawes families in America. Focus is on the descendants of John W. Dawes (1783-1864), who was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey and died in Leon, Wisconsin. He and his first wife, Susan Crance had one child, Sarah who later married Jake Depew. After Susan died, John married Elizabeth Patterson (1787-1866). Their 12 children were born in New York: Adrian (Adren), Jeremiah, Lorenza & Phoebe (twins), Francis, John Roy, Samuel, William M. & Daniel M. (twins), George M., Joseph, and Ananias Wells Dawes. Descendants of these twelve branches of the Dawes families lived in British Columbia and Ontario (Canada), Korea, and in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Washington D.C., Wisconsin, Wyoming, and elsewhere.

Occassionaly includes John W. Dawes Directories, and other supplements.

Also available on microfilm and microfiche.

Title varies: Dawes family newsletter; J.W. Dawes family newsletter.

The first John W. Dawes Family Association was formed by Charles O. Schaffer in March 1964, in Pasadena, California. Its first activity was held in 1967. The John W. Dawes Family Association was formally organized by Richard Marion Dawes and Addie Marie McKay, his wife, who is a great-granddaughter of Robert Mackay Sr. Headquarters for the Association were in Fort Worth, Texas until 1982, and later moved to Crescent City, California. The Association is comprised of several ancestral branches representating descendants of the twelve children of John W. Dawes and Elizabeth Patterson. Fore more information, see their Web site.

Includes a cumulative name index to vols. 1-12 (1968-1979).