Andrew Dawson was born in 1826 in Yorkshire, England. He immigrated to New Zealand in 1849. He married Mary Elizabeth Prebble in 1852 in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand. They had twelve children. He died in 1909.

John Cameron "the wise" (1730-1803) married (1) Catherine Seaton and (2) Elizabeth Ferguson. The family emigrated in 1773 from Scotland to the Mohawk Valley near Schenectady, New York. He served with British forces during the Revolutionary War, and later immigrated to Nova Scotia, later acquiring land as a United Empire Loyalist in Summertown, Glengarry County, Ontario. Descendants and relatives lived in Ontario. Quebec, Saskatchewan, British Columbia...