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Rebecca Irwin (Lawson)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Brunswick, Brunswick, Virginia, British Colonial America
Death: 1780
Burke County, Georgia, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Col. Hugh Lawson, Sr. and Margaret ‘Mary’ Lawson
Wife of Thomas Irwin
Mother of Lucy Ally Burney; Jared Irwin, Governor; Alexander Irwin; Hugh Irwin, I; Gen John Lawson Irwin and 3 others
Sister of Hugh Lawson, Jr.; Roger Lawson; Jane Ewing; Violet Henderson; Catherine Ewing and 2 others

Managed by: Linda Kathleen Thompson, (c)
Last Updated:

About Rebecca Irwin



Rebecca Lawson, daughter of Hugh Lawson and Mary Moor, married Thomas Irwin.

Her sister Mary is the 3rd great grandmother of Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee Williams.


Origins

Chapter XXIX. George Ewing (c1715-1798).< PDF >. Page 1.

Hugh Lawson’s will, September of 1764 and probated in November 1772 in Rowan County, NC, names:

  • son Roger (who Worth Ray said married Hannah Thompson and came to Georgia)
  • daughter Mary (who married General James White)
  • son in law George Ewing (who married Catherine Lawson)
  • son in law James Henderson (who married Violet Lawson)
  • son in law High Barry (who married Cynthia Lawson)
  • son in law Thomas Erwin (whose wife’s name has not been located)

Worth Ray also indicates a son, “Hugh Lawson, Jr., who came to Georgia.” We have not found him.


References

  1. http://www.ewingfamilyassociation.org/books/EwingInEarlyAmerica/Fif.... Page 1
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Rebecca Irwin's Timeline

1735
1735
Brunswick, Brunswick, Virginia, British Colonial America
1744
1744
1750
1750
Anson County, North Carolina, United States
1752
1752
North Carolina, USA
1753
1753
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
1755
August 29, 1755
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States
1756
1756
1757
1757
1759
January 18, 1759