CHARLES LAWSON born in Dalton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland on November 5th 1820, son of ROBERT LAWSON (1799, Dalton, Dumfries - 1874 Rexton, NB) and JANE UNDERWOOD (1797, Lochmaben, Dumfires - 1882 Rexton, NB). He was a Sea Captain and Trader, first married to ISABELLA LITTLE born June 26th 1819, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, who died August 9th 1856, daughter of JOHN and MARY LITTLE. Their son, ROBERT LAWSON born 1848 died March 1st 1893, he married on May 17th 1873, at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, Bass River, Weldford Parish, NB to MARGARET THOM(P)SON born July 9th 1844 in Northern Ireland, they had five children, she died in 1922, burial at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Cemetery, Bass River, NB., along with two daughters who died in their twenties.
A son of ROBERT and MARGARET was CHARLES JAMES LAWSON born June 23rd 1877, who died in 1941, he married ANNIE JESSIE CAIL, born 1882 Kent County who died in 1974. They were parents of JONATHAN LAWSON who married MURIEL MAKEPEACE. She was a favourite supply teacher at Rexton Elementary School during the 1970’s. Muriel also worked at the family store in Bass River, carefully counting out penny candies and greeting the customers while Jonathan managed the horse stable and barns full of grain, seed, flour, lumber, tools, and, of course, the most important ingredient for any farmer was the lime sold to fertilize the fields.