Dadswell Family History

Information about pre-Australian ancestors of the Lewin family comes mainly from the website of Rod Lewin and from some additional research. A link to the Rod Lewin website is provided below.

Members of the early family lived mainly in the south of England but a number, including Francis Henry Lewin (see below), migrated to Australia.

Generation 1
John Lewin baptised 17 October 1701 at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, UK, died March 1772 at Aldenham, Hertfordshire, married Elizabeth (last name unknown), born 1713, died 7 July 1747. They had 5 children including

Generation 2
James Lewin, born 1731 at Ifield, Sussex, UK, died December 1798 at Aldenham, Hertfordshire, married Martha Spencer, daughter of Nicholas and Sarah (Towney) Spencer. Martha was born in 1731 at Cowley, Oxfordshire, UK, died 8 October 1792 at Ifield. They had 3 children including

Generation 3
Spencer James Lewin, born 1766 at Ifield, died 25 April 1842 at Ifield. He studied at Oxford University and became a clergyman. On 19 July 1791 at the Old Church, St Pancras, London, he married Elizabeth Capper, daughter of Richard and Mary (Ord) Capper. Elizabeth was born 1770 at Lincoln's Inn, London. They had 5 children including

Generation 4
Robert Spencer Lewin, born 1 November 1798 at Ifield. He became a property owner, and on 18 October 1825 at Moulton, Suffolk, he married Mary Ann Diana Isaacson, daughter of John and Mary (Otterwell) Isaacson. Mary was born in 1805 at Cowlinge, Suffolk. They had 5 children, including

Generation 5

Francis Henry Lewin, born April 1830 at Cuddington, Surrey, UK, died 28 March 1907 at Mt Cole, Victoria. According to the birth certificate of his daughter Emma, Francis was married in London in 1854 but no record of that marriage has been found. He migrated to Australia in the 1850s and farmed at Mt Cole near Ararat and became a partner with Francis Forbes in the Old Vic timber mill on Mt Cole and the nearby Warrak Hotel. After the births of his Australian family, he married, on 23 April 1878 at the manse of St Andrew's Kirk, Ballarat, Victoria, Margaret Johnstone, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Fraser) Johnstone. Margaret was born on 26 May 1830 in Stirlingshire, Scotland and died on 29 March 1899 at Mt Cole. Francis and Margaret had 8 children, including

Generation 6

Emma Lewin, born 7 March 1862 at Mt Cole, died 12 June 1918 at Mt Cole. On 25 April 1894 she married Alfred Otto Dadswell, born 28 February 1860 at Moorabool, Victoria, died 18 June 1946 at Mt Cole. Emma was remembered by her family as being a skilled horse rider, as was her husband. Emma and Otto lived at Warrak and had 3 children, Henry William, Stanley Alfred and Ethel May Dadswell.

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