Hi why don't you contact the Lawson name study group in England. Their records go back further, contact Gerald D. Lawson vist www.yorksgen.org.uk I have both Lawson and Bowles in my tree though, none went to the U.S.A. Brian Leathel Bowles wrote: > I know some Lawson researchers don't think they are the same because you can > find both of these names into the 1700's. We have found over 30 ways to > spell Bowles, about half are being used today. So much for that. The reason > for posting to both list about the Lawson- Cawsey is you will find some > surnames that are connected to both families.I guess I had better start back > in 1607 with Nathaniel Cawsey. At this point we know Nathaniel was married > in 1609. We don't know anything about his children, or if he had any. > Leathel, > > Nathaniell Cawsey by Phoenix 1607; Thomasine his wife by Lion 1609; Thomas > Cawsey by Francis Bonaventure 1620. Servants; > Edward Denison 22 by Truelove 1623, > James Bonner 20 by Truelove 1623, > James Dore 19 by Bona Nova 1621, > Laurance Evans 15 by James 1622, > Joane Winscomb 20 by George 1618 > > Nathaniel Cawsey, who came in 1607, and his wife Thomasine, who came in > 1609, were living with 5 servants at Charles City. The town of Charles City > was at the present City Point, at the mouth of the Appomattox. The lands > belonging to these men was called, after the alliterative fashion of the > time, " Cawsey's Care," and was represented under that name in the House of > Burgesses in 1632. From this name was derived the later "Cawsons," long a > seat of the Bland family, and the birthplace of John Randolph of Roanoke. > > In the 1622 Indian massacre, Nathaniel Cawsey killed a Indian with a ax by > splitting his head to save his family, the other indians fleed. He was not > killed. The Indians killed most of the people living south of James River. > The attack began on both sides of the James River at precisely eight o' > clock on the morning of April 1, 1622. Only 893 people were left in VA after > the massacre in 1622.