Dictionary of Family Names

Origin of the Surname DAWSON.

DAWSON. Said to be a corruption of the Norman French D'Ossone, from the town of Ossone, in Normandy. Camden, however, thinks it a contraction of Davison, the son of David, which is the more probable derivation.

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