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James Hodgson was born after 1900.¹ He married Agnes Cowell. The marriage was without issue.¹

Lawrence Edward Hodgson was born after 1900.¹

Lawrence Edward Hodgson married Doris Cousins.¹

Bella Edgecombe married John Robert Hodgson, son of John Richard Albert Hodgson and Emma Boulton.¹

Edward Dawson, son of William Dawson and Lucy Ann Shaw, was born on 21 July 1895 at 27 Dock Street, Kingston-upon-Hull.^1,2

Before he married he lived at 6 Regent Square, Syke Street, Hull.¹

Edward Dawson married Ethel Alberta Hodgson, daughter of John Richard Albert Hodgson and Emma Boulton, on 21 June 1919 at St Philip's Parish Church, Kingston-upon-Hull.^1,3

Edward Dawson lived at 21 Grotto Square, Mason Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, at the time of Laurence Edward and John Henry's births.¹ He also lived at 6 Outram Terrace, Rodney Street, Hull, in 1923.¹ and 8 Nelson Villas, Egton Street, Hull.¹

After leaving school Edward worked on his father's keel on the Driffied canal as a keelman before joining the army in 1914. After the war he went to work as a lighterman on the river Hull and the Hull docks. He worked for Premier Oil Extracting Mills until his death.¹

Edward Dawson died on 6 May 1923 at age 27 at the Royal Infirmary, Kingston-upon-Hull, of double pneumonia and heart failure.^1,4

Edward Dawson was a Lighterman.¹

William Dawson married Lucy Ann Shaw.¹

Lucy Ann Shaw married William Dawson.¹

Laurence Edward Dawson lived at 19 Gamble Drive, Bramley, Leeds.² He was born on 1 April 1920 at 21 Grotto Square, Mason Street, Kingston-upon-Hull.^1,2 Laurence's father died when he was only three years old. He went to live with his grandparents (Hodgson) who brought him up at 8 Nelson Villas, Egton Street, Hull. He passed his exams to attend Grammar School but unfortunately he could not go as his grandparents could not afford to send him.^1,2

When he left school he got a job at the end at the end of Egton Street; it was a Dutch firm that made electric light bulbs and he worked there² until he joined the East Yorkshire Regiment and volunteered for the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME). He was posted to Sunderland and then to North Africa, spending time in Egypt, Ismalia, Ameria and Tobruk. He sent part of his soldier's pay back home to his Grandma for safe keeping but, on her death, the next of kin was Ethel Alberta Hodson and Laurence lost all his savings.²

He started writing to Caroline during the war. She had written a letter to her brother Thomas Henry (Harry) Dawson. By mistake the letter was given to Laurie instead. Laurie asked Harry if Caroline would mind him writing to her. After the war Caroline went to meet Laurie and turned up in Egton Street, Hull.²

When he came out of the Army both his grandparents were dead so he lived at 43 Egton Street, Hull, for a while. He worked as a mate on the barges in Hull with James Hodgson until he moved to Leeds.²

Laurence Edward Dawson married Caroline Dawson, daughter of Thomas Harry Dawson and Minnie Harrison, at Christ Church, Upper Armley, Leeds, West Yorkshire.¹ At the time of his marriage in 1947 his occupation was Coal Deliverer. He worked with Harry Dawson² and lived at 20 Cedar Terrace, Armley, Leeds.² In 1952 his occupation was Engineer Crane Driver² and he now lived at 3 Abbot Street, Armley, Leeds.² He worked for Smith's Engineering Company in Rodley until the 1960s then went to work for the Leeds and Bradford Boiler Company for the remainedr of his life.²

He died on 2 December 1977 at age 57 from cardio respiratory failure, hypertension, coronary atheroma and nephrosclerosis.^1,2

Gladys Cooper married Harry Clifford Hodgson, son of John Richard Albert Hodgson and Emma Boulton.¹

Richard Stead married Gladys Emma Hodgson, daughter of John Richard Albert Hodgson and Emma Boulton.¹

Doris Cousins married Lawrence Edward Hodgson, son of John Richard Albert Hodgson and Emma Boulton.¹