Sir John Dawnay

- 1553

• Name	John Dawnay  [1]
  Prefix	Sir
  Gender	Male
  Decoration	Tournai, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium   [2]
  	Knighthood
  Office	circa 1544  [3]
  	High Sheriff of Yorkshire
  Residence	Cowick, Yorkshire, England   [1, 3]
  Died	2 March 1553  [1, 3]
  Person ID	I1323	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	13 July 2021

  
  

  Father	Sir Guy Daunay,   d. 1552
  Mother	Joan Darrell
  Family ID	F744	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hon. Dorothy Neville,   b. 29 March 1496,   d. 23 Oct. 1532  (Age 36 years)
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Dawnay,   d. 3 Sept. 1566 + 2. John Dawnay + 3. George Dawnay
  Last Modified	13 July 2021
  Family ID	F719	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Dawnay, of Cowick, co. York (Viscount Downe) Argent on a bend cotised Sable three annulets of the field. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 269.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 2, page 2246. [S46] Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Joseph Foster, (London, 1874), volume 3, Pedigree of Dawnay, of Baldersby Park. [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1172.