James Dickson
Mary Dickson
Margaret Dickson
William Dickson (II)
William Dickson (I)
Richard Watson Dickson
Mary Watson
SD 57 SW WARTON
BURTON ROAD
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Dale House
2. 5. 1968 II
House, 1838.
Pebbledashed rubble with sandstone dressings and slate roof.
William Dickson's wife Mary Watson was from Dale House, Warton, Lancashire, which also became their family home.
This listed building
(see right and below) in Warton, called Dale House, was built in 1838 and is supposedly the (or a) successor building of the Dale House of the Dickson and Watson families.
Symmetrical, with central porch and gable stacks. Windows are sashed with glazing bars, in plain stone surrounds. 1st floor sill band. Porch has corner pilasters with sunk panels, a dentil course, and cornice. Stair window in rear wall is sashed with glazing bars with semi-circular head and plain reveals. Worn sandstone plaque above lean-to extension reads 'T ? K 1838'.
Listing NGR: SD5165673384
Source: English Heritage
during some of his later years (1788-1791) William Dickson seems to have lived in Burton, Westmorland. This is confirmed by an entry in Burke's "Genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry", fifth edition of 1871 (right). Of this entry (on page 618 of this work of 1663 pages) unfortunately only a rather blurred image (below) is left, copied in 2010, which in recent years unfortunately proved unretraceable among the countless versions and editions of this standard work while in later editions of this work only William Dickson's sons and further descendants seem to be mentioned.
Melling Church St. Wilfred
There is, though, nothing really new in this entry, compared to what we know about William Dickson from other sources.
Questions which stay unanswered: who was William Dickson, what was his background, what did he do to get where he and his family eventually arrived? We keep wondering what his life and world consisted of: he lived in Melling, Lancashire (was it his place of origin or birth, and had he been a yeoman there - what the words seem to suggest - or only after having come to Warton?), then marriage in Warton 1759, having a family life there for probably 30 years, probably in the footsteps of his father-in-law
Richard Watson
, his sons
receiving an excellent education and leaving Lancashire for a successful urban life, a cousin of them living in London, and eventually, after his
wife
's death in 1787, three years of William's later life in Burton (1788 - 1791): some elements of a picture become apparent, particularly after looking at his wife's family, as well, but many gaps and uncertainties remain.
Marriage entry in the Parish records of Warton, St.Oswald:
Marriage: 5 Feb 1759
St Oswald, Warton Nr Lancaster, Lancashire
William Dickson - yeoman of the parish of Melling
Mary Watson - spinster of this parish
Witness: Margret Watson; ? Muckett
Married by Licence by: T HEST, curate
Wikipedia: "A
yeoman"
usually refers to a farmer who cultivates his own land. A German equivalent is
Freibauer
("freehold farmer").
He married
Mary Watson
on 5th February 1759.
They had 5 children,
Richard Watson
,
William
, James, Margaret und Mary.
From 1788 to 1791 he lived in Burton, Westmorland
(source: Dickson family book)
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