DICKINSON OF HOLBECK

 

Census returns show that John Dickinson who married Mary Ann Dalmer in 1832 at St. Peter, Leeds, was born at Leeds in about 1812. I have not yet found his parentage, though there are some possible baptisms for him at St. Peter: John son of Alexander Dickinson was baptised on 16 September 1811; and John son of Joseph and Elizabeth Dickinson on 31 August 1813. Joseph is described in the parish registers as a “Soldier in the 2nd West Militia” and his son John is stated to have been born in November 1812.

 

John Dickinson seems to have had some kind of connection with a family called Shaw. The marriage of Henry Braithwaite and Harriet Shaw at St. Peter, Leeds, on 24 June 1832, was witnessed by John Dickinson and Mary Ann Dalmer and the marriage of John Dickinson and Mary Ann Dalmer a few weeks later was witnessed by a Harriet Shaw (evidently a different person from the wife of Henry Braithwaite). The Harriet who married Henry Braithwaite later married William Swift and living with them as a visitor at the time of the 1861 census was an Emma Dickinson, aged nine. This was not John and Mary Ann (Dalmer) Dickinson’s daughter Emma, who was older, but appears to have been a daughter of John and Martha (Shaw) (Dickinson) Dickinson. Martha’s first husband was Joseph Dickinson (son of John Dickinson, farmer) and her second husband John was a son of William Dickinson, tailor.

 

I am no longer actively researching this family but retain the information here as part of the results of my investigation of the ancestry of John Atkinson.

 

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DICKINSON

 

JOHN DICKINSON of Leylands, Leeds, Yorkshire, of Holbeck, and of Wortley, handle setter, was born ca 1812 at Leeds[1] and died on 21 March 1873 at Holbeck, Yorkshire.[2] He married on 28 July 1832 at St. Peter, Leeds, MARY ANN DALMER,[3] daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Hooper) Dalmer (see here). Mary Ann was born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, baptised there on 2 August 1812, and died on 30 October 1887 at Holbeck.

 

      Children of John and Mary Ann (Dalmer) Dickinson:

            i     JOHN DICKINSON of Holbeck, labourer, b 2 Jan 1833, Leeds;[4] m 1 Feb 1857, St. Peter, Leeds, JANE SHEARD.[5]

            ii    ELIZABETH DICKINSON, b ca 1835, Leeds,[6] d 10 May 1896, Holbeck;[7] m 10 Feb 1855, St. Peter, Leeds, SAMUEL ATKINSON[8] (see here).

            iii SARAH ANN DICKINSON, b 24 Dec 1836, Leeds;[9] m 16 Sep 1854, St. Peter, Leeds, CHARLES PRIESTLEY.[10]

            iv   GEORGE DICKINSON of Hunslet, Yorkshire, cloth dresser, b 14 Dec 1838, Holbeck,[11] bur 30 Nov 1885, Hunslet Cemetery;[12] m 11 Jul 1863, Hunslet, ELIZABETH ANN MANN.[13]

            v    JAMES DICKINSON of New Wortley, cloth dresser, b 20 Dec 1840, Holbeck;[14] m 8 Aug 1863, New Wortley, SARAH THACKRAY.[15]

            vi   EMMA DICKINSON, b 4 Feb 1843, Holbeck,[16] bur 11 Jul 1874, Holbeck Cemetery;[17] m 29 Jan 1865, St. Peter, Leeds, WILLIAM GILLOTT.[18]


[1] 1851 census returns, Wortley (National Archives, HO 107/2314, fol. 331).

[2] Death certificate.

[3] St. Peter, Leeds, parish registers.

[4] St. Peter, Leeds, parish registers; 1851 census returns, Wortley (National Archives, HO 107/2314, fol. 331). He may have been the John Dickinson, gas inspector, who was living at 1 Georges Place, Holbeck, in 1881 (National Archives, RG 11/4497, fol. 55), with his wife Jane and daughter Annie.

[5] St. Peter, Leeds, parish registers.

[6] 1851 census returns, Wortley (HO 107/2314, fol. 331). It is possible that she was the Elizabeth Tollemoor Dickinson who was born on 18 Feb 1835 and baptised on 15 Mar 1835 at St. Peter, Leeds, with Tollemoor perhaps being an unusual spelling of the surname Dalmer (sometimes spelt Dallimore etc.). However, the parents are given in the baptism entry as John Dickinson of New Road, cloth dresser, and Elizabeth, whereas the mother of Elizabeth (Dickinson) Atkinson was Mary Ann (Dalmer) Dickinson.

[7] Death certificate.

[8] Marriage certificate. At the time of the 1861 census, Thomas Atkinson, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Dickinson) Atkinson, was living with John and Mary Ann (Dalmer) Dickinson and was described as a grandson. In 1871, John and Mary Ann had their grandson John Atkinson in their household.

[9] St. Peter, Leeds, parish registers; 1851 census returns, Wortley (National Archives, HO 107/2314, fol. 331).

[10] St. Peter, Leeds, parish registers.

[11] Information from Linda Murch, citing George Dickinson's birth certificate; 1851 census returns, Wortley (National Archives, HO 107/2314, fol. 331).

[12] Hunslet Cemetery registers.

[13] Hunslet parish registers.

[14] Holbeck parish registers (online at http://www.ancestry.com); 1841 census returns, Holbeck; 1851 census returns, Wortley (National Archives, HO 107/2314, fol. 331).

[15] Marriage certificate.

[16] Holbeck parish registers (online at http://www.ancestry.com); 1851 census returns, Wortley (National Archives, HO 107/2314, fol. 331).

[17] Holbeck Cemetery registers.

[18] St. Peter, Leeds, parish registers; 1881 census returns, Holbeck (National Archives, RG 11/4499, fol. 87). The latter show Mary Ann Dickinson with her “Son” William Gillott, widower, and her grandchildren Laurence Gillott and Edith Gillott.