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Richard Dixon (bap. 1731 d. 1797)

Miller. Baptised at Elston, Nottinghamshire, son of Thomas Dixon, miller, and Sarah Sumner. Of Hartford End Mill, Felsted, Essex. Friend of Erasmus Darwin, CD’s grandfather. Married firstly in London Elizabeth Boydon in 1757; secondly at Broomfield, Essex, Mary Knight, widow of Thomas Cavell of Belstead Hall Farm, Broomfield, in 1779.

Sources

England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 April 2018)

Essex Record Office marriage registers (D/P 29/1/2 image 34 and D/P 248/1/3 p. 20), wills (D/ABW 113/3/14)

King-Hele 1999, p. 254

letter from R. W. Dixon, 20 December 1879

Nottinghamshire baptisms index 1538–1807 (Findmypast.co.uk, accessed 24 April 2018)