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)
Bibliography
King-Hele, Desmond. 1999. Erasmus Darwin. A life of unequalled achievement. London: Giles de la Mare Publishers.
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