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Hi Lisa, just saw this post about the Dibbens on Poole Quay. We own the shop that once was the Britannia Inn and appreciate your thread was quite a few years back. The building was a pub for 30/40 years we believe  after being built around 1849 - we have the deeds here so your relatives, the Dibbens, would have been the first licensees on a thriving quay which is probably why they stayed there so long. Up until a couple of years ago there was a Ms Dibben who never married and was running a shop a stones throw away from our shop. She was well in to her 90s when she died and her shop at one time was a big concern and had been part of large business. Probably a relative of yours, thought you may find this of interest. She has one neice I think here in Poole.