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Thank you and apologies for not replying sooner.  I think this is my Pickup Dixon and that Peter Dixon's marriage certificate is incorrect in the name of his father.  I have always believed that Peter and Margaret named their first child after each of their fathers, hence Adam Pickup Dixon but I cannot think of another way to prove that Pickup Dixon is my ancestor.  He and his family lived close to the Heyworths so it is not improbable that Peter and Margaret were neighbours before their marriage.  I also think that Peter Dixon and Susan Pickup were Pickup Dixon's parents.  There is a record for the burial of a Susan Dickson aged 25 wife of Peter Dickson in 1801.  This would have made her 13 at the time of her marriage - I understand that the legal age for marriage back then was 12.  Perhaps people married but did not live together until they were older.  She would have been 21 or so when Pickup was born.