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Hi all
I might be stating the obvious here, but I have previously (for a very small fee) ordered via the IGI their microfilm copies of parish registers in order to check the original entries - you need to find a LDS Family History Centre near wherre you live or which you can get to, then you order the films to come from Utah to be posted to that Centre. They usually phone you when the films arrive and you get about 8 weeks to go and look at them. They seem to post to anywhere in the world. I think they have recently moved to an online booking/order system.

Hi Kellie

I reckon I am probably a 3rd cousin to you or something like that. My grandma was Elizabeth Francis, whose sister was Violet Francis who married your Ernie Storry. I think my mum Marlene Dixon (born Rogers) knows your dad and calls him her cousin John (was his sister Molly?). I also have a wedding photo of Aunty Vi (as we called her) and Ernie. Do get in touch offline - I'm at *

Lareen Newman (nee Dixon), Adelaide

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Hi roy
Didn't expect you to pop up here! I think Neil told me you were researching Dixons at some point. Can't remember where you fit in with us.
Lareen

I have just come across your thread for the Harveys in the Gt Totham/Witham area of Essex.
I am searching the Dixon family in Essex (with suspected London links) from abt 1700 to 1850 - there seem to be quite a lot of them in the Braintree/Witham/Chelmsford area of Essex.

We have been stuck on our Dixon line for over 10 years as we cannot find the birth/baptism of our  g-g-g-g-grandfather - his name was rather unusual - Zaphenath Paancah Harvey Gainsford Dixon, born about 1771 somewhere in Essex (going by the 1841 Census and from his death and other records). Also known as plain "Gainsford Dixon", he was an innkeeper in Chelmsford. Unfortunately he died in January 1851 so missed the Census, otherwise we'd know exactly what area to look for his birth!!

Without that we are trying various ways to track him down, including looking for Dixon to Harvey marriages in the area where we know there were other Essex Dixons with the ZP or Gainsford name, and also just before the 1771 birth date.

We have found a 1769 marriage of Sarah Harvey b1748 (daughter of Daniel & Sarah Harvey of Wickham Bishops, and hence sister of Matthew Barnard Harvey b1753). Sarah b1748 married a John Dixon, miller of Finchingfield, and I am wondering if you have any information on her or husband's line.  I also have summaries of the diaries of Dr Henry Dixon of Witham (1787-1876, but as yet not a known relative to me) who was a lifelong friend of Daniel Whittle Harvey, and who mentions in his diaries visits to London to see Daniel and his daughter Anna (who was a close friend of Dr Henry's wife Georgiana).

Hoping you might help.
L Newman, Australia (nee Dixon)