Hi, my husband's gtgt grandparents were also Francis Dickson and Mary Hutton. I have just started looking into this in more detail. His gt grandmother was Mary Ann Dickson, she married a Yorkshireman and moved there.
I have also come across a Prison Register Index search result for Francis Dickson, a coal miner living in Canonbie (so I am assuming it is the same person as above) who was jailed in 1846 when 21. NRS reference HH21/49/2 p44. I havent sent off for the full information yet, do you know anything about this?
I havent found his marriage yet but I assume it was before 1850 as his first child was born then. So he was not in prison for long!
Any info welcome and would be happy to give you anything I have that you may not have come across.
Lynn