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My research starts with Robert Dickinson 1745-1820 and his wife Hellen/Helena/Elen Cass.
Robert & Hellen were married on 4th September 1770 in Spofforth, West Riding of Yorkshire. They are recorded as being the parents of Anthony, Anna, Barbara and Mary in the R.C. register for the Spofforth/Follifoot area.
Those four children all married but my main lines of research are from Anthony born 1773 and Barbara born 1776. Barbara married a Leconby, the majority of the next generations remaining in W.R. Yorks.
My line is via Anthony (1773) who had 8 children all born in Plumpton. It is one of the children of Anthony that moved to Ampleforth in the 1820's. Another of Anthony (born 1773) descendants, Thomas Dickinson (born 1837 Plumpton) moved to Thornaby & Stockton in the 1860's. He married twice and had 13

children

between 1862 & 1900.
Other family off shoots spread around Yorkshire and the North East, too many to go into great detail here.
Researching-Schofield, Wood, Dent, Jackson, Dickinson, Gray, Windross, Gelderd, Lightfoot, Stockdale in Yorkshire, Harding in Devon, Sturley in Pembrokeshire, Price & Parry in Liverpool & North Wales, Butler, Laverty, Brennan, Doyle, Ferns in Liverpool & Ireland, Drysdale, Hunter, Dewar, Abercrombie, Hunter in Scotland