Dickerson family

[mahnrut]

Thanks for this suggestion Hephzibah but I have looked at Stoke Baptist records and any other records for Baptists in the area and nothing.  The main problem is that they are not that old and my Daniel was in the Wattisham Baptist area in 1800.  I have gone to extraordinary lengths I think to find Baptist information even going to Oxford to look at Bildeston Baptist records in a small library there (hard to get into unless you know an academic there which I did) with no luck.  I am hoping for a family bible or some personal record like that to turn up but they were not affluent so probably unlikely. 

[Hephzibah]

Only other local place I can think of looking where records were kept and which you have probably already looked at, are those of Eld Lane in Colchester. In the Ipswich area there was a lot of interaction between the dissenting congregations in Suffolk and along the Essex border and I'm aware that there was a connection between Eld Lane and Stoke Green around the last half of the 18th century.
I'm sure that some time or other a needle has been found in a haystack so good luck in your searching amid the dissenting congregations in Suffolk!
Hephzibah

[mahnrut]

Hephzibah

Actually I haven't looked outside of Suffolk.  Do you know by any chance if the Colchester records are online and what period they cover as, as I said before, I have found little before the beginning of the 19th century in general?

You mention the interactions between the Baptist congregations and I think that my Daniel probably ended up in the Wattisham area because the congregation in that area  walked to Woolverstone to worship after getting disillusioned with the Bildeston Baptist which of course was nearer.  My guess is that he met his future wife that way and moved from Wherstead but this is definitely in the realms of conjecture!

[findem]

Hi,

Colchester PRs are online, in the Essex Records office SEAX system under Essex Ancestors, using the link below you can check out (for free) the various Colchester PRs and the periods they cover.  It is Pay to View to view the PR digital Images but the fees are quite modest, Colchester has quite a few churches.

https://secureweb1.essexcc.gov.uk/seaxpam2012/EssexAncestors.aspx

Regards

[steg]

Hi Mahnrut

This is my third post; hopefully will be able to send a PM henceforth. Thanks for your reply that I have only just become aware of. The Dickerson family relates to a friend, for whom, as I have carried out extensive research in Suffolk for my lines, I have kept a look out for the Dickersons. She is related to/from those in Bucklesham. She had hit a brick wall re the baptism of David born c. 1740 who married Sarah Asbey. Now in Woolverstone- close to Wherstead and as you probably are aware- there is a Daniel Dickerson born c. 1746 who married twice- firstly in 1773. It seems possible that the Daniel you mention born c. 1775 could possibly be a son of the Daniel in Woolverstone. The problem being that there are no baptisms of children of Daniel in or around Woolverstone/Wherstead to confirm or otherwise. From other baptismal records I have found it is highly likely that Daniel in Woolverstone is a brother of David in Bucklesham and hence could take the line (possibly yours) back at least one more generation. As far as I know no one else has as yet been able to find the baptisms/parents of Daniel born c. 1746 and David born c. 1740.
In that this line might be yours will be glad to share should you wish.

Regards

Stephen

[mahnrut]

Steg

It sounds as if you have done a lot of work on the Dickersons in the Ipswich area and I would be very happy to make contact privately.  My email address is (*)t.  Thanks a lot.  Barbara (Dickerson) Turnham formerly of Ipswich but a long-time Washington DC resident!.

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[mahnrut]

findem

Thanks so much for the link.  Will go to work!

[Hephzibah]

Thanks Findem, the Essex Record site is a useful one to hear about.
The info I have re records differ slightly from those on the essex cc. site.
In 'My Ancestors were Baptists' by Geoffrey R Breed, the Eld Lane records are as follows,
Births 1767  - 1837  RG4/1510
Burials 1788 - 1807    "      "
Burials 1816 - 1837  RG4/801

Hepzibah

[mahnrut]

Thanks Findem, the Essex Record site is a useful one to hear about.
The info I have re records differ slightly from those on the essex cc. site.
In 'My Ancestors were Baptists' by Geoffrey R Breed, the Eld Lane records are as follows,
Births 1767  - 1837  RG4/1510
Burials 1788 - 1807    "      "
Burials 1816 - 1837  RG4/801

Hepzibah

Just to close the loop.  No luck at Eld Lane for Daniel Dickerson and no Dickersons per se.  Thanks for the suggestion though Findem.  Perhaps others will have more luck. Barbara