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My maternal 2 x great grandfather, Thomas Dickson, born abt 1784 in Hutton, Berwickshire, died 31 March 1857 in Chirnside, Berwickshire.

He married Mary Simpson. born abt 1793 St Cuthbert's Edinburgh, died between 1851 and 1861. She appears on the 1851 Census but not on the 1861 Census.

I would like to establish when Thomas was born and when Mary died. It would also be great to establish Thomas' father.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Arthur (Nicholls)

For reference only.


1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Chirnside, Berwickshire, Scotland

Household Members
First name(s) Last name Gender Age Birth year Birth place
Thomas Dickson Male 55 1786 Berwickshire, Scotland
Occupation Teacher
David Dickson Male 26 1815 Berwickshire, Scotland
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Jane Dickson Female 23 1818 Berwickshire, Scotland
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Mary Dickson Female 19 1822 Berwickshire, Scotland
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Eliza Dickson Female 15 1826 Berwickshire, Scotland
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William Dickson Male 17 1824 Berwickshire, Scotland
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James Ormiston Male 26 1815 Berwickshire, Scotland
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Alison Ormiston Female 21 1820 Berwickshire, Scotland



1851 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Chirnside, Berwickshire, Scotland

Household Members
First name(s) Last name Relationship to household head Marital condition Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Thomas Dickson Head Married Male 65 1786 Parochial Teacher Hutton, Berwickshire, Scotland
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Mary Dickson Wife Married Female 58 1793 - St Cuthberts, Edinr
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Eliza Dickson Daughter Unmarried Female 25 1826 - Chirnside, Berwickshire, Scotland
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Jane Horne - Widow Female 56 1795 Laundress England

Name: Thomas Dickson
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 26 Apr 1784
Baptism Place: , Hutton, Berwick, Scotland
Father: David Dickson
FHL Film Number: 1067900
Reference ID: 2:15ZCVR4

Statutory registration began in Scotland in 1855. Have you looked on Scotlandspeople. For a death for Mary between 1855 and 1861 please?

Rootgatherers info looks about right.
Thomas would be the son of David Dickson and Alison Hare who married in Hutton 1780.

Not only did he have a son named David but Thomas also has a daughter named Alison Dickson b 1819.
She will be Alison Ormiston on the 1841 return posted by Alviegal.
I can't find a Dickson/Ormiston marriage but there are 2 children on FS born to James Ormiston and Alison Dickson

Thanks for advancing my backwards research :-)

I used a professional genealogist to flesh out my mother's ancestors - I had little in the way of documents and her father died before I was born, her mother when I was 24 and not yet into Family History.

She was very good but only got back to Thomas. She did, however, provide me with a book of Hymnals written by Thomas - and reviewed by Rev. W S Crockett in his book "Minstrelsy of the Merse : the poets and poetry of Berwickshire : a country anthology" published in 1898.

In the review Thomas was described "THOMAS DICKSON was for many years schoolmaster of Chirnside, and a man of wide knowledge, great kind-heartedness, and deep piety."

Now I would like to find more about his wife Mary Simpson.

I plan to visit Chirnside later this year when I travel to Scotland for a discussion weekend (Alpines). Any advice on how I might research locally or will records be kept elsewhere.

Thanks again.

Arthur