Person:Rebecca Dickson (2)

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Rebecca Ann Dickson
b.7 Aug 1843 Poplar, Middlesex, England
d.1 Mar 1908 Poplar, London, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. 27 Aug 1843
  1. Rebecca Ann Dickson1843 - 1908
  2. Henry James Dickson1844 -
  3. Richard Dickson1849 - 1849
  4. John George Dickson1850 - 1863
  5. William Joseph Dickson1856 - 1856
  6. Sarah Jane Dickson1857 - 1857
  7. Emma Sarah Dickson1859 - 1859
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Henry Young1844 - 1868
  • W.  Rebecca Ann Dickson1843 - 1908
m. 19 Jun 1864
  1. Henry Charles Young1865 - 1930
  2. George John Young1867 -
Spouse and Children
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  • W.  Rebecca Ann Dickson1843 - 1908
  1. Henry Dickson1864 - 1864
Spouse and Children
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m. 9 Jul 1871
  1. Thomas Henry Nowell1871 - 1929
  2. George Henry Nowell1873 - 1880
  3. Rebecca Louisa Nowell1874 - 1891
  4. William Ernest Nowell1876 - 1880
  5. Alice Louisa Nowell1878 - 1958
  6. Frances Eliza Nowell1880 - 1941
  7. William Henry Nowell1881 -
  8. Susan Emma Nowell1883 - 1884
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Rebecca Ann Dickson
Alt Name[11] Rebecca Ann Dixon
Married Name[12][13][14][15][16][23] Rebecca Ann Nowell
Married Name[17] Rebecca A. Nowill
Married Name[18][21] Rebecca Young
Married Name[4][19][10][22] Rebecca Ann Young
Gender Female
Alt Birth[16] Abt 1841
Birth[4][5][12][13][7][8][17] 7 Aug 1843 Poplar, Middlesex, England19 Regent Street
Alt Birth[11] 7 Aug 1843
Alt Birth[7][8] 21 Aug 1843 Poplar, Middlesex, England
Christening[11] 31 Dec 1843 St. Anne's Church, Limehouse
Alt Birth[19] Abt 1845
Census[5] 1851 Poplar, Middlesex, Englandschool, 17 Regent Street
Census[6] 1861 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England"sempstress", 12 Orchard Street
Occupation[20] 1864
Residence[1] 1864 Stepney, Middlesex, England
Marriage 19 Jun 1864 Stepney, Middlesex, EnglandSt. Thomas Church
to Henry Young
Residence[3] 1865 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England5 Willis Street
Residence[22] 1867 East Ham, Essex, England3 Glenister Street
Residence[21] From 17 Nov 1870 to 26 Nov 1870 Poplar, London, EnglandHigh Street Workhouse
Marriage to Unknown
Census[4] 1871 Poplar, Middlesex, England12 Leicester Street
Residence[19] 9 Jul 1871 16 Clendand St?
Marriage 9 Jul 1871 Bethnal Green, Middlesex, EnglandSt. Bartholomew's Church
to George Nowell
Census[12] 1881 Poplar, Middlesex, England11 Leicester Street
Census[13] 1891 Poplar, Middlesex, England32 Gaselee Street
Census[17] 1901 Poplar, London, England14 Gaselee Street
Residence[16] 1908 Poplar, London, England11 Warrington Place
Death[15][16] 1 Mar 1908 Poplar, London, EnglandBromley Sick Asylum
Alt Death[15] 2 Mar 1908 Poplar Registration District, London, EnglandDeath Registration

Rebecca Ann Dickson was born 7 Aug 1843 at 19 Regent Street in Poplar, the eldest child of shipwright Henry Dickson and Rebecca Ann Swan. Her parents were unmarried at the time of her birth but wed shortly after at St. Mary's Church, Stratford Bow on 27 August 1843. Rebecca was baptised at St. Anne's Church, Limehouse, on 31 December 1843.

Rebecca lived with her parents and siblings in Poplar, moving houses frequently along Regent Street, and in 1861 the family was living at 12 Orchard Street, Bromley by Bow. Sadly her brother John died aged 12 of scarlatina (scarlet fever) and she had four other siblings who died as infants.

On 27 April 1864 at her family's home at 2 Willis Street, Poplar, an unmarried 20 year-old Rebecca gave birth to a premature son, Henry Dickson, who died the same day. It is not known who the father was. On the birth certificate her occupation is listed as "sempstress".

Just a few months later on 19 June 1864 she was married at St. Thomas Church, Stepney, to Henry Young, a mariner and labourer at a shipyard. Witnesses to the marriage were Benjamin and Frances (Young) Scarlett, Henry's brother-in-law and sister.

Rebecca's father Henry Dickson died a few months later on 26 Oct 1864 from "dropsy" (oedema). He was only 42. Rebecca's mother never remarried but lived with or close to her children for the rest of her life, with Rebecca at her side when she died in 1894 at the age of 73 from "paralysis".

Henry Young and Rebecca Dickson had two children: Henry Charles Young born 5 June 1865 at 5 Willis Street, Bromley by Bow, and George John Young, born 24 Feb 1867 at 3 Glenister Street in East Ham. Sadly Henry Young Sr. died at 20 Regent Street, Poplar, on 11 Mar 1868 aged just 23 from a sudden ulceration perforation of the bowels. Rebecca was left a young widow with two children under 5, a very difficult position at the time when financial support of paupers was through the local workhouse. Rebecca and her two sons were briefly admitted to the Poplar workhouse on High Street in 1870. By 1871 they'd moved in with her mother and brother Henry (a labourer) at 12 Leicester Street, Poplar.

On 9 July 1871 at the age of 27 Rebecca remarried at St. Bartholomew's Church, Bethnal Green, to George Nowell, a blacksmith and iron yard labourer. Her brother Henry Dickson and Mary Deeble were witnesses (Rebecca's maternal aunts had married members of the Deeble family). Rebecca and George's first son Thomas Henry Nowell's birth was registered between October and December 1871, so she must have been pregnant when they wed. Thomas Henry and his half-brother George John Young were both baptised on 25 April 1873 at All Saints Church in Poplar. At the time the family were living at 8 Norfolk Street.

Over the next ten years Rebecca and George had eight more children, two of whom, George Henry and William Ernest, died of scarlet fever within a week of each other in 1880. Their youngest child Susan Emma died aged one from sudden acute pleuro-pneuomonia and their eldest daughter Rebecca Louisa died at the age of 17. It seems that Rebecca's son from her first marriage, Henry Charles Young was adopted by his paternal aunt and uncle Frances (Young) and Benjamin Scarlett, as he was living with them in the 1881 and 1891 censuses. Rebecca and Henry's other son George may have died young or he could have been working as a servant in 1881 - no records have been found yet that are definitely for this George Young.

In the 1881 census George and Rebecca were living at 11 Leicester Street in Poplar with their three children, Thomas, Rebecca, and Frances Nowell. George's occupation is listed as "ship smith". Their 3 year-old daughter Alice was a patient at the East London Hospital for Children in Glamis Road, St. Paul Shadwell. Rebecca's mother Rebecca was living next door at 12 Leicester Street.

In 1891 Rebecca and George were living with their children Rebecca, Alice, Frances and William Nowell at 32 Gaselee Street in Poplar. George's occupation is listed as iron yard labourer and their daughter Rebecca is listed as a match maker, while the younger children were still attending school. Rebecca's mother Rebecca was living just down the road at 2 Gaselee Street.

Rebecca's son Henry Charles Young was married on Christmas day 1893 to Rosetta Frances Amelia Whitfield, who gave birth to Rebecca's first grandchild in October 1894. Henry and Rosetta had another 10 children who all lived to adulthood.

Rebecca's daughter Alice married wharf labourer William Prater in 1899 and went on to have 11 children, at least 7 of whom survived to adulthood.

Rebecca's daughter Frances gave birth to four children out of wedlock, two of whom died young. She eventually married at the age of 38 to labourer James Clark, with whom she had one son.

By 1901 Rebecca, George, and their now adult children Thomas, Frances and William had moved down the road to 14 Gaselee Street. The men in the family were all listed as dock labourers.

Rebecca's last home was at 11 Warrington Place, Poplar. She died 1 March 1908 at the Bromley Sick Asylum, aged 64 years, of chronic bronchitis and heart failure. Her husband George died a year later.

For a good description and map of the Gaselee Street, Regent Street, Leicester Street area that they lived in from 1868 to 1908 see Blackwall Way and Gaselee Street area.


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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 General Register Office. Marriage Certificate
    marriage certificate for Henry Young and Rebecca Ann Dickson, married 19 Jun 1864; citing 1c/995/35, Apr-Jun quarter 1864, Mile End Old Town registration district.
    Henry Young and Rebecca Dickson marriage certificate
  2. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Marriage Index. (London, England: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for Rebecca Ann Dickson, volume 1c, page 995, Apr-May-Jun quarter 1864, Mile End Old Town district.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for Henry Charles Young, born 5 Jun 1865; citing 1c/588/48, Jul-Sep quarter 1865, Poplar Union registration district, Bow sub-district.
    Henry Charles Young birth certificate
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 London, England. 1871 Census
    Poplar, folio 96, page 26; citing PRO RG 10/585.

    Name Age
    Rebecca Dickson 49
    Henry Dickson 26
    Rebecca Young 27
    Henry Young 6
    George Young 4

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Middlesex, England. 1851 Census
    Poplar, folio 131, page 16; citing PRO HO 107/1556.

    Name Age
    Henry Dickson 28
    Rebecca Dickson 26
    Rebecca Dickson 7
    Harry Dickson 5
    John Dickson 6 MO

  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Middlesex, England. 1861 Census
    Bromley St Leonard, folio 80, page 32; citing PRO RG 9/301.

    Name Age
    Henry Dickson 40
    Rebecca Dickson 40
    Rebecca A Dickson 17
    Henry Dickson 15
    John Dickson 9

  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for Rebecca Ann Dickson, volume 2, page 314, Jul-Aug-Sep quarter 1843, Poplar (To 1965) district.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for Rebecca Ann Dickson, born 7 Aug 1843; citing 2/314/488, Jul-Sep quarter 1843, Poplar Union registration district, Poplar sub-district.
    Rebecca Dickson birth certificate
  9. ↑ Church of England. St. Thomas' Church (Stepney, Middlesex). Parish registers of St. Thomas' Church, Stepney, 1840-1900. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-2001)
    "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," Henry Young m. Rebecca Ann Dickson, 19 Jun 1864.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Church of England. Parish Registers of St Bartholomew, Bethnal Green
    "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," George Knowell m. Rebecca Ann Young, 9 Jul 1871.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Limehouse, Middlesex, England. St. Anne's Church Parish Records
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," Rebecca Ann Dixon, bap. 31 Dec 1843, pg 85.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 London, England. 1881 Census
    Poplar, folio 28, page 49; citing PRO RG 11/510.

    Name Age
    Geo. Nowell 39
    Rebecca A. Nowell 37
    Thomas H. Nowell 9
    Rebecca A. Nowell 6
    Frances E. Nowell 1

  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 London, England. 1891 Census
    Poplar, folio 120, page 23; citing PRO RG 12/333.

    Name Age
    George Nowell 49
    Rebecca Nowell 48
    Rebecca Nowell 10
    Alice Nowell 12
    Francis Nowell 11
    William Nowell 9

  14. ↑ General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Rebecca Ann Dickson, died 21 Mar 1894; citing 1c/494/137, Jan-Mar quarter 1894, Poplar registration district, Poplar sub-district.
    Rebecca Ann (Swan) Dickson death certificate
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for Rebecca Nowell, volume 1c, page 368, Jan-Feb-Mar quarter 1908, Greater London, London, Middlesex district, Poplar (To 1965) sub-district.

    England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915
    Name: Rebecca Nowell
    Estimated birth year: abt 1842
    Year of Registration: 1908
    Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
    Age at Death: 66
    District: Poplar (To 1965)
    County: Greater London, London, Middlesex
    Volume: 1c
    Page: 368

  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Rebecca Nowell, died 1 Mar 1908; citing 1c/368/173, Jan-Mar quarter 1908, Poplar registration district, Bromley sub-district.
    Rebecca Dickson Nowell death certificate
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 London, England. 1901 Census
    Poplar, folio 84, page 30; citing PRO RG 13/355.

    Name Age
    George Nowill 59
    Rebecca A Nowill 57
    Thomas Nowill 28
    Frances Nowill 21
    William Nowill 19

  18. ↑ Bromley by Bow, London, England. St. Michael and All Angels Church Parish Registers
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," Henry Charles Young, bap. 1 Apr 1866, pg 49.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 General Register Office. Marriage Certificate
    marriage certificate for George Knowell and Rebecca Ann Young, married 9 Jul 1871; citing 1c/450/340, Jul-Sep quarter 1871, Bethnal Green registration district, St Bartholomew Parish sub-district.
    George Nowell and Rebecca Young marriage certificate
  20. ↑ General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Henry Dickson, died 27 Apr 1864; citing 1c/432/219, Apr-Jun quarter 1864, Poplar Union registration district, Bow sub-district.
    Henry Dickson death certificate
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Various Boards of Guardians. Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1659-1930. (London: London Metropolitan Archives)
    High Street Poplar Workhouse, Rebecca, Henry and George Young admitted 17-26 Nov 1870.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for John George Young, born 24 Feb 1867; citing 4a/48/121, Jan-Mar qua.
    John George Young birth certificate
  23. ↑ General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for George Nowell, died 7 Jun 1880; citing 1c/418/361, Apr-Jun quarter 1880, Poplar registration district.
    George Nowell death certificate
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