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From: "Mary Ann Shoemaker" <>
Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Dicken family, Culpeper Co VA
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:43:45 -0400
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for anyone researching the Dickens of Culpeper .. some of the family went to
what is now Washington Co.KY.. at the time in the 1780s this was Nelson Co.
VA etc..
Mary Ann

----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:16 AM
Subject: [GERMANNA] Dicken family, Culpeper Co VA


> Last January 31, John Blankenbaker in his Note Nr. 1347 stated that the
name
> Dicken intrigued him and others, partly because of the baptism in Hebron
> Church of Rhoda, the child of Benjamin and Rosina Dickons. There was then
> some discussion on the list, including a question as to whether the name
> might be German in origin (possibly anglicized from "Thiecken").
>
> John stated that Rosina or Rosanna, wife of Benjamin Dickon, was the
> daughter of (John) Adam Gaar.
>
> Craig also sent a note to the list at that time mentioning the will of
> Christopher Dicken, Sr., who died in Culpeper Co. in 1778, and had 15
> children, including the above-mentioned Benjamin Dicken, as well as a
> daughter Susannah Render.
>
> At that point, I wrote the list to supply the first name of Susannah
Dickin
> Render's husband, Joshua Render, II, an English Quaker who lived in the
> area of Culpeper Class #69, and was uncle to my ggg-gm Ann Render Yager.
>
> Last week I received an e-mail from a descendant of Susannah Dickin Render
> which sheds some light on the nationality and the religion of the Dickin
> family. It reads in part:
>
> "I am a descendant of Joshua Render I and wife Sara Lewis (father Surles
> Lewis) through their son, Joshua Render II who m. Susannah Dickin, through
> their first child Mary Render who m. Joshua Callaway b. 1771. (my gr gr gr
> grandfather) . . . I might add that I have Susannah Dickin Render's
> "Church of England Prayer Book" published in 1768 in Edinburgh. (as
printed)
> There is a register of the children's birth dates in her beautiful
> handwriting. On one page is written 'Susannah Render, her prayer book'
.
> . . "
>
>
> When I have the writer's permission, I will supply his name and e-mail
> address, if anyone is interested.
>
> Betty Johnson
>
>
>
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