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From: Margaret Drummond <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Hugh Dixon
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:21:58 +0000
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Hi Johann,Thanks so much for your response.Hugh Dixon is not part of my Family Tree. I am trying to help Hugh's G Grand Daughter, Amy Dixon in Durban who is working on the tree. If you are interested, I am sure that she would be happy to share details with you. I do have a copy of the birth certificate for Francis Irvine Dixon which I would be happy to forward you if you would like?The details on your tree is definitely the same person. Amy would really appreciate it if you could find out if Debra did manage to find his birth.I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards

Margaret




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> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:01:56 +0100
> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Hugh Dixon
>
> I am also interested in learning more about Hugh Dixon, since he appears in
> my HANEKOM family tree
> http://www.hanekom.org.uk/phpgedview/individual.php?pid=I7161&ged=hanekom%20
> web.ged, with a son named Charles Evan Dixon *5 Sep 1917 +30 Sep 1979
>
> Otherwise I have the same information Geoff provided about Hugh
>
> Unless two or more Hugh Dixons of roughly the same age emigrated to South
> Africa around the same time and settled in East London, I have a strong
> suspicion that he is also the father of Margaret's Francis Irvine Dixon. If
> that is indeed the case, 9 years difference between their births is not
> unreasonable, especially if there were other children in between.
>
> For me, however, it throws doubt on the estimated date of marriage, or the
> birthdate of 1870 for Hugh. Henrietta PALM was only 20 in 1910, so it is
> possible that the marriage took place around 1912 or 1913, closer to Charles
> Evan's date of birth, and opening up up an opportunity for Hugh to appear in
> the 1911 census
>
> So, if we assume he is the same person, that makes his date of birth around
> 1877.
>
> Sadly to say, there are no suitable Hugh Dixons listed in the 1911 census
> either, and none in Norfolk at all. Again most of those listed are from the
> north of England.
>
> I still have one (small) opportunity to find out, however, because Hugh and
> Henrietta are the grandparents of Debra Henrietta Dixon *13 Jun 1956 in East
> London. She was trying to locate a copy of Hugh's birth certificate
> recently, in order to obtain an ancestral visa, when we last had contact.
>
> I will try and find out if she's had any success
>
> Johann
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:11:56 +0100
> From: "Chew G" <>
> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Hugh Dixon
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> He's on the IGI, but in a "submitted" rather than "extracted" record,
> without any source information; it makes him a bit older than that:
>
> Hugh DIXON Male
> Birth: 1870, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
> Death: 01 MAR 1948
> Marriages:
> Spouse: Henrietta Wilhelmina Johanna PALM
> Marriage: About 1910 East London, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
>
> As for more reliable sources, FreeBMD has only two Hugh Dixons in England
> around this time, a Hugh Bellesis DIXON born June quarter 1868 in South
> Shields, and a Hugh Walford DIXON born March quarter 1869 in Bromsgrove,
> both a good distance from Yarmouth. I am a bit suspicious of that IGI
> entry, given that there are no Hugh DIXONs in Norfolk at all in the 1871 or
> 1881 censuses nor in FreeBMD. There are a number in the North of England,
> Durham and Northumberland, so could "Garmouth" or "Yarmouth" actually be
> something like "Wearmouth" or "Tynemouth"? But the detail of the marriage
> and death might be more reliable.
>
> Geoff
>
> Geoffrey Chew
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