Lancs OPC question.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Merry

I just wondered if brother-in-law could extend to the brother-in-law of George Dixon's wife? We think George married Anthony Sawrey's sister (name not yet known) and we have a list of potential siblings for Anthony. One of those is Ann who was baptised in 1709 (she may well be the youngest in the family)

Then there's this marriage:

Marriage: 6 May 1739 St Michael and All Angels, Hawkshead, Lancashire, England
Jona: Wilson
Anne Sawrey

and then these baptisms at Colton which is about ten miles away:

John 1740
Elizabeth 1741
Myles 1743
Mary 1746
Ann and Jane 1749 (these two are baptised a couple of months apart, so there may be two Jonathan's having children in the parish)
Mary 1753

But I don't know if they feel right *sigh*

Ooh, that looks good.

[Merry]

I'm still struggling with George Dixon having a dau Ann around 1700 (the one who married George Hayton) which means he must have married Anthony's much older sister. Though that's possible, it's made much more difficult when Ann may also have been Anthony's sister, but she is lots younger!

Myles would need to have had more than one wife if he had children over such a wide time scale!

[kiterunner]

There are quite a few Myles Sawrey marriages. I wouldn't be surprised if he (the Myles who was Anthony's father) had more than one wife.

[Merry]

Yes, I was just looking at the marriages again. I'm sure there were fewer last time I looked! lol


The two George Dixon marriages are to Sarah Sawrey in 1696 and to Dorothy Sawrey in 1700.

Myles seems to have had a daughter, Dorothy in 1688, so the marriage in 1700 is presumably not her.....Can't find a Sarah baptism to fit. There's a burial for a Sarah Sawrey, wife of George in 1717, but I couldn't see anything for Dorothy. (I had previously imagined George marrying two sisters, to keep things tidy!!)

[Merry]

Anthony Sawrey, brother-in-law of George Dixon: had children Miles and Agnes plus unnamed "infants".

We don't have a daughter for Anthony called Agnes, do we? I suppose she might have been born in the gap between Myles and the others, perhaps somewhere else?

[kiterunner]

I'm still not sure whether Agatha could be a variant of Agnes? If she was known as Aggie, maybe?

[Merry]

Yes, that's possible.

I don't really understand the concept of naming some children and apparently dismissing others by calling them infants? When is a child an infant? (or when is a child not an infant?). Agatha would have been quite young in 1753.

[Merry]

I forgot to say, re those Wilson baptisms at Colton - they only had the father's name recorded.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Merry

I don't really understand the concept of naming some children and apparently dismissing others by calling them infants? When is a child an infant? (or when is a child not an infant?). Agatha would have been quite young in 1753.

I don't know, but I wonder whether George Dixon named some of the children in his will, and then the others were born between the date when the will was written and the date of his death?

[Merry]

Oh, that's a brilliant idea!! (I hope it's right lol)

So, would that mean we could pinpoint George's death more precisely? (are we still looking for his will??)