Cathy and I are heading down to the Skipton area this coming weekend and hope to visit the cemetery where my Grandparents, Eddie DODGSON (1903-1976) and Lily Eleanor DIXON, (1905-1980) are buried. Eddie died way back in 1976, on my Dad’s Birthday, and Lily a few years later in December 1980. Although Eddie was born…
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Samuel Preston Dixon (1900 – 1982)
This is a lovely photo of my paternal Grandmother’s brother, Samuel Preston Dixon who was born in Langcliffe, just north of Settle now in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in England. Samuel was the eldest of 5 children and the 1901 census shows him, at 6 months of age living with his parents, 2 uncles…
How it Started
At the back-end of 2011, Cathy and I started to research our family histories again. We had had a couple of false starts in the past where something must have happened and we got distracted and it all stopped. The last time was back in 2000 I think when we got in touch with my…