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Waters Upton churchyard MIs: DICKIN
In Memory of William, Son
of William and Elizabeth
Dickin of Waters Upton
who departed this Life
November [the?] [25th?] 1805,
Aged [?] years.
Possibly the William, son of William and Elizabeth Dickin (see below), who was baptised at Waters Upton on 12 Feb 1802. However the parish register shows the burial of “Willm son of Willm & Elizabeth Dickin” on 29 Oct 1805, which does not appear to relate to the November date inscribed on this stone – unless the wrong month was entered in the register.
Added October 2023:
Chest tomb of the Dickin family. I photographed inscriptions (in various states of wear and legibility) on three sides of this:
Lichen growth has rendered almost all of the inscription on this side of the tomb illegible, but “WILLIAM DICKIN” and “AGED 76 YEARS” can be made out. This was William Dickin, baptised 19 February 1754 at High Ercall, son of John (and Sarah, née Walmsley) Dickin of Roden in that parish. By the time he married, on 30 January 1796 at Wem, he was a farmer “of the Parish of Waters Upton”. He was buried in St Michael’s churchyard on 10 September 1830, his entry in the burial register recording his age at death as 76.
IN MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH THE RELICT OF
WILLIAM DICKIN WHO DIED
[JUNE] [2ND] [1853] AGED 83 [YEARS.]
An entry in the parish register of Wem in Shropshire, dated 12 January 1770, shows: “Elizabeth the Daughter of Mr Richard Embrey of this Town and Margaret his Wife was Born November the 26th”. I believe this was the Elizabeth Embrey of Wem who married William Dickin there in 1796. Her mother was Margaret Embrey, née Dickin, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Dickin – and a sister of the John Dickin who married Sarah Walmsley. Elizabeth Embrey and William Dickin were therefore first cousins.
Elizabeth bore William Dickin nine children at Waters Upton, a parish she left after her husband’s death – the 1841 census recorded her at Edgebolton in the parish of Shawbury, and in 1851 she was enumerated at Wellington. Eddowes’s Journal of 8 June 1853 included the following death notice: “2d June, aged 83, Mrs. Dickin, of Vineyard Road, Wellington, relict of Mr. William Dickin, of Waters Upton, in this county.”
ALSO
THOS: SON OF
WILLM: AND ELIZH:
DICKIN WHO DIED
MAY 22ND: 1830,
AGED 22.
Until I took this photo and transcribed the inscription it shows, I did not know the fate of Thomas, son of William and Elizabeth Dickin, who was baptised 27 March 1808 at Waters Upton. Now I do, but I am left wondering what the boy, and the young man he became, saw and did during his short life, and how he met his untimely end.
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