Help with 'John Dickety' - the early years

[rgeldard]

Hi, I'm looking to track dowm both the birth (and parentage) and 1871 census information for JOHN DICKETY - according to all later census returns, born in Overton, Hampshire.

I have tried the usual suspects (Ancestry & FreeBMD), but not having much joy with anything earlier than 1881 - which listed him as being 34 and living in an army barracks with his wife & children.

I have found another John Dickety from the 1871 census, but the age is a couple of years out, and the birth location is listed as 'Southampton'.

If anyone can offer any help or suggestion, I would be very grateful.

Thanks
Richard

[Hackstaple]

I may be able to throw some light on this, just possibly. Until fairly recent times the County of Hampshire was often called Southampton [as opposed to Northampton]. May old Victorian maps show it so.
The 1881 census gives another John Dickety - age 27 then, wife Mary A. and a baby 2 months old.