Hi
this is what I know !!
Frederick Charles Dickinson b 1839 in Jolington (can't find this place)Middlesex, London. His father was also Frederick Charles born approx 1812 but no idea when exactly or where. Both him and his father are down on various census's as a watchmaker. On the 1881 census when he is about 42 he is down as being in the Barton Regis Union Workhouse,Stapleton, Bristol and thats the last I can find on him, no death etc.
His wife Annie Wren was born 1851 in Newport, Wales,again not sure, and have no marriage for them or who her parents were or when she died.
They had several children and Herbert William was my GGrandfather born 1880. His father must of died before 1891 as in that year he was in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital School, Bristol as a live in scholar and I can find his mother but not his father. He married Sarah Ann Bragg b 1879 in 1907, this I know as I have the marriage certificate. Her father was William Bragg and that is all I know about him. I have both the death certificates for them so I know when they died.
On their marriage certificate it has Herbert William down as the groom but also Herbert William down as his father. This I know is wrong so it makes me think that his father died young and he didn't know him and his mother had also died for him to put his own name down and not his father Frederick Charles. I have been in touch with the QEH school and on his admission record it has no father down and I presume that he was admitted on a scholarship because I don't think that they had much money
I hope this makes sense
Westy