To GADGET & DCB all you've said re the family is correct. On one of my trips home, I live in Canada now, I went to Worthen Hall, & to Guilsfield cemetery & took photos of the graves & to Trawscoed House & St Chad's in Shrewsbury & stayed in Elmsmere where brother Edward had had a grocer's shop after he went bankrupt in London & died there.
Here is the Dickin & Cureton info:
Wm Dickin b Worthen 1744 m 1. Mary Beddows 1748 b Westbury, Shrops d 1773. He m again in 1775 in Worthen to Mary Furmstone 1748/1819.
They had John Dickin 1776/1855 m 1814 at St Chad's Shrewsbury Mary Ann Cureton 1785/1847. This is where the Edwards come into it, Mary Ann's father was Edward Cureton 1756/1796 m Henrietta Bill 1760/1818 in London & they had a son Edward 1789/1849 unmarried. I mentioned these 2 Edwards in my original email because I saw that Mary Ellen Lewis had named her last son Edward Cureton Willitts & this jumped out at me. In 1816 John Dickin lived at Worthen Hall & by 1841 was living at Trawscoed House in Guilsfield.
Mary Dickin 1816/1872 who m James Lewis had a brother Charles Robert 1823/1846, a sister Sarah Maria 1825/1886 who m into the maternal side of my Roberts family in Guilsfield & then a stillborn in 1827. Once I found Edward Cureton Willitts on a tree from the US I contacted the owner who said her father was born a year before Mary Ellen died but was too young to remember her & they had nothing to go on other than what US censuses told them. So it's definite that it was Mary Dickin who m James Lewis, NOT Mary Chester.
DCB I've learned a lot of history through following the Cureton's in the Indian Army, fascinating stuff. The General Chas Rbt Cureton who died in Ramnagar, his wife was given a grace & favour apartment in Hampton Court when he died.
AFN, will do more as the day goes by.
Thank you all again, Amberly
