Charles Hammond Dickinson J. P.

Born: Abt 1835, Ilfracombe, Devon, England
Marriage (1): Martha Ayres on 28 Apr 1859 in Pinetown, Natal, South Africa
Marriage (2): Charlotte Turner Jun Q 1870 in St. Pancras, London, England
Died: 13 Feb 1911, Ilfracombe, Devon, England aged about 76
Buried: Ilfracombe, Devon, England

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Martha Ayres

Martha Dickinson

2. Charlotte Turner

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1891&indiv=try&h=2755594

bullet Death Notes:

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT NAB
SOURCE MSCE
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 42/33
PART 1
DESCRIPTION DICKINSON, CHARLES HAMMOND. (WIDOWER).
STARTING 19110000
ENDING 19380000
REMARKS MSCE32743, 15761, 2196/44.

And

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH/2009-02/1233987817
Transcription of a column in South Africa Magazine, February 25, 1911, titled Domestic Announcements:
DICKINSON-On February 19, at Ilfracombe, Charles Hammond
Dickinson, J.P., aged 76.

And

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1904/32858_625537_2389-00038/14398863?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-c%26gsfn%3dcharles%2bhammond%26gsfn_x%3dNP%26gsln%3ddickinson%26gsln_x%3dNS_NP%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d11%26pcat%3d34%26h%3d14398863%26db%3dUKProbateCal%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d2&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

bullet Burial Notes:

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?available=yes&grave=295567&personid=633486

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. Message on Ancestry.com from Jean Dickinson.

And

http://shelaghspencer.com/settlers/

• Census: UK, 1851. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1851&indiv=try&h=2599966

• Census: UK, 1891. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1891&indiv=try&h=2755594

And

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/6598/DEVRG12_1776_1778-0506/2755594?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3dcharles%2bhammond%26gsfn_x%3dNIC%26gsln%3dDickinson%26gsln_x%3dXO%26msbdy%3d1835%26msbdy_x%3d1%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26msbdp%3d1%26cp%3d11%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d2755594%26db%3duki1891%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord
He is shown as a widower having lost both his wives.

• General Comment. Charles Dickinson

The upheaval of moving house is something which everyone dreads, but it is when the movers are at the door that forgotten papers turn up in cupboards and corners. When the Natal Society Library moved to its new building last year many treasures were rediscovered, including several albums of old railway photographs and a portfolio of water-colour paintings. The latter find is described by Mrs Verbeek:

Mr Tony Hooper, Librarian of the Natal Society Library, recently brought to my attention a valuable collection of water-colours painted by Charles Dickinson during the 1850s. The paintings are in excellent condition.

The collection was donated in 1938 by Mrs Wood, wife of Dr Willy Wood, then M.O.H. for Pietermaritzburg, and a member of the Natal Society Council. With the pictures is a newspaper cutting dated 24.9.39 which notes, 'An interesting collection of water-colours, made in Natal from 1853 to 1857 has been given to the Natal Society and is now on exhibition in the Public Library. The pictures are the work of Mr C. H. Dickinson who lived in Natal from 1853 until 1870. Mr Dickinson had an eye for a picturesque bit of landscape and he made many sketches as he wandered about the country. He must surely have been the first artist to paint the Valley of a Thousand Hills, although to him it was only the "View of Inanda from the Durban-Maritzburg road". From an historical point of view the most important are those showing .Durban and Maritzburg. There is an interesting picture of the Point and Bluff painted from Salisbury Island and also a view of 'Maritzburg "from the road to the Bishop's station". This was obviously painted from Mountain Rise on the road to Bishopstowe . . . showing fairly clearly the extent to which the town had spread in 1857 .. .' Charles Hammond Dickinson arrived in Natal in the early 1850s. In Pictorial Africana Gordon-Brown notes that a C. Dickinson painted scenes of the Cape in the early 1850s, and if this should be the same Dickinson, (and there is no reason to suppose otherwise), then it is probable that he arrived in Natal after a short stay in the Cape. Marianne Churchill Gillespie refers to having met a friend of her brother Frank, 'Charlie Dickinson', who was about the same age as her brother (25?), and that he was 'engaged to be married in two years'. Mrs Shelagh Spencer's Register of Natal Families notes his marriage in 1858.

Another newspaper clipping of the same date, this time from the Natal Witness, describes Charles Dickinson as an 'old resident of Pietermaritzburg.' Descendants of Dickinson who still live in the Capital have informed me that he first earned his living as an ironmonger at 23 Longmarket Street, Pietermaritzburg, and then went farming near Baynesfield. He retired to England before the AngloBoer War, and many of the inscriptions on the backs of the paintings which read, 'C. H. Dickinson, Ilfracombe', were probably inserted at a later date. He did not return to Natal, and died at Ilfracombe 'sometime near the turn of the century'.

http://www.natalia.org.za/Files/6/Natalia%20v6%20notes%20-queries%20C.pdf

• General Comment. GISA SAF Kombo CD page 490.

Charles married Martha Ayres, daughter of John Ayres and Martha Duchesne, on 28 Apr 1859 in Pinetown, Natal, South Africa. (Martha Ayres was born on 12 Mar 1838, christened on 16 Aug 1838 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England and died on 18 Feb 1860 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. Message on Ancestry.com from Jean Dickinson.

http://www.natalia.org.za/Files/6/Natalia%20v6%20notes%20-queries%20C.pdf
1858

And

GISA SAF Kombo CD page 490.

Charles next married Charlotte Turner Jun Q 1870 in St. Pancras, London, England. (Charlotte Turner was born in 1852 in Plymouth, Devonshire, England, died in 1886 and was buried in Ilfracombe, Devon, England.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=6I5PigUeWRj8JcssEdpppw&scan=1

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