The Scotch border clan Dickson, the family of B. Homer Dixon and the family of B. Homer Dixon and the family of De Homere or Homer [microform]

1884·3.8 MB·English

by  Dixon, B. Homer (Benjamin Homer), 1819-1899

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CONTENTS
Preamble - - . 1
The Clan Dickson • - 3
HoMEU Dixon Family 11
De Homeke or Homer Family 43
Other families particularly referred to-
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PREAMBLE.
As I am now over three score, and my children are all
mirors, I will commit to writing some account 3f my own
and my mother's family, in case, when 1 am gone, any of
my children should take an interest in the matter a
;
subject which I regret to say neither my father nor my
grandfather cared about, which is one reason why the
following accounts will be found so imperfect.
On the Dickson side, however, there are still more
reasons, and principallybecause mygrandfather, aScotch-
man, who was an only son, left home when he was still
young, and was thrice burned out, viz. : twice in the city
of Westminster, England, and once in Ostend besides
;
which, hishousesboth in OstendandFlushingweresacked
by French troops.
One of the iires in England, before the year 1786,
occurred when he and his wife wero in the country, and it
was 8'j this time (as my father r.sed to say) that all the
family papers were lost.
My grp-ndfather Dickst»n married at the age of twenty-
two, and resided some twenty years in Westminster,
where he had twelve cliildren, nine of whom died before
the birth of the youngest and eventual sole heir. He
then removed to Ostend, where he remainedanotherscore
of years, when he removed to Flushing, where he dwelt