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DICKENSON, Frank
1851 - Aft 1928 (> 78 years) Has 6 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1813 - 1880 (66 years)-
Name DICKENSON, Frank Birth 1851 Walsall Registration District, Staffordshire, England 
Gender Male Death Aft 1928 Person ID I5028 Edgoose Last Modified 30 Jan 2026
Father DICKENSON, John, b. 1805, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England d. 23 Aug 1894, Cypress Grove, South Bridgewater, Tasmania, Australia (Age 89 years) Mother ROWLEY, Charlotte, b. 12 Apr 1813, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England d. 1880, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia (Age 66 years) Marriage 1841 Walsall Registration District, Staffordshire Family ID F1535 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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FRANK DICKINSON 1851-
The birth of Frank DICKENSON was registered in 1851.
(GRO March Q 1851 Walsall 17 286)
The 1851 census of Belle Vue, Walsall, Staffordshire:
John DICKENSON (sic), head, aged 44, merchant ironmomgery & saddlery, born in Birmingham, Warwickshire;
Charlotte DICKENSON, wife, aged 37, born at Walsall, Staffordshire;
John H. DICKENSON, son, aged 2, born at Walsall;
*Frank DICKINSON (sic), aged 1 month, born at Walsall;
Jane MOSELEY, servant, aged 24, born at Walsall;
Selina WHOELEY, servant, aged 31, born at Walsall.
(HO107/2023/59/47)
On Tasmanian Electoral Roll in 1928.
NOTES & QUERIES 1:
WHEN and WHERE did Frank DICKENSON die?
Proposed Change: DICKINSON, Frank (I7024)
Tree: Edgoose
Link: http://edgoose.one-name.net/getperson.php?personID=I7024&tree=Edgoose
Description: I am recently working this side of my family and believe that this particular Frank Dickenson is mentioned in a 1900 census as a next door neighbor to my relative Walter Seabourn Dickenson. Walter and Frank would have been Cousins. If the information is factual, this Frank lived (and presumably later died, before 1910?) in Portland/Gresham (Rockwood), Oregon.
Evidence comes from the 1900 Federal Census in relation to Walter Dickenson:
Next door neighbors
Frank Dickinson 46 Jan 1854 Switzerland immg 1875
M* Dickinson 37
Mar* Dickinson 14
Ella ? Dickinson 12
Edward I Dickinson 12
My Relationship:
Self: Timothy Allen Crafton
Paternal Grandmother: Patricia Ann Dickenson
Great Grandfather: Henry Dickenson (b. 16 Mar 1891)
Great Great Grandfather: Walter Seaborn Dickenson (b. 10 Jul 1847-51)
Walter's Father was Henry Dickenson (b. About 1802) who Married Mary Ann Caroline Rowley (b. About 1819)
Henry's Brother, John Dickenson (b. 1805) Married Mary's sister Charlotte Rowley (b. 12-4-1813) who in turn gave birth to Frank Dickenson in 1851.
NOTES & QUERIES 2:
(An except from the e-mail dated 11 January 2018 at 15:51 from tc05111782@yahoo.com)
I can't claim for 100% certainty that my assumption is indeed factuality sound. Weak though it may be, I am *assuming* I am probably correct about the relation regardless of the official spelling. The name of Walter (and I am guilty of this in my last email- I gave you 2 spellings of his middle name) is also Dickinson... 1900 handwritten census taken into account. Regardless, his spouse's first name,Ledora, is correct and as well as the other information- Birth, Location, His sister (who was described as "Mongoloid" in family lore) was said to be living with him and her age seems to check out.
NOTES & QUERIES 3:
FOLLOW UP: FRANK DICKENSON:
(An e-mail dated 06 February 2018 from tc05111782@yahoo.com
I wanted to write you an update about Frank Dickenson.
Through conversing with you those few times I have learned a valuable lesson. I am now more careful with my information and make sure its rooted in fact verses speculation. As it turns out, I now have more information about my line of Dickensons than my grandmother's book ever had. As you told me might have be the case, the familial link I proposed to you was nothing more than conjecture. The "Frank" Dickenson (Born Francis Dickenson) in the 1900 census whom I initially reached out to you about was NOT the Frank, son of Charlotte Rowley and John Dickenson. Evidence and sources say that he was actually a son of Henry Dickenson, Sr. and Marry Anne Caroline Rowley. Many reputable online sources only list the first 4 children that were born in Hobart, not even my Walter Dickenson or the 4 other children born after reaching Hawaii.
To that, I would like to ask you to indulge me. I am having an issue reconciling newly discovered information with the attribution of John Henry Dickenson as being Henry/Mary Rowley's son. Your information says that John Henry was born September 11, 1848 and he married Elizabeth Amelia Beresford, living a full life; born in and then dying in Hobart, Tasmania in 1930 at age 81. I don't dispute that a John Henry did most of that.
At the risk of falling into my old bad habit; just yesterday I discovered a monument I estimate as having been erected in 1858 or 1859 and then added on to in 1860. It is located in a Lahaina, Hawaii cemetery dedicated to the memory of 3 sons of Henry and Mary who passed away at young ages. It does lists a John "the second son" but doesn't list a middle name. It is logical to infer that this John went with his parents from Hobart to Hawaii. On the monument, it states this John died on June 26, 1858 "aged 9 years, 10 months". (I was able to learn he died from "a malignant sore throat" which likely meant Diphtheria. This comes from a slightly surprising source to me, since it seems far removed from a readership that this information would matter to: Sacramento Daily Union Volume 13, Number 2005, Saturday August 29, 1857). The math from his death places his birth August 26, 1848, which is not so far off from Sep 11, 1848... assuming they just rounded up the months to an even 10.
It is my opinion that the John Henry Dickenson attributed to Henry and Mary is actually the son of your Charlotte Rowley and John Dickenson, also born in 1848 in Walsall, England then having came to Hobart later with his parents where he married, lived and died. I defer to your expertise in determining if this assumption is correct.
My ultimate goal in assembling all this information is to use it in order to learn more about Henry Dickenson and Rosabella Neal of England who are our common ancestors. I hope to use it to trace the line further back from them, as it is now they are the end of the line for me.
As a thank you for your indulgence I would like to offer you what I have discovered, should any of the information be of interest to you. Henry Dickenson, Sr. was born about 1802 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Mary Ann Caroline Rowley-Dickenson died February 25, 1899 in Lahaina, Maui County, Hawaii.
The following is what I feel to be a (mostly, if not) complete list of their children:
Rosa Dickenson b. 20 Sep 1842 d. 31 Jan 1907
Caroline Dickenson b. 29 Apr 1844 d. 03 Sep 1924
Henry Dickenson, Jr. b. 24 Jan 1846 d. 17 Feb 1907
John Dickenson b. 11 Sep 1848 d. 26 Jul 1858 *Specific cause of death unknown.
Walter Seaborn Dickenson b. 10 Jul 1850 d. 22 Sep 1905
Francis "Frank" Dickenson b. 1853 d. 07 Jan 1929
Frederick Dickenson March b. 1855 d. 23 Jul 1857 *Died from a "malignant sore throat". Likely Diphtheria.
Arthur Dickenson b. 05 Apr 1859 d. 30 Mar 1860 *Died of "water on the brain". Likely Hydrocephalus, which could indicate a premature or difficult pregnancy.
Ellen Melbourne Dickenson b. 20 Jul 1862 d. Before 1940
Here is a brief summary I have put together of the exploits of Henry Dickenson, Sr.:
Henry's sister Eleanor married John Thomas Waterhouse, who would become Henry's future business associate. John and Eleanor went to Hobart, Tasmania arriving February 1, 1839. In 1841/42 Henry followed his sister and brother-in-law to Hobao set up a branch of the family's Ironmongery business, Dickenson Brothers. Assets were transferred in December 1849 and the business went belly up by 1851.
Prior to beginning one of the first sugar plantations in Lahaina in 1859, Henry was described as a store owner. Success of his Lahaina Sugar Company in Hanaka encouraged the Pioneer Mill Company to establish a second sugar plantation in. It on vast acreages to the south. In 1863 the Lahaina Sugar Company went bankrupt and was sold off to the Pioneer Mill Company. Henry was described as being a District Magistrate in 1869 and Dickenson Street in the historic district of Lahaina is named after him.
In 1874, a lot was purchased from Henry on the corner of Prison and Front Streets for $600 and a new Holy Innocents Church and St. Cross School were built there. The church was consecrated on January 1, 1875. When there were no clergy, Henrdd the services at the chapel of St. Cross School. In 1927 an new church was built one block South. The stained glass windows above the altar in the current Holy Innocents Church were a memorial to Dickenson gifted by an early parishioner. The windows are all that remain from the former church on Front Street. The triptych portrays the baptism, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
(revised 30.11.2020)