William Dickinson of Randalhow
Younger son of William Dickinson1 and Elizabeth Stephenson, baptised on the 15th of April 1697 at St Catherine's, Eskdale, Cumberland
Married Sarah Hartley on the 1st of July 1742 at St Catherine's4
Children
Dinah, baptised on the 30th of April 1743 at St Catherine's from Whois 3
?Sarah, (buried on the 28th of June 1746)
Married Elizabeth Hartley (nee Porter)4 of Eskdale on the 22nd of January 1750/1 at St Bees, Cumberland
Children
Sarah, baptised on 23rd January 1752/3 at Eskdale from Randalhow
Buried on the 9th of August 1763 in Eskdale, Cumberland leaving a will.
Notes
1 On 17th May 1764 Dinah Dickinson is said to have inherited Randelhow 'by will from her grandfather Nicholas Dickinson'. Rent 2/4½d. However there is no record or other indication of William being Nicholas's son rather than his younger brother.
2 In William's will he leaves very little to his eldest daughter Dinah, but to the younger daughter Sarah the land and houses called Dasson Ground (though half benefit to his wife, Elizabeth, for life). Thomas Hartley of Dawson Ground died in 1721
3 William's 'dwelling' at the time of Dinah's birth is difficult to read but I am certain of the W.ois. The missing character is very faint but I believe I can make out an 'h'. Sarah's father Nicholas was living at Whoes at the time so it appears that Sarah went home to have her child. Alternatively it is possible that William was working for Nicholas and/or they were living at Whoes - but it is not a large house.
4 A Sarah, wife of William Dickinson of Low Pyatnest, was buried on the 6th of December 1745.
5 The two Elizabeth Hartley s baptised prior to 1735 and after 1696 in Eskdale were Elizabeth daughter of John Hartley of Hollinhow, baptised on the 23rd of November 1732 - who married Joseph Herbert on the 30th of December 1755 - and Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Hartley, baptised in February 1725, sister of William's first wife.
However Elizabeth Porter married Henry Hartley in 1739 and was widowed in 1749.
6 No William Dickinson is mentioned in the 1758 Eskdale Survey, but one is mentioned as the proprietor of a small property, possibly Peil Place, possibly Dawson Ground, in the Eskdale Land Tax returns of 1762.
In 1758 the annual value of Dawson Place is estimated as £6 and that of Peil Place as £14. The 1762 land tax assessment of William Dickinson is 4/-, that of the adjacent property 12/-. It therefore seems likely that the property in 1762 is Dawson Place, which is consistent with with his will the following year - though he describes himself as William Dickinson of Randalhow.
In the 1758 Survey and the 1762 Land Tax Assessment the Proprietor of Randalhow is given as Nicholas Dickenson - who died in 1764
7 A Dinah, daughter of William Nicholson, was baptised at St Nicholas, Whitehaven on the 4th of October 1746. However there are three other children of the same William Dickinson. a mariner, with another unnamed child being buried on the 14th of April 1750.
It is not impossible that William Dickinson may have married twice, but only Dinah survived of the five children by his first wife. Also that he retired from seafaring with his second marriage and returned(?) to Randlehow. However the Eskdale marriage / baptism seems much more probable.