Brief Life History of Wm. Dulton
When Wm. Dulton Dickinson was born in 1824, in Canada, his father, Dalton Dickson, was 59 and his mother, Ann Etter, was 44. He married Mildred Weathered on 15 August 1855, in River Philip, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in River Philip, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 29 September 1885, in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 61, and was buried in Oxford, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- William D. Dixon, "Canada Census, 1881"
- William Dickson or Dixon, "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949"
- Wm. in entry for Blair Fillmore, "Canada, Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918"
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Dickenson , a patronymic from the Middle English personal name Dicun a pet form of Richard (see Dicken ) + son.
History: Jonathan Dickinson, the first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), was born in Hatfield, MA, in 1688. Both his parents came from pioneer Connecticut Valley stock.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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