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Dickison, John
PERSONS/4/399
1813 - 1849
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Builder, upholsterer, auctioneer and appraiser, Cross Cheaping. He was an executor of his brother-in-law William Whittem in 1830 (see PA101/12/1) and was named so under the 1832 draft will of Samuel Matterson (PA101/12/238); he was a trustee of West Orchard Chapel from 1827 (see CCA/2/3/168/28-29,46; CCA/2/3/201/26,27: PA101/8/768; PA101/150/2). He was also in the 1840s known as a cabinetmaker (see PA101/12/233-235). See PA101/4/37. A city warden, 1813. He occupied corporation land at Cross Cheaping in 1819 - see BA/A/G/15/1. He was at Cross Cheaping in 1830 when he was agent for the Phoenix Insurance Company. In 1836 he dealt with Bond's Hospital feoffees - see PA54/116/30. He acted as an executor of the watchcasemaker Samuel Packwood, 1823-45 (see PA540/3/2.III; PA540/3/3) and of the staymaker Joseph Sturdy, 1825 (PA56/86/20). As an auctioneer, in 1823 Dickison dealt with Much Park Street property, part of which the following year became the site for Whitefriars' Lane Baptist chapel - see PA2248/1/1.XXVII,XXVIII,2-3. Manager of West Orchard Chapel burial ground, 1847 - see CCA/2/3/212/48. Dickison bought Bancroft Lane land in 1830 and built houses there, retaining some of it when he died in c.1849 - see PA811/2/36.I-VII. Involved in Town Court litigation, 1830 - see BA/E/K/110/760.
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