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Author: Dixon, Charlotte Eliza

Biography:

DIXON, Charlotte Elizabeth, formerly Davids (1783-1870: ancestry.co.uk)

This author is sometimes confused with Charlotte Elizabeth Phelan (q.v.) who also wrote religious verse. Dixon’s Mount of Olives is dedicated to her sister Sophia Davids and Davids was Charlotte Elizabeth’s surname at birth. She was one of four children of Richard Charles Davids (d 1830), a calico printer, and his wife Mary Horoghey who had married at St. Benet Fink on Threadneedle Street in the City of London on 14 July 1776. Charlotte was born in Crayford, Kent, on 20 Dec. 1783 and baptised in St. Paulinus church, Crayford, on 7 June 1784. She married George Dixon, also a calico printer from Crayford, on 24 Jan. 1803 in St. James’s, Clerkenwell. They had at least two daughters but likely there were other children whose records have not been located. Her book, “Bread Cast Upon the Waters,” is dedicated to the Rev. George Charles Smith (q.v.) and profits from it were to go to the “British and Foreign Soldier’s and Seaman’s Society (sic).” It is not known when the family moved to Temple Sowerby, Westmoreland, but they are recorded as living there with two of Charlotte’s sisters and their two daughters in the 1841 Census. George Dixon died in Temple Sowerby on 27 July 1847. The 1861 Census shows Charlotte living with her sister, Sophia Davids, and two daughters. She died in Temple Sowerby on 24 Apr. 1870. (ancestry.co.uk 16 July 2024; Oracle and Daily Advertiser 12 Oct. 1807) SR

 

Other Names:

  • Mrs. Dixon
  • Mrs. [Eliza] Dixon
 

Books written (3):

London: Sea-book Depository and 1, Warwick Square, 1830