Dicks Family, Frome, border of Wiltshire, 1809, Namibia
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Re: dicks family uk (wiltshire,1840 ,london1891)
COLIN EDWARDS 7/20/03
Dear Colin.I live in Namibia.I thought this may interest you.Possibly we may have mutual ancestors.My great-great-grandfather, Joseph Dicks, was born in Frome, border of Wiltshire, on 9 January 1809.He left England for the Cape aged 19, arriving on 20 March 1830.He left again for Australia, arriving there in July 1833, before returning to South Africa via Mauritius in 1835 where he settled in Claremeont.In December 1836 he married Jane Loxton.In 1846 they moved to Howick, in Natal, of which he was one of the founders.Joseph and Jane had six children: George William, Henry Samuel, Ellen Mary, Sarah Matilda, Joseph Edward and Isaac Walter.Joseph died in 1883 and Jane in 1897.Both are buried in the Anglican grave yard, Howick.
Henry Samuel Dicks was my great-grandfather.He married to Johanna Petronella Allen. They had 14 children: Georgina (Sophie), William, Jane, Emma, Henrietta, Jessie, Alice, James, Henry, George, Johanna, Grace, David and Isaac.
The latter, Isaac Rowland Graham Dicks was my grandfather.He fought the Germans in South West Africa in the First World War and was so taken with the country that he moved here with his wife, Ivy, five children and his brother Jim (James).James later moved to Rhodesia and repeatedly invited my grandfather to follow, which, thank heavens, he did not do.Jim’s son Allen Gerald Dicks was killed in the bush war in the 1980’s.
Isaac and Ivy had seven children: Marjorie, Maureen, Roy, Fay, Edith (Bunty), David (my father) and William (Billy).Of these Roy, Fay and my father have passed away.
And here we still are.My uncle Billy and I are the only remaining Dicks family members in Namibia.
Regards
Geoff Dicks