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| Henry Dixon was born on 12 January 1798, second surviving son of the Rev. Joseph Dixon, rector of neighboring Sullington, and Anne Partridge, in Storrington, Sussex. He was baptized at Sullington Church by his father on Feb. 1, 1798. He went to Eton, and from there he was admitted as a commoner into Brasenose College, Oxford, matriculating as a trainee cleric on Jan. 22, 1817. He got his BA in 1820, was deaconed in 1821, and became a curate under his father at Sullington. In 1823 he got his MA and was priested. He also served as curate to his father's successor at Sullington, the | Rev. George Palmer. On March 2, 1832, Henry Dixon succeeded Francis Whitcombe as vicar of St Andrew's Ferring, with the parishes of Kingston and East Preston, in West Sussex. The living was presented to Henry Dixon on March 18, 1832. He was the first rural dean to be vicar of Ferring. He would live at Ferring Vicarage permanently only after his mother died in 1835 (before that he had commuted to Ferring from Worthing, where he lived with his widowed mother). He would become the longest serving vicar of the parish (38 years). |
| Anne was born about 1799, the only daughter of Maj. John Austen and Harriet Hussey, at Goudhurst, Kent. Anne was a close childhood friend, an "almost sister," of Anna Atkins, and a second, distant cousin of the novelist Jane Austen. Anne's mother died in 1811, and her father was an army Major stationed in Portugal, so she was raised largely by Atkins's father, John George Children (1777-1852). | Anne and Anna Atkins (1799-1871), were photographers, and pioneers in the "cyanotype" (Blue Print) photographic printing process. Anna Atkins produced the first photographically illustrated book in the early 1840s. Anne Dixon collaborated with Anna Atkins in writing a biography of Anna's father, after his death. |
| Rev. Henry Dixon |
b: 12 Jan 1798 c: 1 Feb 1798 Sullington, Sussex son of Rev. Joseph Dixon and Anne Partridge, at Storrington, Sussex |
| Anne Austen |
b: abt 1799 c: 27 Jul 1799 Cranbrook, Kent third child and only daughter of Maj. John Austen and Harriet Hussey, Goudhurst, Kent |
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8 Mar 1837 Rev. Henry Dixon Anne Austen | St George Hanover Square, London |
| On the 8th Inst., at St. George's Hanover-square, by the Rev. Sir Charles F. Farnaby, Bart., chaplain to the Earl of Devon, the Rev Henry Dixon, the Vicar of Ferring, Sussex, to Anne, only daughter of the late Major Austen of Goudhurst, Kent. |
| 1851 Census | HO107-1651 | 31 March 1851 | Ferring, Sussex | ||
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Henry Dixon Ann (Wife) Plus 2 Servants |
Age 53 Age 51 |
Vicar of Ferring |
Storrington Cranbrook |
Sussex Kent |
12 Jan 1798 abt 1799 |
| 1861 Census | RG9-615 | 8 April 1861 | Ferring, Sussex | ||
| West Ferring | |||||
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Henry Dixon Ann (Wife) Plus 2 Servants |
Age 63 Age 61 |
Vicar of Ferring |
Storrington Cranbrook |
Sussex Kent |
12 Jan 1798 abt 1799 |
| Anne (Austen) Dixon |
Died 20 Mar 1864. at Ferring Vicarage 1864 1Q Worthing 2b 232 |
| Rev. Henry Dixon |
Died 6 Nov 1870, Age 72, at Ferring Vicarage 1870 4Q East Preston 2b 210 Buried 11 Nov 1870, at Ferring |