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18-12-09, 18:58
Name: George Brow Dickinson
Date & place of birth: 12th October 1855, in Bramley, Yorkshire
Names of parents: John Dickinson, Quarryman, and Ann Brow
Name and place of baptism:
Details of marriage: Married Tamar Alice Berry on 16th June 1883 at the Parish church in Leeds.
Occupation: Joint founder with his brother of the Public Benefit Boot Company.
Military Service:
Addresses and census results: All found
Date, place and cause of death: 1923 in Bramley
Detail of burial: In family vault in the Zion Baptists churchyard in Bramley
Memorial inscription: not known, but the original vault was surrounded by ornate black railings. In the early 70s, black magic was regularly practised inside the railings, and eventually they were removed!! After this, a rather tall obelisk was erected which to be honest dominates the graveyard.