Thomas Dix

[Morf]

Name - Thomas Dix

Date and Place of Birth - 1850. Clifton, Gloucestershire

Name of Parents - Charles Dix. Ann Shute

Date and place of Baptism - Don't know

Details of marriage - 1868 Holy Trinity, Bristol. Mary Ann Brooks

Occupation - Seaman in the Merchant Service

Addresses where they lived -
1851 - Haven't found him
1861 - Bear Yard, Clifton, Bristol
1871 - Royal Albert (ship), Bristol

Date, Place and cause of Death - possibly 1880

Date and place of Burial - Don't know

Details of will - none

Memorial inscription - none

[Joan of Archives]

Could this be them in 1851 transcribed as Dey?

Class: HO107; Piece: 1952; Folio: 331; Page: 36; GSU roll: 87352.

:)

[Morf]

Joan, it looks like them.
Thank you very much.
You've found something in minutes, I haven't found in years.

[Joan of Archives]

Well Morf I have loads of Dixes in my tree so I am used to looking for them; sadly mine are the Suffolk branch but they must all link up somewhere, what a shame cos we would have been related & I would have been Legless's cousin lol!! I do have an Orlando in my tree so that would have tied in very nicely :d

[Morf]

lol
You never know one day we may find we're related.
We won't tell Lemon though, because she'd be so jealous. lol

[Joan of Archives]

Oh dear I don't think she would be lol! :d

[kiterunner]

There's a Thomas Dix death listed in the overseas records on Family Relatives - 1871-1875 Thomas Dix, Leghorn, vol 5 page 1001. But it's the Consular Deaths Index, so I don't suppose it's him.

[Morf]

Kite, what is the Consular Deaths Index please?

[Morf]

Looking back at the tree Thomas would have died sometime in 1880, because there is a young baby in the 1881 census (that's if it was his child), before this the next youngest child was born in 1878.
I'm very sorry for the wrong info.

[Morf]

I think I may have just found Thomas' death on the GRO Marine Deaths Indices on the ship Bristol City.

[Morf]

Looks like the ship Bristol City was lost at sea on it's voyage home from New York in December 1880.
So the death record I found last night for Thomas Dix is probably the correct one.
Going to order the record to find out.
Thanks girls, I've looked for Thomas' death for a long time, you obviously spurred me on to find it.