The [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] Family, (1854)
dgf (b.1794, d.1834): [name_u]William[/name_u] [name_u]Joseph[/name_u] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
dgm (b.1800, d.1830): [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_f]Ann[/name_f] [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] née [name_u]Taylor[/name_u]
ds1 (b.1818): [name_u]William[/name_u] [name_u]John[/name_u] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
ds2 (b.1820, d.1844): [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_u]Joseph[/name_u] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
dd1 (b.1823): [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
dd2 (b.1827): [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
dd3 (b.1830): [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] [name_f]Ann[/name_f] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
ds1 (b.1818, aged 36): [name_u]William[/name_u] [name_u]John[/name_u] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] (farmer)
df (b.1820, aged 34): [name_f]Abigail[/name_f] [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_u]Larkin[/name_u] (middle class/daughter of a doctor)
dd1 (b.1851, aged 3): [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] “Bess” [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
dd1 (b.1823, aged 31): [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] Tugwell née [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
dh (b.1822, aged 32): [name_u]George[/name_u] [name_u]William[/name_u] Tugwell (poor/joiner/sick with tuberculosis)
ds1 (b.1843, aged 11): [name_m]Samuel[/name_m] [name_u]George[/name_u] Tugwell
dd1 (b.1844, aged 10): [name_f]Hannah[/name_f] [name_f]Mary[/name_f] Tugwell
dd2 (b.1848, aged 6): [name_f]Matilda[/name_f] [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] Tugwell
dd2 (b.1827 aged 27): [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m]
df (b.1825, aged 29): [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u] Auld (middle class/pharmacist)
dd3 (b.1830, aged 24): [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] [name_f]Ann[/name_f] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] (scullery maid)
It’s 1854.
The [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] farm is still going strong. [name_u]William[/name_u] and [name_f]Abigail[/name_f] welcomed a healthy baby girl this decade. They named her [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] but will call her [name_f]Bess[/name_f]. [name_u]George[/name_u] and [name_f]Mary[/name_f] Tugwell also added a daughter to their family, [name_f]Matilda[/name_f], and [name_m]Samuel[/name_m] and [name_f]Hannah[/name_f] both recovered from their illnesses. It would seem though that [name_u]George[/name_u] has contracted tuberculosis. [name_f]Mary[/name_f] thinks (although she is not a doctor) that he has contracted it from breathing in the dust from the wood that he works with. Only time will tell if he will recover. [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] thankfully did recover from her scarlet fever. Whilst convalescing, she was visited by [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] Auld, the son of the local pharmacist, who she soon became smitten with and is now engaged. He had recently taken over his father’s shop and became very popular with the local residents, particularly those who could not afford the fees of a doctor. [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] feels very lucky to be engaged to him. [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] applied for a position and now works in the kitchens at the large manor house that owns the land in which the [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] farm is built on.
(ps: my narrative for the [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] family has become more based on an [name_f]English[/name_f] country life! I got a bit carried away and because my knowledge of that time is of [name_u]England[/name_u], we seem to have got away from being a pioneering American family in Illinois and more a pre-victorian country village somewhere in [name_u]England[/name_u]! [name_f]Hope[/name_f] that’s ok and it truly wasn’t done on purpose!!)