I've just joined the list, and am researching the following families: IRELAND - Wythop / Embleton 1790 on HANNAH - Workington 1813 on (particularly difficult as they did not appear to believe in Civil Registration) DIXON - Wythop, Workington (& anywhere in between) 1790 on Kind Regards Sue Horsman Castle Donington, UK sue.horsman@tesco.net

To: Sue Horsman, The following may or may not interest you: Elizabeth DIXON, (dau. of Martin Dixon), married Francis Magson; she was born Feb. 18, 1582, Hawshead Church Stile, Lancs. (One of my connections). While looking at the Whitehaven Brownriggs I was sturck at how often the Dixon name crops us: 1672 Isabella Dixon's house licensed as a Presbyterian meeting house. 1702-22 Thomas Dixon the non-conformist Minister. 1763 George Brownrigg marries Jas, Dixon (unrelated to my lot, so far). Late C18th Joshua Dixon is William Brownrigg's medical colleague and obituarist (this B. is one of ours). But also, in 1798 Captain Dixon is the skipper of the ship in which Isabell Brownrigg and other women and children are confined at Wexford. Since the ship was a collier, maybe it operated on the Whitehaven run. A William Dixon in 1680, among others, appraises the goods and chattles of Rev. John Tubman of Whicham (another distant Brownrigg connection). Regards, Ann Brownrigg