Hi Gordon and List, Thankyou very much for the insight re Dixon Lane... I have a few candidates for who'm the street may have been named, but need to do a bit more research first. I shall certainly try and find a copy of Peter Harvey's Book as it is interesting in itself. A good resource for Sheffield Streets. I do know that a Mr. Ellison a trusted retainer of the Dukes of Norfolk was given some leeway and responsibility for the naming of some Sheffield Streets for a certain period of time in the 1700's. Please forgive my ignorance but could someone please give me a little more information as to when Peter Harvey's Book was Published and maybe the Publisher's name...as Peter Harvey reports, the streets named for the sons of James Dixon and his family, were added on at least a hundred years later... as far as the name Garry/Garth goes, I must say that of all the Dixons living in Sheffield I have no Garth or Garry recorded. and as I have about two thousand Dixon names on record, I would think it very likely that this was a pet's name... please feel free to correct me if anyone knows anything different.this is the most complicated research I have ever undertaken. I had no idea how convoluted the Dixon lines really were. Thankyou again Gordon, kindest regards, Josephine. -----Original Message----- From: SheffGens [mailto:SheffGens@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: March 6, 2005 9:43 AM To: ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SHEFF] Sheffield Street Names... Hi Josephine The following street name extracts are taken from Peter Harvey's book "Street Names of Sheffield". Peter Harvey carried out extensive research over a number of years in an attempt to compile the most precise information possible. However, he does state that some of the information he gives are deductions which he came to after being unsuccessful at finding further information about a particular street. Dixon Lane, Sheffield 1 .............. is one of the oldest street names in the city. It can be traced back to the seventeenth century. Almost certainly the name comes from the surname of an ancient resident, but nobody knows who he was. Dixon Street, Sheffield 6 ..................... from the same family as the Dixon Road above. The family works were on nearby Cornish Place. Land and houses near the works were sold by auction after the death of Henry Isaac Dixon in 1912. Dixon Rd, Sheffield 6 ................. after the Dixon family, of the well known cutlery firm, James Dixon and sons. The Dixons lived for some years at Hillsborough Hall, which was later a branch library. When part of their land was developed, the streets were mostly given family names :................. DOROTHY, one of James Willis Dixon's children, Gladys, married Reginald Thorpe Wilson, of Bolsterstone. Dorothy, born 1901, was their daughter. GARRY, this road was origiunally named Garth Road but renamed in 1903. It was reportedly named after a Dixon family pet called "Garry", but a surviving Dixon family member who Peter Harvey contacted couldnt confirm this. LENNOX , after Lennox Burton Dixon SHEPPERSON, after James Willis Dixon.s wife who was Anne Shepperson. WARNER, after Sir Pelham "Plum" Warner.(cricketer) A close friend of Archibald Willis & Lennox Burton Dixon. WILLIS, after Archibald Willis Dixon. WYNARD, after Wynard Dixon son of J W Dixon. Regards Gordon List Admin (in Sheffield) Sheffield Genealogy Website : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Laxton" <rlaxton@rogers.com> To: <ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 5:24 AM Subject: RE: [SHEFF] Sheffield Street Names... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Josephine Laxton [mailto:rlaxton@rogers.com] > Sent: March 5, 2005 6:15 PM > To: Elaine Pickard > Subject: RE: [SHEFF] Sheffield Street Names... > > > Hi List and Elaine, > Thankyou Elaine for the list of street names circa 1700. I have been > trying to find out how far back the naming of Dixon Lane took place... I > knew it was on Goslings Map and there were references to it, but I have > not > yet figured out which Dixon it was named for. Hay Market is evocative as > at > least one of the Dixons was running the Sheffield Market in the 1730's. > the > naming of the street would now seem to precede this particular Dixon... > Has > anyone any ideas on this subject, or are there any particular references > which I could refer to which might give the source and authority for the > naming of Sheffield Streets? kindest regards, Josephine, Ontario, Canada. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elaine Pickard [mailto:trayford@rogers.com] > Sent: March 5, 2005 2:09 PM > To: ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SHEFF] Sheffield Street Names... > > > Hi List, > > Useful street names found in Sheffield prior to 1900... > > http://www.omnesamici.co.uk/MemoriesPre20thCentStreetNames1700.html > > Regards > > Elaine. > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.1 - Release Date: 3/4/2005 > > > ==== ENG-SHEFFIELD Mailing List ==== > DO NOT post VIRUS or OFF TOPIC messages to Eng-Sheffield. 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