http://multi-story-shipley.co.uk/?p=895 Celebrating Shipley and its waterways Thu, 08 Oct 2020 21:49:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://multi-story-shipley.co.uk/?p=895#comment-26371 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:39:00 +0000 http://multi-story-shipley.co.uk/?p=895#comment-26371 Hi
On my Google search fo Shipley and canals your website came up so you may or may not be able to help me in my family history research. I am the 4x great neice of Samuel Dixon who was a Warfinger in Shipley he died in 1884.He was brought up in The Bull and Dog pub which I know has been turned into flats , my husband managed to take a quick photo of the cellar a few years ago during the conversion when we were exploring and trying to find our bearings around Shipley .
We live about 70 miles away and so we are not very familiar with Shipley except to say we know the town centre was reconfigured in perhaps the 1960s? Or 1970s
I was wondering if in all the work you have done about the waterways you have found out any information on Samuel Dixon . He died a wealthy man £4 million in todays money and was a long life batchelor but strangly his housekeeper Mary Helliwell spinster is interred in his grave at the Parish Church. He gave her the use of his house 24 Bradford Rd until death.the plot thickens !
If you have found out anything about him I would love to know .I think he was in partnership with a Mr Crabtree. As with all family inheritances the trust fund he set up for his extended family has long gone. Thanks and I hope I hear from you or perhaps you can point me in the right direction to someone who can
Caroline

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