I have a William Dickson who from his Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh record was born in 1797 in Dumfries (or maybe Dumfriesshire as 'shire' was in brackets after the town).
He was apprenticed in Dumfries to a Mr John Little, apothecary until 1817, then to Mr Robert Neilson until 1819.
At some point after that he left Dumfries and moved to the East Riding of Yorkshire and married Anne Moss in Eastrington in 1824 and then lived and worked as a doctor in Elvington in Yorkshire. In 1843 he was admitted as a Licentiate at the Apothecaries Hall, sponsored by Mr W McLauchlan.
In 1847 when he was killed by being thrown out of a friend's gig when driving in haste to visit a patient.
On his gravestone, he is said to have been 50 when he died - so could have been born in 1796 or 1797.
His children were:
William died infant
John also became doctor and trained Glasgow d 1869
Mary died infant
William died New South Wales 1904
James McLauchlan d 1866 Elvington
Henry
Annie m Thomas Bowman of Fridaythorpe, Yorks
Mary m Thomas Kidd Murray
Thomas
George Charles died Victoria, Australia
Alfred
Robert Wilfred died 1930 New South Wales
The trouble is that the only one who, according to Scotland's People, might fit the bill, belonged to a family from Moffat who moved to Lanark!
Anybody got a spare William Dickson?
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