Alan Blackwell's Ancestors Page for BLACKWELL & DIXEY families

Names include: Blackwell, Church, Corder, Dixey, Fincham, Potter, Sayells, Searles, Searle.
Places include: Chelmsford, Margaret Rooding, Great Tey, Coggeshall, Feering, Blackheath, Bulmer, Gestingthorpe, Little Maplestead, Springfield, Essex, Kent.
Last updated 2nd January 2008

Photo of my paternal grandparents: Henry Edgar Blackwell & his wife Eliza Ann Dixey.

My father's family tree

My father Albert Edward Blackwell was born in 1907 in Blackheath, London, and died in 1972 in Hillingdon, Middlesex. He was the 7th child of Henry Edgar Blackwell (1867-1928) and Eliza Ann Dixey (1867-1946).

The Blackwell family originated near Chelmsford, Essex, but moved to Blackheath in 1892. They subsequently emigrated to Canada in 1907, settling near Dinsmore in Saskatchewan. My father returned to England and married in 1938.

The Blackwell and Dixey family trees have been researched by my cousin Stanley Blackwell who privately published his findings in "Our Blackwell and Dixey Ancestors" (1998). This research was conducted over many years before computerised and internet facilities were available, and involved considerable personal effort and expense. Recently, Stanley has agreed that I should make the main genealogical information from this book available on the Internet.

The following items are now available via this webpage:

Please note that all of the above items include an entry for a "Root Ancestor". This is not a real person, but is a convenience to overcome a shortcoming in the genealogy database program (PAF5) used to produce the items. Like most similar programs, it will not generate descendancy reports or charts from multiple family roots. Therefore, I have created a Root Ancestor whose "adopted" sons are the oldest generation in each family.


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