Born: 10th June 1887
Died: 1978, Snettisham
of Lutton Marsh.
Mentioned in Norfolk Mills:
“Mrs. Dixon-Spain – later married Dr. Parrymore. Gardener’s cottage built adjoining the mill house. ….
1978: Mrs.Parrymore died”
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- 1. John Spain (?)
- 2. William Spain (?)
- 3. Thomas Burkill Spain
- m. Mary Dixon (?)
- 1. Mary Ann Spain
- 2. Elizabeth Spain
- 3. Thomas Dixon Spain
- 4. William Banks Spain
- 5. Thomas Dixon Spain (Rev.)
- m1. Elizabeth Showler
- m2. Fanny Millgate Plumtree
- 1. Fanny Georgiana Evelyn Dixon-Spain
- 2. John Edward Dixon-Spain (Lt. Col.)
- 3. Hubert Crawford Dixon-Spain (Reverend)
- 4. Harry Selwyn Dixon-Spain
- 5. Gerald David Dixon-Spain (Maj.)
- m. Mary Dixon (?)
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Henry Thompson was the great agricultural scion of the fen and Norfolk who innovated by recognising the value of farming potatoes over cattle-producing grassland.
His son George Thompson m. Lucy Cawdwell
Alice was youngest of 8 (?)
“If you marry my daughter you have to farm.”
Harry was an architect who therefore farmed in Thorney.
Wryde and Knarr Farms. Managed Waldersey and Grange Farm, Tydd.
Symington and Worth families also benefitted from Henry Thompson’s foresight by marriage.