Comments on: m. Alice Burnett Thompson http://ourillustriousfamily.com/dixon-spain Our Illustrious Family Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dixon-Spain http://ourillustriousfamily.com/dixon-spain/spaynes/thomas-dixon-spain/m-unknown/5-thomas-dixon-spain-rev/fanny-millgate-plumtree/harry-selwyn-dixon-spain/alice-burnett-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Dixon-Spain Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:41:12 +0000 http://dixon-spain.arbu.biz/?page_id=20#comment-13 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. 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.

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