Birth: 13 March 1881 Goldsborough, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: William Fairbank Abbey 1853-1937
Mother: Ann Ibbotson 1852-1895
Christening: 14 August 1881 St Mary the Virgin, Goldsborough, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: April-June 1911 Knaresborough, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: John Dixon 1878-1967
Death: July-September 1973 Goole, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Alice Dixon [Thornham] 1911-1996
John Dixon 1913-a1921
Edward Dixon 1916-1941
Lilian Dixon 1918-1987
William Dixon 1920-1989
Birth of Esther Mabel Abbey in FreeBMD in April-June 1881 in Knaresbro (9A 100).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for the baptism of Esther Mabel Abbay (sic) on 14 August 1881 in Goldsborough (near Knaresborough), York, parents William Fairbank and Ann Abbay (sic).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for the baptism of Emma Gertrude Abbey on 25 February 1883 in Goldsborough (near Knaresborough), York, parents William Fairbank and Ann Abbey.
Entry in Ancestry North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1921 for Esther Mabel Abbey baptised 25 February 1883 in Goldsborough, parents William Fairbauk (sic) and Ann Abbey. "Page 2 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Goldsborough in the County of York in the Year 1881 [...] 1881 Aug 14 No. 12 Esther Mabel [parents] William Fairbank [a] Joiner & Ann Abbey [of] Goldsborough."
Her sister was born 2 November 1882 and baptised 25 February 1883, and brother was baptised 12 October 1884 at St Mary the Virgin, Goldsborough.
In the 1901 census as Mabel Abby (sic - on the original) aged 20, born in Goldsborough, Yorkshire, and a servant living with Thos Calvert (aged 41, born in Carlton, Yorkshire and a joiner carpenter), his wife (Isabel aged 43 and born in Middleham, Yorkshire), his son (Peter W aged 9 and born in Harrogate, Yorkshire), his brother (Jas aged 31, born in Carlton, Yorkshire, single and a joiner carpenter), his nephew (Wm M Stanley aged 21, born in Carlton, Yorkshire, single and a joiner carpenter), three boarders (John Brady aged 25 and Bernard Reygan aged 24, both born in Ireland, and Tom Dunn aged 25, born in Leaming, Yorkshire, all single and joiner carpenters), and another servant (Sarah Hodgson aged 61, born in Horsforth, Yorkshire and widowed) at 16 Duchy Grove, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as Esther Mabel Abbey aged 30, born in Goldsbrough, York, single, domestic servant. and living with her brother and sister-in-law (William Ernest and Mercy), their two daughters (Lillian and Mabel Gartride Irene) and a visitor (John Dixson - her future husband?) in four rooms at The Cottage, Hay a Park, Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
Marriage of Esther M Abbey and John Dixon in FreeBMD in April-June 1911 in Knaresbro (9A 215).
Her daughter was born in Goole in May 1911, two sons and a daughter in Great Ouseburn from 1913 to 1918, and son in Knaresborough in 1920.
In the 1921 census as Esther Dixon born in Yorkshire in 1881, and living with John Dixon (husband?), Edward, John and William Dixon (sons?) and Alice and Lily Dixon (daughters?) in Ferrensby, Knaresborough, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Death of Esther Mabel Dixon, born 13 March 1881, in FreeBMD in July-September 1973 in Goole (2B 1122).
There are forty six entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Esther Mabel Abbey.
Esther Mabel Abbey was the second cousin of Thomas Abbey, husband of Ruth Cross, first cousin once removed of Albert Alfred Cross, husband of Florence Violet Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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