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Dicey of Claybrooke Hall, Leicestershire

Also spelt "Claybrook Hall".

• References:
  • DICEY in [Burkes LG, 1862]
  • DICEY FAMILY in [DNB]

  • The Dicey-Marshall Catalogue (catalogue printed by Cluer Dicey and Richard Marshall, London, 1764). Edited by Richard C. Simmons, University of Birmingham, 2000.
    • "The Diceys: cheap print in the era of the eighteenth-century consumer revolution"
    • References

  • "Daffy's Elixir", Nick Chipchase, Antique Bottle Collecting, Vol 4, No 10, October 1978.

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • DICEY in [Burkes LG, 1875]
  • John Cluer's will, [PRO.UK] PROB 11/625.
  • Dicey and Claybrooke papers, now in Claybrooke Hall.

  • Burial of Thomas Dicey at Basingstoke:
    • Gravestone inscriptions, St.Michael's church, Basingstoke, on microfiche.
    • Burial records of St.Michael's church, Basingstoke, are in Hampshire Record Office, Winchester.
    • Burial records of Holy Ghost graveyard, Chapel Hill, Basingstoke, might be in Hampshire Record Office, Winchester.

Bottle of the patent medicine, "Daffy's elixir", sold by Dicey and Co., this bottle probably from 1820s-40s.
From Diggersdiary.co.uk. Awaiting confirmation that this usage is allowed.
See other image (centre) from here.
See more images in this thread (and p.2)

Thomas Dicey,
of Basingstoke, Hampshire,
born est c.1650,
apparently involved in selling patent medicines,
[Simmons, 2000] says that from the 1670s he seems to have been involved in selling one of the earliest British patent medicines, "Daffy's elixir" (invented by Thomas Daffy),
mar Elizabeth Cluer [bapt 6 Dec 1671, dau of Henry Cluer, of Basingstoke],
he was bur at Basingstoke, 31 Oct 1705 [Burkes LG],
this might be St.Michael's church, Church St, Basingstoke (see map), no DICEY or CLUER memorial seen inside church, (todo) see burial register,
or might be Holy Ghost graveyard, Chapel Hill, Basingstoke (see map), (todo) see burial records,
had issue:

1. Elizabeth Dicey,
   mar 1stly, pre-1713, to John Cluer [must be her cousin],
   he ran a printing business in Bow Church Yard, London, that was later taken over by the Diceys,
   Cluer was there by 1718, the family press is described on a visit to Bow Church-yard in 1763 as being run for 80 years (est 1683),
   Cluer became a major publisher of music in London, also did a lot of prints (pictures),
   he died 1728,
   she mar 2ndly, 1731, to Thomas Cobb [who had worked for Cluer],
   she had issue by 1st husband:
   1. Dicey Cluer [son], died young, bur 6 November 1713.

   
   

2. William Dicey,
   born 25 Dec 1690,
   printer and newspaper owner.

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