John Dimock, of Bridgend, Stonehouse, co. Gloucester, gentleman and clothier
Re: the Dimocks (and Herberts) of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England: I found the following account of the Holbrow family which give a brief account of the history of my line of Dimocks in Stonehouse and their connections with some other families in that area. It appears to have been written around 1900.
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"lO. Samuel Holbrow, of Leonard Stanley, gentleman and clothier, born there 13th May 1758; died 14 April 1814, aged 55, and was buried at Leonard Stanley ; churchwarden 1805-6-7-8-9. He married at Stonehouse, 24 August 1786, Sarah, daughter of John Dimock, of Bridgend, Stonehouse, co. Gloucester, gentleman and clothier; born 29 July and baptized 8 August 1768; died 18 November 1847, buried at Leonard Stanley, aged 79 ; Their portraits are at Bath in the posession of their grandson, Stanley Charles Holbrow.
Dimock. — The family of Dimock is of considerable antiquity in Gloucestershire, doubtless deriving from the village of Dymock, in the Forest of Dean. Rogers Dimmock, about 1390, a learned Dominican friar, styled the invincible victor of the Wycliffites, is said to have been a native of Dymock, but the earliest known instance in Gloucestershire occurs in 1327, when we find Hugh de Dymmok paying to the subsidy in the town of Gloucester. The Dimocks from whom Mrs. Holbrow descended were settled at Randwick early in the seventeenth century, and we have mention of a Giles Dymocke, of Uley, whose will was proved in 1558; but the traced pedigree commences with Giles Dimock, of Randwick, living there in 1639. His great grandson, another Giles Dimock, who died 17 11, settled at Stonehouse, and married Rebecca Jenner. Their son, Giles Dimock, of Stonehouse, married Sarah Alldrich, and was grandfather of Mrs. Holbrow. A detailed pedigree of this family of Dimock, compiled in 1892 by the Rev. W. G. Dimock Fletcher, appeared in "Gloucestershire Notes and Queries", and was reprinted for private circulation. The present representative of the family is the Rev. Nathaniel Dymock, late vicar of St. Paul's, Maidstone."
Christine