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Wolstan Dixie (born 1576)

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His son, the then elderly Sir Wolstan Dixie, 1st Baronet, was also appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1660 and created the first of a line of the
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He was born the son of John Dixie, a yeoman farmer of Catworth, Huntingdonshire and educated at
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from 1595. In 1594 he inherited an estate at Market Bosworth from his great-uncle the first
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of Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire with whom he had 4 sons and 4 daughters.
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Sir Wolstan Dixie of Appleby Magna and then Market Bosworth
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He died in 1650. He had married Frances, the daughter of
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