Place of Origin

England ➔ Suffolk ➔ Cowlinge

Date of Composition

ca. 1720s-1761

Description

Rachel Dickins (died 1761) was the wife of London lawyer Francis Dickins (died 1747). They lived in a manor built by Francis Dickins in 1720, in the village of Cowlinge, in the English county of Suffolk. The manor is no longer standing. Francis Dickins also contributed to the building of a tower on the village church, St. Margaret of Antioch. There is a marble memorial to Francis and Rachel Dickins in the church chancel. Rachel Dickins book of receipts and recipes has not been dated by the library, but she may have compiled it between the time the Dickins manor was built and her death. The book is organized in Series III of the Dickins family papers.