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It's definitely 'mason' Zak - I have seen the record written in full.

7 years was the minimum period of apprenticeship, usually up to the age of 21 when the apprentice could be elected to the...

Zak, you will be happy to know that in the parish register of Derbyshire, where Silas hailed from, is recorded the marriage of Richard Dicken in 1912...

Regards,
Neil

Silas Dicken was a mason (of the stone kind), deceased at the beginning of his son Samuel's apprenticeship.

Regards,
Neil

It means Samuel Dicken, son of Silas Dicken from Sheldon, Bakewell (in Derbyshire) profession of Mason, Deceased; apprenticed to Peter Goite, Cutler, for 7 years beginning 1785, Freedom granted in...

Now, now, cheeky!

Could well be, Zak - the date is much better!

As Isaac had no children and left money to nephew Samuel, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he named one of his descendants after himself - as was the...

RE: Isaac Dicken-

He lived in a district of Aston known as Deritend. Aston was a very old settlement, divided into two places, near Birmingham, Warwickshire, before the area was reclassified as...

Could be Isaac Dicken, a cutler from Aston, Birmingham. He seems to have died in 1743 though, which may be a bit on the early side. Maybe the profession was handed down the generations, though.
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