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The 1820 Settler Correspondence
 as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
 and edited by Sue Mackay

Additonal Information

This is pre 1820 information mainly taken from actual images of UK parish registers and other primary sources which I have personally researched. Further information about the settlers and their families once they reached the Cape can be found at https://www.1820settlers.com/

Sue Mackay

DYASON, Robert - Extra Data

 

Joint Leader of DYASON's Party with Isaac, Joseph and George DYASON

 

Canterbury Cathedral Archives:

 

Robert DYASON married Afra DERVALL by banns on 9 August 1803 in St.Leonard, Deal, Kent

Both signed

Witnesses: Ed. FOREMAN and Eli READER

 

Baptisms in St.Mary of Charity, Faversham, Kent

Bayly, son of Robert and Afra DYASON, baptised 9 April 1805

Tassell , son of Robert and Afra DYASON, baptised 2 October 1808 

Jane, daughter of Robert and Afra DYASON, baptised 7 April 1811, born March 9 1811

William, son of Robert and Afra DYASON, Faversham, Sadler, baptised 10 September 1813 

Sarah, daughter of Robert and Afra DYASON, Faversham, Sadler, baptised 11 August 1815 

Eliza, daughter of Robert and Afra DYASON, Faversham, Sadler, baptised 11 October 1816 

 

Afra DYASON, Faversham, aged 30, buried 18 October 1816 in St.Mary of Charity, Faversham, Kent

 

Robert DYASON, widower, married Mary Ann ELEY by banns on 9 February 1820 in St. Leonard, Deal, Kent

Both signed

Witnesses: E. FOREMAN and B. LONG

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