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Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Pages from the Archives of the Dyson Family - Part 6 - The Dysons of Lower Goat House, Rishworth

 This one-time Dyson family home is at Rishworth, about six miles south west of  Halifax town centre.  There are records of the house dating back to 1577 when it was in the possession of an Edmund Firth. It was rebuilt in the mid eighteenth century. 
The house appears to have originally belonged to the Firth family […]

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Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Pages from the Archives of the Dyson Family - Part Five - the Dysons of Upper Swifts Place

In this post we turn our attention to Soyland, a small village a few miles to the west of Halifax and some five miles as the crow flies to the north of Linthwaite.  At Soyland is Upper Swifts Place - the earliest that we can definitely  identify of the fine houses which were homes to the […]

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Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Pages from the Archives of the Dyson Family - Part Four - John and Edmund Dyson at Almondbury

As explained in an  earlier post, there was only a chapelry at Linthwaite prior to 1838, the town being in the enormous parish of Almondbury which also included the whole of the town of Huddersfield. The parish registers of the  church at Almondbury, available on the International genealogical Index include innumerable Dysons from the beginning of […]

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Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Pages from the Archives of the Dyson Family - Part Three - Family Origins at Linthwaite

There seems to be general acceptance that the Dyson family originated at Linthwaite near Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The majority of those with the surname Dyson are from the West  Riding of Yorkshire and research by Professor Bryan Sykes of Oxford University 1 has shown that the majority of the Dyson males from […]

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