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Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Pages from the Archives of the Dyson Family - Part Nine - The Dyson Family of Upper Willow Hall

Upper Willow Hall still retains the name of the manor of ‘The Wylleys’ or Willows in which it is situated which belonged to the Saville family. Some time previous to 1546, William Kinge, a local dyer took out a lease on ‘ The Wylleys’ and he seems likely that he demolished an existing house on […]

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Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Pages from the Archives of the Dyson Family - Part Eight - The Dysons of Clay House, Greetland

Clay House was the home of the Clay family from 1313 to 1687. It was originally a half-timbered house but it was rebuilt or encased in stone in 1654 by John Clay who called it ‘The New House at Clay Hill.’ 
In 1713, Clay House was bought by John Wheelwright, the founder of Rishworth Grammar School […]

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Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Pages from the Archives of the Dyson Family - Part Seven - The Dyson Family of Sunnybank, Greetland

Sunnybank is located at Greetland which is on the western outskirts of the town of Elland, just south of Halifax. The house was named ‘Sunnybank’ by Thomas Wilkinson, (1438 - 1480) the Vicar of Halifax, but was previously called Over Nabroyd.  
Sunnybank is believed to be the oldest house in Calderdale and dates back to […]

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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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