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 the registers onwards. From these records I have been able to draw up the early trees of two major families – that of John Dyson and that of Edmund Dyson.  

It is not possible to tell from the registers whereabouts in the parish the members of these families lived, but undoubtedly they were close kin to the Dysons of Linthwaite and Soyland described earlier. 

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Weavers’ Cottages at Almondbury     Photograph Copyright; Sue Trescott   

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The tree of John Dyson who was born about 1535 can be traced down to a great granddaughter who was baptised at Almondbury in 1609. This tree is reproduced below.

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 The tree  of Edmund is, however, too large to show in chart format.He was born about 1530 at Almondbury. The name of his wife is unknown.  Edmund and his wife had fourteen known children according to the parish registers. These were John 1557, Elizabeth 1558, Agnes 1559, Joan  1560, Edward 1561, Anthony 1562, Humfri 1563, Edward 1565 who married first Isabella Marsden and then Elizabeth Cuttell, Joan 1566, Elizabeth 1567, John 1568, Jana 1569, Elizabeth 1570 and Edmund 1575. 

The descendants of Edward born 1565 and his second wife Elizabeth have been researched and placed on the internet. Their later descendents moved to Penistone and can be traced for many generations.