http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie The Watmough / Watmer / Watmore / Whatmore family Sat, 08 May 2010 18:36:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en James Dyson, born about 1748 is the ancestor of David Dyson, Barry Gasperino, Austin Hilditch, Florence Hutchinson, Maureen Lussier, and Michael and Ruth O’Doherty who have carried out a lot of research into their family. I am most grateful to them for sharing this with me and their thoughts on ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/05/03/pages-from-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-ten-james-dyson-of-willow-hall-and-of-hoxton-london/ 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 ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/04/25/pages-from-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-nine-the-dyson-family-of-upper-willow-hall/ 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 ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/04/25/pages-from-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-eight-the-dysons-of-clay-house-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 ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/04/25/pages-form-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-seven-the-dyson-family-of-sunnybank-greetland/  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 ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/04/23/pages-from-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-6-the-dysons-of-lower-goat-house-rishworth/ 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 ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/04/23/pages-from-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-five-the-dysons-of-upper-swifts-place/ 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 ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/04/23/pages-from-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-four-john-and-edmund-dyson-at-almondbury/ 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 ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/04/23/pages-from-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-three-family-origins-at-linthwaite/ The Dyson family is believed to originate at Linthwaite near Huddersfield, and gradually spread into the surrounding area and up to Halifax. This is the storyof a famous polician who was a Dyson from Halifax.  One of the most eminent members of the Dyson family of the West Riding of Yorkshire was ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/03/21/pages-from-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-two-the-rt-hon-jeremiah-dyson/ Although this blog is primarily concerned with the Watmough - Watmer - Watmore - Whatmore family I am finding it difficult to find new material. If you have a story suitable for this blog, please do send in  to me ( in Microsoft Word format) with any relevant pictures for ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2010/03/20/pages-from-the-archives-of-the-dyson-family-part-one-the-murder-of-arthur-dyson-at-banner-cross-sheffield-in-1876/