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Looking to see if anyone can help with possible birth date and parents for Mary Bowyer from Stevington. Her age in 1851 census, living in Astwood, Bucks, puts her birth around 1798/99. She married Robert Hart in 1830 in Stevington and was buried Stevington Baptist in 1858 as Mary Hart.

Jane Cardwell baptised in Wakefield in 1815 as daughter of Thomas and Ann died in Flockton in 1819. Father was a blacksmith and was from Flockton. Mother was from Rothwell and was called Ann Jewett. They married 14th November 1814 in Wakefield. In 1851 census they are living at Lepton, Huddersfield with sons Henry and George and daughter Sarah Ann and granddaughter Sarah Jane..... three children are all single and census states they all born inLepton as does grandchild. However baptism record shows that Jane was baptised in 1815 in Wakefield as was  a son James in 1817, then Henry 1821, John 1824, Louisa 1826, Sarah Ann 1829, Robert Thomas and Priscilla in 1832 and finally George in 1835 all baptised in Flockton....... Flockton is about half way between Wakefield and Huddersfield. Hope this helps

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I run the environmental education centre in Austerfield and have done an amount of research on this subject.
The murder took place over the evening period as Dyon was returning home from the markets in Doncaster. His brother and nephew had made an abortive attempt to murder him the previous week, but he had failed to go to the market due to ill health. ( trial transcript which i have full copy of)

They had therefore left their guns in the barns at Partridge Hill Farm, a property at the beginning of a series of gateways leading to Brancroft Farm, for the week, returning the following week to lay in wait for his return.

If you use google maps to look for Austerfield, Brancroft still exists to the south east of Doncaster Sheffield Airport runway on the edge of the Finningley Road, with Partridge Hill to the south of the runway. Unfortunately, the tarck with the gateways no longer exists as its under the runway. Dyon House Farm and Dyon cottage have no known ownership link with the Dyon family, but I will check with the 1765 enclosure map to see what land they owned at that period. It is probably more likely that they were named as such as part of a moral tale with a warning for the outcome of greed. The trial transcript indicates the brothers gained wealth from their father and whilst one made more from his wealth the other was profligate and spent his apportioned amount. The death of his brother and some inheritence from it was indicated as the motive in the trial.

I have photos of the two dyon named properties at work and will attach them to another mailing. I also have the parish records for baptisms, marriages and burials as part of a transcription programme i did for the local fhs and will check those. There is not a headstone in the graveyard for this family,as there are a large number of plots without any markers. Although the parish is physically in Yorkshire it is part of the diocese of Southwell and as such its parish records are held in the Nottingham Archives.


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