DYER Family

[mjg162]

This is a relatively new link ... http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1234
And this is one you have probably seen already ... http://www.british-history.ac.uk/search.aspx?query=Dyer&rf=pubid:881
Cheers
Maurice

[matthewfoong]

this prob wont, be helpful at all but, sourced from st andrews church in plymouth, a henry dyer married my x10 great aunt joan hodge in 1561. if that means anything to u let me no

[lullaby]

Hello and thanks for your interest.
Regretfully I have so far been unable to take my Dyer family back beyond 1800 and the birth in the West Indies.   It is quite possible that they originated in Devon.

[Rhonda Mathew]

my user name has changed from rpegmat to Rhonda Mathew,,, any new finds regarding Hamer ,Budgen,Dyer connections? All I know is Mark Dyer married Mary Hamer after her 1st husband died ie: Joseph Hamer.

[hanes teulu]

".... any new finds...."
The death of Anne Louisa Moreton, aged 91, Nassau, New Providence was reported in several newspapers in April 1811.

It describes her as the "... widow of the late Hon. Major Charles Moreton (youngest son of Matthew, first Lord Ducie) and maternal grandmother Henry Moreton Dyer, Esq, Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court of the Bahama Islands"

www.thepeerage.com/p25551.htm#i255507
Tab down to Charles Moreton

[lullaby]

Hi Rhonda -

I recall your main interest was the Hamer line which I haven't really researched as she was only briefly with Mark Dyer (they had a legal separation I think) and there were no children.   There is plenty of information in Caribbeana relating to the Dyers in the Leeward Islands which I have extracted but will probably never know whether or not they are the same family as mine.   Unfortunately my only known direct male line back to my ggg grandfather (who was born in the West Indies) died in Australia in 2006.   There are still Dyers (of mixed race) on Montserrat and I am saving my pennies!!  I really need to visit the BVI, Montserrat and Nevis in case there is something tucked away in what remains of their archives.

[iangj]

I came across the following in the Journals of John Marsh (1752-1828): He wrote in 1820: "Finding Mr Dyer was settled here [i.e. Dawlish, Devon] who formerly married Mrs Hamer, Edward & I called on him the next morning..." Would this be the Mark Dyer (1750-1832)? Do you have any further information on him? He obviously had settled in Dawlish by 1820.
iangj

[lullaby]

Yes, iangj, it would seem to be the same Mark Dyer.   I have found a lot of information about him over the years whilst searching for the roots of my ggg grandfather.

Regards
 

[iangj]

Thank you - do you know what he did, and what took him the West Indies?
I only have a peripheral interest, having come across the name I wondered how John Marsh knew him.
Ian