Dyson Family of Worcestershire
© Jeff Dyson - November 2006
Mary Anne Dyson married George Oxford on 29th September 1851 at Stoke Prior. Sarah Dyson married George Finch on 8th November 1853 at Upton on Severn. They were employed on adjoining Farms at Southend, Upton on Severn. Anne Dyson was unmarried but gave birth to an illegitimate daughter Harriet Elizabeth on 19th September 1852 at Croome D’Abitot. Eliza was unmarried but I believe gave birth to Thomas Dyson in about 1850. Martha Dyson married Charles Brookes on 8th August 1852 at Castlemoreton and produced one son William in 1862.
Southend Farm Upton on Severn Upton on Severn Church
William Dyson married Matilda Drinkwater on 6th April 1858 at Croome D’Abitot and between 1859 and 1879 produced eleven children 6 girls and 5 boys. Elizabeth Jane 1858, Mary Anne 1860, Frederick William 1863, William 1864, Emma 1866, Clara 1869, Alice 1871, James Henry 1873, Ellen 1876, Thomas George 1878, and George 1879. All were baptised at Seven Stoke Parish Church. In 1881 they were resident at Naunton Greens which I have traced to a group of cottages at Birch Green just north of Seven Stoke. This was another farm owned by Lord Coventry, and clearly they were employed on the estate. In a Directory of 1873 Lord Coventry’s estate was of 18021 acres situated in about thirty Parishes in Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire with an annual income of £22,367. This equates to the sum of £964,397 today.