This message has been copied from the south-africa-immigrants-british@rootsweb.com from Sue Mackay - rhoosesue@outlook.com and is of interest to members of this family. Worth following up
<I have recently discovered that FindmyPast has original images of parish registers for the Kent Canterbury Archdeaconry (under Canterbury Collection), which covers places such as Dover, Folkstone, Deal and the Thanet parishes.
I have updated various settler files (see under Recently Updated at http://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/)<http://www.eggsa.org/1820-s...;
Researchers of DYASON may like to tell me if I am barking up the wrong tree. I know it says in The Settler Handbook that DYASON's Party was jointly led by FOUR brothers as well as Samuel BENNETT and Hougham HUDSON. However, I am strongly beginning to believe that Robert was not a brother but a cousin of some description. The baptisms of the children of Joseph DYASON and Susannah SCRIVENS all appear in beautiful copperplate at regular intervals in the registers of St.Lawrence, Thanet (Ramsgate), and include the baptisms of Isaac, Joseph and George, but no Robert - and no convenient date between siblings for him to have been born. George only mentions Isaac and Joseph in his original letter of application.
There is a baptism for a Robert DYASON, son of Joshua and Elizabeth, in 1782 in nearby Whitstable.
It is clear from other correspondence that Robert lived in Faversham, and I have found his first married to Afra DERVALL and the baptisms of his children in Faversham, as well as the death of Afra in 1816. It appears that he then married a Mary Ann Eley, just days before the Zoroaster sailed. There probably wouldn't have been time to include her on the returns. I am pretty sure that this was a second marriage for Robert, as the signatures match and Ed. FOREMAN witnessed both marriages.
Any comments from DYASON researchers gratefully received!>
