[WED]Re: Dyersville

[Roger Roper]

Hi Mary

You have hit on a subject which Is very much of interest to Sandi McGinnis =
who is on this list. It does seem as if a large number of people from the =
Wedmore area went to Dyersville. These include the brothers and sisters =
and their widowed mother (strongly suspected second wife) of one of my =
Roper ancestors.

Sam Evans and wife Jane (Roper) and her mother Jane Roper, widow of Hugh =
Roper went to Dyersville. In the last few days I have found information =
that they arrived in the port of New York on 27 June 1849 on the "Devonia" =
from Bristol. Others of the same Roper family went to Burlington Wisconsin.=


(Paul Roper: This reminds me I havent sent you the info on this that I =
promised, Ill do it very soon)

Just by searching the web I have found other Wedmorites who went to =
Dyersville. Ive copied bits and pieces below:

George G Baker Married to Sarah Jane Bagg b.7/1/1833 Wedmore England d. =
8/19/1912 (Alta, Iowa??)

Mary Ann Binning married William Hewlett Sept. 22, 1849. Moved to =
Dyerville 1852. She was born Oct. 12, 1829, at Wedmore,=20

The Somerset Records Office has a deed for William House of Dyersville, =
Dubuque, Iowa, USA, carpenter, having copyhold of Land at Chapel Allerton =
near Wedmore.

Elizabeth Jane COUNSEL
Born: 26 MAR 1843      at: Wedmore, Somersetshire, England  married  =
Robert Harden WILTON Born: 16 SEP 1833      at: Weston-Zoyland, Somersetshi=
re, England =20

   Died: 30 JUN 1891      at: Petersburg, Boone Co., NB =20
 CHILDREN

   Name: Sidney George WILTON
   Born: 23 MAR 1865      at: Weston-Zoyland, Somersetshire, England =20
Married:                  at:  =20
   Died: 24 DEC 1939      at: Boone Co., NB =20
Spouses: Kate U. GARTEN =20

   Name: John Eugene WILTON
   Born: 10 AUG 1867      at: Dyersville, IO =20
Married:                  at:  =20
   Died: 12 MAR 1937      at: Emmett, ID =20
Spouses: Hattie LOCKWOOD =20

   Name: Richard WILTON
   Born: UNKNOWN          at: Dyersville, IO =20
Married:                  at:  =20
   Died:                  at:  =20
Spouses:=20

   Name: William Winthrop WILTON
   Born: 1 MAY 1872       at: Dyersville, IO =20
Married:                  at:  =20
   Died: 18 APR 1944      at: Emmet, ID =20
Spouses: Anna DRISCOLL =20

   Name: Delia Jane WILTON
   Born: 29 SEP 1875      at: Dyersville, IO =20

Edward COUNSEL
   Born: ABT. 1850        at: Wedmore, Somersetshire, England =20
   Died: AUG 1867         at: Dyersville, IO =20

Sorry this is all a bit scrappy it is copied from various places. From =
correspondence with Sandi I have become quite interested in this migration =
of people from Wedmore and have ordered the microfilm of "Dyersville its =
History and its People" from the LDS which has a chapter on this subject. =
Ill let you know what it says.

All the best=20
Roger Roper

>>> Mary Jackes <mjackes@ualberta.ca> 11/19 1:11 pm >>>
Initially, I was interested in Arthur Day/Elizabeth Wall who were buried =
in
St. Charles, Minnesota.  I have had several emails from list subscribers
who sent me their family trees, pointing to many, many Day/Wall marriages.
I am grateful for some very enjoyable reading provided by these descendents=

of Wedmore families.

But I think the story may have ramifications. =20

I am now sure that my great great grandfather was Daniel Day who left
Somerset in 1846, with his older brother Arthur.  I believe that at first
they lived in Dubuque, Iowa with the family of Augustin Day, also from
Somerset (and himself the offspring of a Day/Wall marriage).  Arthur and
Daniel are recorded in Augustin's household in the 1850 census, and
Augustin and Arthur seem to have both taken naturalization vows in =
1850.=20

I looked at the 1850 census records, and Augustin's farm is completely
surrounded by other farms owned by English people, not typical from what
I've seen of these midwest U.S. census records.

The LDS records tell me that Augustin Day was buried in Dyersville, Iowa.
A search of the web tells me of an English colonization scheme, set up by
James Dyer, in 1847.  I see from the Wedmore parish records that there are
as many Dyers as Days and Walls in Wedmore! (These must have been truely
prolific families - I saw a reference to some archaic Wedmore sport with
wooden broadswords in which the teams were entirely comprised of Walls).

I wonder whether a whole lot of people from around Wedmore set off to Iowa
with James Dyer in the mid 1840s?  What could be the story behind this?=20
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