[WED] Wedmore to Iowa

[Mary Thacher]

In response to how did the Dyers et al know about the Dyersville area:

I was going over some Dyer family letters last night and there was 2 letters
from a J.B.Crocker of Banwell: he had gone to Iowa when 16, and camped out
with the Indians, well before James Dyer went. When he went back to Banwell,
he "kept the Bell Inn in Banwell," and Dyer used to come to see him and
heard his stories.  In 1886 he wrote to R.W.Gadsden in Dyersville who
referred him to Anne Andrews Dyer, James' widow, and her daughter Anna Dyer
Limback answered his letter.  I do not have her letter but I do have another
from him to her.  He was married to Lizzy Laney, her father was a farmer,
she had a sister Mary Laney who married a Chapman, and in 1886 was a widow
in Christon.

J.B. Crocker does not give his age: he was 16 when he went to America,
stayed 7 years, returned to England, married and stayed there 12 years, went
to America to Waterloo NY (Seneca County, west of Onandaga County
(Syracuse), where he worked in a bank for 22 years, then he joined the
Waterloo Wagon Company.  They had 10 children the first ones born in
England.

This sounds like it is how James Dyer knew about Iowa.  Dyer and his family
first went to Lysander NY, to stay with their Toogood cousins, before going
to Beloit, Wisconsin, he went to Iowa from there. Crocker says that Dyer
took his advice and went , but did not settle down just where he hoped he
would.  Before going to Banwell, the James Dyer Sr.s lived in Wedmore, and
they would have known people then.

Mary Thacher
Stonington CT USA

----- Original Message -----
From: "John V Hayward" <john@hayward2.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <wedmore@lists.tutton.org>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [WED]Maps


> Yes, but surely the Explorer range is better, 141,  it even names Quab
Lane
> in Wedmore and Kelson's Farm which has been mentioned before. The scale is
> 1:25 000 and are regarded as walkers maps. I've walked the Mendip Way in
two
> days.
>
> John V Hayward
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mathew Ducket" <Mathew.Ducket1@btopenworld.com>
> To: <wedmore@lists.tutton.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 5:58 PM
> Subject: [WED]Maps
>
>
> > I would like to make a suggestion to all those outside of the U.K. Many
of
> > you could make use of a good map. I would like to recommend the Ordnance
> > Survey Landranger series, this has a scale of 1:50,000. No 182 is titled
> > Weston-Super-Mare & Bridgwater. This covers central west Somerset from
> > Weston in the north to Bridgwater in the south, it goes as far east as
> > Wells, Wedmore is right in the centre. The last time I bought one it was
> > 5.25 pounds Stirling, (the whole of the U.K. is covered by 204 maps).
They
> > are very detailed. I do not know if they are available outside the U.K.
> but
> > I would be surprised if they could not be purchased over the internet,
> most
> > book shops stock them. The first edition of these maps was published in
> > 1880, and has now been reprinted. Sheet 76 is Bath & Wells, it covers
> > roughly the same area, but does not extend to the sea. Sheet 75 covers
the
> > area to the west. These are really curiosities, but it is interesting to
> > compare the two. They are not as widely available. I hope this is of
some
> > help. Matthew Duckett.
> >
> >
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