An English family who ended up as free settlers to Van Diemen’s Land, with scions to Western Australia
When certain members of the Dyson clan chose to deny their Lancashire heritage of robbery and mayhem, they liked to pretend their antecedents came from Scotland (As you do.) However, some of them truly did: These were the Brough family from Perthshire, Scotland.
…About half-past nine last Friday night, my attention was attracted by a number of persons standing in front of prisoner’s brothers’ residence, in Murray-street; I was in plain clothes at the time, and Dyson’s sister — a little girl — came up to me and said that her brother Andrew was killing her Father; The evidence of P.C. Grant. The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 – 1950) Tuesday 13 January 1885 p 3 When Joseph Dyson junior was thirteen years of age he would…
Dorothy Dyson was the youngest daughter of Joseph Dyson junior and Jessie Christisen nee Strutt.
