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Currently the record begins with a Thomas Dyoss, born April 25^th 1817, who married Elizabeth ?, born c1821 in Smethwick. Among their children was Thomas, born November 6^th 1840. This Thomas married Elizabeth Hales, and the family worked on the Shropshire and Staffordshire canals. They had a son ,also Thomas, born January 17^th 1866 at Acton Trussell Wharf, on the canal near Stafford, and several other children, only one of whom, William, lived beyond childhood.

Thomas Dyoss, born 1866 was my maternal grandfather; he spent his youth on the canal, but in late teens 'came ashore' working with horses for a family at Platts Bridge, on the Bloxwich Road, Walsall. He later joined the LNWR railway as a navvy, eventually being in charge of a 'gang'. The wedding certificate for his marriage to widow Ellen Vawer (nee Beard) shows him to have been a carpenter at that time, and a widower. He first married in 4q 1888 Hannah (Annie) Stringer and had a daughter Edith Mary in1889. . In the 1891 census he is shown as married, but his wife died in 1889, presumably in childbirth. Edith is in the 1901 census in at a catholic "Laundry" attached to the Convent of the Good Shepherd", aged 12 and apparently "assisting in the garden". She seems to have returned to Walsall, possibly to live with her father & Ellen but she died aged 18 in1908. My mother Nellie Dorothy Dyoss was the only child of the second marriage, born 31 January 1905. She died 30 May 2000.

I believe there may be an Irish connection with the Dyoss family. Thomas (born 1866) certainly spent some time in Bray, near Dublin in about 1885, and as a child, I remember an annual 'punnett' of Shamrock arriving, presumably at St. Patricks day time. I also remember a Harry? Nightingale who I believe lived in Dublin, but what the connection was I do not know..

I have a small document, reproduced below, believed written by Thomas (b 1866) giving dates of births and deaths in his family, and on which some of the above is based.:

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(The 'My father' written in blue was put there by my mother )

The following is a development of the document ...

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I believe that this Elizabeth is the wife of my g.g.g.grandfather Thomas Dyoss (born 1817) , born in Smethwick, but I do not yet have her maiden name..

The family, as I now believe it, with information from the 1881 & 1861 censuses, is as follows ...

a) Thomas Dyoss (born Walsall 1817) married Elizabeth ? (born Smethwick c1821)

b) Thomas (born Frankton 1840) m Elizabeth Hales (b Penkridge 1845)

c) Thomas (born Acton Trussell 1866 died Walsll Manor Hospital 1949)

m 1 Hannah Stringer(died 1889)

2 Ellen Vawer nee Beard (Born Walsall 1866 – died Walsall 1926)

d) 1 Edith Mary Dyoss (born Walsall 1889 –Died Walsall 1908)

d) 2 Nellie Dorothy (Born Walsall 1905 – Died Walsall 2000)

c) Catherine (1868 - 1872)

c) Mary (1870 - 1872)

c) William (born Walsall 1873)

c) Isaac (born Walsall .. 1875 – 1877)

c) Eliza (born Pelsall 1878)

c) Samuel (1882)

b) James (born Walsall 1842) married Clara Powell (born Penkridge 1844)

c) Martha (born Walsall 1866)

c) James (born Walsall 1870)

c) William (born Walsall 1875)

c) Sarah (born Walsall 1878

b) Isaac (born Walsall 1844 .. Christened at St. Peter's, Walsall)

b) Mary (born Walsall 1848) married Henry Doley (2Q 1870 .. Walsall)..) Died 3 November 1876.

b) John (born Toll End 1852)

b) Hannah (born Walsall 1856)

b) Eliza (born Walsall 1860)

Note .. Frankton .. There are three Franktons in Shropshire, Welsh Frankton, Lower Frankton and English Frankton. Welsh and Lower are adjacent, on the Shropshire Union canal. Thomas could have been born at either.

I have more info in a gedcom file with other branches of the family included, should anyone care to ask for it.

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