John have and Bridget Doyle Dyer are my gg-grandparents. I have been researching the ancestors' genealogy for some time, but have yet to find a connection to ther parents. I do have good information on John and Bridget's decendants.
John Dyer (b 26 Nov 1801), a native of County Sligo, Ireland, was raised on a farm and married Bridget Doyle (b Abt 1809), a native of the same County. John and Bridget were married in 1828 in the Parish of Emlaghfad and Kilmorgan now the Parish of Ballymote, County Sligo, Connacht Province of Ireland. After having devoted some years to farming in Ireland John and Bridget Dyer decided that the new world offered them greater advantages than their own land and therefore decided to seek a home across the ocean in America. -- Douglas / Franklin County, Kansas Bibliography of Early Settlers
In Reply to a message board: Re: Patrick DYER and Family County I've traced back to a JAMES DYER, born c1795, who lived in Boyle Parish, County Roscommon. This is just over the Curlew Mountains from Sligo. South Sligo and North Roscommon are the old Dyer stomping grounds. The name is shortened from MacDwyer, which in the original Gaelic is MacDuibhir (according to MacLysaght). In my own family, it appears as both Dyer and Dwyer. I would say that any Dwyer from this area comes from the MacDwyer’s rather than the O'Dwyer’s, whose lands were in Tipperary. MacLysaght also says the clan was caught stealing horses in Leyney Barony, Sligo, in 1593 and brought before the O'Hara, Baron of Leyney. They begged for mercy, and he spared their lives. I have a friend who descends from the O'Hara, and of course every time I see him, I thank him for this. Posted by Gregory C
