Robert DYON of Laceby, very near , is mentioned in the Peace Sessions for 1381. (Records of Some Sessions of the Peace in , quoted in Women in , P.J.P. Goldberg 1995) There is a further reference in the 14th century Placita Antiqua to John Dyon’s manors at Laceby. In 1391 Richard DYON was called before the King’s Bench regarding misdemeanors around Grimbsy so the family was clearly well established in by the late 1300s, and probably earlier, either at the time of the Conquest or perhaps later at the time of the Hundred Years war. This aspect THE DYAN / DIAN / DYON / DION LINE IN LINCOLNSHIRE FROM THE is currently being researched. END OF THE 15TH CENTURY UP UNTIL THE MARRIAGE OF SUSANNA A POSSIBLE SCENARIO! DION AND THOMAS JEFFEREY AT , NOVEMBER 1628 (The Bruys and Moubray lines can then be followed back to the Norman Conquest) chaplain of William MARSHALL of Aislaby Grange Joan CARLTON = John DYON (brothers?) ALAN DYAN died 1488 http://www.ardrosshouse.com/family.htm Pickering, co. York WILL: - includes the lovely lines: (The Manuscripts of Lincoln, Bury St. Edmunds, source: English Church Furniture at the period and Great Grimsby Corporations) “Also I will to my mother 6 marks 6s 8d, the which of the Reformation, Edward Peacock 1866, page 126 6 marks 6s 8d shall be taken of my brother [not named]” Unfortunately Maddison does not know Margaret’s father’s name. In 1575 John Dyon’s will includes William Curteis the Attorney and John Curteis of Welton, leaving them both an old Angel (coin depicting an angel) and “ Curteis wife of Louth, widow a ** and 3s 4d” There are other CURTEYS families very close by, (Note: Peacock says that it was the couple’s son Robert who was vicar of at and and at near , while William CURTEYS gent. was at Upper Toynton in 1585. , rather than their grandson Robert, as this outline suggests, and prefers) (Grainthorpe is about 10 miles south of Grimsby) As early as 1383 we read of the appointment of Reginald Curtays, senior, of nearby , as Collector of the Customs in the port of Boston, for life (Patent Roll, 7 Ric. II). On the other hand Margaret’s family could be from further afield in Lincolnshire, for example Old Clee, near Grimsby, where the Le Curteys name has (daughter and heir of William) ? b.c. 1460 - possible connection b.c. 1462 been known since the 13th century. Brian Curteys was mayor of Grimsby in 1531. (A History of Clee and the Thorpes of Clee, Watson 1901) Margaret MARSHALL = Robert DYAN Alice

CURTEYS / CURTEIS / CURTES family (16 Apr. 1482 does fealty for ? c. 1480s father’s lands in Grimsby)

( 3rd son, not mentioned by ‘Maddison’) (first son, ‘Maddison’) b.c. 1490 or earlier (d. 1558 Vicar of ) d. winter 1531 bur. January 1573 b.c. 1480s b.c. 1480s (will 6 Nov. 1521, DYAND) (not mentioned by ‘Maddison’) b.c. 1480s - in Liber Cleri ‘senex’ ADMON Mawd DYAN Margaraet CURTEYS = John DYON died winter of 1521-22) LDofL female DYON (2nd son) Robert DYAN Robert’s will dated 16 Dec. 1531 William DYAN (died by 1544 - see mar. c. 1510 = ? ----- COOKE = Margaret ----- “To son John: tools in my (Vicar of Calceby no later than 1551 -earlier life as DOM. Dyon v Mussendyne) (the couple mentioned (Fraunce and Thomas COOKE in litigation re vicar of shop necessary for a smith” -perhaps implying residence in a Monastery) were John DYON’s cousins - Tathwell 1504 - 15) Notice at his death in 1558 the Probate document sworn (There is a long and detailed will, dated May 16th 1575) see will of 1575) by John DYON esquire - almost certain his nephew. INV: £7 : 10s LDofL (Memorial inscription in - presently unplaced church where he was buried, May 24th 1575) b.c. 1512 - 1515 (probably born after her father’s death) b.c. 1515 - 20 b.c. 1520s bur. April 18th 1561 b.c. 1520 Elizabeth DYON lies beside her second husband John DYON / DYAN gent. Esq. Margaret DYON Robert DYON Agnes Warter DYON 1565/56: installed rector John DYAN Janet Elizabeth at Lawrence DOWSE listed below, born at Little Carlton in Sir John ROPER, 1st Baron Teynham, in the = Margaret = ---- COOKE = Robert WESTON = Elizabeth ------= Jane ------(did not marry) July 1567 installed vicar 1572/3, in turn had a son called Lawrence, born c. 1613, church of St Peter & St Paul, Lynsted in Kent (buried May 22nd 1579 Eilzabeth = 2: --- MOODY Will, 21 May 1570, widow - buried the same day! Vicar of North Reston at North Reston who emigrated to Massachusetts, dying there in 1691. She was buried there on September 22nd 1593. Welton by Louth) (John alive 1564, executor of cousin Robert’s will) 1551 or earlier- before that DOM. (in both cases under the It is thanks to Lawrence’s descendants that we have the Fraunce, John & Thomas COOKE patronage of John DYON Esq. hugely informative book “Lawrence Dowse of (John DYON’s nephews, 1575 will) (? implying Monastery before the UNPLACED: John DYAN (died Feb. 1558 / 59 ) England” printed privately in 1926, credited here as LDofL and later his widow Margaret) Tathwell INV £23 : 2s - also Judith LDofL Dissolution of the Monasteries?) - presently unplaced Salmonby ADMON query - no year on inventory - should it be 1568/69? (d. 1565-66 Vicar North Reston) (d. 1603 Vicar of Legbourne unplaced: Maddison also shows b.c. 1535 - 40 (bur. Sep. 22nd 1593 Lynsted, Kent) chr. Feb. 1560/61 ? b.c. 1543 b. 1546 (source Liber Cleri) b.c. 1545 Tathwell (Will, April 10th 1564 DLofL) INV North Reston) (d. Dec. 27th 1591 ) Agnes DYAN John DYON Charles and Hercules Elizabeth DYON John DYON John DYON Thomas DYON Esq. Agnes DYON = Richard MAYDENS buried January 3rd 1560/61 who died young. 1. = Robert MONSON 2. = Sir John ROPER 1st Baron Teynham (mentioned in = Isabell ------to be confirmed (probably of Lamplugh, Cumberland) = William DOWSE (? b. Little Carlton, June 13th 1563 Horncastle September 12th 1559 J.D’s 1575 will) (bur. 18 March 1611-12 Legbourne) d. 1587 Legbourne) Roger HUNTERHOW = Jenett DONE(R) Louth also INV (Robert MONSON was buried married c. 1571 (vicar, Hameringham) bur. October 1630 Ancestry files list some eleven children including: in Lincoln Cathedral Sep. 23rd 1583) Feb. 8th 1578 Thomas 1564 Legbourne Jane chr. Nov. 20th 1569 Legbourne Horncastle also: North Reston chr. June 18th 1578 North Reston Barbara 1586 (died 2 months) Laurance chr. Feb. 8th 1572/3 Little Carlton (when Thomas chr. July 15th 1563 chr. July 25th 1573 ? John DYON Susan 1592 George chr. March 7th 1576 Legbourne DYON vicar) (mentioned in chr. January 3rd 1576-7 Elizabeth chr. Dec. 20th 1583 Legbourne Anne DYAN William DYAN bur. c. 1630 J.D’s 1575 will) John DYON INV James DYON = Katherine HUNTERHOW Alice DYAN bur. c. 1634 = Robert ROSE (d. March 1613 / 14) (d. Dec. 1628 Legbourne) bur. Oct. 20th 1628 both at Panton (CLW) = 1. Mary ---- - see note below June 15th 1592 INV, IPM & WARD Nov. 2nd 1603 Legbourne c. 1595 = 2. Anne ---- Hameringham Scamblesby (Anne remarried 27 July 1614 + Will 8 Dec. 1628 LDofL Mary bur. Legbourne 16 Feb. 1603-4 c. 1605 to Robert Townsend)

all at Legbourne Legbourne Legbourne Legbourne Legbourne b.c. 1596 b.c. 1598 chr. Aug. 10th 1599 chr. April 11th 1602 chr. Jan. 22nd 1603/04 chr. May 22nd 1606 chr. March 26th 1607 chr. Jan. 19th 1611/12 b.c. 1603 chr. March 18th 1604/05 bap. 26 March 1607 chr. Nov. 19th 1609 b. 1614 chr. 2 Jan. 1616-17 chr. Feb. 18th 1611/12 (1619-1620) chr. Aug. 15th 1624 Thomas John James Thomas Richard Francis Robert William John Ann Robert James DION Katherine Mary Susanna DION Elizabeth Elizabeth bur. 10 Apr. 1601 = ------(both mentioned in their remembered in bur. March 11th 1613/14 = Frances FISHER bur. 10 Nov. 1605 = Richard (not named (also William = Dorothy ---- bur. 22 Feb. 1613-14 bur. 1 Feb. 1725-6 (bur. March 5th, = Anne BARRIT = Thomas JEFFEREY (d. Nov. 1644) unknown father’s will/ IPM document) her father’s will Legbourne - son of John m. 9 Nov. 1628 LAWRENCE in will) chr. Apr. 9th 1609 1613/14 Legbourne) Nov. 17th 1631 INV m. 13 June 1627 bur/ 11 July 1611) Lusby James and Thomas were the two Nov. 25th 1628 Battle of 1643 (James church warden at - then Constable at Somersby for church wardens at Hameringham in 1635 Hameringham all at Legbourne to father John DYON Hameringham till 1636 the 1641 Protestation Oath) Parliamentary troops occupied Hameringham Church. at Legbourne Legbourne Hameringham Somersby Somersby Somersby Somersby at Hameringham ...... No records during Civil War. chr. Nov. 29th 1628 chr. March 3rd 1632 chr. March 27th 1627 chr. Oct. 18th 1629 chr. March 17th 1656 chr. 1632 chr. Dec. 20th 1635 chr. Jan. 20th 1638 chr. March 2th 1641 chr. Nov. 13th 1643 chr. July 7th 1646 1629 1631/32 1633/34 1635/36 1640 1642 - 45 Mary Francis John Susan James DYON Thomas Ann John Susanna James Thomas Thomas Susan John Ann Catharine Edward (death not located) (DYON) (JEFFEREY)

There are Lincolnshire DYAN / DYON families in the 16th century from and nearby Habrough in the north down to January to March 1613-14 was a calamitous time at Legbourne with sixteen burials between Jan. 25th and March 13th, with nine Kirton in Holland in the South; but most are from a much more contained area within the 13 miles between Horncastle and Louth. in one week alone. And a bit farther away: James’ son Robert and John’s son James died within a week, and John DYON died April 1583 (INV) at North Somercoates, very near to Grainthorpe. only weeks earlier there was the death of John Dion on Feb. 22nd, Elizabeth DYEON married in 1568 at Normanby le Wold perhaps another of James’s sons (but not so indicated on the BT). Robert DYON married in 1595 at Wragby John himself died between March 18 and 22 when his inventory was taken. Perhaps the BT was signed off early, because one of the churchwardens was a John Dyon, and his death is not recorded. Note too the number of DYAN clerics listed. It seems unlikely his 15 year old son would have taken on the role. To this should be added the name of Ponthus DYAN, vicar of Goxhill in the north of Lincolsnhire whose inventory is dated 1571.

Thornton Abbey in north Lincolnshire was suppressed on Dec. 12th 1539; but Henry VIII then selected it as a college for training priests for what was to be the new Church of England. Even this, though, was suppressed in 1547 under Edward VI and ownership passed to the Tyrwhitts. A book called The State of the Ex-Religious and Former Chantry Priests in the 1547-1574 has much detail as to what happened to the monks and the 1552 Schedule of pensioners indicates that John DYAN received an annuity of £1. The 1554 Returns of the Dean and Chapter names four officials who had been at Thorneton: John Candysshe, knyghte, John Dyan, Christofer Smythe and John Hennage esquier. So this is yet another name to add to the considerable list of DYAN clerics in the north of Lincolnshire. Goxhill (where Ponthus DYAN was vicar till 1571) and Thornton are only a couple of miles apart, and very close to Immingham and Habrough Sources: where another DYON family is listed in the IGI records:- INV - inventory John DION married Dorite ROCLYFFE at Immingham of June 5th 1585.(M02935-1) IMP - Inquisition Post Mortem Robert DION was christened there on February 25th 1586 (C02935-2) (no father given) ADMON - Administration Document WILL - will Elizabeth DYON was chr. to father John on Oct. 27th 1594, but died March 16th 1595 (C02935-2) CLW - Calendar of Lincolnshire Wills Johanna DYON was chr. at Habrough (right next to Immingham) on Feb. 14th 1596 (C02879-1) to father John Bishops Transcripts for Hameringham. Anna DYON was chr. there, again to father John, onf Feb. 18th 1600. Parish Registers at Lincoln Archives IGI (It was legal for clerics to marry from 1549.) IGI Ancestry Files.

- as at Jan. 2015 awaiting access to “Lawrence Dowse of Legbourne, England” 1926, printed privately. This book has further valuable information on the Dyon family.

All the parishes mentioned in this outline lie within two very small areas of Lincolnshire: 1. between the towns of Horncastle and Louth, thirteen miles to the north 2. between the villages of Goxhill and North , in an area centred upon Grimsby.