D'urban Dyason

"South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23580-56526-37?cc=146... : accessed 06 Jul 2014), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Grahamstown, Bathurst, St John the Evangelist > Baptisms, marriages, burials 1829-1849 > image 17 of 108; citing William Cullen Library, Wits University, Johannesburg.

St. Mary's Cemetery, Port Elizabeth

AB/E18: Plot Owner : Durban Dyson 18 May 1895 and June 1865

Sacred to the memory of D'Urban DYASON, b. 19 Sep 1837, d. 31 Jul 1901;

Eldest son of George and Elizabeth DYASON;

Also his beloved wife, Susan Hester Wilhelmina DYASON, d. 23 May 1911;

"He giveth His beloved sleep"

Sacred to the memory of George DYASON, d. 7 Aug 1862, aged 71 yrs.; h.o. Elizabeth, d. 19 Feb 1865, aged 65 yrs;

"God was their hope"

Also Sidney, 4th s.o. D'Urban DYASON, d. ? Dec 1869, aged 5 (?) mths.

1820 Settlers/Leader of the DYASON Party. s.s. Zoroaster.

D'Urban DYASON, b. 1837, s.o. George and Elizabeth and Godchild of Sir Benjamin D'URBAN was articled to a Cape Town Attorney. He was admitted to the Side Bar in 1859. While in Cape Town he met and married a daughter of Dirk VAN BREDA of Oranjezicht. They moved to Graaff Reinet but later moved to Port Elizabeth where he started a successful law practice. They were great entertainers and their house was for many decades a scene of "vigorous social life".

There were two daughters, Susan who married Louis CLOETE and lived at Constantia and Florence who married Richard Shaw SMITH. The 3 sons, engineers and a lawyer, had no children. When the children left home, DYASON sold his home, "Durban House", in Western Road, Port Elizabeth and moved to "Rokeby" in Twickenham Road, Central [close to Fort Frederick]. His death in 1901 was mourned by the whole town.