Hi... This is coming from Don C. Marler....and....he had trouble sending it to the group....so I'm sending it to the group: kaite.. ===== Subject: Dyas/Dyess Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:37:02 -0600 From: "Don C. Marler" <dcmsmm@sprynet.com> Organization: Dogwood Press To: Dyess Group <Dyess_L@rootsweb.com> The message I sent!!! I have been communicating with a gentleman from Ireland who has been working in New York on a computer project. He is returning home in a few days. He is a Dyas/Dyess and has agreed to me sharing his address. I think you will find it interesting. The following is a message I received from him in response to my query. To answer your question, I was born in Ireland in a place called Drogheda. It is approx. 30 miles north of Dublin City which is the capital of Ireland. I am 26 years old and I have lived most of my life in Drogheda. I started work in Dublin when I was 21 because there are not many computer related jobs in Drogheda. I spent the last 5 years in Dublin but at the moment I am actually living in New York. I have been here for the last 3 months working on a certain project. I am very interested in the history of the Dyas name. When I travel I always look up phone books just as a matter of interest. In Ireland, there are not many Dyas's, I have only seen the name popping up in Drogheda and there are a lot of them and we are all related in some way or another. Years gone by, there used to be large families in Ireland, on average about 7 children per family but that has changed dramatically, and I'd say the average is only about 1 or 2 now. But the effect of large families has left a large population of Dyas's in Drogheda. I would be very interested in any information you can give me regarding my name. I would really appreciate that. When I was at school doing exams at the age of 17 I studied Irish (which is compulsory in Ireland) and French, and as part of the exam you have an oral examination. During both exams the examiner asked me about the history of my name as general conversation. Needless to say I hadn't much to say, I couldn't tell him where the name originated from in English never mind trying to put it into Irish or French. After that episode I started looking around about the name but to no avail. In Ireland there are some shops which deal with family crests which also give some details about the background of the name but anywhere I went I came up blank, but my sister found a shop with it. It said that the name Dyas originated from the Saxon's. His email address is: john dyas@hotmail.com and in Ireland it is: John Dyas, Jr. 445 St. Finians Park Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland Don C. Marler