DYKER FAMILY, Glass, Aberdeenshire

[Blue_Ian]

Hi Anita

Yes, it does become quite addictive and an obsession.  I have quite a few Dyker birth, death & marriage certificates I could e-mail you if you'd like.

Kind regards

Ian

[AGMacD]

Thanks Ian
Yes I would appreciate the certificates emailed or faxed if that's easier.  I have Elizabeth and Elsie's certificates as I had to initially prove UK grandparent status to work in the UK in the 80's. If you don't have those two I will email to you.

Also I think that the poem may have been for the birth of Agnes - was she born April or August.
Anita.

[Iyonix2003]

AGMacD,

I read with great interest, the reference to William George Wyborn who married Margaret Dyker in Vancouver in 1926. William George Wyborn was my 4th cousin 3 times removed. He was born in Moat Sole, Sandwich, Kent on 24/6/1885 and died in Vancouver, British Columbia on 8/4/1950 but, until I found your posting here, I didn't know whether he had married or not.

I am in contact with another Wyborn cousin in Vancouver and will see if he can trace the marriage certificate to see if William George's father was one William Wyborn of Northbourne, Kent (1851-1927).

Bye for now.

[AGMacD]

Well that's very interesting.  I have British Columbia Online births deaths and marriages documentation (I don't remember where from)

Groom William George Wyborn
Bride Margaret Dyker (my maternal grandmother's sister)
Event date: 24 June 1926
Place: Vancouver

Reg Number 1926-09-304471
BC Archives Microfilm No. B13751 GSU Microfilm No. 2074504

George died 8 April 1950
Reg Number 1950-09-004052
BC Archives Microfilm No.B13204
GSU 2032632

Happy hunting.

I have a lovely clear photo of Margaret but don't think I have any of George.

If I can get my act together I will scan her photo and post.

Regards
Anita.

(Margaret died 13 October 1974)

[Iyonix2003]

Anita,

Many thanks for replying to my message. I've had a reply from my contact in Vancouver and he found that William George Wyborn was married twice. The first marriage was to one Annie Kidd (1883, Glasgow) on 19/11/1914 at the First Presbyterian Church, Vancouver.

Annie dies on 25/2/1925 and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver. As we already know, William then marries Margaret Dyker on 24/6/1926 at St. Margarets, Vancouver. William dies in 1950 and Margaret in 1974. I don't know where William George is buried but I am guessing that, as Margaret is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, he will be as well.

The informant at Margarets death is a son-in-law so William and Margaret may have had a daughter. Unfortunately, I don't have the son-in-laws name to hand at the moment but I will ask my contact if he can find any Wyborn births in Vancouver c1926-1930 that can be attributed to William and Margaret?

Will be in touch again soon.

[RD]

Hello Blue_Ian and AGMcD,

I came across your information concerning the Dyker family one night.

Just to let you know that William, who married Elizabeth McKay, died in Cobham, Surrey. They were my great grandparents.

Charles and Isabella (nee Mclaren) are buried in a small churchyard in Glass called Walla Kirk (St Walloch's Church). There are other Dykers there too.

I haven't done much research for a while, but I will see if I can dig out what I have.

While I remember, my father has always said that a George Dyker was a maker of fiddles. I'm not sure if this is William's brother or not, but apparently there are Dyker fiddles out there somewhere.

I hope this post works as it is my first attempt. 

RD

[Robert]

Hi RD,

Yes there was a George Dyker that was a fiddle maker. He was born 1878 in Glass, Aberdeenshire. His parents were Alexander Dyker(brother of Charles mentioned in earlier posts) and Elspet Bremner. George married Jane Robertson and had three children, Alexander, Annie, and Susan.

An auction website states this about George Dyker.
Hope it's of interest to you.

'Born in Aberdeenshire, 1878. Resident in Drumduan Forres (Morayshire), 1924. Produced first instrument in 1901. Built about 40 violins and several ’cellos. Heart and soul in complete sympathy with the charm of the Stradivarian model, absolutely no exaggeration in his delineation of the outline and graduations. Workmanship perfect down to the minutest detail, positively a delight to see. Scroll and sound-holes supremely conceived. Purfling faultless. Inside details beautifully finished. Peculiar properties of various woods, even to the sound-post, carefully ascertained. Orange brown shade of oil varnish applied as only as artistic mind can foresee. Occasionally tried a reddish shade. Instruments that must surely have a high and permanent place in the future. Dyker, in travelling the road of scientific exactitude, also kept in view that elusive thing known as tonal quality, which is as resonant and clear as anything heard, and is already of that peculiar quality which rapidly develops under the stimulus of the bow.'

[RD]

Hello Robert,

My dad will be chuffed to read this. We had no idea that he made cellos as well. They must be beautiful instruments by the way they are described.
Sounds like he was a perfectionist - something that seems to run in the family.

Thanks for this info. Very, very interesting.

 

[Robert]

Hi RD,

No problem, glad it was of interest to you.