Dyster History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Dyster family

The surname Dyster was first found in Worcestershire where they held a family seat as and recorded on Tax Rolls.Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year 1280 when Henry le Dyester was on taxable records.

Early History of the Dyster family

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Dyster Spelling Variations

Only recently has spelling become standardized in the English language. As the English language evolved in the Middle Ages, the spelling of names changed also. The name Dyster has undergone many spelling variations, including Dyster, Dyetser, Digester, Dighester, Dister and others.

Early Notables of the Dyster family

Distinguished members of the family include

Dyster of Worcester

Dyster migration to the United States +

To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Dyster were among those contributors:

Dyster Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Joseph Joshua Dyster, who landed in America in 1809 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Dyster (post 1700) +

Fred Dyster, American politician, Prohibition Candidate for U.S. Senator from California, 1940; Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, California, 1945 2

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 9) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html