South Yorkshire Times – Friday 18 November 1932

Family Reunion

Wombwell Couple’s Golden Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Dyson.

An old fashioned family were reunited at 82 Blythe Street, Wombwell, on Sunday and Mr. and Mrs. Mordecai Dyson were celebrating their golden wedding anniversary, and sharing in the festivity were the whole of their seven children, four sons and three daughters.

One had come from Shipley, another from Doncaster, and they met altogether for the first time in many years. There was a wedding cake, a tea party the toasting of the old couple, and the passing of many homely but sincere compliments.

There was special justification for thanksgiving. Mrs. Dyson has just regained her health after a serious illness—the first she has ever had. She told a “Times” representative that she had just received her first doctor’s bill.

Mr. and Mrs. Dyson lived in Ebenezer Square, Worsboro’ Dale, at the time of their marriage, and they travelled the five miles to Darfield behind a smart pair of greys. They could have been married at Worsoro’ Dale, but it was the fashion in those days with those who could afford it to be married at the “mother” church at Darfield.

Mr. Dyson was employed at. Edmunds Main, still remembered on account of the disaster that occurred there. For fourteen years after they were married they lived in Worsboro’ Dale, and for the last 36 years in Blythe Street, Wombwell.

When Mr. Dyson gave up work four years ago he had been employed at the coal face at Mitchell Main for thirteen years. Both are 69 years of age.

Mr. and Mrs. Dyson have a family to be proud of. All the sons have been members of the Wombwell Company of the Church Lads’ Brigade, and three of them went through the war. The eldest son is now 48, the “baby” is 27, and they have one great-grandchild. In the districts in which they live they are held in high esteem, and good wishes for their health and happiness have been showered upon them.