Elizabeth Illenden Pearce was born in Ramsgate in January 1803, and baptised in February 1803 at St Lawrence, Thanet. Her parents were Edward and Susannah (nee Huggett) Pearce. Edward was a Cordwainer. Both he and Susannah were born in Kent.
In March 1832, in Ramsgate, Elizabeth's son Isaac Edward Dyason was born. In September 1832, she married Isaac Dyason, from Ramsgate, at St James, Westminster. One of the witnesses was Mary Huggett Pearce.
Their first daughter Frances was born about 1834, daughter Eliza in 1836, son Frederick 1840, Julia in 1843, Edward Huggett in 1844, Charles Herbert 1847, Auguste 1849 and Catherine in 1851, all in Ramsgate.
The family lived in Bath Place, Ramsgate in 1851, where Isaac was a Bather.
All eight of their then children were Scholars, with an added note 'Educated at Home'. The eldest son Isaac Edward was by then in Australia. Isaac senior's single sister Frances was part of the household.
In the 1861 census, living in Bath House, Ramsgate were Elizabeth and Isaac with 7 of their children. Frederick was a Clerk in the London Custom House, and Edward a Receiver General. Sister Frances Dyason was living with them, another sister, and one General Servant.
Isaac Senior first appears as a Bather in 1847, at the Royal Clarence Baths, joining his father's trade. He died in 1868 in Ramsgate.
As a seasonal facility, and affected by wars, a cholera epidemic, local competition etc., the business struggled and was greatly helped by money sent home from Isaac Edward from the Australian gold diggings'. In 1842, when he was 10 he went to Cape Town with his Grandfather Dyason. He went from there to Adelaide when he was 18. (He died, having prospered, in Melbourne, Australia, in 1915)
Elizabeth Illenden Dyason letters SE Row 13 No 12
By 1871, Elizabeth had moved to Croydon with single daughter Elizabeth, sons Frederick and Edward, Customs Clerks, and son Charles, a Stationery Office Clerk. They had one General Servant.
There was another move, to Sevenoaks by 1881. Elizabeth shared the house with her son Edward, Head of Household, Clerk, HM Customs, daughter Frances, and Servant, Mary Wood, from Kent.
She had moved to Worthing by 1901. Living on her own means, at Monkton, Mill Road with single daughter Frances, 67, also living on her own means, son Edward Huggett, 57, retired Customs Officer, and one Servant, Emily Scardifield from Westhampnett, aged 26.
After Elizabeth's death on 27th March 1906, at Monkton, probate was granted to Frederick Dyason, retired Civil Servant.
In the 1911 census, Frances was Head of House at the Poplars, Mill Road, with brother Edward, Retired Civil Servant, and Servant Emily Scardifield. .Edward died in July that year.
In 1891, Charles Herbert, with wife Margaret, born in Ireland, was living in Clapham, with daughters Eva, Mary and Margaret, plus a Servant from Ireland. Charles was described as a Clerk in HM's Stationery Office
In 1901, Charles was living in Streatham, with his wife and their three daughters. He died in Streatham in 1905 and was buried in Heene Cemetery by the Rector, the Rev J.P.Fallowes, as was his mother the next year, and his brother in 1911.
Julia Hampson nee Dyason, Elizabeth's daughter, was buried at Heene in 1923.