Family
Robert Dyer left Greenspond briefly in 1845 to be married in England. Dyer married Elizabeth Bartlett, daughter of Josiah and Sarah Ann (Hughes) Bartlett, on April 15, 1845, at St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, in London. Robert and Elizabeth had five children: William Bartlett Dyer (July 22, 1846), Henry Thomas Dyer (October 31, 1847), Joseph Lake Dyer (May 23, 1849), Louise Sarah Dyer (April 20, 1851, Louise died and was buried on June 28, 1852, at the age of 1 year and 2 months), and Isabella Dyer (August 8, 1852). William Dyer became a teacher in Prince Edward Island, and later became a pharmacist; he moved back to England in 1909. Henry Dyer was a telegraph operator, Isabella married a John Charles Travers, and Joseph Dyer was a merchant in Prince Edward Island. Joseph's daughter, Alice Maude, was a nurse but later became the first registered woman pharmacist in Prince Edward Island when she received her diploma in this field, in 1928.
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