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Newsletter from Lucy Joan Slater |
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Lucy
apologises for a mistake in the Web page address, and reports on the AGM at
Cambridge. On the Thursday; she took Millicent Craig to view Kings College
Chapel, and the next day John Dalton took a small party to see Denny
Abbey. On Saturday morning the AGM was held in Girton College and in
the afternoon one party went to see Fulbourne Church and Manor House, and
another party went to visit Trinity College and St. John's. In the evening, the Annual Dinner was held in
Wolfson Court.
On
Sunday morning, we set out for Little Eversden where Ruth Leet was born and were
given coffee by Mrs. Cowham, who also opened the church for us to see inside
where the Leet family worshipped. We went on to Wimpole Hall to take lunch
and to see the Chicheley tombs. Faith Keymer prepared a large family tree
showing the relationship between the Daltons and the Chicheleys.
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Births |
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Marriage |
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Natalie BUNTING-BLAKE to Jason SWANSON |
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August 2001. |
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Death |
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Bill SELF |
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January 2001. |
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Bits and Pieces |
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A poem for a Genealogist
Margaret Dalton of Lampeter was
Wales woman farmer of the year in 1999.
General Emmet Dalton organised
the blowing up of the records office in Dublin.
In 1538, £2 11s 6d was spent on
erecting a hedge round a wood by Ralph Dalton in Northallerton.
In 1861, at Hambledon, Fred, son
of Elizabeth Dalton was baptised. There are no other Daltons mentioned in
the Hambledon parish records.
In Chichester Cathedral, there is
a memorial book which records the names of 1335 Naval men and women who died in
the Chichester diocese in the 1939-45 war and have no know grave. One
Dalton, Gordon Frank A.B. age 18, was in Portsmouth dockyard when he was
killed.
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Family History fairs in 2002. |
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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries |
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M.N.Q.35.1 |
Can anyone help Shona? |
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- Shone
Oswald from New Zealand, wants to know about her family, headed by Thomas Dalton
born about 1811 in County Cork, Ireland., who married Ann O'Brian in Dublin in 1833. M.V.C. By mistake,
L.J.S. and M.V.C both wrote the same material up into M.N.Q.'s. See M.N.Q. 33.8. Also M.N.Q. 35.3 is
put in this Journal before M.N.Q. 35.2.
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M.N.Q.35.3 |
A Thistle on the gravestone. |
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- Tina
Culburtson asks if this means anything? Her family comes from Scotland but
were baptised in Wetheral, Cumbria and buried in Upland, Pennsylvania.
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M.N.Q.35.2 |
Daltons in Islington. |
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- Vic
Dalton gives his family line with a photo of him and two of his
daughters.
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M.N.Q.35.4 |
Captain John Dalton of Newfoundland. |
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- His
descendants Thomas Jefferies and Ann Mercer want to know about his country of
origin. He and his wife Dorcas nee Taylor had four children, and there are
many living descendants of this union.
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M.N.Q.35.5 |
A Mystery Resolved. |
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- A
becalmed ship was running out of water and food when an American Captain Dalton
from Newburyport shared his sparse rations with the crew, and so enabled them to
make land. He has now been identified as Captain Jonathan Dalton. He
was lost at sea in a violent storm, only four months after his act of kindness.
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M.N.Q.35.6 |
An irregular marriage. |
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- William
and Margaret Dalton had a baby in 1868 at Coldstream in Scotland. It died
but they had another child Elizabeth in 1870 and a third daughter Margaret in
1871. No marriage has been found.
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M.N.Q.35.7 |
Captain Dalton, defender of Trichinopoly. |
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earlier M.N.Q. 6.12 notes a book about this man. Here some further
information is extracted from the Imperial Gazette about his efforts to overcome
his enemies.
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M.N.Q.35.8 |
My Irish D'Alton family. |
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- June
Self tells of her Irish ancestors. John Dalton, carpenter married Anne Kearns
and they had a son Michael Peter born about 1829. He married Catherine
Leahy and they emigrated to Australia on the 2nd of October
1849.
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M.N.Q.35.9 |
Another Dalton-Cayley connection. |
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- Both the
Dalton and Cayley families married into the Wyvill family. Francis Wyvill
married Anne Cayley, one of Francis' aunts married Sir
William Dalton of Hawkeswell and her sister Anne married Sir William's younger brother Thomas Dalton.
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M.N.Q.35.10 |
The most Westerly Dalton in England. |
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- In
Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly, on the quay at Old Grimsby, is a seat to the
memory of a child, Digby Dalton 1981-1989.
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Fights Forgotten, A Dalton in the East by Michael Cayley |
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This
details the Army service of Dennis Harman Dalton of the East India Company's Bengal Army. He joined as a Cadet in 1783, and
saw service in northern India. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in
1804, and was commended for his service. He was promoted to Major, in
1814 and saw service in Java for which he was given a special gold
medal. Stamford Raffles was the Civilian Governor over him. In 1815,
the Light Infantry mutinied and Dalton suppressed this mutiny. There was
trouble in Celebes in the same year, and Dalton was sent to suppress that.
There was a fierce battle which Dalton won, although he lost a third of his
troops. He returned to India and then back to England. In 1819, he
was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, formerly retired and died in Cheltenham in
1828.
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Binders for the DGS Journal |
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Dalton links in Buckinghamshire by Howard John Dalton |
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His
great great grandfather Richard Dolton was born in Sherington, near Newport
Pagnall. He was married twice and the second wife Ruth gave him a son
Richard. She finished her life in the County Asylum, and died in 1852,
aged 57. Her son Richard had gone to London to find work. He was
married in 1853 to Mary Ann Hopson, and lived in Camden Town where he worked as
a carman on the railway. The couple produced ten children over the next
twenty four years. The third child Richard was Howard's great grandfather. He married Eliza Jane Herbert and
they had six children. Their third son Albert became a solicitor and
married Rose Price. He was Howard's grandfather.
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Family History by an unknown descendant |
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This
article has no clue as to who sent it. It deals with the family tree of
the late Janet Weaver, some of which has already been published. But the
latter part gives new information about the family of Daltons living in Church
Lawford, near Coventry.
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Westmeath in 1598 extracted by Ciaran Dalton |
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Two tales of Irish Convicts by K. T. Mapstone |
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The
first is an appeal by John Dalton and Robert Adam for news of two of their Irish
convicts who had run away in July 1767, and the second is an appeal for news of
another Irish convict, who was called Christopher Dolton, and had run away in
June 1771 from Andrew Hamilton in Augusta.
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General Alexandre d'Alton by Millicent V. Craig |
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He was
one of Napoleon's Generals, and his name is inscribed on
the Arc de Triomphe. He was the father of Aimee Dalton, whose story was in
DGS Journal Vol. 32. In 1819, the General's own
story was researched by the Irish Herald's Office.
They found that Alexandre's line started in Ireland with
William Dalton of Killmallady, in County Offaly, about 1550, and went down to
his father Captain William Dalton born 1735, in Knockakelly, Tipperary, who had
married Marie-Louise Coillot, in France. Alexandre was born in April
1776. Aged 12, he joined the French Army as a cadet, in the Brunswick
regiment in which his father had served under the King of France.
Alexandre was promoted to Lieutenant, in 1791, aged 15 and by the age of 19 he
was promoted to Captain. He served under General Hoche, and in 1796 was
with a fleet which left Brest to invade Ireland. They were scattered by a
storm and returned to France.
He
married Elizabeth Reine, in 1803. They had four children, Laetitia,
Alfred, Constance, and Aimee. D'Alton worked in
the ministry of War, and became an officer of the Legion d'Honor. He served in the Austrian, Prussian and Polish
campaigns. He was at the Battle of Austerlitz and was promoted to
Colonel. His bravery, at the battle of Friedland, earned him promotion to
Brigadier General at the age of 32, and this carried with it 4,000 francs a
year. After Napoleon was named king, he took command of the Morland
Division in 1809, and the campaign against Russia in 1812, in which he was
injured.
His garrison resisted in the citadel at Erfurt, where he was under siege for
eight months. He marched 300 miles, to get his garrison back safely with
their arms. For this, he was made a Commander of the Legion of
Honor. When Napoleon re-entered Paris after Waterloo, d'Alton fled to Toulon, and in 1818, Louis XVIII made him a
Count. After the restoration, he was promoted to Lieutenant General of the
Army, and a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor.
In 1842
he retired. He had served France for 50 years. His wife had died in
1832 and he re-married in 1843, to Julienne Chatard, the elder sister of his
son-in-law. He went to live in Versailles, and died in 1859 aged 83.
His son Alfred followed in his father's footsteps and
became Colonel of his regiment. The funeral at Versailles was attended by
a great many men who had served under him, as well as many famous people,
and most of the inhabitants of Versailles.
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The origin of the name Dalton by Millicent V. Craig |
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A
discussion of Dalton place names, which exist in various parts of England,
produces the result that there is no one original Dalton ancestor, but
several groups named after the villages in which they lived.
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News from America by Millicent V. Craig |
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She
enjoyed the Cambridge meeting of the DGS and the Query team is doing good
work. A web site has been launched. It was created by
Millicent's daughter Mary Weber-Ellias. Also the
Dalton Data bank is being open to the public from September 2001. It
contains over 10,000 names and is user friendly. The e-mail addresses of
the Dalton data bank and the Webb page are given, a visit to Ireland is proposed
in a year or two and the DNA study is announced.
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Dalton News and Views Down under by Maureen Collins |
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Publications list for Australian Daltons by Maureen Collins |
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Book Reviews |
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Family
History on the Web, published by the F.F.H. Society.
Internet directory for
England and Wales by Stuart Raymond, £4.95
Irish Family History n he
Web, by he same author £4.95
British Family history on CD, by
the same author, £5.95.
All register transcripts
published by the Lancashire Parish Register Society, which are out of print, are
now available on CD's.
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Annual General Meeting of the Dalton Genealogical Society, for 2001 |
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This reports the meeting held at
Girton College, Cambridge. The Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, American
Secretary and Australian Secretary all presented their reports. The
Officers of the Committee were re-elected.
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Appendix I, Report from Australia |
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Appendix II Report from America |
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Report on the proposed D.N.A. study |
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Accounts for 2000 |
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New Members |
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A list
of new members from April 1st to October 1st 2001. Hazel Bryant, Janice
Crompton, Archie Dalton, Dennis Morgan Dalton, William S. Dalton, Rev. Margaret
Engler, Thomas E. Jefferies, Carol Ann Mercer, Stephenie M. Koffler, Jennifer C.
Norwood, Elizabeth G. N. Sleaford.
Change of Address, June Self.
An apology. Ruth Ralston's name was given incorrectly as Ruth Railston.
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An appeal |
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This is for money to fund
research into brain cancer, following the death of Kitty Cameron, in 1999 a week
before her 19th birthday. Kitty was the daughter of our Editor, Elizabeth
Cameron.
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All Indexes have been checked by Lucy J. Slater. |
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