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Contents |
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Newsletter |
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Births |
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Aubrey Richard LAY |
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6th June 2000. |
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Deaths |
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Tom ASHURST |
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28th Sept 2000. |
Richard Neville Dalton HAMILTON |
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8th Sept. 2000. |
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Report on his funeral and a poem
"Autumn at Glynde" by Lucy Joan Slater |
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Obituary of Richard Neville
Dalton Hamilton by Michael Neale Dalton |
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Michael
gives a list of Dick's main articles in the DGS
Journal and an outline of his life. Educated at Westminster School, he
became a lawyer with first class honours in his examinations, and then worked
for the Buckingham County Council. In 1940, he enlisted in the Royal Army
Ordinance Corps, and served in Egypt, Tunisia and Italy, gaining the rank of
Major.
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After the war, he returned
to his post as an expert in Town and Country Planning. He worked
on the creation of the new Town of Milton Keynes and took part in
the fight to prevent London's third airport being situated at Cublington.
After retirement, he advised on various parliamentary bills, such
as the Telecommunications Act and the Planning and Compensation act.
He played Golf
well, belonged to many Societies and Institutions, such as The National Trust
and the International Bar Society, and he travelled round the world three
times. He is buried at Glynde with many other members of his family.
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Obituary of Kathleen Irene Neale
Dalton by Lucy Joan Slater |
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Kathleen
was born on 20th January 1923 and died on 29th April
2000. She was trained as a teacher, and in 1947, she entered a nunnery in
Oxford. Then she was known as Sister Mary Angela. She spent her time
between the various houses of her order and took an external degree of London
University in Spanish and Rumanian. She had no personal possessions in the
Order, but she did not want to loose touch with the DGS so she sent me
notes, to go into the DGS Journal, of any references to Daltons in the
Times. and was made an Honorary member of the DGS for this work.
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Obituary of Reid Samuelson |
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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries |
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M.N.Q.33.1 |
A Dalton on early T.V. |
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- Charles Dalton, father of DGS
committee member Pamela Richards, was one of the first people to be televised
when he took part in an experimental broadcast by John Logie Baird in 1927.
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M.N.Q.33.2 |
A problem with Jeremiah. |
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- Diana Newson had a great great
grandfather called Jeremiah who married Eunice Miles at St. James' Westminster in 1830. He was married again to a widow
Eliza Martin, and in the 1881 census, he is said to have been born in
Bristol. However, there is no trace of his birth in Bristol.
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M.N.Q.33.3 |
Mr. Dalton, “an empty fellow”. |
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- Blackwood's Magazine for May 1857 has a note about an
“an abominable riot” in Oxford, when “an empty fellow” Mr. Dalton, who had
been entered into All Souls College by Dr. Tennison, cut off the heads of
two woodcocks at dinner in contempt for “the blessed martyr”.
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M.N.Q.33.4 |
Effigies with folded hands. |
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- A tomb
of Dr. Rudd, his wife Anne Dalton and several of their children is in Llangathen
Church, Carmarthenshire. From all these figures, an iconoclast had smitten
off the hands raised in prayer. Later, the hands had been restored by
hands folded on the breasts.
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M.N.Q.33.5 |
John D'Alton's manuscripts. |
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- In
another item from Notes and Queries for March 1852, John D'Alton was searching for the Salusbury Welsh Pedigree book,
compiled in about 1650.
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M.N.Q.33.6 |
Was she a genuine Dalton? |
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- Elizabeth Burley, alias Dalton, was transported to New South Wales for seven
years for stealing a handkerchief. There, she became a servant to Dr.
Arndell and they produced several children out of wedlock. He already had
one wife in England.
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M.N.Q.33.7 |
Remembering the Battle of Britain. |
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- A
television program about Tom Dalton Morgan who was a Spitfire pilot in the
battle, made me remember my own experiences of it, first in Portsmouth and then
in London when the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children was bombed.
L. J. S.
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M.N.Q.33.8 |
Can anyone help Shona? |
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- Thomas
Dalton was born about 1811. He married Ann O'Brien
in 1833, and then served in the Army for 16 years, fighting against the Boars,
in Natal. They had two children born in South Africa and then settled in
Auckland, New Zealand, where they had four more children.
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Some Daltons in North Kent by Maurice Dalton |
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This
article is not only about the family of Daltons in North Kent but also about the
experiences Maurice had while seeking their records. His grandfather was
Alfred Charles Dalton who married Charlotte Tagg in 1899. Maurice found
that his family were farm workers in the area of north Kent.
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earliest record is of Thomas Dalton and his wife Mary who lived in the parish of
Boughton under Blean near the modern Hernhill. They baptised two children
Thomas in 1732 and Mary in 1735. Thomas junior married and baptised two
daughters and two sons, called Thomas, born 1758 and John born 1763.
John's wife was called Sarah and they baptised twelve
children. One of these was called Thomas and he married Elizabeth Ann
Fryer in 1837. They had five children. The youngest of these was
John Russell Dalton who was baptised in 1851 and married Jane Harriett
Jordan. These were the great grand parents of Maurice Dalton.
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Margery de la Beche, a link with the Cayleys? by Michael Cayley |
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In Mrs..
Leaning's book, there is an account of the abduction of
Margery by John de Dalton, in 1347. She was born de Poynings, and had been
married to Edmund Bacon and then to Nicholas de la Beche. Michael Cayley
discusses connections between the Cayleys and the de Poynings.
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The Daltons of Hampton, N. H.; Part III by Millicent V. Craig |
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Deacon
Philemon Dalton married Abigail Gove in 1690 and they had ten children, listed
in this article. Philemon died in 1721 and left the will given here.
The will of his son Timothy, proved in 1756, is also reproduced together with a
list of Timothy's ten children.
The next
section deals with Michael Dalton, son of Philemon. He was thirteen years
old when his father died. He became a sailor and Captain of his own
ship. He married Mary Little in 1734 and they had three children. Two died
in infancy but the third, Tristram lived to be 82. There are pictures of
Michael's house and St. Paul's
Church.
Tristram married Ruth Hooper and they had ten children. He entered
politics and lost most of his fortune. His daughter Mary married Leonard
White who was a descendant of the William White who had gone to America with
Philemon.
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Excerpts from the Diary of Rev. Matthias Plant by Millicent V. Craig |
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Captain
Michael Dalton was one of the Church Wardens who chose Mr. Plant as their pastor
in 1741/2. However, there was soon trouble among his congregation, which
seems to have lasted for six years. Then Dalton recommended Mr. Wingate to
become the next minister. There was a dispute between Mr. Plant and
Captain Dalton. Next, the wardens proposed Mr. Quincy to be their
minister. Captain Dalton sailed to England to ask permission to remove Mr.
Plant. When the first census of Newbury was taken by Mr. Plant, ten per
cent of the population were slaves and some seem to have been owned by Captain
Dalton.
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Sir Charles Dalton, Politician and Philanthropist by T. O'Connor & R.
Rankin |
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Charles' parents came from Ireland to Tignish on Prince
Edward's Island, where they had nine children, listed
here. Charles was the youngest, born 1850. He married Ann Gavin, and
died in 1933. Charles and Ann had twelve children, also listed here.
In an
earlier article, we have seen how he became a silver fox fur farmer. Here
we discuss his second career as a politician. He gave $70,000 to build a
tuberculosis Sanatorium, which had operated for only six months when the 1914-18
war started, and it was taken over by the Government. Sir Charles gave
money to buy an ambulance. After the war, the sanatorium reverted to its
benefactor, and a second one was built in the town. Dalton's second donation was the money to build Dalton Hall at St.
Dunstan's University. After the end of the war,
Sir Charles bought a large estate in Brookline Massachusetts, but made frequent
trips back to Tignish.
At the
age of 72, he won a clay pigeon shooting match by shooting down five pigeons as
fast as they could be launched. The Fox Fur breeders' association honoured him, and he continued to enjoy the
outdoor life. He became Governor of Prince Edward's Island in 1930 at the age of 80.
Then he
built at Tignish the Dalton Normal School. He was disheartened by the
sudden death of his son, Gerald in a boating accident, and then Charles slipped
on an Icy pavement and was confined to bed for the last few days of his
life. He died aged 84 and was buried at Tignish with a full State funeral.
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Yorkshire Family History Fair |
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News from America by Millicent V. Craig |
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This
reports on her trip to England, to attend the AGM, and announces the formation
of a Dalton research team in America to answer queries and help members and
non-members of the Society. She reports on the work of “Mike” Dalton, who
has extracted a database of Irish born Daltons in the 1881 census. Diana
Jackman's work is on the Newfoundland Daltons.
Millicent herself has amassed several large sets of data on American
Daltons. Michael Cayley and Lucy Slater will try to answer questions about
English Daltons, and Pamela Lynam on Norfolk Daltons. Millicent appeals
for other helpers in this work, and on the data bank. There have been
24,000 visits to the Web page in the past six months.
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Special message for Australian families |
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Reviews |
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The
first review is of a paper by M. & G. Sanborn “The Dalton Cluster at
Woolverstone”, New England Historical Society Vol. 154, July 2000. It
repeats the work, Lucy Slater did in DGSJ Vol. 14, 1985 and then goes on to
discuss the wills of Ruth Dalton and Jasper Blake.
The
second review is of the work of Margot Dalton who writes detective stories,
which are an easy read.
The
third review is of the FFHS publications, An Introduction to British Civil
registration, and Yorkshire, The Genealogists Library Guides; Vol. 1,
Information sources for Yorkshire Genealogists, Vol. 3 Yorkshire List of Names
and Vol. 4, Administrative Records for Yorkshire Genealogists.
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Annual General Meeting |
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This was held on 19th August 2000, at Reigate. At it, Michael
Cayley was elected onto the Committee with the title of Librarian. The
Chairman reported that the Millennium was also the 30th year of the
Society and a new printing of the first part of the Dalton book had been
published. The Treasurer's report was adopted in
his absence. The Secretary, Lucy Slater presented her report and announced
her retirement Pamela Lynam was elected Executive Society in her
place. Lucy was made an Honorary member of the Society.
Appendix 1. The American Secretary said that several of her Dalton members wish
to participate in a DNA project to see what their ancestral roots really
were.
Appendix 2. The Australian Secretary reported two new members and other
Australian News.
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DGS Accounts for 1999 |
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New members from April 1st 2000 to October 1st 2000 |
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Kate Stanton Bryant, George
Byrkit, Andrew Dalton, Brian Dalton, Heather Dalton, Dr. William T. G. Dalton,
Mary A. Dalton-Henderson, Wendy Fleming, Sandra L. Hales, Scott & Dawn
Kamerath, Robert & Velma Richardson, Nathan P. Strauss III, James E. Vaughn,
Barbara A. Williams.
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Change of Postcode |
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Data Protection Act by Michael Cayley |
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Forthcoming Events in Family History 2001 |
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