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Contents |
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Letter from the Chairman |
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DNA Project |
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Births |
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Parry Stark Lovell
RYAN |
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26th November 2002. |
- This
is a new grandchild for Melanie Dalton Crain and a son for Andrew and
Heather (Crain) Ryan.
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Gwynn Marie
ROTHHAMMER |
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18th December 2002. |
- Sam
and Millicent Craig have a new great grand child.
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Jack Ellis
DALTON |
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11th April 2003. |
- A
first grandchild for Audrey and David Dalton of Hade Edge.
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Phoebe Levon
SMITH |
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17th February 2003. |
- Daveda and Richard Bundy have a new
grandchild.
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Marriages |
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Lorna Grace DALTON to Craig William WICKENS |
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11th May 2002. |
- Lorna
is the daughter of James Neale and Tina Dalton.
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Carol Ann MERCER to Eric
Thomas
JEFFERIES |
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29th June 2002. |
- Eric
is the son of the late Wesley Jeffries.
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Deaths |
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Scott Rodney
DALTON |
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7th Sep 1961 to
10th Jan 2003. |
- Scott
was the son of Rodney Dalton.
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I'm free |
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Family History Events in 2003 |
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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries |
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M.N.Q.38.1 |
Hearsay isn’t History. |
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- This reports a conversation
between Dick Hamilton and Joyce Parker about the battle of Worcester and
the flight into Wales.
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M.N.Q.38.2 |
Another coincidence. |
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- This coincidence is that
Victor Dalton bought a watercolour by Alfred Bamford. He also got a
copy of the 1901 census for London. His ancestor was living in
Islington and next door but one was living the painter Alfred
Bamford.
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M.N.Q.38.3 |
Photographs by Stephen Dalton. |
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- In January 2003, some of
his photographs of wild birds were on a series of British Postage
stamps.
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M.N.Q.38.4 |
Manchester Southern Cemetery. |
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- In this cemetery, the
grave C104 is that of Jane Elizabeth wife of John Dalton, also John, Amy
Jane, Annie and Harry Dalton. It was reported by our Editor, John
Dalton.
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M.N.Q.38.5 |
Durham miners. |
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- Several Daltons have lost their lives
in Coal mines. A list of some of them is on the website, www.dmm.org.uk.
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The West Berkshire Doltons by Eric Dolton |
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This article tries to trace
the family before 1730. Some are found as far back as 1589, in Lambourn.
Thomas had a family there when he died in 1637, and Stephen married
there in 1600. Another family name is Henry, who lived at Woodlands,
which is the lower end of the parish, and he had a family there starting
in 1654. Then there is a gap until 1747 and these Doltons have been
recorded in the book "Going with the Grain".
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Revisiting the Early Daltons by Michael Cayley |
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Michael says that no
Daltons came over with William's army in
1066. Mrs. Leaning starts her account of the family with Sir Richard
of Bispham, but Daltons were in Northern England as early as 1208
when several families held land in Northumberland and Yorkshire.
Wakefield Manor Court rolls, contain several references to Daltons, and in
1242, Richard de Dalton held land in Seaton. There is no proof that
these were ancestors of the Newcastle Daltons in the 1400s.
The
first East Anglian Dalton was John who lived in Great Yarmouth in
1298. The Byspham Daltons may be related to the Dutton family, given
the fluidity of medeaeval spelling. They were a well known family in
Lancashire about 1300. The 1558 Visitation by the Herald, Lawrence
Dalton, has a pedigree of the Kirby Misperton Daltons back to Sir Richard
of Bispham. His second son John was the founder of this line and was
the Bailiff of the castle at Pickering, as well as warden of the
forests round there. His duties extended as far as the coast of
Yorkshire.
Sir John's
brother Sir Robert of Bispham, rebelled against the King, Edward II, and
was put into Pickering Castle, but was released in 1323. He regained
royal favour and was appointed the King's Keeper of
the forest between the Mersey and the Loune. He was a rich man, and
held the manor of Apthorpe.
In 1340 he was appointed
Keeper of the Tower of London until 1346. In 1347, Sir
Robert's son Sir John abducted the Prince of
Wales' hostess, (mistress?) Margery de la Beche.
This is told in detail in Mrs. Leaning's
book. Margery died in 1349. Sir Robert and Sir John were both
pardoned and got their lands back. Note printing error in this
article. Sir John attended Parliament in 1360, not 1369. He died in
a fight in 1369.
Despite the trouble with
Margary, the Dalton family still had close links with the King.
Another of Sir Robert's
sons, William, had a key position in the royal
household, as keeper of the Wardrobe which was the financial heart of the
Monarchy. Ralph De Dalton was another senior official in the Wardrobe in
1297. He was empowered to raise and provision troops for the
Scottish wars. William, son of Ralph, was also an official in the
Wardrobe in 1322. Ralph's work was
almost always concerned with the north of England. He retired about
1327.
His son, William de
Dalton was Edward III's chief
servant. He was a very rich man in deed, having more that 15
Church livings for income, as well as his salary. He lent the King
money on several occasions, and was allowed to oversee the trade in wool
on his own account. In 1338, he was promoted to Cofferer of the
Great Wardrobe, which involved foreign travel. He was captured by
the King's enemies, but soon released.. In 1340, he was
granted the privilege of exporting wool tax free, and in 1344, he was
promoted again to Controller of the Wardrobe, the position of being second
in command of the King's
money. The head of the Wardrobe, was called the Keeper.
William had a period of leave to study in Oxford, in 1350. In 1353
he was appointed Keeper of the Wardrobe, the most powerful official in the
King's Royal Household. He was also the chief tax
collector. He retired about 1361 and died in 1371.
Other Daltons held high
office in the Wardrobe. In 1343, Ralph de Dalton was a clerk in the
Wardrobe; in May 1349, John de Dalton was given a living at Wing, and in
1361, he had a Canonry at York. In August 1349, Peter de Dalton was
granted a living at Great Houghton, and he may have been the same man who
later was Treasurer of Lincoln cathedral, and died in 1405. In 1357,
Thomas de Dalton was tax collector for East Anglia, and in 1413, John
Dalton was the receiver for Wales. He was the last of the medieval
Daltons who were state officials.
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The Founding of Dalton, Georgia by Millicent V. Craig |
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The land where Dalton now
stands was inhabited by the Indians, who were removed by force to
Oklahoma, so that a township called Cross Plains could be built. It
was developed by Edward White, whose father was Leonard White and
whose mother Mary was a direct descendant of Philemon Dalton. Edward
was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and went to New York to
set up in a shoe making business with two of his brothers. In 1836,
a railroad was commissioned to be built from Atlanta to the Mississippi
river with a depot at Cross Plains. A second railway was to be built
in 1845, to join the first one from Knoxville at this depot. By now,
White was an agent for a group of northern financiers. He saw
the opportunity and bought a square mile of land where the new junction
was to be built. He drew up a plan of the new city to be called
Dalton which was presented to the City Mayor in 1846.
A considerable investment
was made, but this early history was lost in a fire at the court house,
about 1850. Some years later, J. T. Whitman wrote his memories of
the town in 1847. This is reproduced here. The first train to
come to the depot arrived at 11am and for weeks afterwards, Mr.
White was selling plots of land nearby at $25 each. A boom developed
in Cross Plains which was now called Dalton, after Edward's
mother. For the next 16 years Edward developed the community. He
founded the Militia and so got the title Captain. Then he built the
first non denominational church The Dalton First Church.
He married in 1848 and had 8
children. He was a Baptist but he gave a plot of land for a new
church to the Baptists. Then he donated land for a Courthouse and a
public Square. When the War broke out in 1861, Georgia seceded from
the Union. He removed is family to Atlanta. Some major battles
in the war took place near the railroad depot. One between General
Bragg and General Rosecrans' forces , at
Chicamauga led to 35,000 casualties. General Sherman assembled
98,000 troops near Dalton. A Union garrison of 50,000 opposed
them. Sherman then marched on Atlanta. Edward had a boxcar
with an engine fired up outside his house, and he escaped with his family
to Macon, Georgia. For 120 days, battles were fought along the
railway line for 100 miles.
Reconstruction followed
the war. Dalton returned to his home, helped to repair the railway
system and built a new line between Rome and Atlanta. In the 1880
census, Edward was living with his wife and six of their children, in the
family home. He died there is 1898. One hundred years after his
death, his great grand son presented a collection of his books to
Historical Society in Dalton. More than half of them were of a
religious nature.
In Dalton, recovery
proceeded slowly, as the railroad and the town were rebuilt. In
1895, a girl made a chenille bedspread by hand, and the demand was so
great for more these chenille bedspreads that a new industry was started
in Dalton. By the 1920s there were
about 10,000 home tufters in Georgia. By the 1930s
machines were producing similar rugs and carpets.
After the second world
war, the return of the military brought new growth to Georgia.
By the 1950s, man made fibres were used and Dalton
boomed. There was a mass market for wall to wall carpeting.
But by the 1980s there was
a shortage of workers in this booming industry, so workers had to be
brought from Mexico.
Dalton Georgia is
now the Carpet Capital of the world. Of an annual demand for
new carpets worth $11 billion, about two thirds is satisfied by
Dalton workers. As an annual replacement demand of about $7 billion
is still growing, the future of Dalton is bright. Edward could never
have imagined such a growth even in his wildest dreams.
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The Dalton and Prytherch Family by John Daniel Prytherch |
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These families were
linked in 1795 by the marriage at Carmarthen of Daniel Prytherch and
Margaret Dalton. Daniel was descended from Rhys of Llandovery, who
died in 1699. Margaret descended from James Dalton who died in the
1720s.
In the Church at Brechfa,
there is a plaque commemorating their lives. Its text is reproduced
in this article. Margaret's brother
James was the husband of Catherina Augusta. She died in 1813, and
James returned to Carmarthan, with their children, where he died in
1823. One of his daughters, Caroline Catherine Dalton married her
cousin Daniel Prytherch of Abergolau. He became Mayor of Carmarthan
and Deputy Lieutenant of Carmarthanshire. They had 13 children, who
all carried the name Dalton as a Christian name. A photo of their
son James Dalton Prythurch, and a shortened family tree are given here.
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Binders for the DGS Journal |
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News from America by Millicent V. Craig |
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She lists the people who
will be flying over to the Welsh meeting, including Kate Mapstone, who
will have spent two weeks in Ireland before she gets to Wales. Eric Dalton of Michigan
visited Ireland last year, and has photos of the Mount Dalton property. Millicent was invited to
Rick Dalton's home to see the painting of Lands End, by Thomas
Ormond Dalton, which he bought in England. Norman Pierce went over
to the funeral of his cousin Mrs. Peggy Dalton of Croston.
In 2003, the DGS
newsletter entered its 6th year of publication. The index to DGS
Journals is now in its web site, and has become very popular.
The Dalton Data bank has
increased by over 80,000 entries in the year. All UK and
US counties have been processed, with a few exceptions, as well as data
for Ireland, Wales, Australia and elsewhere. The site has 1000
visits a month.
The DNA project
proceeds and many DGS members are participating. A number of
Bispham Daltons have already been identified. An Irish base line, is
being constructed, and several male Daltons agreed to take the test at the
Welsh meeting.
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Accounts for 2001 |
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Book Reviews |
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Surnames and Genealogy
by George Raymonds, Published by the F. F. H. S. in 2002, at £14.80.
George is an expert in the field and this is a good book on to the
subject.
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Review of Dalton's unfortunate
choice By R. W. Jones, in Notes Rec. Royal Society, Vol. 57(1)
pp 15-33, 2003. This paper discusses Dr. John Dalton's lack of
provision for his biography to be published after his death.
The man he asked to do this, had family problems so did nothing until
ten years after Dalton's death, when he published a memoir.
The Manchester Lit. & Phil. Soc, commissioned a History of Dalton's
Atomic Theory, Lonsdale wrote of his early life, and all three works
relied on an unpublished memoir, by John Woolley as most of Dalton's
original papers were destroyed in the bombing of Manchester in December
1940.
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Changes of Address |
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Elizabeth Cameron has
moved from Dunkeld to “Hope Cottage”, Strathtay, PH9 0PG. Perthshire,
Scotland.
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New Members |
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These
have joined since October 1st, 2002. Mrs. Catherine
Gibson-Brabazon, Jack Richards, Dr. W. T. G, Dalton, Steven Andrew
Dalton.
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Dawn Songs in Babylon by L. J. Slater |
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