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The 2004 Gathering |
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Births |
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Thomas Michael COLLIN |
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6th November 2003. |
- A grandson for our Chairman, Michael
Dalton.
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Emily Ethel FISHER |
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5th November 2003. |
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grand-daughter for DGS member Dorothy Bunyard.
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Marriage |
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Samantha Lynn CRAIG to Donald Ray SMITH |
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27th September 2003. |
- Samantha is the grand-daughter of
Millicent Craig, our American Secretary.
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Deaths |
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Bernice DALTON |
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26th January 2004. |
- Bernice is the mother of DGS member
Delores Dalton.
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Mildred Leonta DALTON |
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24th February 2004. |
- Mildred is the wife of DGS member Dale
Dalton of Florida.
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Nancy Pierce HUTCHENSON |
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13th October 2003. |
- Nancy is the sister of DGS member
Norman Pierce of Darien, Connecticut.
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Kenneth Richard KOFFLER |
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4th May 2003. |
- Kenneth is the brother of DGS member
Stephanie Koffler.
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Family History Events in 2004 |
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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries |
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M.N.Q.40.1 |
A Dalton Disaster. |
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- Charles
Dalton wrote a letter to his kinsman in Ireland, saying that he was
sailing to New Zealand. The ship, ”The Cospatrick“, sailed from
Gravesend in September 1874, with 476 people on board. When off the
Cape of Good Hope, on November 17th, the ship set on fire, and
only one boat got away. Of the people in that boat, all died of
hunger and thirst, except five who were picked up by “The British
Sceptre“. Two of these died soon afterwards, and the three survivors
were put ashore at St. Helena.
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M.N.Q.40.2 |
DNA Revelations. |
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- Stephen
Dalton had a surprise when he got his DNA results. He thought his
family was Scottish or Irish, but he found markers in his DNA for an
Iberian or Arabic ancestry. There is evidence of a large
crypto-Jewish population, the Melungeons, in Virginia.
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M.N.Q.40.3 |
Looking for Lincolnshire Daltons. |
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- Pat Bowman of Tennessee is descended from
George Dalton who married Elizabeth Gosling in Boston, Lincolnshire in
1821. They had three children, Matthew (1822), George Henry (1825),
and Isaac (1830), all christened at Stickney, Lincolnshire. George
Henry Dalton married Sarah Fuller from Scotland. Their first child
was James Thomas Dalton born in England in 1849, and, then in 1854, they
emigrated to Central Falls, Rhode Island where they had a second
child, Margaret Ann Dalton, born in 1857. James Thomas is Pat’s
great-grandfather, Pat found a nephew, Clint Graham, and hopes his
DNA may shed light on her Lincolnshire ancestors.
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M.N.Q.40.4 |
A Dalton murderer. |
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- James
Dalton, born in Bowness, U.K. was hanged for murder in Tasmania in 1853.
Will anyone claim him as an ancestor?
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M.N.Q.40.5 |
Nottingham Whip Makers. |
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- James
Wormelle is descended from William Dalton born in Nottingham about 1821
who was a whip maker in the 1881 census there. He and his wife Mary
Ann emigrated to Brockden, Massachusetts where they had a hat making
business. Their last male descendant died there in 1985. There
were other clusters of whip makers recorded in the Midlands and James
needs to find any descendants to check their DNA with his own.
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M.N.Q.40.6 |
Battle of Trafalgar. |
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- The roll
for 21st October 1805, has Charles Dalton, ordinary seaman on
H. M. S. Defiance.
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M.N.Q.40.7 |
Dalton over the Border. |
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- Charles
Dalton, Gentleman, of London. married Frances Morris also from London in
1821 at Coldingham, Berwickshire. Perhaps they eloped!
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M.N.Q.40.8 |
An Utah Dalton Gang? |
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- At the
Utah Third District Court, we have, in 1884, Henry and Simon Dalton, for
grand larceny; in 1900, Ed Dalton for burglary and, in 1902, Ed Dalton
again for assault with intent to rob.
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M.N.Q.40.9 |
The Duelin’ Doolin Daltons. |
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- In an
album, by a folk group, The Eagles, there are several songs about the
Daltons. Here the words are given of one of them.
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M.N.Q.40.10 |
A 15th century medial negligence claim. |
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London, in 1424, William Forest made a complaint against John Harwe, Simon
Rolf and John Dalton, barber and surgeon, for a great effusion of blood
from his thumb, during surgery, which was staunched by John Dalton.
The complaint was dismissed and the defendants were cleared of any wrong
doing.
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M.N.Q.40.11 |
Christy Minstrels who were Daltons. |
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- The
Christy minstrels started about 1820 and continued until about 1890.
Three members of an English Dalton family Edward and his two sons Edward
and John, were listed as Christy minstrels in the 1871 census for
Whitechapel.
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Eric Ralph Dalton James, R.A.F. by Howard J. Dalton |
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Eric Dalton James was born in 1917, and
became an engineering draughtsman. He joined the R.A.F in 1938, and
took part in 31 bombing raids over Berlin and Hamburg. He was posted
to the middle East in 1941, and was promoted to Flying Officer. In
1943, he was killed, when his plane crashed in a sand storm. He was
carrying V.I.P. passengers, including Lady Tedder wife of Air Vice Marshal
Tedder.
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The West Berkshire Doltons, Part 2 by Eric Dolton |
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Note. Part 2 is
a misprint. This is in fact part 3. Part 2 will follow in the next
Journal. The parish records of Speen in Berkshire
show some Dalton entries before 1720, which however do not tie in with the
later family lines. Also there is some confusion as the marriage of
John Dolton does not appear in part 1. The part we are considering
now, must be part 3, for the author says at the end, “the rest of the
family will be considered in part 4.”
From 1720, onwards, this article, part 3, gives the various families,
Henry Dolton who married Mary Suce in 1725, and Peter Dolton who married
Mary Excell in 1728. The book “Going with the Grain” starts with the
marriage of Henry to Sarah in about 1730. They had at least 8
children, listed here. Another family is that of William an Anne,
who had at least 5 children.
The
rest of the article considers the offspring of these families. There
are some very distinct differences from the families given in “Going with
the Grain“, mainly the addition of several extra children in almost every
marriage.
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Joseph Dalton and Jane Weightman, part 2 by Tina Culbertson |
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This article considers the children listed in the first part, in greater
detail and with some lovely old photographs. Anne Dalton married
William Newton who was a dairy farmer, in 1853, in Upland.
They had 8 children, who are listed here. Her brother Isaac worked in the
cotton mill at Upland, and married May Dickinson Hill in 1856. They
had 7 children. In 1860, Isaac was employed as a coachman. In
the war, he joined the Upland Volunteers and served with his younger
brother William under Captain Crozer, until they were disbanded in
1863. He founded a bakery in Chester in 1864, but also worked as a
head groom, on the Crozer estate. He died in 1896 and is buried in
the Chester cemetery.
His sister Elizabeth was born in England
in 1837. Aged 21, she married John Martin, in 1857 and they had five
children. John worked as a weaver in the Upland cotton mill, and
their children went to work in the same mill. William Dalton was
born in 1838, in Wetheral, Cumberland. About 1858, he married Sarah
Ann Anderson whose parents were both Irish. They had five children,
all boys. William worked in the same mill as his father and
brothers. William became a deacon in the Upland Baptist
Church. It is not known when he died.
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A Dalton family of New South Wales by Michael Cayley |
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Thomas Dalton married Anne Snowdon, at Burton Agnes in Yorkshire.
Their first child was John, born in 1833. Thomas died about
1840. After his father died, John became a sailor, sailing to the
antipodes. By the age of 40, he decided to settle in New South
Wales, where he married Margaret Otto. She died of small pox, soon
after the birth of their first and only child, Annie in 1881. He
married again in 1882, to Eliza Cox. By his second wife, he had 6
children. He owned a number of ships, which did a fish and shell
fish trade for the city of Sidney and he died in 1912.
His brother William
born in 1838, never married but joined his brother John in
Australia. He also died in 1912. Their sister Ann was born in
1840, married George Beck and emigrated to Tasmania where she died in
1908. Their brother Francis died as a teenager in Yorkshire.
The
second child of Thomas, James was born in 1835. He was a clever lad
and became a pupil teacher. Then he went to Cambridge. After
his graduation, he went to Devon, where he was a teacher. Ten years
later, he became headmaster of a Wesleyan School in Manchester, and helped
to teach at the Ragged School there. He became ill and after his
recovery, he became headmaster of a smaller school at Lower
Broughton.
Under his command it
soon became a very large school indeed, of over 1200 children. His
health suffered again. He retired and went to join his brother John
in Australia. There he founded an ecumenical Sunday school, and
helped to found the first Methodist Church in Nelson Bay which opened in
1909. He died in November that same year.
John and Eliza’s first child was James,
who was born in 1883, and killed in the first World War, in France, in
1917. The second child John was born in 1885. He married Ethel
White and they had five children, William, Maisie, Jim, Roy and
Edna. The third child was Frances, born in 1887. She married
George Mathewson, and died in 1950. They had five children, John,
George, Archie, Eva and Iris. Her sister Eliza was born in 1890, and
married William Horne, a grocer. They had two sons, Murray and
Harry. John and Eliza’s fifth child was Henry, born in 1893.
He married Enid Gibbs and died in 1961. They had three children, Thomas,
Phyllis and Douglas.
The sixth child was
William, born in 1897. He went to fight in France in 1917.
After the War, he set up a dairy farm, with his brother Henry. He
married Anna Gibson in 1923, and they had two children, Jack and
Gwen. He died in 1974. He was very interested in local
matters, served on a number of Councils, and became the first president of
the Hunter Historical Society.
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Binders for the DGS Journals |
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The Dalton quarrymen of Derbyshire by Susan Bryant and Lucy Slater |
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This starts with a note on how hard it was
to make a living on the moors. The earliest families considered are
those of Seth and Leonard Dalton near Penistone. These records were
found on the IGI. John, son of William Dalton christened 1737, John
son of John Dalton and Mary christened 1757. John married Elizabeth
Bean, 1779, John son of John and Elizabeth christened 1779, Seth son of
John Dalton and Betty, christened 1791.
Seth is the ancestor of Susan Bryant. Seth, a quarryman, married
Charlotte Rusby, in 1813, at Penistone. They had eight or more
children, Charles christened 1813, Harriet christened 1814, Seth 1817,
Mary 1819, Leonard, Elizabeth and Hannah all christened 1824, and Bridget
1828. Times were very hard in the 1850’s. Various other people
called Seth Dalton were living in the area. Seth and his brother
Leonard worked building railway tunnels, and then went to London where
Seth died in Camberwell in 1880. In the 1881 census, Leonard, born
in Penistone, is a stone mason, employing 21 men, producing
tombstones. He had a wife Ann, a son James Drake, Susan Drake a
grand child, and a servant Elizabeth Sparrow. Another Leonard
Dalton, almost certainly the son of Leonard senior, lives nearby. He
is a mason in the stone works living with his sister Helen and his younger
brother John also a stone mason.
Seth, christened in 1817, is the
grandfather of Elizabeth Maud Dalton, the great grandmother of Susan
Bryant. Seth’s son James married Emma Parkes, and was a stone
mason. In the 1891 census, James and Emma were living with four
children, Frank, Clara, Celia, and Elizabeth Maud. She married
William Coffey. In the 1891 census, a cousin of James, called
Charles Dalton, has inherited the stone yard, so he must have been
Leonard’s eldest son. He lives with his wife Charlotte, and seven
children. Next door there is an Elizabeth Dalton, who may have been
his sister.
The Countney-Coffey family records show
William Coffey born in 1846. In the 1881 census, he was a boot maker
in Camberwell. His wife is Ann and they have four children, William,
Ann, James and Walter. By the 1891 census, the family have four more
children, Nellie, Robert, Amy, and John.
Elizabeth Dalton was born in 1882, and
married Walter Courtney, in 1900 when she was only 18. He had
changed his name from Coffey just before he got married. Elizabeth
and Walter had three children. Their first child, Walter was born
exactly 9 months after their marriage and died soon after birth.
Their second child was May Courtney, the grandmother of Susan
Bryant. Another child called Walter was born in 1905.
Elizabeth left Walter about 1914. Then Walter changed his name back
to Coffey and married again in 1915. He died in Australia in
1955.
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Mark J. Dalton, Obituary |
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Mark J. Dalton died on Sunday May
2nd, 2004, in Vermont, age 89. His wife Barbara nee
Higgins had died a year earlier He leaves six children and six
grandchildren. He served in the Normandy campaign, and was decorated
for his bravery on D-day, June 6th 1944. He was born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Cornelius and Ellen Dalton, from
London. He graduated from Harvard in 1941 and was a distinguished
lawyer in Boston for fifty years.
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DNA Project Report by Millicent Craig |
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It is very
exciting to link to a genetic cousin. The main problem is to get a
family line from England or Ireland, where are very few such links.
Please, if you are an English or Irish male Dalton, participate in this
work.
The latest results have borne out the
theory that there are at least seven basic Dalton ancestral groups.
These are, the Junior English line, the Bispham, Croston, Thurnham line,
the English group III, based in Manchester, the Irish group I, the Irish
group II, the Dalton Gang in America, the maternal DNA test of three New
Hampton Blake, Dalton lines, and the multiple lines that remain.
Participation continues to grow, and several members await the results of
their tests. If you want to take a test, it tells you how to do it,
here.
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Guild of One-name Studies 25th Anniversary Conference by M. N. Dalton |
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The Goons was formed 25 years ago, in
1979, and the Dalton Society was one of the earliest members. There
are now nearly 2000 member Societies. Michael Dalton attended the
meeting and displayed Dalton Society material. The conference was at
Wyboston Lakes on the weekend of 2nd to 4th April,
2004.
There were about 120
delegates. The conference started with a buffet dinner, and a quiz
night which Michael’s group won. On Saturday, Derek Palgrave opened
the A.G.M, and presented Certificates to the 14 founder members present,
including Michael Dalton. On the Saturday afternoon, there was a
lecture about recent web site developments, and demonstrations of the
Guild Archive, and the Guild Marriage Index, which will hold all marriages
in the GRO indexes from 1837 to 1911. After tea, there was a
talk on publishing a one name periodical. Various bookstalls and
displays were open. The 25th Anniversary Dinner
followed.
On the Sunday, there were talks about
developing one-name websites and publications. After lunch, the
conference finished with a session “Back to the future“. Two
members, in futuristic costumes, came back from 2029, to tell us how
things had developed in the coming twenty five years. There are two
photographs of the meeting.
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News from America by Millicent V. Craig |
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Millicent reports on a busy six months
with 16 new members. Many connections had been made between Dalton
relations, mostly through the DNA project. H. James Dalton of
California, found he was related to Robert Dalton of California and Archie
Dalton of Delaware. Stanley Dalton of Tennessee found he was related
to Margaret Mollick of Texas. Marilyn Dunbar of California has been
linked with Madeline Troyer, who has written two books about their common
ancestors. Marilyn Mungan has written a book about Valentine Dalton,
which is reviewed below. Julie Reising of Connecticut learnt that
she has the same Irish ancestors as Daveda Bundy of Ohio and Cecilia Lange
of Colorado. Through their DNA, Kathy Gire of California has found
some new Irish cousins. Bill Dalton Phillips asks us to send Dalton
Society flyers to the Dalton museum in Mead, Texas.
The DGS Web site is still going
strong. The question has been asked What do English Dalton men look
like? Photos of any who have emigrated will be put on the Web
Site. The Dalton data bank now contains 105,000 surname
entries. Progress is being made on the London files and the data
base for the Republic of Ireland is being revised by Mike Dalton of
Oregon. The Index of DGS journals is now on line.
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Report from Australia by Maureen Collins |
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A meeting of the D. G. S. was held at
Maureen’s home in Sydney, last January. Ten members of the Society
were present. They all exchanged information about their family
history and Michael Dalton addressed the meeting about the History of the
DGS Society. John Prytherch spoke about his Welsh descent, Howard
Dalton talked about Heraldry and displayed some memorabilia with the
Dalton Crest. Karen Hill spoke about her descent from Daltons in
Leicestershire. Virginia Higgins told of her connections with the
Daltons of Lancashire. Margaret Dalton can’t find ancestors outside
Australia, and wants more information about her husband’s ancestors.
Wendy Fleming told of her Irish ancestors, from Limerick, and Maureen
Collins spoke about her ancestors in Norfolk, England.
After lunch, other visitors arrived, and
Michael Dalton chaired a discussion on the DNA project, sources for
research and the DGS web site. A video was shown of Dr. Lucy Slater
speaking about the Croston Daltons, and the meeting closed after
tea. In the evening, a buffet dinner was served. There is a
photograph of Maureen with her cousin.
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Book Reviews |
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“A River Away” by
Marilyn Dungan is an historical novel based on the life of Captain
Valentine Dalton. He was born in Ireland about 1754, and came with
his family to Louisiana in the 1760’s. He went with General Clark
on several expeditions during the revolutionary War, and became a
spy in the Spanish High Command. There are photographs of his second
wife Caty, his son Valentine, and his grand-daughter Julia Elizabeth.
“World War I Ancestry”
by N. Holding, revised by Ian Swinnerton, is an excellent guide for
any one who wishes to trace such men.
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New Members |
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Dorothy Malcom Bunyard of Massachusetts,
Lisa Silva Corbet of Georgia, Tina Culbertson of Florida, Denise Dagen of
New South Wales, Darrell Lee Dalton of Virginia, Dean A. Dalton of
Florida, Hannaniah James Dalton of California, Margaret Dalton of
Australia, Maize Dalton of Missouri, Patrick D. Dalton of Utah, Robert A.
Dalton of Kansas, Samuel Spech Dalton of North Carolina, Sister Philomena
Dalton of Waterford Ireland, Vernon Dalton of New South Wales, William
Dalton of Massachusetts, Marilyn Dunbar of California, Kathy Gire of
California, Karen Hill of New South Wales, Barbara Dalton Jones of Texas,
Thomas P. O’Connor of Massachusetts, Julie Reising of Connecticut, Terry
M. Rostano of Texas, Heather Smith of Queensland, Veronica Wilson of New
South Wales, and James Wormelle.
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Change of Address |
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Who am I? |
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