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Contents |
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2005 Gathering in Dublin by M. N. Dalton |
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Births |
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Charlotte Cora COULTON |
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17th April 2004. |
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Jacob Richard and Samuel Merritt BUNDY |
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28th April 2004. |
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Jacob Paul KAMERATH |
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21st July 2004. |
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Ben James DALTON, with photograph of four generations |
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5th August 2004. |
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Marriages |
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Nathan Paul HAIGH to Jannie-Lee HOLLAND, with photograph |
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2nd July 2004. |
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Deaths |
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Professor Ben PIMLOTT |
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10th April 2004. |
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Standlee V. DALTON Snr. |
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18th October 2004. |
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Dr. Terence WILSON |
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2nd June 2004. |
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Photo of members of the DGS at Hoghton Tower |
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2004 Gathering |
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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries |
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M.N.Q.41.1 |
Longevity - A characteristic of Virginia Daltons. |
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M.N.Q.41.2 |
The Counts of Ireland. |
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M.N.Q.41.3 |
More about the Nottingham Daltons. |
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M.N.Q.41.4 |
A lady of Thurnham Manor. |
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M.N.Q.41.5 |
Religious house of Princess Jane? |
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M.N.Q.41.6 |
An American-Australian connection. |
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Republic of Ireland data by Millicent V. Craig |
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Mike Dalton of Oregon is building up an Irish Dalton data bank from L.D.S.
sources. In particular Matthew Dalton was born in New York in
1829. He became a Mormon and settled in Utah. Then he studied
his ancestral line and got help in extracting his ancestors from the Civil
Registry in Dublin. His manuscript was finished in 1896.
During “the troubles”, the General Post Office was burnt down and all
records lost. In the Irish Civil War of 1922, the Public Records
Office was also destroyed. But Matthew's collection was compiled 30
years earlier. Now Mike has produced, from this and other sources,
the largest known compilation of Irish Daltons. These files are on
the Dalton data bank.
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Some American Daltons from Oldham by Lucy J. Slater |
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Robert Jackson of Jacksonville,
Illinois has studied his local cemetery and found two influxes of
Daltons into the area from Lancashire. The first was about 1830 and
the second in the 1850's. James Dalton was born in Oldham in 1810,
married Betty Scholes in 1836 and went with most of his family to
Illinois about 1850. There are photos of the family grave stones in
the Jacksonville cemetery, together with reprints of their obituaries.
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A Dalton family from Croston by Margaret Deyes |
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The earliest ancestor that Margaret has traced is Robert Dalton who
married Mary Rushton in 1745 at Croston. They had two children,
Margaret in 1748, and William in 1751. William married Ellen Smith
in 1772, and they had nine children. Their 5th child John
married Susan Mayor in 1810, and they also had nine children. The
1881 census shows four of John’s children still living in Croston.
Of these William, a farmer, was living with his wife Ann and six
children. He is the ancestor of Millicent Craig, our American
Secretary.
John and Susan’s eldest son was Robert, who married Mary Smith at Croston
in 1832. They moved to Preston, where they raised eight children,
and Robert became a builder. In the 1871 census of Preston, two of
their daughters Mary and Margaret were still living at home with their
parents. Their eldest daughter Susannah married Benjamin Treasure in
1855, and they had nine children.
Roger Dalton was the eldest son of Robert and Mary. He became a
master bricklayer, married Betsey Taylor, and had four children, who were
living at home in the 1881 census. Their daughter Annie , went to
live with her aunt Ann in Edinburgh and then went to London to become a
student nurse. She married Francis McGlinchy and they had two
daughters, Emma born in 1902, and Fabia born in 1904. Fabia went to
RADA and became a very famous actress Fabia Drake. She toured with
the Stratford company all over the world until 1938 when she married
Maxwell Turner, who was a high court judge. She also appeared in
films and on television.
Robert and Mary’s daughter Ann, aunt Annie above, married William
Wilkinson and then a widower called Walmsley. She was an imposing
figure, tall and commanding, whereas her sister Margaret, known as Grannie
Evans, was petite.
Robert and Mary’s youngest daughter Margaret married John Evans, a clog
maker, in Preston in 1876. They had two children, Annie, Margaret
Dayes’ grandmother, born in 1877 and Frank born and died in 1880.
Annie married William Dayes in 1899, and they had four children, Herbert,
Elsie, William and John. A photo shows some members of this family
in the early 1900’s.
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The West Berkshire Doltons, part 2 by Eric
Dolton |
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Note:- The article called
part 2 in the previous Journal was in fact part 3.
The records of Doltons in the Chievely district start with the marriage of
John Dolton to Elizabeth Stanbrook at Speen in 1714. They had eight
children. The next family was also John and Elizabeth, who were
married before 1749, when their first child was born. There is no
record of this marriage but it is assumed that this John was the son of
the preceding John. They had six children. The third family
was that of Richard, who was born in 1739 at Speen, and married Ann Jones
at Wickham in 1760. They had eight children. Some other Dolton
records are considered, but no definite link can be made of these to the
preceding three families.
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Family History Events in
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Bishop Daton ( Dalton) of Kilkenny by Pat Robinson |
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The earliest mention of a Dalton is in a deed of 1324. The family
name was spelt Daton as the l is mute in Norman French. By the mid
16th century they were a very influential family. Early
marriages were to other families of similar status. The family seat
was at Kildalton. But Oliver Cromwell made the family fortunes take
a disastrous turn. William Dalton was born in 1644, when the old
castle was pulled down and the estate became the property of John
Ponsonby, one of Cromwell’s generals. Walter had hopes that his
daughter might be married to the General. But John returned to
Ireland to claim his property with a young bride. However, William’s
widow Bess, and their younger children, (including our future Bishop) went
on living on the estate, and were cared for by Sir John, until he died in
1688.
Oliver Cromwell forbad celebration of the Mass and his army profaned and
destroyed churches. Young William’s decision to study for the
priesthood took courage. He went to Rennes and then to the Sorbonne
in Paris. He was ordained in 1676 and became the priest at the
church of Kilkenny. In 1696 William was appointed Bishop of
Ossory. But in 1697, all “popish priests” were ordered to leave
Ireland by 1698. So then he went to Paris and was invited to settle
in Le Mans where the Benedictines offered him the use of the Provost’s
house. He lived there until he died in 1712.
In his will, he said how his possessions should be distributed among
clergy and to some named Churches. He had kept in touch with his
family in Ireland, and left marriage potions for his two nieces. He
probably received news of his family from the young ones who went to fight
in France. A French Officer’s roll call taken at Augrim in
1689 listed several Daltons.
These included Edmund and Christopher Dalton who both died in 1793.
After the Battle of the Boyne, many of the gentry left Ireland, and the
remaining Catholic population had to submit.
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Joseph Dalton and Jane Weightman, part 3 by Tina Culbertson |
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Joseph Dalton junior, baptised 1840. was the fifth child of Joseph and
Jane and the last to be born in England. In 1841, the family arrived
in the U.S.A. Joseph junior worked in a cotton mill, and joined the
Army during the civil war in 1861. He served until 1864, and his
name is on the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg. He returned to
Upland, and in 1866, he married Emma Cloud. They had nine
children. As well as working in the cotton mill, Joseph became
Postmaster of Upland when his father died. In 1892, he had a stroke
and stopped work. He got a pension for his war service, which he
drew until 1903, when he died. His wife Emma was also given a
pension until she died in 1925. Here are photographs of
their grave, the Pennsylvania memorial, and Mary who was their sixth
child, together with listings of their obituaries.
Mary Dalton, the sixth child of Joseph and Jane was born in 1842, and
married in 1868 William Howard, who was a carpenter. They had six
children. Tina’s three articles conclude with a long list of
references, and the hope that they will provide a permanent record of her
family.
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DNA Project progress report by Millicent Craig |
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News from America by Millicent V. Craig |
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Again there has been an increase in the American membership, due to the
DNA project. News comes from Steve Dalton of Morton, Illinois,
Barbara Dalton Jones of Granby, Texas, Dave Edwards of Cooperstown, New
York, Francis Dalton Bowman of Tennessee, Julie Reising of Suffield,
Connecticut, Bill Dalton of Gig Harbour, Washington D.C., Bob F. Dalton of
McDonough, Georgia, Russell E. Dalton of Alamagordo, New Mexico, Eric
Dalton of New Hudson, Maine, Joanne Dalton of Kansas City, Missouri,
Dorothy Bongivengo of New Castle, Pennsylvania, Dolores Dalton of Phoenix,
Arizona, Leonard Dalton of Melrose, Massachusetts, Daveda Bundy of
Pickerington, Ohio, and K. T. Mapstone, of Mississippi.
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Minutes of the AGM of the Dalton Genealogical Society |
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The meeting was held at Salmesbury, Lancashire on 10th July,
2004. The minutes for the 2003 meeting were approved and the
Chairman reported on the recent gathering in Australia. He thanked John
Dalton for his work on the Journal, and Millicent for her work on the
Website. He also thanked Michael Cayley for his work as Librarian,
and then told us about the Seminar held by the Goons.
In the treasurer’s absence, the accounts were circulated and the funds
seemed to be in a healthy position. The Secretary reported less
success with new membership in the U.K. David Kirkley resigned from
the committee but the other Officers were all re-elected. The Editor
reported on the Journal and asked for new material. The Australian
Secretary said there had been several new Australian members, partly due
to the gathering at her home in Sydney. The American Secretary
reported that 20 new members had been added to the subscription list in
2003, and a further 24 in the first half of 2004. The website had
over 50,000 hits, and there had been 11,000 visits to the data bank.
Mike Dalton of Oregon was continuing his work of updating the data for
Ireland. The Index of the journals had its own website which had 200
visits a month. The DNA project now had 54 Dalton sets of
genes.
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visit to Ireland was agreed for 2005, and one in New England, in
2006. The Chairman then closed the meeting at 12.45 pm.
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Webpage Reviews |
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Three web pages were reviewed as useful tools for Dalton
researchers. The first is about finding census data, the
second was about searching the index of the Tufts Universal Library, and
the third one was about background historical information of use to
genealogists.
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New Members up to January 2005 |
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Adolphus W. Dalton of
Illinois, David Dalton of San Francisco, Edmund Nugent Dalton of Maryland,
Edward A. Dalton of Utah, Elvin and Joanne Dalton of Missouri, Gale L.
Dalton of Ohio, James Stanley Dalton of Tennessee, Johanna Dalton of
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Kelly Hines Dalton of Ohio, Michael and Pamela
Dalton of Nevada, P. M. Dalton of Selkirk, Scotland, Patrick A. Dalton Co.
Galway, Ireland, Russell E. Dalton of New Mexico, Thomas Dalton of New
York, Mary Quinn Doyle of Maine, Richard McNally of Ohio, Eira Makepeace
of Bristol, England, William F. O’Brien of Florida, Patricia A. Setser of
Missouri, Marilyn Shea of Florida, Madeline Troyerof Ohio and John D.
Wilson of New South Wales, Australia.
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Changes of Address |
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Michael Cayley, from East
Molesey to Hayling Island, Franklin Thomas Daulton from Oregon to Alaska,
and R. James Spidle from Omaha, to North Carolina.
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Checked by L. J. S. in Feb. 2005 |
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