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VOLUME 25 (published November 1996)
Letter from the Chairman	p.2
This letter reports on the changes in the Committee, the Internet,  repairs to the tomb of Sir Richard Dalton at Apethorpe and the need for younger members to come onto the Committee.
Births   Lucinda Alice ELLIOT  22nd May 1990  Maya Selma JUNDI   18th Feb. 1994  Alex Omar JUNDI   24th Jan. 1996	p.6
Marriage Elizabeth Mary ANTROBUS to Timothy SIZELAND 24th Aug. 1996 Deaths  None reported	p.6
Miscellaneous Notes and Queries   M. N. & Q. 25.1 Can anyone help Patrick?    His ancestors were Anne DALTON b. 9 Oct. 1865, dau. of Michael and his wife Anne nee DALEY both of Westmeath, Ireland.  M. N. & Q. 25.2 Can anyone help James Dalton of Carlisle?    James is the grandson of Jacob born about 1877 who married Ann ROBINSON at Carlisle in December 1900.   M. N. & Q. 25.3 An early American Dalton line    This line is headed by Ruben Dalton, father of Enos, William, Samuel and Timothy.  Ruben came to Carroll County, Virginia about 1780.  M. N. & Q. 25.4 Michael Dalton from Tipperary    Michael, born about 1833 in Carrick-on-Suir, married twice in Newfoundland, firstly to Mary Deveraux from Kilkenny and secondly to Bridget Dixon who was also from Carrick-on-Suir.   M. N. & Q. 25.5 Daltons at Goole    Rachel DALTON was born 1846 at South Elkington, Lincs., dau. of James and his wife Anne nee ROWE.  Rachel married a master mariner, Joseph BURNETT and they raised their family in Goole, Yorkshire.  M. N. & Q. 25.6 Daltons all at sea!    Francis and Meriel Dalton were swept down the river Ouse in their boat from York to Brough where they were rescued.  M. N. & Q. 25.7 The V. C. of James Langley Dalton    This gives the actual text of the award and some details of James Dalton's service life. George and Robert Dalton, bell-founders by Dennis Greenwood	p.7   p.7     p.8   p.8   p.9     p.10 p.10 p.12
This paper outlines the family of John Dalton, born about 1680.  His son George became a brazier in York in 1742 and cast his first bell in 1750.  George's son Robert ran the bell foundry after his father's death in 1785.  He married and continued to cast bells until about 1793 when he moved to Castle Howard and died in 1824.  Many of these Dalton bells have survived, including the ring of six bells at York St. Olave, dated 1789.
Boots and shoes by Lucy J. Slater    I was surprised to find some Daltons who had lived in my own parish.  James Dalton was a boot closer, but his son Frank extended the business to become a high grade boot and shoe maker at 8 Bridge Street, Cambridge.  This family is probably related to the Bedfordshire Daltons of the next article.  Tree 25.1 Matthew Dalton of Silsoe   Tree 25.2 James Dalton's family in Cambridge  My Bedfordshire shoe makers by Betty Wilks	p.17       p.20 p.22 p.23
Daltons lived in the area of Biggleswade from 1598.  The first documented ones are Matthew of Shillington and his son Matthew of Silsoe.  A third Matthew was also of Silsoe and the three generations were all shoemakers.  Another two generations of shoemakers, Thomas and his son Thomas Bonnet Dalton bring us to the connection with Cambridge noted above.  Tree 25.3 The first generation at Shillington   Tree 25.4 Matthew junior, the second generation at Silsoe  Tree 25.5 The family tree of Richard   Tree 25.6 The family tree of Richard's brother James   Tree 25.7 Matthew and Elizabeth at Flitton   Tree 25.8 Thomas and Mary at Biggleswade	p.24 p.34 p.36 p.37 p.40 p.42
Letters to a young lady by Pamela Richards, No. 1 and No. 2.    These are two letters written by Pamela's father, Charles Dalton, in 1918.  They give a fascinating insight into life at Oxford University towards the end of the first world war in 1918.	p.48
Uneventful lives by Mrs. Audrey Dalton    Edward, born 1812, the son of Michael and Jane Dalton, became a draper in Great Ancotes St. Manchester in 1855.  His son James, born 1854, became a plumber and died in 1907 after falling off a roof.  His son James became a shirt cutter.  James' three sons all lived in the area of New Moston.  For six generations they have lived quietly in the Manchester area.	p.51
Photo of Joy Chesson, Maureen Collins and Pat Adams.  New members up to 30th June 1996; Darlene Bates, James Dalton, Maurice Victor Dalton, Patrick Daly Dalton, Kathleen Cole Dykstra, Mrs. Carole A. Fenn, Wayne Halford, Mrs. Jennie Kershaw, Fred O. Simpson  Changes of Address; Ellen Castlelow, Aubrey and Hazel Dalton	p.52   p.53 p.54
Obituary of Dr. Richard T. D. Fitzgerald    He was descended from Thomas Dalton, D.D. the Prebendary of Durham, and so from Thomas of Hildersham.  After studying medicine at Cambridge, he became a G. P. on the Isle of Sheppey.  Then he married and had four children.  Also he was the Librarian of the Irish Genealogical Research Society and wrote a book about Migraine. Annual general meeting at Reigate August 1996  Accounts for the year ending 31 Dec. 1995	p.55       p.56 p.60
VOLUME 26 (published June 1997)
Notes from the Editor,    An apology for getting Pamela Richards' name wrong in the previous Journal and promising improvements in the proof reading system. Notice about the next A.G.M. to be held in Lincoln next summer  Births  None reported	p.2     p.2
Marriages Jenifer DALTON to Russel MISKEN,  24th Apr. 1996  Camilla DALTON-HOLMES to J.C. Mac.DONALD 6th Dec. 1996 Deaths  James Paul DALTON   26th Jan. 1997  Edward TUITE-DALTON  12th Feb. 1996  Brendan RILEY   26th Dec. 1996  Bertram Albert DALTON  20th Jan. 1997	p.3   p.3
Miscellaneous Notes and Queries  M. N. & Q. No. 26.1 Daltons on the internet    This gives a list of known e-mail addresses of members.   M. N. & Q. No. 26.2 Two very early Dalton references    In Bedfordshire, William Dalton was left £10 in a will of 1426.  William Dalton was Bursar of St. Peter's House, Cambridge from 1455 to 1470.  Could these two references be to the same man?  M. N. & Q. No. 26.3 Another early Dalton reference    Roger de Dalton ran Denny Abbey in Cambridgeshire as a Hospice for the Knights Templers in 1308.	p.4 p.5   p.6
M. N. & Q. No. 26.4 The Daltons in Newfoundland    The first Daltons in Newfoundland were John from County Wexford and his sons Michael, Richard, Stevan and John.   M. N. & Q. No. 26.5 Some certificates useful to others?    This is a list of civilian Dalton birth, marriage and death certificates obtained in error.	p.6   p.7
Fustian Cutters by Jennie Kershaw    This is about her descent from James Dalton christened in 1806 in Manchester. The family were always in the cotton trade and lived in Haywood, Oldham and Shaw.	p.9
The Dalton Highway, Alaska, U.S.A. by Morag C. Simpson    The James William Dalton Highway runs north from Fairbanks to Deadhorse, Alaska and is now trying to attract tourism.	p.10
The Dalton Trail by Lucy J. Slater    This was a toll road built and  operated by Jack Miller, alias Dalton, so that people could get horses and cattle from Haines on the Alaskan coast over the Chilkat pass to the Yukon river.	p.12
Further thoughts on the Cambridgeshire Daltons by Lucy J. Slater	p.15
Corrections and additions are given to earlier papers on this Dalon family.  Tree 26.1 Descendants of Thomas Dalton  of Hildersham   Tree 26.2 Descendants of Michael Dalton and Frances	p.19 p.20
My Bedfordshire shoe makers, part 2, by Betty Wilks        p.21   This paper records the families of John Dalton, a grocer of Biggleswade in 1812 and his brothers, Thomas a shoemaker, and Richard a grocer.  There are some fine old photographs.  Tree 26.3 Tree of John Dalton and Sarah   Tree 26.4 Tree of Thomas Dalton junior and Mary   Tree 26.5 Tree of Richard Dalton and Jane   Tree 26.6 Tree of George Dalton and Elizabeth of Northill	p.22 p.25 p.31 p.38
Letters to a young lady by Pamela Richards, Nos. 3 & 4    These letters are dated October 1918 and deal with a friend he made at Oxford and a visit to Church.	p.42
News from America by Millicent Craig   Deals with all the bits of news from American Daltons,including the tornado which destroyed the home of Doris Slone.	p.43
The Dalton time line chart, by Arthur R. Whittaker    Arthur has produced a time line of the Dalton family in an effort to reconcile difficulties in the documentation.	p.46
New members up to 31st March 1997; Joanne Ballard, Helen Joyce Browning, Davida H. Bundy, Mrs. Eliot W. Dalton, Sherry Elice Dalton, Mike D'Alton, Mrs. Dianne Jackman, Mary Faye Keffer, Sandy Sandford, Alta Simpson, Mrs. Doris J. Slone, Mrs. Betty Wilks  Changes of Address; Mrs. Penelope P. Barltrop, Kenneth Mc.Innes, Fred Simpson.  Resignation; Marjorie Romuld, owing to advancing age.	p.49 p.51 p.51
Obituary of Sidney Herbert Dalton by his daughter Frances Dalton    He was a wood carver and gilder who had served in both world wars. He became a Queen's carver and gilder and tended the Gold Leaf work in St. Paul's Cathedral.  He worked on at his trade until he was 97.	p.52
Computer users, an important thought!    This is a request to check if your computers will work on 1st Jan. 2000.  Typesetting note to all authors.   This explains how to indicate where a picture should be inserted into an article.	p.55 p.56
VOLUME 27 (published November 1997)
Secretary's Newsletter	p.2
This details the next A.G.M. to be held at Croston in June 1998 and the proposal to make Maureen Collins the new Australian Secretary in place of Joy Chesson. Births  Greer Dalton CORBETT  3rd April 1997  Shaun Carl DALTON   30th Aug. 1997  Chandrelyn KRACZEK  2nd March 1997  Daren MERRILL    19th May 1997 Marriages  Darlene BATES to Aurel OTET   3rd Aug. 1996  Michael Murray DALTON to Helen Elizabeth BALL 26th April 1997                Laura Hilary ROBINSON to Martial LANGLOIS  25th Oct. 1997 Deaths  Kathleen Cole DYKSTRA    January 1997  Hazel Agnes DALTON  2nd Sept. 1996	p.3       p.4     p.5
The Obituary of Hazel Agnes Dalton by Jill Warren    Hazel Dalton was the wife of Aubrey Dalton and the mother of our former Australian Secretary, Jill Warren.	p.6
Miscellaneous notes and Queries  M. N. & Q. 27.1 Yoga for the over 80's    Nellie Dalton of Accrington, age 85, still does yoga after doing it for over fifty years.   M. N. & Q. 27.2 Selling up    D.G.S. member William Barker's grand mother was the grand daughter of William Dalton a carpenter, who sold up at Almondbury, Yorkshire and went to Australia in 1853.  Tree 27.1 Tree of William Dalton of Almondbury, Yorkshire.            M. N. & Q. 27.3 Thomas Masters Dalton and his son Ormonde    Thomas was a painter in his old age and a distant cousin of Canon Dalton of Windsor who gave Ormonde a good reference when he was seeking an appointment.  A painting by Thomas of Land's End is reproduced here.  M. N. & Q. 27.4 Daltons in Hul  Three D.G.S. members are descended form the marriage of Charles Wight, grocer to Helen Coy in 1843 at Hull in 1843.   M. N. & Q. 27.5 Can anyone help Delores?  Delores comes from the marriage of John W. Dalton to Eliza Jane Parish about 1840, in Tennessee.   Tree 27.2 Descent of Delores Dalton from John and Eliza Jane of Tennessee.   M. N. & Q. 27.6 Californian Daltons from Dartford    The late Kathy Dykstra was descended from the marriage of John Dalton, to Ann Elliot about 1840 at Sutton near Dartford, Kent.	p.7 p.8   p.8 p.10   p.11    p.12 p.12 p.12
Book review-The Genealogical Services Directory   This lists useful services for family historians. Letters to a Young Lady, Nos. 5 & 6, by Pamela Richards    These are dated 5th and 6th Nov. 1918, and deal with tea parties and libraries.	p.13   p.14
The Daltons of Cucklington, by L.. J. Slater    This large family of Daltons stemmed from Edmund of Ipswich who had a son John born about 1607.  John went to Caius College, Cambridge and had a son Nathaniel who became a parson in Cucklington, Somerset.  Tree 27.3  East Anglian Daltons.   Tree 27.4 The family of Nathaniel Dalton and Mary Watts.   Tree 27.5 Nathaniel Dalton IV and Mary Slade Yeatman.	p.17   p.19 p.25 p.29
Captain Valentine Dalton by John Moseley    Valentine was from Ireland and was about 40 in 1776.  He was taken prisoner in the Revolutionary War about 1782.  He married twice and had a son Valentine who was in the war of 1812 under General Jackson.	p.29
The Dalton Time line chart, part 2, by Arthur Whittaker    This contains the actual time line and the meaning of its symbols	p.33
News from America, by Millicent V. Craig    Millicent appeals for help to find ancestors of American Daltons in England.  She lists American families who are interested and reports on a tea party she gave at Croston on 3rd Aug. 1997 to some of her Croston relatives.	p.41
Professor Anthony Cox, healer of minds, by Pamela Richards    This is a profile of our new committee member the child psychiatrist Prof. Anthony Cox who is descended from John Dalton of Garton-on-the-Wolds.	p.44
New members up to September 1997; Dorothy Dalton Bongivengo, Delores Dalton, Mrs. Eliot W. Dalton, Michael Dalton of York, Roger Dalton of Colorado, Mrs. Mary Louise Elias, Mrs. Hilary A. Hepburn, Terry M. Rostamo  Changes of Address; Fred Simpson, Darlene Otet nee Bates	p.47 p.49
Review of "The Dalton Entail" by Sidney Ross    This deals with the entail on the farm where John Dalton was born.  Since it was entailed, he had no hope of inheritance and this may have driven him to become a famous scientist instead of a farmer.	p.50
The Annual Gathering at Lincoln    This report has many pictures of the gathering.  Annual General Meeting 9th August 1997.    In the absence of the chairman, Howard Dalton took the chair and conducted the business of the A.G.M.  Millicent Craig spoke on the American Daltons.  Then Jack Richards gave a talk about a fuchsia called Dalton and presented plants to everyone.  Accounts for 1996	p.51 p.56     p.60
VOLUME 28 (published May 1998)
Newsletter from your Secretary          This announced the death of Morag Simpson and confirmed Howard Dalton as Acting treasurer.  It also contains two photographs of Maureen Collins, our new Australian Secretary and announcements that the Lancashire Parish register Society's 100th anniversary is being celebrated on Sept. 5th.  Also the next Dalton Gathering will be at Swaffham in Norfolk on 7th-8th Aug. 1999.	p.2
Births  Benjamin Robert Simon KEYMER 9th Nov. 1997  Dalton William BUNDY  1st Dec. 1997  Jacob Kent OLSON   13th Apr. 1997  Johnathan Kent DALTON  11th May 1997	p.4
Marriages C harles Scott CAMERON to Nicola Sioban Mc.NAMARA 30th May 1997  Peter DALTON to Kellie HARRIS       24th Oct. 1997	p.5
Deaths            Mrs. Lucy HOPGOOD formerly Cairns nee Carnell 21st Feb. 1998            Mrs Janet R. WEAVER    28th Aug. 1997  Frederick Paul SILVA     4th July 1997  Jane DALTON of Croston     June 1997  Herman G. SILVA           25th Nov. 1997  Mrs. Morag Chisholm SIMPSON    6th March 1998	p.6
Miscellaneous notes and queries  M. N. & Q. 28.1  A very merry party    Thomas Dalton of Aspull near Wigan and his friends were had up for playing cards in Sept. 1591.  M. N. & Q. 28.2  Robert Dalton, First Prebend of Durham    Robert Dalton (1541-1592) made the Granary into his private house   and sold two marble shrines of Saints for two shillings in 1542.  M. N. & Q. 28.3  Tracy Dalton's lottery bonanza    A waitress, Tracy was given a lottery ticket as a tip. It won £120,000 which she shared with the man who had given it to her.  M. N. & Q. 28.4  Another early Dalton priest    Thomas Dalton was born about 1431 and came from York to Eton in 1446.  Then he went to King's College, Cambridge in 1448.  He was ordained at Ely in 1459 and was Rector of Great Welnatham 1464 to 1476.  Then he went to Royden, which was probably Royden near Diss.  M. N. & Q. 28.5  Daltons in Wantage, Berkshire    This lists a number of Doulton families in Berkshire, starting with Robert who married Gillian Anger in 1617.  Later a Rowland Dalton was born in Cumberland in 1700 and married at Great Faringdon in 1729.  He had a large family in the Wantage area.	p.8 p.8   p.8   p.9     p.9
Letters to a Young Lady by Pamela Richards, Nos. 7 & 8    These two letters tell of the armistice celebrations in Oxford and contain photos of Charles Dalton and his fiancee Lilian Edmondson.	p.11
Access to English Civil Registers, part 1    This is an appeal to allow free access to Civil registers as the law demands.	p.14
My Bedfordshire shoe makers, part 3, by Betty Wilks,    This paper continues the history of the very large family of Daltons in Biggleswade, starting with the death of Betty's great grandfather John age 89.  It gives details of life on their farm, and of a fatal accident on the railway in 1884.  Then it continues with several wills and a photograph of the Dalton family in 1898.	p.15
Captain John Dalton, founder of Alexandria, by Millicent Craig   This man was a merchant, a trader, a land baron and a friend of George Washington.  He lived from about 1722 to 1777.	p.24
A Boulogne soldier called William Dalton by Maureen Collins    William Dalton was a captain in an Irish regiment in France.  He married at Boulogne and had 17 children.  His eldest son, also called William, also became a soldier and was killed in Jan. 1800 at Mincio. A plaque was put up to him on a war monument and a street renamed Place Dalton in his honour in 1801.	p.32
The Daltons of Hampton, New Hampshire by Millicent V. Craig    This discusses Philemon and his son Samuel.  Also it tells of the Haverhill massacre of 1708. The Wills of Philemon and Timothy Dalton by Millicent V. Craig    This gives the actual texts of these wills transcribed by M. Bone into modern English	p.35 p.42
News from America by Millicent V. Craig    We welcome the advent of the Dalton Web Page on the Internet and she gives various other items of American News.	p.49
Daltons along the Rappahannock by Melanie Dalton Crain    This tells of land deals along this river in Virginia, by one John Dalton.  Little else is known about him.	p.52
Access to English Civil Registers, part 2    This is a continuation of the previous article and appeals to members to write to their M.P.'s asking why the legal rules have not been carried out.	p.54
New members up to 9th March 1998; Russell Braiden of Idaho, Bob F. Dalton of Georgia, Dean A. Dalton of Florida, James L. Dalton of Washington State, John David Dalton of London, Michael Lynn Dalton of Utah, Richard T. Dalton of California, Samual Spach Dalton of North Carolina, Schuyler G. Dalton of California, Sue Dalton of Ceredigion in Wales, Iliff and Tamaris Dolton of New York State, Vesta Green of Kent, Donald P. Hadrick of Virginia, Mrs. Shirley Kovar of Nebraska, Violet D. Maxwell of California, Robert Lee Miller of Belfast, A.W. Moore of San Francisco, Mrs. Diana Newson of Southampton, Robert Simpson of Manitoba and Mary Trudgeon of Manchester.  Changes of Address; Elizabeth Cameron, R.F. and M.J. Chesson, Mrs. Joan Dalton, Arthur Whittaker  Accounts for 1997	p.55 p.59 p.60
VOLUME 29 (published November 1998)
Letter from the Chairman.         Michael thanked the committee for their hard work and announced details of the Society's millennium project, the re-publication of the first part of the Dalton Book by Mrs. Francis Edith Leaning.  He also reported the successful restoration of the tomb of Sir Richard Dalton at Apethorpe to which the Society has contributed.	p.2
Annual General Meeting of the Dalton Genealogical Society    This was held at Rufford Arms Hotel on 4th July 1998.  Howard Dalton was elected Treasurer in place of Morag Simpson.  Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron (Joyce Parker's niece) and Prof. Anthony Cox were elected as new committee members and a report was delivered by Millicent Craig on the Dalton Web site on the internet.	p.5
The Dalton Gathering at Rufford 1998 by John Dalton    This article includes photographs of the annual dinner and the Croston parade.	p.8
Births,    Adrian Nicholas BAIRSTOW      12 Apr. 1998   Jasmin Rosa May OTET        1 Mar. 1998 Marriage   Heather Lenore CRAIN to Andrew Doyle RYAN    1 Aug. 1998 Deaths   Edith Hilda BURBIDGE      17 Aug. 1998   John Frank DALTON        5 Jan. 1998   Judy DALTON          Sep. 1998   Patrick DALTON          Jan. 1998   Richard LYSONS          Feb. 1998   Eugene Francis SILVA      1 Oct. 1998	p.9   p.10 p.10
The Grant-Daltons of Brodsworth Hall by Lucy Joan Slater    This continues the family history of the Daltons of Cucklington who, after the marriage of Mary Slade Dalton to Robert Grant became the Grant-Daltons.  They had many grand children and one Horace Grant-Dalton married Constance Thellusson, the heiress to Brodsworth Hall and the Thellusson estate.   Tree 29.1 Mary Slade Dalton and Robert Foster Grant.   Tree 29.2 Alan M. Grant-Dalton and Emma E. Brehm.   Tree 29.3 Gerald Grant-Dalton and Emma Kate Skilbech.   Tree 29.4 Horace Grant-Dalton and Constance Thellusson   Tree 29.5 Colin Grant-Dalton and Amy Ellen Sowler.	p.11     p.11 p.16 p.18 p.19 p.21
Peter, the accumulator by Richard N. D. Hamilton    This describes how Peter Thellusson tried to keep his money in his family, but only the lawyers profited.	p.25
The Irish Ancestry of Davida Bundy by Millicent V. Craig  Peter Dalton, Davida's g.g.g.grandfather, was born in Meath, Ireland about 1752 and his descendants now number well over 1000.	p.28
Max Dale Dalton, Murdered in Costa Rica, Written by Rick Dalton    This celebration of the life of Max Dalton by his son, Rick describes how Max worked in the field of artificial insemination and then went to Costa Rica where he bought land and settled.  For the last seven years of his life, he was harassed by squatters on the land he had bought.  Finally when he was 78, he was set upon and murdered by these squatters.  Max was a descendant of Charles Sheffield Dalton, and so is a descendant of a very famous Mormon line.	p.30
Miscellaneous Notes and Queries   M. N. & Q. 29.1 An excommunication    In 1435 John Dalton of Armagh, was declared excommunicate, for having disposed of his wife's goods illegally.   M. N. & Q. 29.2 Jane Dalton and Roland Thornburgh    About 1598, Roland Thornburgh married Jane, daughter of Thomas Dalton and they had nine children.  A Roland Thornburgh went to America in 1660, and named his children with family names. So many people are descended from this marriage on both sides of the Atlantic.   M. N. & Q. 29.3 The life of Thomas Masters Dalton    This note gives more information about Thomas Masters Dalton of Swansea.    M. N. & Q. 29.4 Sub mariners in the Royal Navy    A note of two Daltons in the book of Remembrance of submariners who died in the Royal Navy.   M. N. & Q. 29.5 Gravestone in the Parish Churchyard, Sherburn-in-Elmet    This was the grave of Mary Dalton, wife of Richard, who died in 1822.   M. N. & Q. 29.6 Antipodean Certificate    In the railway museum in Melbourne is a retirement certificate of Mr. Robert Dalton who retired from Victorian Railways on 28th Sept. 1889 after 28 years service.   M. N. & Q. 29.7 Australian Infantry.    On the war memorial in Adelade is listed C. Dalton of the 39th infantry battalion.	p.32 p.32   p.32     p.33 p.34 p.35 p.35   p.35
Obituary of Patrick Dalton of Dublin by Ciaran Dalton    This article was written by his son, Ciaran.  Patrick was born in County Waterford, and served in the Irish Army.  He was a keen family historian and a long standing member of the D.G.S.  The article contains an excellent photograph.	p.36
Obituary of Morag Simpson 1923-1998 by Phillipa Bairstow    This obituary is written by her daughter and tells about Morag's unusual and varied life.	p.38
Obituary of Edith Hilda Burbidge (1906-1998) by her son Colin Burbidge    Her mother Laura Dalton married William Collins and she  lived most of her life on Box Hill near Dorking, where they had a tea room.  Edie married Jesse Burbidge and they had three children, Bernard, Colin and Jill.  They left behind four grand-children Adam, Lance, Helen and Sophie. Obituary of Daniel Richard Lysons (J2741) by Michael N. Dalton    Richard died of cancer after a short illness and his requiem Mass was held at Wymondham in Norfolk.  He leaves behind his wife Jennie and two children, Nicholas and Natashia.	p.44   p.45
News from America by Millicent V. Craig    She reports on the Daltons on the internet and on American Daltons including some who visited England last summer.	p.45
The Midlands Family History Conference   This is a notice of their next meeting on 27th March 1999.	p.48
The Irish D'Alton family, 1300-1800 by Millicent V. Craig and R. N. D. Hamilton    There is a long extract from the work known as "King James' Army list" published in 1860.  It is a very good source of information about the D'Alton families in West Meath	p.49
Yorkshire Family History Fair    This is a notice about the Yorkshire Family History Fair on 26th June 1999	p.54
Change of name.   Dorothy Dyke reverts to her maiden name Dorothy Ransome.  Change of address.   Neilis T. Dalton has changed his address.	p.55 p.55
New Members up to 5th October 1998.  Phillipa Norah Bairstow of Leeds, Leroy O. Baker of Michigan, Linda Bunting-Blake, Russell Braiden of Idaho, William Harvey Crouch of Kansas, Ciaran Dalton of Kerry, Eric Allan Dalton of South Carolina, Frank A. Dalton of Washington State, John S. N. Dalton of Powys, Michael and Pamela Dalton of Navada, Robert Earl Dalton of California, D. E. Jones of Blackpool, James Klummp of Maryland, Josephine Margaret Leister of Illinois, Susan Drew Lum of Oregon, Shari Jean Manke of Indiana, Katherine Dalton Neubauer of California, Thomas Phillip O'Conner of Massachusetts, Elizabeth Padovan of Chorley, Ron & Connie Parkes of Washington State, Kim Barney Snider of Oregon, Barbara J. Wilson of Washington. Resignation.    Tony Dalton of Argyllshire has resigned owing to ill health.	p.55             p.58
Forthcoming events in Family History  Conference on Computers in Family History  Photo of the Croston Coffee day parade.	p.59 p.59 p.60
VOLUME 30 (Published May 1999)
Newsletter   This reminded people of the next Dalton gathering at Swaffham in Norfolk.	p.2
Births   Isabella Katherine WARREN   16 May  1998    Schuyler Nathaniel DOLTON   17 Aug. 1998    Olivia Maray SMITH   30 Sep. 1998    Dina Sandra JUNDI     1 Oct. 1998    Daniel John McGEE     7 Feb. 1999    Brittany Catron PIERCE   30 Mar 1999 Marriages    Ian SIMPSON to Mrs. Dorothea LASER  13 Mar. 1999   Dawn HAIGH to Scott KAMERATH  21 May  1999 Deaths   Constance Mary WATSON    7 Dec. 1998   Marcia Eileen WEBB nee HAIGH  19 Apr. 1999 Obituary of Constance Mary Watson, nee Parker   Mary was born on 20th July 1918, was educated in Brighton and joined the W.A.A.F. in the war. Then she married John Watson head forester on the Buccleuch Estates.	p.2           p.3   p.4   p.4
Miscellaneous Notes and Queries.   M. N. & Q. 30.1  Can anyone help Stephanie G. Ketteringham?    Her great-grandmother Louisa Dalton was descended from a family of fustian cutters in Manchester.  A Michael McKiever and a French woman may have been part of the family.    M. N. & Q. 30.2  Another emigrant to America    Thomas Hawkins McMillan Dalton, born in Carlisle in 1877, went to the Grammar school there and then went to America about 1897.   M. N. & Q. 30.3  A desperate chase    In 1837 in Maidstone four convicts, among them one Thomas Dalton, escaped from their jailer and after a violent chase, Dalton and the others was overpowered.  The four were then flogged on the river hulk which was their jail.   M. N. & Q. 30.4  Terraghafeeva or the farm at Englishtown	p.4   p.5   p.5     p.6
This is a note by Gerald Milner about his family home, a farm near Lisburn.  On the family land was a Rath or Danish fort and a dig proved that the farm had been pillaged and burnt down by the Vikings a thousand years before.
My Bedfordshire shoe makers, part 4, by Betty Wilks,     This is the last of the papers on Bedfordshire Daltons and brings the history down to the present day from Betty's great great grand father John to her father Harry Albert Dalton.	p.7
Thomas Dalton, silk dyer of Coventry by Geoffrey Dalton, his third great-grandson.     Thomas Dalton was born about 1774 and became a silk dyer in Coventry.  He married Mary Barton in 1796 and they had nine children.  Thomas started his own company and after Mary died in 1844, he married a widow, Susannah Grant.  The Grant and Dalton families then became intertwined.  Thomas's second daughter Maria married Susannah's eldest son William Grant in 1825 and Thomas jnr married Susannah's daughter Frances in 1827.  Thomas senior died in 1834 leaving his business to Thomas jnr and William Grant as well as several properties in Spon Street, Coventry.	p.15
Facts and fancies about the families of Timothy and Philemon Dalton by Lucy Joan Slater          This article gives a summery of present knowledge about Timothy and Philemon, the first Daltons to land in America.  Rev. Timothy's possible family is given in the first section followed by section two on his wives and children.  Section five covers Philemon's family   The next part covers the family of Timothy's wife, Ruth Leet and the last section deals with the Parkhurst family who were related to Ruth.	p.19
Some Daltons of Norfolk by Lucy Joan Slater     An important family of Daltons lived in King's Lynn and Swaffham in Norfolk in the period 1500 to 1800.  The first part covers the wills of the King's Lynn Daltons and the second part deals with the Daltons who are buried in Swaffham parish church.   Tree 30.1 The family tree of the Daltons of King's Lynn.   Tree 30.2 The family tree of Francis Dalton.   Tree 30.2 A family tree of the Swaffham Daltons	p.28     p.35 p.38 p.43
Forthcoming events in Family History in 1999.	p.45
A Dalton who made Newspaper History by Pamela Richards     Pamela's father Charles Dalton left Oxford with a double first in Mathematics.  He became a journalist in Huddersfield and later on the Daily Herald.  In 1946 he joined the Welwyn Garden City Company and later bought the Welwyn Times.  He introduced webb-offset litho process to England in 1962 and turned a loss making local newspaper into a very successful concern.  He retired two years later and died in 1978 aged 78.	p.46
Yorkshire Family History Fair	p.47
News from America by Millicent V. Craig   This is the first anniversary of the Dalton Webb page on the internet.  Members are invited to post requests for long lost relatives on it.  A new series of gifts with the Dalton coat of arms has been produced.   The American end of the Society has helped to re-type the Leaning book, so that it can be reprinted in time for the millennium.  Another project is to develop a pool of Daltons willing to look up records in their local area.  The Webb page of Jim Wicks is noted as is Melanie Crain's Dalton News Letter.  Nancy Samuelson's husband Reid makes progress after his car accident.  Theckla Ledyard, using a researcher in Australia, has found her two long lost uncles, and Danny Paterno found his ancestors at Sliningford Hall, in Yorkshire.   Is the name Jane Weightman in your family tree?  If so, please contact Millicent.  Rodney Dalton found he was a cousin of Arthur Whittaker through the internet and a similar connection was made between Shirley Lynn and Junwell Brantley.  A similar mystery was solved for Lisa Liden by the GOONS.  Mrs E. W. Dalton is starting a book on her Daltons and Robert Simpson found over 1000 family records on a recent trip to England.  Lace makers went to New York about 1890 and some shoe makers from England went to Illinois about 1850. Rick Dalton reports that an award of $1000 and a plaque has been founded in memory of his father Max Dalton.  Finally members are reminded to send in their applications for the Swaffham meeting.	p.48
Lancashire Parish Register Society by John Dalton    This note gives an outline of the Society's work in publishing Parish Registers.	p.51
Book Reviews  Shoot from the Lip, by Nancy B. Samuelson         John Dalton's Lakeland Excursions by Sidney Ross        History of the English family, 1770-1890 by Jean English.	p.52 p.52 p.53
New members and changes of address         Tina Marie Culbertson of Florida, Andrew Dalton of London. Eric Dalton of Michigan, George M. Dalton of New York, Michael Wayne Dalton of Tennessee, Rodney Garth Dalton of Utah, Stanley and Mattie Dalton of Tennessee, Stephen J. Dalton of West Lothian, Theodore L. Dalton jnr. of North Carolina, John d'Alton of Queensland, Sally Ford of Missouri, Mrs. Stephanie Gatenby Ketteringham of Northumberland, Gerald Milner of Shoreham, Rhonda Lynn Dalton Parker of Cincinatti, and Donna Marie Wilkes of Virginia. Changes of Address.             Phillip Dalton, Eric Allan Dalton, Neilis T. Dalton, Vesta Green and Ian Simpson have all changed their addresses.	p.54         p.56