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Reminds people to pay their subscriptions and explains the codes used on the address labels.

Reports on the republishing of the Dalton book, part I by Edith Leaning., the arrangements for the AGM on the 19^th of August 2000 at Reigate and the restoration of the effigy of Sir Richard Dalton in St. Leonard’s Church, Apethorpe, with photographs.

John Dalton, the Atomic scientist, and several other colour blind Daltons are discussed.

This discusses weaving and fulling done by a Robert Dalton in Winchester in 1467.

Kevin Dalton-Johnson made a ceramic owl to be presented to Betty Boothroyd. But it exploded in the kiln and a crystal bowl had to be presented instead.

Sir Charles Dalton of Prince Edward Island bread a special strain of silver foxes which made his fortune.

Maurice L. Dalton is descended from John and John‘s father was Thomas in Dunkirk, Kent.

This gives the addresses of the four web pages which access the catalogue of the 8 million documents at the P.R.O. and helps you to use the catalogue efficiently.

Photo of the marriage of Scott Kamerath to Dawn Haigh omitted from the previous Journal.

The Robinson family found over a thousand bundles of letters and other documents in the Old Courthouse in Kingston, dating from the American War of Independence. Later E. Arnot Robinson wrote a book “The Spanish Town Papers” based on these documents. Among them was a letter from Tristram Dalton to one of his captains, Edward Fettiplace of “The Antelope“, discussing what Edward should do to make money on the voyages he was undertaking for Mr. Dalton .

This discusses a mistake made in an earlier paper by Lionel Dalton, which mixed up a John Dalton from the Hull line, headed by Daniel Dalton, with a John Dalton in the local Cambridgeshire line of Daltons, headed by Thomas. Dalton D.D.

The Daltons of Hampton, Philemon’s descendants, Part II, by Millicent V. Craig. p.18

The seven generations coming after Philemon Dalton are listed, as the same family Christian names are repeated. This long article details the fourth to sixth generations. In the fourth generation, Samuel’s son Isaac and his descendants are discussed. The epidemic of a throat infection killed over 2000 people in Massachusetts in 1736 and 7, including four of Isaac Dalton’s children.

Isaac decided to go to fight the French at Cape Breton, and he wrote home from Louisburg on 16^th October, 1745.. He died soon afterwards, and his widow Mary got £40 for his wages at Cape Breton. His inventory showed that he had little else to leave. Including the proceeds from some land and the £40, the total was £465. Legal fees were £247, leaving only £218 for a lifetime’s work.. In 1754, Mary’s dower rights to live in the farmhouse were recognised, but she had to bring up 5 children. So she had to petition several times for a few pounds a year for their survival. She died in 1758. Sixteen years after Isaac’s death, his estate was finally settled between his surviving children.

In the fifth generation, Isaac’s son Samuel earned a living as a shipwright, and raised six children. At his death, he left £56.7s. But his debts were £71.7s1d, so his estate was declared insolvent.

Two of Sam’s children were Deacon Isaac Dalton and Captain John Dalton. Isaac died in 1838 and a covered bridge at Warner, New Hampshire, is a memorial to him. He left one son John who became a doctor, and a second son Isaac who was a Colonel in the state militia. Deacon Isaac’s brother Jonathan was a sailor and little is know about him except that he sailed to the Orient and brought back cargos of silks and spices. His ship sank in a storm in 1802 and he died then aged 35. His inventory shows that he was well off with a mansion and furnishing valued at $3615, an interest in a ship value $2250 with insurance money and cash $1500. The total of the estate when a few debts had been settled, was $6500. He left one son John who also became a doctor.

Tina comes from the marriage of Thomas Dalton to Ann Ainsley in Cumberland in 1800. They had six children About 1830, their second son Joseph married Jane Weightman, and they had eight children, the first five of which were born in England.. Joseph was a weaver and, in 1841, they emigrated to America and went to Upland, .Pennsylvania, where Joseph found work in a new cotton mill. Joseph died in December 1878,. soon after Jane.

Joseph’s son Isaac became a coachman and married Mary Dickinson Hill. They had seven children. Isaac’s brother William worked in the cotton mill and had a wife called Sarah. They had five children. The next brother Joseph also worked in the Upland Cotton mill. In 1861, when the Civil War started, he enlisted and served until 1864. Then he married Emma Cloud and they had seven children. His second son Edward married Margaretta van Riper, and they had five children. Their daughter Margaretta married William Jackson who was an electrician in 1920, and they had three children . The eldest son William Jackson married Estelle Pierce in 1942, and they also had three children. The youngest child was Tina who married Carl Culbertson. The article ends with the obituary of Joseph Dalton senior

In Boston, a journalist called Ernie Dalton wrote for nearly 50 years about school sports in the Boston Globe. . Shortly after he retired in 1971, he died suddenly and the Globe initiated The Ernest Dalton Memorial Trophy, for school boy sports, better known as The Dalton Cup.

These two books are about the Social History of Australia, by Karen Watkins. The first is “Timber and Two-up“, an informal history of Mumballup and Noggenup about the Donnybrook area of Western Australia and the second is “Pin hi’n’ Jack hi“; a history of golf and bowls in the same area.

The Dalton Journal edited by Niel Gunson, is about a private journal kept by William Dalton during two whaling voyages in 1823 and 1829. Niel thanks the late Joyce Parker for her help in sorting out the family history of William. He was christened in Swansea in 1803. After qualifying to practice medicine, he went on the “Phoenix” and later he sailed on the “Harriet”. When he returned home, he married Ann Dolphin and they had four sons. He retired and went to live in Bournemouth in 1870, and died in 1873.

This gives all the items of news from America, including the Web page. She reports on several American Daltons who made trips to England to seek their ancestors.

Mrs. Sheila Allison, Kathleen Browning. A. M. Dalton, Brian F. Dalton, Maurice L. Dalton, Robert J. Dalton, William M. Dalton, Janet Sue Demaree, Bernard G. Dodd, M. M. Deyes, Louis Dolton, Betty Bussa Elman, Carolyn Gibbons, Nancy P. Harvey, Ruth Higgins, Dorothy V. Malcolm, R. James Spindle, Donna Thomas, Kevin S. Vaught, Marie Dalton Gibby Wilkes, Donna Marie Brown Wilkes.

This article and a photo is about a visit to Merton in Norfolk, by members of the D.G.S. where Pamela Lynam has her roots. p.43

This report is on the main meeting at Swaffham. in Norfolk. In the parish church, there is a pew with carved lions rampant on the ends and several large Dalton burial slabs set in the floor. We held the AGM at the George Hotel and, later that evening, we enjoyed a good dinner together.

John reports on a trip to New York, Chicago and then on a long train journey to Salt Lake City. There they met Arthur Whittaker, explored the hills round about and visited the L.D.S. Genealogical library. Then they went to see the Grand Canyon and on to visit Millicent Craig at Palo Alto. There are two pictures with the article.

Contains an announcement about the AGM, and Dr. Slater’s retirement from the post of Secretary. It reports the reprinting of the first part of the Dalton Book by Edith Leaning, and apologises for three small slips in the previous Journal..

Short notes are given on :- The Genealogists’ Library Guides, Yorkshire, Vols. 2, 5 and 6, GENUKI on the internet, Friendly Society Records, Family search on the internet, Finding Genealogy on the Internet, Dictionary of Old trades, Poor Law Union records, Nuts and Bolts (on family history techniques), and a Register of One Name Studies. All these can be obtained from Allan and Todd.

This is about a report in the Times on the death of William Dalton after being hit on the head by a truncheon only three weeks after the riot known as Peterloo.

Stephen descends from Thomas Dalton who married Rose Moran in Ireland about 1835.

This notes “A Navel Biographical Dictionary for the Navy“, published 1849. An extract details the family of Captain James Dalton of Fillingham, in Lincolnshire, who married Isabella Diss.

Lucy Slater says her mother told her that her grandfather Thomas Dalton, went to the first meetings of the Co-Op at Th’Owd Lane in Rochdale, when it was founded in the 1850’s.

He needs help to find his grandfather Sidney William Dalton, born in Birmingham in 1879.

The author found herself sharing a breakfast table at a Fabian weekend with Hugh Dalton, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer. This is a short history of Hugh’s life, how he came to live at Windsor castle , and go to Eton, his service in the first war, and how he became M. P. for Peckham. He foresaw trouble with Hitler as early as 1936, and became Minister of Economic Warfare in 1940. In 1945, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, but divulged the Budget secrets to a journalist friend and resigned immediately he realised what he had done. He became Minister of Town and Country Planning under Atlee, and was created a life peer in 1960. He died in 1962 age 75.

John was born in Cumberland in 1709, went to school in Westmorland and entered Oxford where he took his M.A. in 1734 and became a D.D. He adapted Milton’s masque ‘Comus’ for the stage and held a benefit performance for Milton’s granddaughter. His patron was the Duke of Somerset. John became a preacher at St. James’ Westminster, and published several books of sermons and poetry. He was appointed a Canon of Worcester, and died there in 1763.

Thirty years after his death, the poet Alfred de Musset was said to have been in love with a Mademoiselle X, who is here identified as Aimee d‘Alton. A book of love letters between the two was published in 1910. .Aimee was born in 1811 at Hamburg. Her father was General Alexandre d’Alton who served in the Napoleonic wars. Aimee was a very beautiful woman and her liaison with Alfred lasted over 11 years until his death in 1857. She had not married Alfred, but in later life, she agreed to marry his brother Paul.

John was born in 1763 in Maryland to Irish parents just after the Indian wars. Peace had been established in 1762. John had two brothers, James born 1765 and Charles born 1767, and one sister Polly who was born in 1769. The Daltons had moved out of Maryland before 1790.

A table gives a list of John’s military service in the Revolutionary war. He left the Army in 1791. There follows a description of life in those times, what they wore and what they ate. John married Betty Cooker and they had ten children. The family is in the 1790 census of Philadelphia.

After 1806, John got a piece of land in Wysox town, Pennsylvania, and he called his farm Dalton Hollow. There is a short history of Bradford Country, and a list of things that happened while the family lived at Dalton Hollow. The First Presbyterian church at Wysox was where the family worshipped. It joined with the Congregational Church in 1830 and several members of the family subscribed to the building of the new church.

The 1830 census .shows four Dalton families living in the town. In 1833, John’s son Henry was drowned in the flooded river. In 1835 the Daltons moved to Michigan and there were then almost 50 people in the family. John Dalton died in 1838, not knowing that the family would become famous founders of the Mormon Church in Utah.

His family tree starts with William and Hannah Dalton of Crosby-upon-Eden in Cumberland. They had four children, James, christened 1774, Edward 1776, Mary 1779 and Thomas 1784 who was Michael’s direct ancestor. His son Thomas II became a clergyman and had at least seven children, Thomas III born 1838, George 1841, Joseph 1843, John 1845, William 1847, who was also a clergyman, Charles 1851 and Edward Septimus 1853, who became the chaplain of East Sussex Hospital.

Thomas III went to Cambridge and became the head of Mathematics at Eton. He had five children, Thomas IV 1872, Susan 1874, Charles 1876, Arthur (Michael’s grandfather) 1878 and Hilda 1880. Arthur became Principal Clerk at the Law Courts and married Ada Dowling in 1910. They had two children, Arthur and Eileen, who became Michael’s mother. She married Ford Cayley who was a medical doctor in 1941. He was captured at Singapore and worked on the River Kwai. In 1951, he became a consultant at Bevendean Hospital, Brighton. He has two sons, Adam and Michael Cayley.

Arthur started at King Henry II who was born in 1133, and worked his way forward to Roger Dalton of Croston born about 1515, who is related to Arthur. There is a chart of this descent.

Thomas is Millicent’s grandfather. He trained to be an electrician in 1899 when they were in very short supply, married Lucy Hogen and had four daughters. Tom played the cornet in the Arlington Mill band. He also taught children music in the winter evenings.

She reports on the reprinting of the Dalton Book part I, by Mrs. Leaning, and on various travels of her American members. Henry Dalton, who owned most of Los Angeles when it was under Mexican rule was descended from the Winnal Daltons of Stepney, London and has been documented by Betty Hicks of Rickmansworth. Other members have been writing books about their families and use the e-mail to help with their researches.

She is visiting England again this summer. She attended the 3^rd Irish Genealogical Congress in 1997 and hopes to attend again next year.

William Caterson, A.M. Dalton., Andrew M. Dalton, Barbara L. Dalton, Charles J. Dalton, Dale J. Dalton, Dennis S. Dalton, Douglas W. Dalton, James Dalton, Rev. Richard L. Dalton, Robert W. Dalton, Patricia I. Deller-Smith, Joy & Peter Goater, Charles J. Dalton Harvey, Pauline Hearley, Melvin F. Irwin, Maxine Dalton Kennedy, Tracy Mehuffy, Kate T. Mapstone.

Lucy Slater reported on her retirement party, and the holding of the next meeting at Cambridge in 2001. Michael Cayley was made a member of the committee with the title of Librarian.

Report on his funeral and a poem “Autumn at Glynde”, by Lucy Joan Slater p. 4

Michael gives a list of Dick’s main articles in the D.G.S. 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.

After the war, he retuned 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 if his family.

Kathleen was born on 20^th January 1923 and died on 29^th 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 D. G. S. so she sent me notes, to go into the D. G. S. Journal, of any references to Daltons in the Times. and was made an Honorary member of the D. G. S. for this work

Reid was the husband of D.G.S. member Nancy Samuelson. After being injured in a car accident in 1998, he died quite suddenly at his home in Connecticut.

Charles Dalton, father of D.G.S. 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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

His 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.

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.

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.

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.

Sir Charles Dalton, Politician and Philanthropist, by T. O‘Connor & R. Rankin p.36

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.

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.

This is an appeal from the Lancaster Castle project team, for any information about ancestors who were transported to Australia.

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.

This was held on 19^th 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 30^th 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.

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.

L .J. S. asks if you have paid your subscription yet. There is a report on reprints of part one of the Dalton book by Mrs. Leaning, and the first seven Journals. Also binders are available for the Journals. The next AGM will be at Cambridge on July 28^th and 29^th 2001. There is a new telephone number for the General Register Office and we require a new minutes secretary.

This reports on a voyage to Argentina by a botanist, Joseph Banks and his two negro servants, Thomas Robinson and George Dalton, who froze to death in Tierra del Fuego.

This note lists five books requested by Daltons in Ireland. All five were about family history!

A parish outing was to the home of the Archbishop of Canterbury and as our party arrived a little early, we were directed to the Church next door, St. Mary’s. There we saw a beautiful monument to the wife of Sir Henry Daulton, in white glazed pottery, made at his factory in Lambeth. I remember the trip round Lambeth Palace itself only by the painting of Archbishop Laud, who looked very mephistophelean.

One of this family, Mary married a Mr. Dalton, about 1800, and in 1866, an appeal for further information was put out in Notes and Queries, Vol. 10.

He was of the House of Hamilton, and a younger branch was headed by Howel Powel, whose daughter Mary married a John Dalton. This is from Notes and Queries Vol. 4, 1857.

A note on this pamphlet about Edward Dalton, appeared in Notes and Queries Vol. 1 1849.

The inscriptions on the bells are reproduced on a brass plate on the church tower. One of the bells is inscribed Dalton of York fecit, 1791. This is from Notes and Queries Vol. 9 1866.

After working in England for most of his life, William returned to Ireland and spent his remaining years restoring the local church yard. Many strangers were found dead on near-by roads, so a local poet, John Ryan, wrote a poem about them, which is reproduced here.

Daltons of Dronfield in Yorkshire have been researched by Mrs. Cook. Thomas Dalton christened his son Godfrey in Dronfield in 1743. His son Joseph was born in 1783, and was a farrier by trade. He had five children, and Mrs Cook is descended from the youngest son George. The 1881 census of the members of the family is given here.

This is an extract from a thesis on migrations from England, found in the Bury St. Edmund’s Records Office. It showed that Timothy Dalton sold land and property before his departure to America to the value in modern money of about £750,000. This made him a very rich man in those times.

This is about the Dalton and Younger gangs and their relationship to the famous Chief Justice, John Marshall.

This starts with the birth of Thomas Dalton in 1752 in Wales. He was a convict sent to America in the 1750’s. Three Thomas Daltons were on the lists of such convicts, in 1750, 1754, and 1757. It is difficult to sort out if these records referred to the same man or to three different men. In any case, Thomas married Polly from Ireland and their eldest son was born John Dalton in 1765 in Pennsylvania. A Mormon descendant, John Luther Dalton collected information while on a mission to England in 1863 to 1866. There follow some notes about the English plantation system of sending people to America before 1776. This practice was started before 1597. The next passage deals with the life of a convict in America in the 1700’s.

Thomas served in the revolutionary war. He enlisted in April 1777, was wounded in September 1777 and invalided out of the army. Details are given of his service record. Finally he was given a state pension, and died in 1791. His son John married Elizabeth Cooker and established a famous line of Mormon Daltons.

This starts with a short explanation of the history of Parliament. The author then deals with the group of M.P.’s who served in the 1400‘s. The first was Richard Dalton who was M .P. for Newcastle on Tyne in 1413. He married Agnes Hebburn about 1409, and got some land as her Dowry. He imported soap, alum and iron, to Newcastle on Tyne, and died about 1421. His widow married John Bedford who had been an M.P. for Hull, in 1419, 1420 and 1421. Agnes and Richard’s son John also served as an M.P. for Newcastle in 1449. He died in 1470.

Another John was M.P. for Hull in 1485-6, and his brother Thomas was M.P. for Hull in 1487, and again in 1497. They were both importers of wine and wool. John served Hull for many years as Sheriff in 1482-3, and mayor in 1487-8 and again in 1495-6. He died in 1496. His brother Thomas was M.P. for Hull in 1489 and 1497. Thomas was sheriff of Hull in 1484-5 and mayor from 1489 to 1491. The third son of Thomas and Maud Dalton was another Thomas , born about 1516. He was sheriff of Hull in 1550, mayor in 1554, 1560 and 1568. He was M.P. for Hull in 1555 and again in 1572. He died in 1591 at the age of 71. The next two sections describe two Daltons who served other areas as M.P.’s, Thomas Dalton for Leicester in 1455-6, and Richard Dalton for Worcester in 1478.

We have more information about John Dalton M.P. for Derby in 1659-61. He was born in 1610, and married Anne Pyott. He seems to have been on Parliament’s side in the Civil War. He was ill in 1667, with gout, and in 1670 his appointment as a J.P. was terminated because he was on the side of the dissenters. He died in 1679.

Roger Dalton of Kirkby Misperton has already been discussed in a series of articles in the D.G.S.J. by Dick Hamilton. He was M.P. for Lancaster in 1589. In 1594 he sold his lands at Kirkby Misperton and settled on his estate in Ireland. He died in 1597.

Robert Dalton, born before 1533, served as mayor of Carlisle in 1558. In 1561, he became M.P. for Carlisle. When he stood to be mayor again in 1564, there was a riot, and in April 1567, he was summoned before the Privy Council and imprisoned for a short time, but in 1568-9, he became mayor again..

John Dalton was another Elizabethan M.P. serving for Saltash in 1563, 1571 and 1572, for Loswithial in 1584 and 1586 and for Preston in 1593. He was a leading Puritan M.P. and made a speech saying “God forbid that any Scot shall ever have an interest in this Crown“. He was hauled before the privy Council and denied he had said any such thing. In 1571 John had distanced himself from the Puritans and promoted a bill that “all must attend Anglican Service“.

When the Queen of Scots issue came to a head, John was again in the debates, on the side of the conservatives. His contribution to the increasing power of the Star Chamber was one fact which led to the violence of the 1640’s, a depressing end to this account of Daltons who were M.P.’s.

These are trees of the extensive family of Daltons who lived in Tignish, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

John Dalton married Elizabeth McKnight at Carlisle in 1826 and they had 13 children. The eldest Mary married John Wright in 1826 at Carlisle. John Dalton was a Corn Miller and Cotton Manufacturer at Cummersdale Mills in the 1841 census. John was the son of Thomas Dalton and Mary nee Patterson. He was baptised at St. Cuthbert’s, Carlisle in 1784, the middle one of five children. The inscriptions on a tomb in St. Mary’s, Carlisle record that Alice Elizabeth wife of Mr. Thomas Dalton of Carlisle, died in 1744 age 29, and is buried there together with several other members of the family.

The book is mostly about Geoffrey’s Maternal grandfather and is warmly recommended by the reviewer, Michael Cayley.

She reports on the Activities of the Dalton Enquiry team, in particular K. T. Mapstone’s work on Irish Daltons with help from Ciaran Dalton, Mary Weber-Elias, on the organisation of our data base, Mike Dalton of Portland, Oregon who has listed all Daltons who landed at the port of New York, Robert E. Dalton who has listed all Daltons who were born outside California but died in California, Michael Cayley who provided English data, Diana Jackman who copied more Newfoundland data and Betty Wilkes who copyed Dalton data from Limehouse, London. Millicent also reports on the articles on the Webb page and the work on D.N.A.

Here is a photo of Canadian cousins descended from Zebadee Dalton, together with a short family tree. She reports also on the work of Kate Bryant who is descended from Daltons in Killkenny, Ireland. Another Australian member Judy Woodlock wants help in tracing her Daltons in Kings Newnham, Warwickshire. June Self gives details of her Irish family.

Carl Dalton, Lloyd L. Dalton, Mrs Wendy Fleming, Doc Hurt. Margaret Kearns, Sally Poole, Mrs. Grace Ralston, Robert and Velma Richardson, Humphrey Stead, Nathan P. Strause III, Mrs. Betty Kirk Watson.

Lucy apologises for a mistake in the Web page address, and reports on the A.G.M. at Cambridge. On the Thursday; she took Millicent Craig to view Kings College Chapel, and the next day John Dalton took a small party to see Denny Abbey. On Saturday morning the A.G.M. was held in Girton College and in the afternoon one party went to see Fulbourne Church and Manor House, and another party went to visit Trinity College and St. John‘s. In the evening, the Annual Dinner was held in Wolfson Court.

On Sunday morning, we set out for Little Eversden where Ruth Leet was born and were given coffee by Mrs. Cowham, who also opened the church for us to see inside where the Leet family worshipped. We went on to Wimpole Hall to take lunch and to see the Chicheley tombs. Faith Keymer prepared a large family tree showing the relationship between the Daltons and the Chicheleys.

In 1538, £2 11s 6d was spent on erecting a hedge round a wood by Ralph Dalton in Northallerton.

In 1861, at Hambledon, Fred, son of Elizabeth Dalton was baptised. There are no other Daltons mentioned in the Hambledon parish records.

In Chichester Cathedral, there is a memorial book which records the names of 1335 Naval men and women who died in the Chichester diocese in the 1939-45 war and have no know grave. One Dalton, Gordon Frank A.B. age 18, was in Portsmouth dockyard when he was killed.

Family History fairs in 2002. This is a list of such meetings up to May 2002. p. 6

Shone Oswald from New Zealand, wants to know about her family, headed by Thomas Dalton born about 1811 in County Cork, Ireland., who married Ann O’Brian in Dublin in 1833. M.V.C. By mistake, L.J.S. and M.V.C both wrote the same material up into MN&Q’s. See M.N.&Q. 33.8. Also MN&Q 35.3 is put in this Journal before MN&Q 35.2.

Tina Culburtson asks if this means anything? Her family comes from Scotland but were baptised in Wetheral, Cumbria and buried in Upland, Pennsylvania.

His descendants Thomas Jefferies and Ann Mercer want to know about his country of origin. He and his wife Dorcas nee Taylor had four children, and there are many living descendants of this union.

A becalmed ship was running out of water and food when an American Captain Dalton from Newburyport shared his sparse rations with the crew, and so enabled them to make land. He has now been identified as Captain Jonathan Dalton. He was lost at sea in a violent storm, only four months after his act of kindness.

William and Margaret Dalton had a baby in 1868 at Coldstream in Scotland. It died but they had another child Elizabeth in 1870 and a third daughter Margaret in 1871. No marriage has been found.

An earlier MN&Q 6.12 notes a book about this man. Here some further information is extracted from the Imperial Gazette about his efforts to overcome his enemies.

June Self tells of her Irish ancestors. John Dalton, carpenter married Anne Kearns and they had a son Michael Peter born about 1829. He married Catherine Leahy and they emigrated to Australia on the 2^nd of October 1849.

Both the Dalton and Cayley families married into the Wyvill family. Francis Wyvill married Anne Cayley, one of Francis’ aunts married Sir William Dalton of Hawkeswell and her sister Anne married Sir William’s younger brother Thomas Dalton.

In Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly, on the quay at Old Grimsby, is a seat to the memory of a child, Digby Dalton 1981-1989.

This details the Army service of Dennis Harman Dalton of the East India Company’s Bengal Army. He joined as a Cadet in 1783, and saw service in northern India. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in 1804, and was commended for his service. He was promoted to Major, in 1814 and saw service in Java for which he was given a special gold medal. Stamford Raffles was the Civilian Governor over him. In 1815, the Light Infantry mutinied and Dalton suppressed this mutiny. There was trouble in Celebes in the same year, and Dalton was sent to suppress that. There was a fierce battle which Dalton won, although he lost a third of his troops. He returned to India and then back to England. In 1819, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, formerly retired and died in Cheltenham in 1828.

His great great grandfather Richard Dolton was born in Sherington, near Newport Pagnall. He was married twice and the second wife Ruth gave him a son Richard. She finished her life in the County Asylum, and died in 1852, aged 57. Her son Richard had gone to London to find work. He was married in 1853 to Mary Ann Hopson, and lived in Camden Town where he worked as a carman on the railway. The couple produced ten children over the next twenty four years. The third child Richard was Howard’s great grandfather. He married Eliza Jane Herbert and they had six children. Their third son Albert became a solicitor and married Rose Price. He was Howard’s grandfather.

This article has no clue as to who sent it. It deals with the family tree of the late Janet Weaver, some of which has already been published. But the latter part gives new information about the family of Daltons living in Church Lawford, near Coventry.

This lists the castles of Westmeath and the families who possessed them, including several Daltons. There are several detailed footnotes.

The first is an appeal by John Dalton and Robert Adam for news of two of their Irish convicts who had run away in July 1767, and the second is an appeal for news of another Irish convict, who was called Christopher Dolton, and had run away in June 1771 from Andrew Hamilton in Augusta.

He was one of Napoleon’s Generals, and his name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe. He was the father of Aimee Dalton, whose story was in D.G.S. Journal Vol. 32. In 1819, the General’s own story was researched by the Irish Herald’s Office. They found that Alexandre’s line started in Ireland with William Dalton of Killmallady, in County Offaly, about 1550, and went down to his father Captain William Dalton born 1735, in Knockakelly, Tipperary, who had married Marie-Louise Coillot, in France. Alexandre was born in April 1776. Aged 12, he joined the French Army as a cadet, in the Brunswick regiment in which his father had served under the King of France. Alexandre was promoted to Lieutenant, in 1791, aged 15 and by the age of 19 he was promoted to Captain. He served under General Hoche, and in 1796 was with a fleet which left Brest to invade Ireland. They were scattered by a storm and returned to France.

He married Elizabeth Reine, in 1803. They had four children, Laetitia, Alfred, Constance, and Aimee. D‘Alton worked in the ministry of War, and became an officer of the Legion d’Honor. He served in the Austrian, Prussian and Polish campaigns. He was at the Battle of Austerlitz and was promoted to Colonel. His bravery, at the battle of Friedland, earned him promotion to Brigadier General at the age of 32, and this carried with it 4,000 francs a year. After Napoleon was named king, he took command of the Morland Division in 1809, and the campaign against Russia in 1812, in which he was injured

His garrison resisted in the citadel at Erfurt, where he was under siege for eight months. He marched 300 miles, to get his garrison back safely with their arms. For this, he was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor. When Napoleon re-entered Paris after Waterloo, d’Alton fled to Toulon, and in 1818, Louis XVIII made him a Count. After the restoration, he was promoted to Lieutenant General of the Army, and a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor.

In 1842 he retired. He had served France for 50 years. His wife had died in 1832 and he re-married in 1843, to Julienne Chatard, the elder sister of his son-in-law. He went to live in Versailles, and died in 1859 aged 83. His son Alfred followed in his father’s footsteps and became Colonel of his regiment. The funeral at Versailles was attended by a great many men who had served under him, as well as many famous people, and most of the inhabitants of Versailles

A discussion of Dalton place names, which exist in various parts of England, produces the result that there is no one original Dalton ancestor, but several groups named after the villages in which they lived.

She enjoyed the Cambridge meeting of the D.G.S. and the Query team is doing good work. A web site has been launched. It was created by Millicent’s daughter Mary Weber-Ellias. Also the Dalton Data bank is being open to the public from September 2001. It contains over 10,000 names and is user friendly. The e-mail addresses of the Dalton data bank and the Webb page are given, a visit to Ireland is proposed in a year or two and the DNA study is announced.

She has produced a list of publications of interest to Daltons in Sydney. Also she has a list of correspondence about Australian Daltons from Michael Cayley. John Prytherch of Victoria has written about the Daltons buried at Carmarthen.

All register transcripts published by the Lancashire Parish Register Society, which are out of print, are now available on CD’s.

This reports the meeting held at Girton College, Cambridge. The Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, American Secretary and Australian Secretary all presented their reports. The Officers of the Committee were re-elected.

Hazel Bryant, Janice Crompton, Archie Dalton, Dennis Morgan Dalton, William S. Dalton, Rev. Margaret Engler, Thomas E. Jefferies, Carol Ann Mercer, Stephenie M. Koffler, Jennifer C. Norwood, Elizabeth G. N. Sleaford,

This is for money to fund research into brain cancer, following the death of Kitty Cameron, in 1999 a week before her 19th birthday. Kitty was the daughter of our Editor, Elizabeth Cameron.