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OUR DALTON FAMILY IN LANCASHIRE CONTINUED

9- ROBERT DALTON; the second son of Sir John Dalton II was born about 1380 in Byspham, Lancashire Co. England, married Margaret Holker and they had three sons:

1.Richard (our line)

2. William, married Elizabeth Beaconsall of Lancashyre and lived to old age, having a son Richard, who became a priest, and a daughter, Anne, married Seth Worsley of Croston; there were several other sisters.

3. John, of Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorkshire.

Margaret Holker may have been from the family that Holker Hall is named after. There is a Upper & Lower Holker township in Cartmel Parish in Lancashire. The Preston Family owned this Hall for many years.

Sixty-one years after the Norman Conquest, the religious establishment at Tulketh Castle was moved to Dalton and took the name of the district, Furness Abbey.

The estate of Holker originally belonged to the Cartmel Priory and Furness Abbey.

There is Holker Hall still in use today about 10 miles North of the ruins of Furness Abbey. During the Dissolution of the Monasteries the land was granted to the Preston family of Lancashire.

What has been found about Robert Dalton of Byspham is the following:
Robert Dalton was called upon, with others, to furnish his share of the fighting forces continually needed in France. In May of 1425, the Patent Rolls have the following entry:
"Commission to Ralph Boteler, Knight and three others, one being John Pykering, to take at Calais, the musters of the following captains and of the men at arms and archers about to proceed to France in their companies and to certify the council as to the sufficiency of their array”

John Holand, Knight, 24 men at arms and 72 archers.

Gyoffrey de Wryghtyngton, Esquire, 6 men at arms and 18 archers.

Roger Fyenes, Knight, 30 men at arms and 90 archers.

Robert Dalton, Esquire, 10 men at arms and 30 archers.

Richard Banastre and Thomas Scarsbrok, Esquire, 10 men at arms and 30 archers.

Gilbert Banastre, 3 men at arms and 9 archers.

There are numerous others, but these names show us a group of knights and esquires travelling together, who were neighbors at home.

Now as you have read in the above Patent Rolls entry, our Robert Dalton is named as an esquire, not as a Knight. We have no other proof that he was a Knight like his son after him or his father before.

The next event we find with a date comes after the death of Robert's eldest brother (Rychard), when he sued Katherine, his widowed sister-in-law, concerning a house, garden and forty acres of land in the Manor of Halewood. This was in 1443. In 1472, 29 years later, he and his eldest son leased this land to Robert Lathom of Allerton for 39 years, at a rent of 40s. Who the "Margaret" was whom Robert married I have no evidence for, but he had three sons. The second son, William, married and lived to old age, having a son Richard, who became a priest and a daughter, Anne, who married Seth Worsley of Croston. She had several sisters; but the third son, John, is not in evidence as having married. The line therefore continues with Robert's eldest son, Richard Dalton of Croston, and of so much of Bispham as he inherited at this father's death, for according to a statement in VCHL. “It was not the whole manor but various lands in Byspham that now remained”

From the VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORIES of LANCASHIRE:

Vol. 3 page 151 - 1347

In 1472 Robert Dalton of Bispham and his son & heir apparent Richard leased their Halewood lands to Robert Lathom of Allerton for 39 years at a rent of 40s.

The Dalton Family from Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England:

Starting with John Dalton, the third son of Robert Dalton, with other information about this line of Yorkshire Dalton’s.

Note: At the end of this chapter is a descendency chart of this John Dalton.

Whether or not there is a link between the Thurnham (Lancashire) and the Yorkshire Dalton families there is no doubt that the Dalton's were well established in Kingston-upon-Hull by the middle of the fifteenth century.

I believe that the third son of Robert Dalton and Margaret Holker, whose name was John Dalton, born 1448 is the John Dalton they talk about in these papers below. You can read about this pedigree in Chart 1, Volume 1, page 7 of The Journal of the Dalton Genealogy Society.

This Dalton family was friends and did business with the Cely family during this time period, about 1482.

This Dalton family were merchants of the staple (the staplers traded in wool and had their chief office at Calais) and must have been both prominent and prosperous, for, as early as 1487, John Dalton was elected Mayor. The city had been founded in the reign of Edward I and the first mayor was appointed in 1332.

All through the sixteenth century this Dalton family kept on producing the Chief Citizen; several of them serving twice or thrice over a period of years, often holding the office of Sheriff before being elected Mayor. One of them, Thomas Dalton an Alderman and Merchant, was also very holy. His will is dated 1497.

In the text below are Dalton’s names mentioned many times. Of interest is the writing and spelling style of medieval England, in which I have not corrected.

The Cely Papers:

SELECTIONS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE AND MEMORANDA OF THE CELY FAMILY, MERCHANTS OF THE STAPLE - A.D. 1475-1488

The Cely Papers cover 1475-1488, and are a marvelous mirror into the lives and lifestyle of a very wealthy family of English wool merchants, members of the Staple of Calais and owners of business and residential property in London as well as some estates in Essex. They traveled regularly between England and the Continent on business and carry on a fascinating correspondence that passes, often with amazing speed, between London and wherever family members or members of the firm happen to be on the Continent, but most usually they can be found at Calais or in their London headquarters on Mart Lane.

“Right worchipfull Syr and Broder after all dew recommendacyon hayd I recomaund me unto you and unto my Broder and yours Rychard Cely. Further more Syr plese yow to wit that here hese be Gysbreth van Wynbarow and I have sold hym the vj sarplers of the Cottes old wooll that freeth hymsellff acordyng to your remembrance alsoy Syr wenyng to me that they wold have hayd Syr your new wool for they causyd me to kep hyt iiij or v dayes and then the sayd the staple wherof was to schoortte notwythstandyng had they not bene I had soold partt therof un[to] Arnold Johnson from Andwarpe and as for fells I can seell non ytte God knowes I wold be ryght glayd to do that myght be plesur unto you in sayelles or oder wayes and yf ony Holonders come done I schall do my best in sayelles to my otterst poyer boyth in wooll and ych feelles. I remember well that yow desered to my best for Wylliam Maryon felles and Syr ytt schall nott be so forgetten and Gud wyll And Syr wat plese yow that youre wyll schall be don wt much money as I have by me yt schall be redy for yow whersum ever ze wyll have ytt wheder ytt be at Calley, Bruges or Andwarpe Syr they laytter end of next weke I purpose in to Flaunders Alsoy Syr I have wretten your affor thys that I have sent yow yowr gounysse the wych I trost ze have resevyd or thys tyme alsoy Syr your horson doyth weell God sawe them and Syr thys weke have we hayd in iij loodes heey for you Syr as towchy[ng] all oder maytters I schall do my best and hath done to sum of them and I have reseyved of Prestun xxs fls Andwarp and I spoken wt the oders that ow you money but yette can I geet no moch therof Syr I have lent un[to] Andrew Hawes iiijli but I havve and swerte thereof that I shalbe wt at my plesur and the byll ys mayd in my name and he sayeth wher yow come ze schuld have a bargyn of hym to pay me agayne &c. Syr I pray yow that I may be recomaundyd unto my mayster your fayder and moder. No more to yow at thys tyme but our Lord send yow lang lyff and gud to His plesur and yours”

At Calley wt owt gattes the xxij day of September. Your Broder JOHN DALTON

Worschipfull Broder after all dew recommendacyon hayd I recommaund unto yow &c. Further mor Syr it ys so that we lack pelltes her and we have sent for to Sent Tamos1 and ther we bene promesyd to have ij c for yow and I have sent to Bryges and to Sandwych for mo pelltes for we must have mo for yow and Syr Robard Byngham sent to me for iiij nobles of queyt rent for the ground ze have bowght of Andrew Howes and I told hym I know not therof yff it were yowr dewte to do I wold answer thertto wherffor I pray yow of answer, alsoy Syr it ys soo that Botrell hase be uncurtese in hes dedis for he hath thawn in at yor wooll house wendow dengke among yowr felles and syn that tyme he hase qeffun a man that spreyd the dongke abrood iij or [sic] stripes and toke hes forke frome hym albeit I have spoken wt hym and he hes uncurtes in his saying for the sayd Botrell has bene owt of towne unto thys same day and no Syr I schall schew the matter to ye lewtenant and so forth to the consell purpossyd No more to yow at thys tyme but Jhesu kepe you. At Calles the xix day of Jenever. Yours to my power - JOHN DALTON

Ryght interly beluffyd Broder after all dew recomendacyon I recomaunde me unto yow as hartely as I can or may. Furthermore Syr I have receved ij letters from yow by the wych letters I ondersatnd of your grett hevenes for your farder on whose sole God have mercy. Furthermore Syr it is so that Gysbreth van Winbragh hayth bene her syn yow departyd and he wylle here agayne he telles me within xiiiij dayes after Candellmes and syeth the xj sarplers cottes woolle of yours on the wych I have taken a gode peny of hym for alsoy syr here came non Holanders syn yow went but won felyschip of Delff the wych I kod seell non flec[es] and no be sent ovyr in to Ynglond and ther payd at plesur your faders byll at plesur amontes unto xvli> vjs viijd ster: your broder Rychards xliiijs ster: and Wylliam Maryon byll iijli xs viijd ster: Alsoy Syr syn yt ys soo as it is of my mayster your fayder in the reverence of God take it pacyenly and hurt nott yoursell for that God wyll have done no mane may begense. Alsoy Syr all your felles here don well but ze schall onderstand that we lacke peltes and here is non thow that bene be at xxd a dossene Alsoy Syr syn yow departyd I have bene wt my broder WYLLIAM DALTON at Bruges and there I bowgh vic peltes after iiijs iiijd a lb and lytyll moor the wych ze schall all waye have the ton hallffee of as long as I have ony the wych peltes schalbe here schortely sum of them and betwyxt thys and fast I trow to have Ml peelltes Syr I schall do my best for yow in all maner of theng belongyng unto yow as I wold do for owr broder WYLLIAM DALTON so helpe me Jhesu. Alsoy Syr I trowe to have of Gysbreth van Wynesbragh xl or lli of Carolles at ys comyng he told me that he wold do ys best to geet them for me at xvjd the pond in case be that yow wyll that I schall send them ovyr to yow or to any oder for yow send me worde and it schalbe don and that I can do for you or maye do in any oder matter. Your horsyn do weell, God save them. Alsoy Syr wheras we ette the good podynges the woman of the hosse that mayd them as I onderstand sche ys wt schylde wt my broder that had the jeyscheskeyne1 of me Syr all owr howsswold by nam recomaund them unto yow and the bene ryght sore of your hevenes in gud fayth Syr I pray yow that I may be recomaunded untow yowr broder Rychard Cely and ych of yow cheere oder in the reverence of owre Layde who preserve yow. A Calles the xxviij day of Jennar.

Your broder to my poer JOHN DALTON

Ryght worshipfull Sir I recommaunde me unto you like it you to witte that [I] purveid at my beyng in Holond samon of the Mase of the whech all is not comyn but sithen it is so that I have but on furkyn comyn I send it to you be Thomas Bernard servaunte wt John Reynold mercer to delyver you prayng you that it will plese you for opon it and take out thereof on the on half for yourself & that other half that it will plese you to put sum pese of wode in the seyd furkyn because of bressyng of the fyshe that shall be left therin that other half & that it may be sent to my Jone & this letter therwithe ether be carte of any go to Leyc1 or elles by the carears of Derby that they may cary it upon horsbake2 & that I besech ys in as yely hast as may be plese it ye to understond that Will Cely told me that ye had no knowlege from me for payment of the xxli of your curtesy delyvered unto Will Lemster my servaunte to my gret marvel Sir ye shal be acertened for treuth contynent upon the knowlege of your curtesy and kynd delyng to me of the seid xxli I made xxli be exchaunge and sent ye the letter of payment with a pronosticacion & an almynake of the makyng of master John Laste & this I sent ys all bounden & seled togeder be Will Drynklow & sithen Will Cely told me I delyverd unto hym the seconde letter of payment to send over unto ye like as I have writen to ye in a letter sent over at Shorttfyd the wheche I truste ye have receyved. Item if my other samon hade comyn I entended to have done other but I pray to excuse to my good marsters that it is no better howbeit it swam sith Candlemasse Will Cely can tell you mor than I dar writ. Jhesu kepe you Writ at Calles the xij day of Marche. your WYLLIAM DALTON

DALTON”S mother lived at Leicester. Perhaps Jone was his wife.

Both THOMAS and JOHN DALTON address the Celys as brothers.

THOMAS DALTON”S reference to his ship and his 'prisoners' looks like what is now called piracy.

Brother Jorge I pray you as my speciall trust ys in you that ye wyll remember me for to pay to Wylliam Norton of London, draper, for me xl or lli what ye may spare me but for xij or xiiij dayes for I owe hym iiijxx li. of the whyche he hathe a byll of my hande for I loke yevery day for tydynges owte of Holand for my schypp & my prisoners, & brother, this payment lyeth my pore onestie apon wherfore I beseche you to remember me as my speciall trust ys in yow above all others & by thes my hanwryteng I promes yow to answerr yow at yewre pleseur what ye delyver the seyd Wylliam.

From yowres to my power

THOMAS DALTON

History of the Wrays of Glentworth, 1523-1852: By Charles Dalton.

Source: From the book; 929.242 W924d in the LDS FHL in SLC Utah.

"The family of Dalton," says a writer in the Eastern Morning News of March 27, 1876, ranked among the first families in Hull for more than a century (from the time of Henry VI. to that of Queen Elizabeth), and the elder branch was seated in the immediate vicinity till a much later period, whilst a younger branch, several of whom received the honour of knighthood, and intermarried with the noblest families in Yorkshire, settled at Hawkeswell, in the North Riding."

The first of this family of whom we have any authentic record was John Dalton, merchant of Hull, who died in 1458, leaving issue by his wife Joan, two sons. The eldest, Thomas Dalton, was twice Mayor of Hull, and dying in 1502, was buried in Holy Trinity Church, where a chantry bearing his name was ordained by his will, and founded shortly after his death by his executors. His grandson, Thomas Dalton, of Sutton in Holderness and Kingston-upon-Hull, was a man of some note. He was a " merchant adventurer," and was thrice elected Mayor of Hull. He married Anne, second daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby, by whom he bad issue six sons and three daughters. He died in 1590, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, where is a gravestone, with an eulogistic inscription to his memory, which is still in good preservation.

Sir William Dalton, third son of Thomas Dalton and Anne Tyrwhitt his wife, was Recorder of Hull, and subsequently was appointed Attorney-General to the Northern Court at York by James I, and was knighted at Whitehall, 28th April 1629. He married Theophane Booth, of the ancient family of Booth of Killingbolm, co. Lincoln. Sir William Dalton died Jan. 1649, and was buried in York Minster. His only son, John Dalton, settled at Hawkeswell in Richmondshire, and married the Hon. Dorothy Darcy, daughter of Conyers, Lord Darcy. He espoused the cause of Charles I during the Civil Wars, and while serving as Lieutenant- Colonel to his brother-in-law, the Lord Darcy, was mortally mounded (while conducting the Queen from Bridlington to Oxford) when crossing the bridge at Burton-upon-Trent, and after lingering nearly a year, died 24th July, 1644. This gallant Cavalier officer left, with other issue, a son William, who was knighted by Charles II, as a reward for his father's services, in 1665, and a son Thomas, of whom presently. Sir William Dalton of Hawkeswell married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, Bart. and was father of Sir Marmaduke Dalton, Knight, and Sir Charles Dalton, gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. The former was accidentally drowned in 1680. By his wife Barbara Bellasyse, he left two daughters and co-heirs, who died without surviving issue, the estates passed to Sir Charles Dalton, who died unmarried in 1747, and the estates passed to his nephew, the Rev. Charles Dalton (son of Rev. Darey Dalton, younger brother to Sir Charles Dalton), Rector of Hawkeswell, who also died unmarried, and was succeeded by his brother Francis Dalton one of the six clerks in Chancery. One daughter, Mary Dalton, married to Henry Gale of Scruton, Esq. Thus the senior branch of-the Dalton’s became extinct in the male line to the Gales.

The junior male branch of the family, however, still flourished. This branch was descended from Thomas Dalton, the aforementioned younger son of Lieutenant -Col. Dalton, the cavalier officer. This Thomas Dalton, who resided at Bedale, married Anne Wyvil, daughter of Sir Marniadake Wyvill, and left a son, John Dalton of Bedale, whose only son, James Dalton, entered the army, and became Capt. in the 6th Reg. of Foot. Captain Dalton was drowned in the West Indies in 1742, while on active service with his regiment. He left an only son, John Dalton, who obtained a commission in Col. Duncombe's Regt. of Marines. This John Dalton afterwards entered the East India Company's Service, and was made Captain of a Grenadier Company. He greatly distinguished himself in India, and was made Commandant of Trichinopoly in 1752. A staff officer gives in Orme’s History of Hindostan, and in the Records of the 1st Madras European Regiment, a full account of Captain Dalton’s services in India. A memoir of Captain Dalton for private circulation was published in 1878.

This gallant officer was born at Limerick in 1725, where his father was then stationed, and he died in 1811 at Sleningford, and was buried at Tanfield, where his wife, who died in 1880, was also buried.

"Lieut. Norcliffe and Sergeant Cattle, and about thirty men of the Fourth Dragoons having passed through the wood, and gained the lead, were distinguished for the dauntless manner in which they plunged into the enemy's column, and trampled and cut down their opponents; the Lieutenant was severely wounded in the head. Lieut. Norcliffe lay bleeding on the ground during the night, but was found at daybreak in the morning by some of his own men." (Cannon's Records of 4th Light Dragoons. Page 74)

Colonel Dalton had five sons and five daughters. The eldest son, John, served in the Peninsular War as Captain in the 4th Dragoons. The second son, James, became a Commander in the Royal Navy. The third son, Charles, was in the Royal Artillery, and served in the Walcheran Expedition in 1809, and was present at the siege of Flushing; he died a Major General (on the retired list) in 1871. The fourth son, George, was a Captain in the Royal Engineers, and died 1854. The fifth son, William, was a Captain in 9th Regiment of Foot. The eldest daughter of Col. Dalton, Susanna Isabella, married Colonel Dalbiac of the 4th Light Dragoons (afterwards Lieut. General Sir J. C. Dalbiae, K.C.H.), and accompanied her husband to Spain when his regiment was ordered there on active service. Sir William Napier in his History of the Peninsular War makes honourable mention of this lady's bravery and conjugal devotion on the hard fought field of Salamanca. After praising the courage and endurance of the English soldiers at that battle, Napier adds, "and the devotion of a woman was not wanting to the illustration of this great day.

The wife of Colonel Dalbiac, an English lady of a gentle disposition, and possessing a very delicate frame, had braved the dangers and endured the privations of two campaigns, with the patient fortitude which belongs only to her sex and in this battle, forgetful of everything but that strong affection which had so long supported her, she rode deep amidst the enemy's fire, trembling, yet irresistibly impelled forwards by feelings more imperious than horror, more piercing than the fear of death.

Thomas Norcliffe Dalton, third son of Captain Dalton, fell at Inkermann, while gallantly leading his Regiment into action. The following obituary notice appeared in the Illustrated London News:

"Major Thomas Norcliffe Dalton, of the 49th Regiment, was killed at Inkermann whilst gallantly leading his men into action, aged 35. His loss is deeply deplored. The gallant officer was son of John Dalton, Esq. of Sleningford Park, Co. York, late a Captain in the army; and grandson of Lieut. Colonel John Dalton, of Gleningford, whose father, John Dalton, Esq., acquired a high reputation in the East India Company's service.

The immediate ancestor of the family, John Dalton of Hawkeswe who served as Lieut. Colonel to his brother-in-law, the Lord Darcy, in the great Civil War, was mortally wounded on passing the bridle of Burton-upon-Trent whilst conducting the Queen from Burlington to Oxford. Major Dalton served in the 61st Regiment in the Punjaub campaign of 1848-9 and was present at the passage of the Chenab, and in the battles of Sadoolapore, Chillianwallah, and Goojerat, and with the field force in pursuit of the enemy to the Kyber Pass, for which he received a medal and two clasps. From the 61st he exchanged into the 49th at the Depot in Cork, in 1853, and served with that gallant Regiment ever since its arrival in the East. At the conflict of the Alma, Major Dalton whilst leading his men up the hill had his horse shot under him and in the hard fought affair of Balaklava he also took a prominent part."

Continuing with our Lancashire line of Dalton’s:

10- SIR RICHARD DALTON; the third son of Sir Robert Dalton of Croston, was born in 1445 and died in 1486. He married Elizabeth Fleming a daughter of Sir William Fleming of Wath, Yorkshire.

Richard and Elizabeth had 2 children:

1-Ellen Dalton, Lady Garter, born about 1465

2-Sir Roger Dalton, born about 1469. (our line)

Elizabeth Fleming is probably descending from the Michael le Fleming II family that were the first holders of the moiety of Furness and was Lord of Aldingham in Furness, 1127, and Lord of Urswick. He held Bolton manor, 1127, which he gave to his daughter Godith, whose descendants in the Copeland family inherited it. Furthermore he held the manors of Bechermet, Frissington, Waddington, Rottingham, Waddicker, and Arlocdon. But his main property consisted of the manors of Aldingham and Urswick.

The line continues with Robert's eldest son, Richard Dalton of Croston, and of so much of Byspham as he inherited at this father's death, for according to a statement in VCHL VI, p. 101, note 10, it was not the whole manor but various lands in Byspham that now remained.

Croston parish is in Leyland Hundred, and lies about 10 miles north of Byspham Hall, as the crow flies. A family named Fleming had been settled there since 1292 and earlier, and there was also a branch at Wath, in Yorkshire. The Dictionary of National Biography shows a Richard Fleming, in this century, as Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford. He died in 1430, and was buried in Lincoln Cathedral. Sir William Fleming of Wath died in 1470, leaving one daughter married to Thomas Hesketh, and another Elizabeth, married to Richard Dalton of Croston and Byspham. In Croston Church is a low four-light window, the moulding over which terminates in carved heads, and it is over an arched doorway. Level with the sill of this window are shields; the first of Ashton quartering Lea; the third Hesketh quartering Banastre; and in the middle Dalton quartering Fleming. In heraldic language this is: "Azure crusiuy a lion rampant, guardant argent", which we recognize as our own arms, and "Barry of six argent and azure, in chief three lozenges gules" which are the arms of Fleming both here and in Lincoln Cathedral proving it to be the same family.

The Manor of Croston was held between Hesketh and Dalton in 1472. Ten years later old Robert Dalton (uncle to Robert and great-uncle to Richard) was claiming "a moiety of the Manor of Croston, with twenty messuages, etc. in Bispham, Mawdesley and Dalton, against Margaret Dalton, widow (his niece by marriage) and Richard Dalton, Esquire, and Elizabeth his wife". Before this, Richard and Elizabeth had conceded to her brother John an annuity of 46. 8d. Charged on lands in Croston and Mawdesley and in 1478 leased to Thomas Hesketh and his wife, all their interest in the lands of William Fleming. There was not only the family tie, but good family feeling in evidence, for in the 1489 Disputes between Thomas Hesketh and Richard and John Dalton were referred to arbitration.

The next event with a date comes after the death of Robert's eldest brother (Rychard), when he sued Katherine (his widowed sister-in-law) concerning a house, garden and forty acres of land in the Manor of Halewood. This was in 1443. In 1472, 29 year later, he and his eldest son leased this land to Robert Lathom of Allerton for 39 years, at a rent of 40s. (VCHL III page 151.)

11- ROGER DALTON; the son of Sir Richard Dalton was the Patriarch of Dalton Hall, Lancashire and was born about 1470 and married his 1st, wife Miss Anne Radcliff. He also married Miss Standyche and then married his second cousin Margaret Farynton and last, Jane Jakes.

Roger and Anne had 4 children:

1. William. (our line)

2.Roger.

3.Sybell.

4.Thomas.

Roger Dalton was the husband of no less than four wives, and the father, in all, of 16 children. The eldest of all was William, his successor and heir, who gave him 13 grandchildren. His second son, Roger, left no issue, and his eldest daughter, Sybell, who grew up and married William Wolberd Drapt, is recorded as leaving no issue either.

Roger's second wife was a daughter of one, Mr. Standyche, and his third a Farynton, but as Flowers puts it, he had "no issue by his second or third wife’s". He made up for it by his 4th wife, Jane, daughter and one of four heirs of Roger Jakes of Barkemsted and of Mawde Shordyche. Jane gave him 8 sons, the eldest of whom, Lawrence Dalton, became a Herald, (Norroy, King of Arms); the only son (of Jane) to survive and marry. Of Jane's five girls, all married as follows:

Margaret married, first, Richard Pawley of London, Fishmonger, who was the father of Walter and Dorothy Pawley. She married; secondly Thomas Weston of London, tailor, who was the father of Jane, married to Andrew Roo, of London, a fat maker and "a Portugal", and her sister, Margaret Weston, wife of a shoemaker, Nicholas Collet, of London. Evidently Roger Dalton’s second family migrated in force to London.

Margaret Dalton’s sister, Anne, however, married Thomas Baker of Barkensted. There is no doubt that this was the Berkhamsted, within 30 miles of London, in Hertfordshire, which was Jane Jake’s native place. Anne Baker had five children: Awsten, Raff, Ales, Ellyn and Cyssely. Her sister Elizabeth married Francis Colbarne, calling not specified, and had two girls, Jane and Elizabeth.

Out of this whole great family, only two males carried on the family name. William with whom therefore we deal next and his half brother, Laurence, who requires a separate notice.

The story of Laurence Dalton, Norroy, King of Arms:

Of note before we tell about the life of Laurence Dalton; There has been a debate about this Laurence Dalton being the real father of our Walter Dalton I. He is named in Mrs. Leaning’s “Dalton Book” as being Walter’s real father. The American Daltons believe that Walter’s father was Roger Dalton of Bispham Hall, born 1531.

According to an article in Vol. 9 No. 2 of the DGSJ, the following is quoted; Lawerce, though he married Dorothy Breame, had no sons, so far as is known, and the Junior Dalton line is not descended from him. The facts are that Roger Dalton, born abt. 1469 was married 4 times. By his first wife he had a son, William Dalton, by his second and third wives he had no sons, and by his fourth wife he had Lawrence. William had three sons, the first of whom he had no issue, the second was Thomas from whom the Thurnham Dalton line is descended, and the third was another Roger. It is from this Roger that the Junior Dalton line, including Walter and the other Witney Dalton's are descended.

Laurence Dalton's career began in the reign of Henry VIII, and advanced steadily through all the grades required. These were: Calais, Rougecroix, Richmond and finally Norroy in 1556. There were four degrees in the calling of a Herald, beginning with pursuivants of arms, passing into one of six offices of Heralds, known as Lancaster, Richmond, Chester, Somerset, York and Windsor. Above these were two provincial Kings of Arms, Clarenceux for the south, Norroy for the North, and above all to them, Garter-King of Arms.

The Heralds were created to attend Dukes in martial executions and in all things endeavor themselves for the defense of their Society. The King of Arms have by Charter power to visit the noblemen's families, to set down their pedigrees, to distinguish their arms, and in the open market-place to reprove such as falsely take upon them nobility or gentry. They also can order every man's exequires and funerals according to their dignity and to appoint unto them their arms or ensigns

The ceremony of creating a Herald was carried out in an assembly of all the existing Heralds, presided over by Garter or his representative, and was impressive enough. He was invested with a collar of SS, a satin coat richly embroidered with gold and took oath upon a copy of the Gospel on which was laid a sword "that longeth to Knighthode", and a King of Arms as in addition actually crowned and ammoniated with wine, while his coat of velvet, richly embroidered. The oath was to obey, and secret, "a man of silence", to have knowledge of all the noble gentlemen within his marches, to teach

pursuivants and heralds, and register all acts of honor. Heralds were of course men of good birth, masters of courtesy’s employed by the sovereign on errands of state, as when Le Neve (York) and Henry St, George (Richmond) were sent to France to escort Charles I's Queen, and received of her 1,000 French Crowns.

There business in the ordinary way was to carry out Visitations and the series of these provide us with these pedigrees that are raw material of the genealogist.

Lawrence Dalton entered the College of Arms between 1536 & 1538 as Calais Pursuivant extraordinary.

In November 1546, Laurence Dalton, Gent. was promoted to be Pursuivent Rouge Croix. On April 12 1547, Laurence Dalton, late Rouge Croix, to be Richmond Herald. While he was a Richmond Herald, on May 16th, 1549 he had a warrant for 29p. He had a pardon, dated at Westminster, April 26, 1556. It was soon after that he was raised to be "King of Arms" and nominated Norroy, but his patent did not pass until Sept. 6 1557, nor was he created until Dec. 8 & 9 1556.

The record of his creation, found in the British Museum is also printed there and reads as follows: (Note that the text is written in the usual Court Latin)

The Creacion of Laurence Dalton (Alias Ptychemond Herald at Armes) to be Norrey Kinge at Armes on Frydaye in the mornynge by ix of the Clocke the ixtli of December, 1558, Anno primo Regine Elizabeth in the Duke of Norffolkle Chambre within the Savoye of London.

"Item fyrst the Duke beinge sett in his chayre all th offycers at Armes there present put on theyre Cotes at Armes excepte onelye the seid Rychemonde and knelyd downs afore the Duke and then the Duke commandyd and toke unto Clarencieux to reade a byll signydd with Queen Elizabeth's hande, which gave the seid Duke awethorytie to create the seid Rychemond to be Norrey Kinge at Armes, accordyng to his letters Pattente geven unto hym of the same a twelve month before, althowghe hyt bare the date and style of the Quene that deade was, all which tyme (for the most parte) the said Rychemond hadd byn in the Northe attendinge upon therle of Westmorland the King and Quene lyuetenante there, which lycence reade openlye, Clarencieux began to reade his othe, Rychemonde leyinge his hande on a boke and a swerd, the swerde holde by Sir Nycholus Strange lyinge on a boke, the boke holden by Lancastre, which othe endyd, Rychemond kyssyd the boke and swerde, then Laneastre reade the pattent where, at the word of Erigimus Roudgecroix kyssinge the collar of SS. delyvered hyt to the Duke who put it on Rychemond's neeke. And at the words of Nominamus Norrey, Roudgedracon kyssinge the bole of wyne delyvered the same to the Duke who powryed parte thereof on Rychemonde's heade at the __ which all the offyce seid alowde Norrey Kinge at Armes. And at Vestimus, Yorke as afore delyvered the Cote of Ames to the Duke who put yt on Norrey's backe. And at Coronamu, Wyndsor lykewyse delivered the Crowne which the Duke put on Norrey's head, and then the pattent was read owt, which done, Laneastre kyssed yt and delyvered hyt to the Duke who gave it to the Norrey with a admonycion to observe his othe"

As Norroy, Lawrence was "Principall Herauld and Kinge of Armes of the North East and West parts of England from the River of Trent Northward" Following his appointment, on 7th February 1558 he went with William Colbarne, Rouge Dragon, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where the Earl of Westmorland, Queen Mary's Lieutenant of the North, was in command of a large English force at Berwick keeping watch on the border with Scotland, to commence a Visitation of his part of England. Payments were made to Lawrence for eight yards of crimson damask and two yards of crimson velvet for his livery and two coate of arms painted with fine gold wrought with "oyle", one of damask the other of sarcenet. He was also paid 6d a mile for his journey to Newcastle with three men who were paid 3d a mile each. For his diet and entertainment at Newcastle Lawrence received six shillings a day and his men 6d a day each.

The record of his Visitation (taken from MS Anatis C 9 is printed in Surtees Vol. 122) It is perhaps not surprising that the visitation records the Dalton pedigrees. In the case of the Dalton’s of Bispham in Lancashire the pedigree starts with the marriage of Sir Robert eldest son of Sir Richard and finishes with the marriage of Alyce, one of the daughters of the second Sir Richard. There is opposite this in the margin of the manuscript a note "Loke” more VI leaves afterwards", but in the manuscript there was only one leaf afterwards, so part of the pedigree may be missing. Before this pedigree there is a pedigree of the Daltons of Kyrkbye Mysperton in Yorkshire, descending from Sir John, the second son of the first Sir Richard of Bispham, continuing down to a Roger who married four times, though the note of the fourth marriage is suspect.

Lawrence's Visitation was not recorded in the College of Arms, and various suggestions have been made to account for this (see Surtees Vol. 122) that his proceedings were irregular because they were made before his creation ceremony (although in a later Court decision it was held that proceedings of a King of Arms after appointment but before creation were valid); that he never made ready his fair copy and delivered it to the College as he ought to have done: or that the copy was lost.

Lawrence returned to London in October 1558. Mary, his wife died on the following 17th of November and Lawrence was created by Elizabeth acting through the Duke of Norfolk on the 9th of December as already mentioned. On 12th December he officiated as Norroy at Mary's funeral bearing "the target with the garter and the crown". Presumably he also played a leading role in the proclamation and accession of Elizabeth.

Lawrence died three years later, as already mentioned, and was buried at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, in Fleet Street, here his wife Dorothy was later buried with him, and the effigy from his monument or tomb is reproduced at the beginning of this article. The effigy shows him with his hands clasped in prayer wearing not only his crown and tabard but also the collax of SS mentioned in the record of his creation. This was the badge of the Lancastrian princes to which Henry VII added the portcullises and Tudor rose shown in the effigy drawing. The Church of St. Dunston's-in-the-West has since been rebuilt and there is now no trace of Lawrence or his monument. End.

By 1500, Roger Dalton was associated as heir with his father in the grant of various lands in Croston and Mawdesley, but reserving the Manor and demesne lands. At the same time they granted to Bartholomew, son of William Hesketh, the reversion of messuages in Longton and Croston, with the fourth part of a water mill in Croston, and the third part of lands called Selynhurst. The various deeds and documents show that just as Richard had gone further afield, and established himself at Croston during his father's lifetime, so Roger was doing the same thing, and building up a family inheritance of increasing value. He is described on the pedigree as "of Dalton Hall, Yorks, and after, of Croston". Roger married Anne, a daughter of Sir John Ratclyff. Anne was born in Wymerly in about 1475. In the Herald's Visitation of Lancashire in 1613, Roger is the earliest Dalton ancestor named in connection with the Ratclyffs. The date of their marriage is not known, but as a grant of various tenements in Bispham was made to Roger's son William as early as 1500, it must have taken place some time before that.

The Ratcliff or Radclyff family, the Ancestor says "were truly among the most ancient Lancashire families." (See Genealogists Magazine, Vol. IX, p. 137 (March 1941) (Review of Book of the Radclyffs 1940). Anne Ratcliff's family descended directly from King Henry II of England through his mistress, Rosemund, and their son William, Earl of Salisbury 1173-1225.

In 1525 Roger Dalton's name is on the list of the land-owners in Croston Parish contributing to the Subsidy, others being Thomas Ashton, Henry Banastre, Robert and Bartholomew Hesketh, and a few others.

The Will of Roger Dalton of Croston:

Roger is described in the pedigree as of Dalton Hall in Yorkshyre and after of Croston. He was still possessed of lands in Yorkshire at the date of his will, but presumably moved to Croston at some stage. Perhaps on succeeding at the death of his father.

The will of Roger Dalton was proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury an I have obtained from the Public Record Office a photocopy of the enrollment of the will and of a document enrolled with it in the records of the Court. Both are in Latin, sometimes much abbreviated, and is not easy to transcribe. I may have made some mistakes in my transcriptions, but I think they are substantially accurate. I think that for some of the information they give, they are worth transcribing fairly fully.

The will reads:

"In the name of God Amen the tenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1531 1 Roger Dalton Knight of sound mind and good memory but sick in body make my will in this form. First I bequeath my soul to omnipotent God and the blessed Mary and all the saints and elect of the church and my body to be buried in a small religious tomb in the church of Saint Michael the Archangel of Croston in the chancel of the same church with the permission and the provision of the curate of the same for the time being in office next to the tomb of my father (corpus quo meum ad sepeliend in parva sepultura ecclesiastiva sancti Michis Arch ecclie de Croston in cancello eiusdem cum licencia et providencia curati siusdem tunc pro tempe existen juxta sepultur patris mei). Then I give and bequeath a mortuary payment to the vicar of the same church according to the Act made and constituted by the King. Next I give and bequeath to my daughters, Anne, Margaret, Joan and Elizabeth two hundred marks. Then I give and bequeath to my son Richard, four marks yearly until he be promoted to some benefice of ten pounds or more a year (donec sit promotus ad aliquot benefice decem librarum annuatim aut ultra) And I wish that all other things are at the disposition of Roger Jakes, Thomas Jakes and my son Richard whom I ordain make and constitute my true and lawful executors that they themselves may dispose for the benefit of my soul or as may seem better to them Then I ordain and constitute Henry Faryington, Knight Richard Bonaster, Bankes Knight and Richmond supervisors of this my testament and will. Then I wish that any debts not paid at the date of my death may be paid out of my goods. In witness of which things I have placed on this my will of one sheet of paper my seal, given the day and year above stated."

The will was proved in London on the 6th December 1543 by Roger Jakes and Richard Dalton. Enrolled with the will in the Prerogative Court records is a document even more difficult to transcribe than the will and also in Latin. But in substance I think it says;

"Know all men present and future that I, Roger Dalton, Knight, have given determined and by this my document confirmed to Anthony Lathom, gentleman, Thomas Bond, Vicar of the Church of Croston, Richard Clerk, Vicar of the Church of Leigh and Adam Bonaster, all my messuages, lands, tenements, meadows, grazings, pastures, rents and all their appurtenances in Dalton in the County of Yorkshire (in Dalton in comitate Eboraci) to have and to hold all and singular these messuages, lands, tenements and other premises aforesaid to Anthony Lathom, Thomas Bond, Richard Clerk and Adam Bonaster and their assigns for ever to the use and intent of fulfilling this my last will and testament annexed to this document so that after fulfilling the said will all the said messuages, lands, tenements and other premises may remain wholly and rightly to the heir's of me the said Roger in perpetuity."

There then follow sentences in which Roger appears to say that he and his heirs will warrant and defend all the said premises to Anthony Thomas, Richard and Adam against all men and he appoints Thomas Lathom as his lawful attorney to obtain possession of all the said premises for Anthony Thomas, Richard and Adam.

The document was sealed by Roger with his seal in the presence of John Smyth, chaplain George Nelson, Thomas Graveson, John Stopforth and others on the 10th day of March in the 23rd year of the reign of King Henry VIII (1531).

Source of will above: R.N.D. Hamilton of the DGS in England.

Notes on the Radcliffe family:

The Ratcliff or Radclyff family, the “Ancestor” says "were truly among the most ancient Lancashire families, but genealogists have failed to carry their descent beyond that reign of Henry 2nd, which for reasons well known to the antiquary must in most cases mark a limit for the keenest pedigree maker". The date of this marriage I do no know, but as a grant of various tenements in Bispham was made to Rogers son William as early as 1500, it must have taken place some time before that. He was associated with his father in 1527 in the making of a grant, which mentions William Dalton the elder, his uncle, as still living then. He had two sisters, both named Ellen. Probably the elder died in infancy. In the Addenda to the Harleian containing Flower's pedigree, it is stated that Ellen Dalton was the wife of one of the Rigby family, and married secondly Sir Christopher Barker, Garter King at Arms. Of note: John Luther Dalton wrote down the name as “Radcliff.” The old English spelling was Ratcliff.

12- WILLIAM DALTON; the third son of Sir Roger Dalton was born 1513, of Byspham in Lancashire; his second wife was Jane, daughter of Townley of Townley; he had no issue by his first wife but by his second wife had at least eight children:

1.Robert of Thurnham Hall, married Ann Kechyn, the daughter of John Kechyn, who purchased Cockersand Abbey in 1544.

2. Thomas, married Anne, daughter of the Richard Molyneux, Earl of Sefton. This was a family "among the oldest of our Norman houses." Sir Richard Molyneux, father of Thomas' wife was at the coronation of Queen Mary in 1553. Lord Byron was among the descendants of this family.

3. Anne, who married a Mr. Westmer.

4. Roger – (our line)

5. Richard.

6. Three unnamed daughters.

With William we reach the second of those much larger families which distinguish the Daltons of the Tudor period. His first wife was Margaret, daughter of Sir William Torbrock of Torbrock Hall. Gregson gives Dalton of Bispham among the Torbrock alliances, but in spite of the seven children born to them, none left descendants. William married secondly, Jane, daughter of Sir John Towneley. Some documents claim Jane was illegitimate. In the Chetham Society's publication (Vol. 98) dealing with the Visitation of Lancashire in 1533, the Towneley pedigree shows:

Sir John Towneley had married one daughter into the Hesketh family; another to a Shirburne, and a third to a Banastre.

(Editor's note: There is no mention of Jane Towneley marrying into the Dalton family in this list of his daughters' marriages, which gives credence to the claim of illegitimacy.)

The Towneley Family:

Towneley Hall was the home of the Towneley family from the 14th century until 1902. Charles (1737 - 1805) was one of the 18th centuries best known collectors of antique sculpture and gems. It is rumored that the Hall is haunted by a spirit whose visits were limited to once every seven years, when its thirst for vengeance had to be satisfied by the untimely death of one of the Hall residents. Legend says that Sir John Towneley (1473 -1541) was said to have offended and injured the poor of the district by enclosing some of the areas Common Lands, making it part of his estate. As a punishment, his soul is said to wander about the Hall, crying out: "Be warned! Lay out! Be warned! Lay out! Around Hore-Law and Hollin-Hey Clough.”

The lands were granted by the Honor of Clitheroe, Roger De Lacy, to Geoffrey, his son-in-law, in the year 1200. Over the centuries many alterations have been made to the Hall, so many that the Hall is now totally different to its original layout. The first major alterations in 1628 involved the use of 54-1/2 tons of lead for the roof, purchased from the local Thievely lead mine, and the last were in the early 20th Century, when the Art Galleries were added. At one time the main entrance was moved. To the left of the ‘new’ main door can be seen a smaller, filled in doorway, the original entrance.

Towneley Hall has been a museum since 1903 but before then it was the home of the Towneley family who lived on the estate from the mid-thirteenth century. The Regency Room wing contains traces of their first house on this site. The lower floor has six-foot thick mediaeval walls and one Gothic window dating from around 1460.

For three hundred years the Towneleys were in favor with the Royal family and three of them received knighthood, but during Elizabeth I reign their lives changed. Protestantism became the official religion but the Towneleys were Catholic and refused to give up their faith. As a result, John Towneley (1528-1607) was fined and imprisoned for almost 25 years. Even after his release he was forced to stay within five miles of Towneley Hall.

Other members of the family fought for Catholic causes. During the Civil War Charles Towneley fought on the Royalist side and died at the Battle of Marston Moor. Several Towneleys made their names in science and the arts. Richard Towneley (1629-1707) was the first person to measure rainfall in England for a length of time, but the best known member of the family was Charles (1737-1805), a connoisseur whose collection of antique sculpture and gems was thought to be the best in the country.

In 1877 the last male heir in the family died and the Towneley estate was split between six heiresses. The Hall became the property of Lady O'Hagan. Realizing that she could not afford to maintain the building if she kept up her charity work, she sold the Hall in 1902 to Burnley Corporation to be used as a museum and art gallery. The building was handed over almost empty and the first exhibitions the following year were of borrowed items.

In 1533 William Dalton "demised to Thomas Hough an acre of the hill and half an acre in the town meadow in Croston" (VCHL VI. p. 92).

When William Dalton died in 1543, there devolved on his eldest son, Robert (not our line), the care of his widowed mother (Jane) and the younger members of the family. Trouble and change were the lot that lay before them, due both directly and indirectly to fidelity to the Roman Catholic faith in which they had been bred, and which brought ever more and more severe penalties on its adherents. The Reformation begun under Henry Vlll, had involved, with the suppression of the Monasteries in 1536 and 1539, not only religious difficulties, but immense changes in land ownership, since thousands of acres and a vast amount of real property were thrown back into the hands of the Crown, and by it sold or leased to new owners.

The Will of William Dalton, son of Roger Dalton of Croston:

By R.N.D. Hamilton of the DGS.

William Dalton the elder son of Roger Dalton by his first marriage is described in the pedigree as "of Bispham", though he must have continued to hold the Croston property, under some settlement of it. In the pedigree his second wife Jane is described as the "bass' daughter of Sir John Towneley, the Towneleys being another important Lancashire family. However, in the addenda and corrigenda in the volume of the Harleian Society in which the pedigree appears, there is a note that Jane Towneley is not called a bass daughter in the Visitation of Lancaster in 1613, p 32, where the issue of her son Thomas is given. It will also be seen that in the pedigree Ellen, William's aunt is described as Lady Garter. It is noted in the addenda and corrigenda that she was the wife, first of Rigbys and secondly, of Sir Christopher Barker, Garter, King-at-Arms.

There is a copy of William's will in the Towneley manuscripts held in the Manuscripts Department of the British Library, where I have inspected it. It is in a bound volume and is numbered 1474 in that volume. There is a note at the front of the volume, Evidences of Lancashire Gentry, and the manuscripts were purchased at a sale at Sotheby's in 1883. I noticed that besides the will there were other documents containing the name Dalton, but I did not have time to note them, particularly as some at least were in Latin, though William's will itself was in English.

The Will reads:

"In the name of god Amen. I, William Dalton of Bispham in ye County of Lancs. Esq. 28th November in the year of Henry VIII ye 35th and in the year of our lord 1543 my testament and last will duly made in manner and form following first I ordayne Jane my wife my Executrix. Also I give unto Richard my youngest some all my portion of goods which remain over and above my debts and funeral expenses. Also I will yt that my said wife by the decease of Richard Radcliffe myne Uncle shall have all the goods which I ought to have. Also I will yt that my said wife shall bestowe such sums of money, as she shall receive for the marriage of my son and heir upon the marriage of my four daughters, Jane, Margery, Anne and Margaret. And also I ordayne Sir Henry Ffaryngton, Knight and Raufe Bradshaws, Esq. to be supervisors of this my said will and to the same I have sett my seale and subscribed my name the day and year first above written. These being witnesses, Alexander Hoghton, Sir Robert (?) John Waddington, Thomas Bowker, Ann (?) and Thomas Rydinge.

As indicated, there were two names, which I was unable to decipher.

There is no mention in the will of the manor of Bispham or any other lands. These would probably have descended under the terms of some settlement or the law of inheritance of land. William's mother was the daughter of Sir John Ratclyffe and it looks as though his uncle Richard Radcliffe had died, but the distribution of goods under his will had not yet been carried out at William's death. It would look from the pedigree as though his daughters Jane and Margery were daughters of the first marriage and Anne the daughter of the second marriage, while Margaret is not specifically shown but may have been one of the "3 others" of the first marriage, particularly as the first wife's name was Margaret. However, there is small pedigree in the margin to the manuscript containing the copy will showing them all as daughters of the second marriage. There is no mention in the will of any sons of the first marriage (possibly because they had died) and no mention in the will of the first and second sons of the second marriage, possibly because they were considered adequately provided for by the settlements of land as Robert the eldest, who established the Thurnham estate and sold Bispham and Croston, almost certainly was. Sir Henry Ffaryngton is appointed supervisor as he was in William's fathers will. It is particularly interesting to see that Alexander Hoghton is a witness to the will for the Hoghton's were another important Lancashire family, living at Hoghton Tower five miles east of Preston.

Some history of Robert Dalton 1529-1578, first son of William Dalton:

Although the eldest son, Robert, is not our line, it becomes necessary to outline his history because the lives of the four brothers are closely intertwined.

Robert died without male issue. One might assume that there were female issue; however, I have no records to suggest names of possible children.

Robert's widowed mother, Jane, is mentioned in several transactions. The earliest is in 1545, when "Matthew, son and heir to Christopher, conveyed to Jane Dalton, widow, and Robert her son, heir of William Dalton, deceased, a messuage called Keyhouse, with land in Croston; also a close of pasture called Castlepol Hey in Mawdesley." In 1546 Jane claimed a close called Castle Place against Henry Croston; also lands called the Paradise, Oldfield, Westhead, Withens and Hilifield. In 1550 she again claims a tenement in Croston against Henry Croston. In 1555 Richard Ashton claimed various property against Seth Worsley and Anne his wife. This Anne was the daughter of the Old Uncle William named in Roger Dalton's grant of 1527.

In 1543 the Crown granted the site of Cockersand Abbey to John Kitchen whose daughter Anne married Robert Dalton I who seems to have held Cockersand absolutely. He died in 1578 holding the site from the queen by knight's service. He also held Cockshotts in Ellel and the Bankhouses in Cockerham. All passed to his nephew Robert Dalton III who held by knight's service in 1626.

In 1556 Richard Ashton purchased property from "Jane Dalton, widow; Robert Dalton and Anne his wife" and it was the beginning of a series of sales in which the three names are associated. Sir Thomas Hesketh bought "the fourth parts of the manor of Croston with all other their hereditaments there" (VCHL VI page 93). In 1558 Bispham itself went to two men, William Stopford and Richard Mason of Wrightington and Parbold.

In 1560 Robert Dalton I gave Aldcliffe Hall and the Ridge in Bulk to his mother Jane, widow of William Dalton. In 1573 he settled Abbot's Carr on his brother Thomas and Anne his wife, with the remainder to two other brothers, Roger and Richard. In 1571 he gave a rent of £2 a year to Robert Walmesley of Lincoln's Inn. Thurnham was sated in the Inquisition to be held in socage, at a rent of 6s8d, from William Curwen, late of Glasson.

In 1574 the Mayor and Corporation of Lancaster granted Robert Dalton of Thurnham a lease of a suitable plot in the waste of the town of Lancaster, commonly called the Green Ayre, on which plot he was to build a large house for a water-mill or two mills at the point he considered most suitable. He was allowed to make a mill-stream and dam.

Robert Dalton of Thurnham: By R.N.D. Hamilton of the DGS in England.

William's eldest son by his second marriage, Robert established the Dalton's Thurnham estate and indeed other estates as well.

Our Dalton pedigree shows that Robert married Anne, daughter of John Kechyn. John Kechyn, who was of Hatfield, Hertforldshire, Esq. was supervisor of the Augmentation Office and became M.P. for the county of Lancaster. The Court of Augmentations was a branch of the Exchequer formed in 1535 to carry out the dissolution of the Monasteries and dispose of their land and property. Ten years later, by deed dated 29th August 1554, the abbey lands were conveyed, on the marriage of his daughter, to Robert Dalton of Bispham. Two years later, on the 24th June 1556, Thomas Lonna or Lowm. a citizen of London sold the manor of Thurnham to Robert for £1,500, having purchased it four years earlier from the Duke of Suffolk for £1,080. In 1556 and 1557 Robert bargained for lands formerly attached to the Priory of Lancaster. The Priory possessions were described in a document signed by "Gilbert Moreton, deputy of John Kechyn, our supervisor there", and on 22nd March 1557 rated for Robert Dalton for the purchase money of £1,268. 17s. 4d. The possessions that he purchased included the Aldcliffe and Bulk estates. Aldcliffe is just north of Lancaster. Bulk (local pronunciation Book according to the VCH and formerly known as Newton, a name long obsolete) lies on the north side of Lancaster, part of it now in a suburb, and is bounded on the west and north by the river Lune. (VCH Lancs. Vol. 8 Pages 49 and 50).

Oliver Roper says: "Thus it was that Robert Dalton became possessed of a stretch of country extending from a point on the River Lum, three miles above Lancaster, to one on that river nearly six miles below, intercepted only by the lands of the borough of Lancaster and the demesne of Ashton Hall. On such a large estate it was only fitting that a substantial residence should be erected, and probably Thurnham Hall owes its foundation to Robert Dalton".

No doubt to help provide him with the money required for his Thurnham and associated enterprises, Robert sold the Dalton interests in the Manors of both Bispham and Croston. He sold the Bispham estate in 1558 to William Stopford.

Victoria County Histories of Lancashire:

Vol. 2 page 172, of the VCH Lanc.

Syon Abbey (Middlesex) owned the priory of Lancaster in 1527. Syon Abbey was dissolved in 1540. In 1557 the crown sold the bulk of the Lancaster Priory estate to Robert Dalton of Bispham for £1667.

Vol. 2 page 564, of the VCHL.

Robert Dalton bought Lune mill from the crown in 1557/8. The mayor and burgesses of Lancaster rented it from him for 6s 8d a year until in 1571 a flood destroyed it. Robert Dalton died a few years after 1571, and the inquisition post mortem on his estate was held at Wigan on 13 January 1578/9

Vol. 6 page 102. Add MS 32107 no. 914, Towneley MS DD no. 175).

Robert and Jane, widow of his father William, in 1558, sold the Dalton's one fourth share in Croston Manor with all their other (?) there also.

Vol. 8 page 15 - 1574

The mayor and corporation of Lancaster granted Robert Dalton of Thurnham a lease of a plot called Green Acre in the waste of Lancaster, for him to build a large house for a watermill, or for two mills, with permission to make a dam and millstream. The mill probably replaced the old priory mill in Bulk

Vol. 8 page 41 - 1578

Robert Dalton of Thurnham died, holding 15 acres in Lancaster, which used to belong to the friars.

Vol. 8 page 48 - March 1557.

The Crown sold Aldcliffe and Bulk to Robert Dalton I of Thurnham. In due course one portion went with Dorothy (younger daughter and coheir of Robert Dalton III who died in 1700) to the Riddells of Swinburne Castle, Northumberland. The government in 1716 confiscated the rest, having been devoted to the maintenance of Roman Catholic secular clergy, after an inquiry. Dorothy Dalton's husband Edward Riddell died in 1731. Their son Thomas took part in the 1st Jacobite Rebellion, was imprisoned at Lancaster, escaped and shared in the general pardon. Thomas was succeed by his son Thomas whose third son Ralph Riddell ultimately became his heir.

Vol. 8 page 82 -

The priory estate at Caton was regarded as a dependency of the manor of Bulk and passed to Robert Dalton of Thurnham [presumably in 1557]

Vol. 8 page 102 -

Robert Dalton I, through his marriage to Anne Kitchen (daughter of John Kitchen of Pilling), acquired the site of Cockersand Abbey, which adjoined Thurnham Abbey.

Robert Dalton I, appears to have sold his lands in Bispham to acquire Thurnham Abbey and other property near Lancaster. In 1558 he bought Aldcliffe and Bulk from the crown. He died without issue in 1578 and left his estates to his nephew Robert Dalton II, son of his brother Thomas. His nephew was then 2 months old.

The Inquisition Post Mortem shows Robert Dalton I as owning:

The Manor of Thurnham with messuages, watermills etc in Thurnham and Glasson.

The Manors of Bulk and Aldcliffe with lands in Bolton, Lancaster, etc;

A fourth part of the Manor of Hackinsall.

The site of the Black Friars in Lancaster.

The site of Cockersand Abbey with lands in Ellel, Forton, Bankhouses and Pillings.

Lands in Croston, etc;

Had possession of an area called the Friarage, which had belonged to the House of the Friars covering 15 acres.

Acquired land in Heysham when he bought Aldcliffe and Bulk from the Crown.

Vol. 8 page 107 - 1582

Roger Dalton claimed the land, which Furness Abbey had held in Forton by virtue of a lease from the queen, but William Corless, the holder, claimed he had it from a former lessee whose term had not run out.

Vol. 8 page 113 - 1557

Robert and Jane, widow of his father William, in 1558, sold the Dalton's one fourth share in Croston Manor with all their other (?) there also.

Deed No. 543:

Acknowledgment of receipt, 1557, May 31. 4 Mary. 1 item: parchment; 13.5 x 35 cm.

Acknowledgment by Robert Dalton of Byspam in the county of Lancaster, esquire, of the receipt of £290 from Bernard Townley of Brunley in the said county, gentleman, servant to John Townley, esquire, and John Aspedenne, clerk, by the hands of John Kechyn, esquire: being the purchase money of lands sold by Robert and Anne his wife to Bernard and John as specified in an indenture dated 29 March, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary. Given on 31 May, 3 and 4, Philip and Mary. Signed by Robert Dalton. Witnesses (endorsed): Jane Dalton, Thomas Dalton, Thomas Patrycke, John Kymby. With 1 seal (1.3 cm.) of red wax, bearing intitials: I.D.

The High Sheriffs of Lancashire - 1129 to 1947:

1577 Robert Dalton, of Thurnham, near Lancaster.

The below items are court records of actions taken from plaintiffs against Joan Dalton, a widow and Robert Dalton and his wife Anne. This could only be Robert Dalton of Thurnham Hall, the brother of our Roger Dalton. Robert Dalton married Anne Kechyn.

Robert Dalton’s mother’s name was “Jane Towneley Dalton” and his father, William died in 1543. (See below)

After reviewing the history of Robert Dalton of Thurnham Hall, I do now believe that the the person transcribed the name of “Joan” wrongly. It should have been Jane.

Title:

FINAL CONCORDS of the COUNTY OF LANCASTER from the original

CHIROGRAPHS, or FEET OF FINES preserved amongst the PALATINATE OF LANCASTER RECORDS IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE.

PART 1V- Henry Vlll to Philip and Mary A.D. 1510-1558

Book no. 942.7 b4LC Vol. 60.

Bundle 12, 31-8 Hen. VIII. 1539-1547.

m. 3. Monday in the fourth week of Lent, 4 and 5 Philip and Mary. [21 March, 1558].

Between William Stopforthe and Richard Mason, plaintiffs, and Joan Dalton, widow, and Robert Dalton, esq., and Anne his wife deforciants of 4 messuages, one cottage, one toft, 4 gardens, 4 orchards, 100 a. of land, 30 a. of meadow, 40 a. of pasture, 4 a. of wood, 200 a. of turbary, 200 a. of moss, 100 a. of moor, and 100 a. of furze and heath in Byspham and Mawdesley.

m. 10. [21 March, 1558]

Between John Modye, clerk, plaintiff, and Joan Dalton, widow, and Robert Dalton, esq. and Anne his wife deforciants of the moiety of 2 messuages, 2 gardens, 80 a. of land, 20 a. of meadow, 40 a. of pasture and 20 a. of wood in Dalton [parish of Wigan]

The deforciants remitted all right to John and his heirs, for which John gave them 100 marks.

m. 19. [21 March, 1558]

Between Thomas Crosse, Richard Hey, William Smalshaghe and John Fayrcloghe, plaintiff, and Robert Dalton, esq. And Anne his wife, and Joan Dalton, widow, deforciants of a moriety of 2 messuages, 2 gardens, 80 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture and 20 acres of wood in Dalton.

The deforciants remitted all right to the plaintiffs and to the heirs of Thomas, for which the plaintiffs gave them £66.

m. 29. [21 March. 1558]

Between Thomas Hesketh. Knight, plaintiff, and Joan Dalton, widow, and Robert Dalton,

Esq. And Anne his wife deforciants of 12 messuages, 10 cottages, 8 tofts, 22 gardens, 22

Orchards, 300 acres of land, 140 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 6 acres of wood. 300 acres of turbary, 200 acres of moss, 100 acres of furze and heath, and 40s. of rent in Croston; and also a forth part of the manor of Croston, with appurtenances, and a fourth part of 1000 a. of moor in Croston. The deforciants remitted all right to Thomas and his heirs, for which Thomas gave them £230.

m. 103. [17 August, 1556]

Between Richard Crosse, plaintiff, and Joan Dalton, widow, and Robert Dalton, esq. and Anne his wife deforciants of 7 acres of land in Dalton near Holland.

The deforciants remitted right to Richard and his heirs, for which Richard gave them £40.

m. 125. [17 August, 1556]

Between Richard Ashton, esq. plaintiff, and Joan Dalton, widow, Robert Dalton, esq., and Anne his wife deforciants of a messuage, 2 gardens, 2 orchards, 20 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow and 4 acres of pasture in Croston and Mawdysley.

The deforciants remitted all right to Richard and his heirs, for which Richard gave them £20.

m. 196. [17 August, 1556]

Between Roger Bradshawe, plaintiff and Robert Dalton, esq. and Anne his wife Deforciants of 7 messuages, 4 cottages, 8 gardens, 8 orchards, 30 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 4 acres of wood and 6 d. of rent in Hagh and Wygan.

Robert and Anne remitted all right to Roger and his heirs, for which Roger gave them £40.

m. 168 [17 August. 1556]

Between Robert Nelson, plaintiff, and Joan Dalton, widow, and Robert Dalton, esq. And Anne his wife deforcaints of 16 acres of land, 1 acres of meadow, and 8 acres of pasture in Croston and Mawdysley.

The deforciants remitted all right to Robert and his heirs, for which Robert gave them £40.

m. 206. [17 August, 1556]

Between William Nelson and Richard Banester, plaintiffs, and Joan Dalton, widow, Robert Dalton, esq. And Anne his wife deforciants of a messuage, 3 gardens, an orchard, 20 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, 10 acres of moss, 8 acres of turbary, 20 acres of more, and 40 acres o furze and heath in Mawdysley and Croston.

The deforciants acknowledged the said tenements to be the right of William, for which Willaim and Richard granted them to Robert, to have and to hold for the term of one

Week; and after that term to remain Thomas Nelson and Cililia his wife and to the heirs begotten of their bodies; in default to remain to the right heir of the said Cicilia forever.

Deed no. 543 -

Acknowledgment of receipt, 1557, May 31. 1 item: parchment; 13.5 x 35 cm.

SUMMARY: Acknowledgment by Robert Dalton of Byspam in the county of Lancaster, esquire, of the receipt of 290 from Bernard Townley of Brunley in the said county, gentleman, servant to John Townley, esquire, and John Aspedenne, clerk, by the hands of John Kechyn, esquire: being the purchase money of lands sold by Robert and Anne his wife to Bernard and John as specified in an indenture dated 29 March, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary. Given on 31 May, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary. Signed by Robert Dalton. Witnesses (endorsed): Jane Dalton, Thomas Dalton, Thomas Patrycke, John Kymby. With 1 seal (1.3 cm.) of red wax, bearing initials: I.D.

NAMES: I. Dalton, Robert. II. Townley, Bernard. III. Townley, John. IV. Aspedenne, John. V. Kechyn, John. VI. Dalton, Anne. VII. Dalton, Jane. VIII. Dalton, Thomas. IX. Patrick, Thomas. X. Kymby, John.

SUBJECTS: 1. Deeds--England--Lancashire. 2. Lancashire (England)--Charters, grants, privileges. 3. Bispham (England) 4. Burnley (England)

Source of above: Found on the Internet

Thus passed away the last link with the place, which for 300 years had connected Dalton with Bispham. The money obtained through these sales, Robert added to the dower brought him by his wife, and purchased a manor lying further north, within three miles of Cockersand Abbey, and about the same or rather less distance from the Lancaster-Preston Road. This was Thurnham Hall, and henceforth this branch of the family was to be known as the Dalton's of Thurnham

“Thurnham Hall” says the VCHL. "Stands on a slightly rising ground about a quarter of a mile from the left bank of the River Condor in the eastern part of the township, and is a three story stone built house erected probably by Robert Dalton soon after his purchase of the property. The front of the building faces west, and is said to have had originally three gables with an embattled porch and mullioned windows. The present day porch projects nine feet from the frontage. The coat of arms both inside and out (of Dalton impaling Gage and quartering Fleming, and Middleton respectively) were introduced in 1823. Various alterations were made in succeeding centuries, so that the appearance is not quite different externally, but within, having passed through the porch, we find the hall 39 ft. by 24 ft. which "is probably a reconstruction of the original 16th century apartment and is 12 ft. high, with plastered ceiling and flagged floor. The walls are paneled to a height of 8 ft. 3 ins. with grained deal wainscot, but the hop pattern plaster frieze above appears to be of seventeenth century date." The western wall, opening by two archways to the porch, is four feet thick and there were rooms both north and south of the hall. Over it and of the same sizes was the drawing rooms and in both rooms there were eventually hung the series of family portraits afterwards at Bygods Hall, Essex. Bygots Hall was home of the FitzsGeralds, who held Thurnham for several generation in the nineteenth Century.

Thurnham Hall had been held by the Greys, and in 1553 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, son in law of Henry VI, sister, Mary Tudor, and father of the infamous Lady Jane Grey, was the owner. In 1553 he conveyed, for the sum of 1080p, the manor to a London citizen and grocer, Thomas Lonne, who sold it again to Robert Dalton for 500p.

In the VCHL is the list of this and other lands, which bring the total up to 667p. The Manors of Bulk and Aldcliffe with lands in Bolton; the site of the Black Friars in Lancaster, 15 acres; houses in Halton, Warton, and Scotforth; a quarter of the Manor of Hackinsall, and attached to the Cockersand Abbey site lands in Eliel, Forton, Bankhouses, and Pilling (the Tongues). These were not all purchased at the same time, but as occasion served in the course of several years.

Wealthy and childless, but with many dependents, Robert I (the first of Thurnham) was generous. In 1560 he gave Aldcliffe Hall and the Ridge, in Bulk, to his mother. In 1573 he settled Abbots Carr (in Forton) on his brother Thomas and his wife Anne Molyneux, with remainder to his younger brothers, Roger and Richard. This was in addition, apparently, to an arrangement in 1569 by which, the Manor of Hackinsall "with dovecote, lands, etc.," had been bought by Robert and Thomas jointly. Earlier in the century it had been held by four families: Tunstall, Bewley, Butler and Mordaunt. Tunstall had sold to Geoffrey Starkie, from whose daughter's husband, Richard Hothersall, Robert Dalton bought. But Butler complained, in 1571, that his lease had been wrongfully included, and both Thomas Starkie, Georffrey's newphew, and Mordaunt, claimed against Hotersall, Bridget Starkie, and Robert Dalton. And Robert remained safely in possession; one proof of which was that he refused right of common to Cuthbert Clifton in 1574, in virtue of his lordship.

On September 12, 1578, Robert Dalton made his will, now among the additional MSS in the British Museum. As he (Robert) had no sons or daughters of his own, his heir was Robert, the son of his brother, Thomas, married to Anne Molyneux. But Thomas was also dead, and the child an infant of only two months, so arrangements for the management of the estate until little Robert should come of age, had to be made. Robert left therefore to his own two brothers, Roger and Richard, the use of all his "leases, terms of years, tacks, and bargains whatsoever in the Realm of England"; to Richard, his estate of the "Milnes at Lancaster"; to Roger "all and singular his manors, lands, etc." Other relatives named are "his cozens Dugles Nevill and Margret Ashton" who were to have ??? each; the children of his brother Roger Dalton; Jane, daughter of his brother Thomas; William, illegitimate son of his brother Richard (mentioned twice); and several servants. One of these, James Swinburne, was to have the Seal of the Friars at Lancaster and one wind mile formerly belonging to the same, and certain lands thereto belonging to him and his assigns during life. George Bradshaw and Richard Charnock had each an annuity of 6p. 13s. 4d. Richard Kitchen an annuity of 5p; Henry Cutler 40p. His Executors were each to have El 0 and a gelding. They were Richard Bold, Esq. and Gilbert Moreton, Gent.

The story of Colonel Thomas Dalton of Thurnham Hall:

Col. Thomas Dalton of Thurnham Hall inherited his Thurnham property from his father, Robert Dalton, the first son of our William Dalton (#12). This Thomas raised a troop of horse for the King, at the time of the Civil war. He was a Colonel of cavalry, was wounded at the second battle of Newbury, on 27th of October 1644, and died within a week afterwards at Marlborough. His property in Thurnham had previously been taken from him - it was sequestered in 1642-3 - on account of his "delinquency." With respect to his seven sisters, some or all who resided for a time at Aldcliffe Hall, near Lancaster. Their names were Margaret, Elizabeth, Jane, Ellen, Dorothy, Katherine and Phillpia. They were very firm believers in the Roman Catholic faith; and it is said that Aldclitfe Hall was, when the Dalton sisters were in it, designated the "home of the Catholic Virgins.' Two-thirds of their property at Aldcliffe was sequestered for "recusancy." In 1653-4 they petitioned for permission to "contract jointly for the redemption of their interests, and in the Record Office there is a certificate, dated 11 May 1655. Signed by Saubeny Williams, "showing that he had searched the books in his custody relating to Lancashire, Middlesex, and London, and found no conviction against Margaret Dalton or her sisters." The property referred to was afterwards leased from the Lancashire Commissioners to one of the sisters (Margaret) for seven years, at 40 a year. Through the marriage of Elizabeth Dalton, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Dalton, who was a descendant of the fore-named Robert, and died in 1704 with William Houghton, of Park Mall, in the parish of Standish, the Dalton property passed, in 1710, to their eldest son John, who took the surname and arms of Dalton of Thumham Hall, a mansion built in the time of Queen Mary, was of course included in the property which he inherited, and he took up his residence in it. In 1715, when the Scotch Rebels reached Lancaster on their southward march, John Dalton, of Thurnham Hall, along with some friends, joined them. Tradition also says that when he arrived he found his wife at the rear of the Hall gathering kindling wood. He recovered his confiscated property by the payment to the Government.

13- ROGER DALTON; the second son of William Dalton was the trustee of Thurnham Hall and other lands and was born about 1531 in Byspham, Lancashire England. He died in 1588 in the Holbon area of London, England. As far as we know, Roger Dalton was the first of our Dalton line to move from Lancashire Co. He may have bought land and settled in Witney, Oxfordshire England.

He married Mary Ward and they had at least seven children:

1. Millicant

2. Anne.

3. Robert.

4. Thomas.

5.Walter 1st. (our line)

6.Richard.

7.Joan.

During the long minority of the heir of Thurnham Hall (Robert II), Roger’s name occurs frequently in business matters. In the year after Robert I death, a grant of lands in Cockersand for 21 years was made to Roger. In 1581 he claimed turbary (the right of a tenant to dig on his overlord's land) in Preesall Moss and a messuage (use of a house, its lands and outbuildings) called Quatholme or Wheatholme, against Robert Carter. In 1582 a house called Friars Moss, near Quernmore Park, part of the Rigmaidens estate, was sold to him. He held burgages (right of rent) (in Lancaster). In virtue of a lease from Queen Elizabeth 1, he claimed the Furness land in Forton. In 1583 he purchased from Adams an estate in Pilling of 40 messuages, 500 acres of salt marsh, etc., which in 1586 was granted to feoffees (tenants) by "Anne Dalton, widow, Barnaby Kitchen, and Hugh Hesketh," and next year (1587) the feoffees with Roger Dalton sold the greater part to Robert Bindloss.

From the will of Anne Dalton (widow of Robert I of Thurnham), made April 9, 1593, we learn that Roger Dalton was already deceased and his heirs were bound to pay to her assigns £40, a year for 50 years after her death. She left this to be divided between her brother, Barnaby Kitchen and Elizabeth Hartley, whose husband was her executor. Barnaby was also to have "one pair of bed stocks"; a "cozen , John Thornton, 2 oxen", and her nieces Anne and Elizabth Kitchin, 40 shillings each.

Notes on Walter Dalton 1st, 5th child of Robert Dalton of Thurnham Hall:

Mrs. Leaning gives the quote below by her uncle:

“In the summer of 1935, my Uncle Frederick Way Dalton placed in my hands some papers or family bible which purported to be a family genealogy, copied from a family Bible, which had been in the possession of his Aunt Hannah Neale Dalton. The copy had been made by an Uncle, the Rev. Edward Neale Dalton, deceased. It is believed that the genealogical material had been compiled originally in the lifetime of John Dalton of Stanmore and Peckham (1780-1851). Nothing is presently known of the whereabouts of this family Bible. Fortuitously, collaborating evidence of some of this family Bible genealogy is found in Burke's Peerage Dictionary of Landed Gentry, 1848, under the heading of Dalton of Dunkirk House. Edward Dalton of Dunkirk House supplied the family lineage in Burke’s Peerage.

Read the history of this Walter Dalton in Chapter 4 of this book. (RD)

Here next are the occupants of Thurnham Hall starting with the Col. Thomas Dalton, of the Civil War time, brother of Robert. Taken from the "John Dalton book of Genealogy" and other sources.

Note: these are not of our direct line.

Lords of the Manors of Thurnham, Cockersand and Bulk from 1626:

We start with COL. THOMAS DALTON, of Thurnham, who raised at his own expense a regiment of horse, with which he served in the Royal Army in the Civil War, and died of wounds received at the second battle of Newbury, 1644.

1626 to1644, his son, Robert.

ROBERT DALTON III, of Thurnham, married, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Homer, of Middleham, Yorkshire, and had issue, two daughters and co-heirs of whom the younger, Dorothy, of the Manors of Caton and Aldcliffe and married Edward Riddell, of Swinburne Castle. 1644 to 1700. His daughter, Elizabeth was next.

ELIZABETH DALTON, of Thurnham, married William Hoghton, of Park Hall, Lancashire, derived from Richard Hoghton, of Park Hall, 3rd son of Sir Richard Hoghton, of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire. 1700 to 1710. She died in 1710, and was succeeded by her eldest son, John Hoghton.

JOHN HOGHTON-DALTON, of Thurnham, who assumed the name of DALTON on succeeding to the manor and estates of Thurnham Hall, married Frances, 2nd daughter of Sir Pyers Mostyn. 1710 to 1736. He was succeeded by his son, Robert IV.

The below article is about this John Hoghton-Dalton and his arrest for his involvement in the Jacobite Revolt.

Some information was copied from Mrs. Frances Edith Dalton Leanings book.

Edited and with added information by Rodney Dalton.

The Jacobite uprising of 1715:

On November 7th, 1715 the Jacobite forces marched into Lancaster with colors flying, drums beating and bagpipes playing. They were joined by five of the neighboring gentry, all of whom were Catholics and two townsmen. These gentlemen were, Albert Hodshom of Leighton, John Dalton of Thurnham Hall, John Tyldesley of Myerslough Lodge, Henry Butler of Rawcliffe and Thomas Walton of Cartmel.

This group met the next day, Tuesday, Nov. 8th, and a service was held in the parish Church, to which an abundance of persons came. The next morning this force left for Preston, where they were joined by a great many gentleman, with their servants and attendants, all Papists.

The defeat at Preston:

The story of the defeat of the Papist is well known today. The king’s men were near at hand and the Jacobites were asked to surrender, which, they did without much fanfare,

On Nov. 14th the English Regiments marched in and took a large number of prisoners,

Including John Dalton of Thurnham Hall. Some of the prisoners were locked up in the Preston Church and for about a month the town’s people had to feed them. In the course of 1715 and as long as 9 months afterwards, executions took place on Gallows Hill, north of town. Luckily John Dalton was not one of them.

John Dalton was one of 400 prisoners brought to Lancaster Castle and church registers

records a number of deaths along the way. John Dalton was lucky again, for he was one of “sixty-two most considerable” who were reserved to be carried to London as trophies. This group of prisoners reached London on Dec. 9th, 1715. The trial of John Dalton (read below) took place at the Court of the Admiralty in the Marshalsea before Lord Justice Parker. The evidence against John Dalton being positive as to the facts, the jury after a considerable stay, found him guilty.

How long John Dalton served in prison is not known, but it is known that he was eventually released. Tradition has it he walked the whole way home to Thurnham Hall, a

distance of approximately 230 miles. Naturally John Dalton’s family suffered all the while he was gone from Thurnham Hall, as his estate was forfeited to the King. The family had leased his lands to a favorite friend and when he returned he redeemed his estates for 6,000p. He died in 1736.

The Whole Trial and Examination of John Dalton, Esquire – at the Marshialea in London on Wednesday the 30th of May 1716:

AGAINST this Gentleman it was deposed, that he met the rebels at Lancaster, and was there seen with the Earl of Derwentwater, the Lord Widdrington and others; and that the said Earl, with a number of other rebels, came to Mr. Dalton's house on Tuesday, where they staid all day, and that he went away with them. One evidence said, in particular, that he saw him at Lancaster on the Monday, in the company before mentioned, and again on the Wednesday morning, when she heard him say, “The business is now done, we have nothing to do but to march to Preston”. Another said, that they heard on the Sunday, that the rebels were to be at Lancaster the next day, when it was clear, even by his own evidence, that the next morning he rode out but with one servant, and went to Lancaster, as the evidence had sworn, which was not at all disputed. He was likewise proved by several to have been with the rebels at Preston, particularly the hostler at the White-Bull-Inn, where he usually set up his horses when he came to that town, who said he ran to him to have taken his horses; but he told the said evidence, that he was going further.

Another remarkable passage of his being (and confederating) with the rebels, was proved by the servant of one Chorley of Preston. This Chorley had some time before seized a horse of the prisoners, by virtue of the Act of Parliament, which directs, that no Papist shall keep horses of such a size; and when the rebels were Masters of Preston, Mr. Dalton came to the witness Chorley's man, and demanded the horse; the witness answering him, that his master was not at home (he being gone away with the Dragoons towards Wigan, on the approach of the rebels, who he was in dread of) he then told the servant, that he would have the horse; who called out his master's sister to speak to the prisoner, whom with threats he obliged to deliver the horse; but the prisoner not thinking him so good as when he was seized, said they had spoiled the horse, and compelled her to pay him 10p for him, which she did. This was observed by the Court and King's Council, to shew the prisoner acted with alacrity in the rebellion, for the horse had been seized by law; but he had made use of violence and unlawful means to obtain him again, and made his demands good only by the advantage of the power of the rebels. The truth of his being at Preston, and constantly there in the company of the rebels, was confirmed by many other witnesses.

His council pleaded for him, that he was forced into rebellion, and called evidence to endeavor to prove it. One swore that the Earl of Derwentwater and others, came to his house on the Tuesday, and there lived at discretion, and called for, and took whatever the house afforded. That they were got about the Prisoner, persuading him to go with them, and threatened him with death, and took away his arms; but he refused to go, and said, he had no inclination, and that he heard them at high words, but could not distinguish what was said. That afterwards the prisoner was brought out, and put on horseback, and went away with' them, but shew’d reluctance. He was likewise met at some distance from his house riding among the said company of rebels. By another witness, who said, he seemed to go unwillingly, that he looked melancholy, and he could perceive tears in his eyes, and his eyes to look red, but this witness could not but say, that he rode as at other times ; and it was pretty extraordinary, as was after observed by the Court, that this witness, at the distance of a street breadth, should see the tears in the prisoner's eyes; or indeed it might be very probable, that at parting with his wife, and going on such a dangerous affair, it might occasion some melancholy reflections.

He called several to his character, one of which was the Parson of the Parish Mr. Dalton lived in, who said, that some time before the rebellion, he was at a wedding with Mr. Dalton, who then read him a letter from London, which said, that they expected a rising in Scotland under the Earl of Mar, and that there would be other risings’ in England; that he told the prisoner, he hoped he would not meddle in the matter; who answered him, that he had neither intention nor inclination to do it; that he lived very happily, and would not endanger himself. This evidence declared farther, that he has at several other times had discourse with the prisoner, whom he never heard to express himself against the government, and so far unlikely to favor the pretender's cause, that he had sometimes expressed some scruples against the Roman Religion: Upon which occasion, he was asked by the Court, why he, being a Minister of the Church of England, did not endeavor to improve those notions in him, in order to convert him; who answered, that he had made some essay that way, but then found him altered in his judgment. Upon the whole, he gave him the character of a very peaceable Roman Catholic, as several others did, and one said, that he had heard him drink to King George's health; One in another particular, deposed, that when they heard of the rebellion in Northumberland, he said to the prisoner, perhaps they'll come into Lancashire, and then they'll be about your house; that the prisoner answered, he would have nothing to do with them: This, and other witnesses said, that he was the most peaceable of all the Roman Catholics, and never, at the time of elections, meddled in the least, as some did. One of the members for that County justified this, declaring, that asking his interest once, he told him, he would meddle of no side.

After a very long hearing and Mr. Dalton having nothing farther to say, the Court summed up the evidence, observing first the circumstances of law in cases of High-Treason: That if a man was seen among rebels, and continued with his presence to abet and comfort them, tho' he were not actually in arms, or committed hostilities, yet it was High-Treason; That the force mentioned, must be a continued force; that a man was not only forced away at first, but kept as a prisoner under close constraint all the time; which appeared by some witnesses examined, not to have been the case of the prisoner at Preston, where he was seen at full liberty, and whence he might have escaped often, if be had attempted it.

As to any favorable circumstances that might have been given in for the prisoner, as to his character or peaceable behavior, they were proper only in another place: That mercy belonged only to his Majesty, who was a just dispenser of it, it was his undoubted prerogative, and was robbing him of his right, to take the power of bestowing it out of his Royal Hands.

After the Court had impartially stated the case, the prisoner said, he had a witness to examine, who would prove, that he was at home all Wednesday, and not that day at Lancaster, as one of the evidence against him had sworn. He was told, That it was very unprecedented to hear witnesses after the charge had been given; but however they condescended to it, and his evidence, who was one Mrs. Dalton's woman, swore him at home all the day on Wednesday; so that it was left to the jury which witness they should believe, in respect to that point; but then neither of them affected his being afterwards at Preston, The jury went out, and after a very considerable stay, brought him in guilty of the indictment, and he received sentence accordingly.

When he was asked what he had to say, why sentence should not pass, he said, he begged the King's pardon, and desired the Court to intercede with him for mercy. Upon this occasion the Lord Chief Justice Parker observed, as he had done before, that the prisoner, as well as others, had so far abused his Majesty's clemency, by derogating from their former submission, and giving the Government all the trouble possible, even in standing it out and combating with the King to the very last, that they might very well expect to meet with some severity, were not his Royal Breast always open to the intercessions of mercy, when it has been requested: That there was one gentleman, who had retracted his plea, and owned the indictment, and upon recommendation, had a pardon already passing the seals for him : That it would have been very well for the prisoner to have made his request sooner, and, as his Lordship observed, they were not his friends who advised him to do otherwise; That recommending of prisoners to mercy was a part he much delighted in, and he wished to have had better grounds to have done it for the prisoner; but however, he would report his case in the most impartial manner to the King.

End

ROBERT DALTON IV of Thurnham Hall. 1736 to 1785. He married Cecilia Butler, and by her had issue, a son, John.

JOHN DALTON I, 1785 to1837, DALTON, JOHN, esq. of Thurnham Hall, in the county of Lancaster, m. Miss Etheldreda Gage, by whom he has had issue, a daughter, Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH DALTON, of Thurnham Hall. Unmarried. 1837 to 1861.

SIR JAMES GEORGE DALTON-FITZGERALD, a kinsman of Elizabeth. 1861 to 1867.

Buried in the Church next to Thurnham Hall.

SIR GERALD RICHARD DALTON-FITZGERALD, brother of Sir James. 1867 to 1894. Also buried in the Church next to Thurnham Hall.

WILLIAM HENRY DALTON of Thurnham Hall, where he succeeded his 2nd cousin Sir Gerald Dalton-Fitzgerald. 1894 to 1902. He had a son, John.

JOHN HENRY DALTON, Lord of the Manor of Thurnham. 1902 to 1937.

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS DALTON, Lord of the Manor of Thurnham. Brother of John Henry, 1937 to 1965.

EDA FLORENCE DALTON, eldest surviving sister of William Augustus Dalton. 1965 to 13th Dec 1971.

ALZIRA ELOISE DALTON, spinster, was the last owner of Thurnham Hall, and a sister of Eda Florence Dalton. 1971 to May 30, 1983.

The following Obituary notice appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post:

Ezira Eloise Dalton, through to be the last of the local land-owning Dalton family, died at her home at Thurnham Hall Lodge on Monday. She was in her nineties.

This branch of the Dalton family moved to England from America at the beginning of this century to take over the Thurnham estate, which they inherited.

Most of the amount of land owned by the Dalton family in the Lancaster area; Dalton Square, Mary Street, ??? Passage and the Dalton Arms at Glasson were all named after the family.

Miss Dalton was a direct descendant of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee and one of the early American Presidents, Jefferson Davies.

The Dalton families direct English line can be traced back to Thomas More.

Miss Dalton inherited the Thurnham Estate from her sister, Eda Florence Dalton. The estate, dating back many years, including Cockersand Abbey.

The Daltons once owned the land where the Bulk Estate is now located as well as the Lancaster Moor Hospital and Prison. More recently the land on which the Post House

Was built was sold by Miss Dalton to Trust House.

One of Miss Dalton’s last acts was to give more ground to the Village Institute for a car park. The Funeral will take place at Christ Church, Glasson, next day.

Funeral service did take place on 8th June and was concluded by internment in the Lancaster Cemetery. Alzina Dalton was the last surviving daughter of William Henry Dalton and Emma Cook.

Next is the story of Cockersand Abbey where a lot of the Dalton’s of Thurnham Hall are buried. The road to Cockersand Abbey ruins is only within a few feet of the entrance to Thurnham Hall and is only a few miles to the south and is in a green cow pasture where the view is spectacular.

Before we proceed with the history of our Dalton family let me tell about a trip my cousin, Arthur Whittaker and myself had the opportunity to take during the first week of June 2003. Every year the Dalton Genealogy Society holds a meeting somewhere near Dalton sites in England. We spent three days at a hotel in the Gower area of South Wales where the meeting was held. I will tell the story about these three days in Wales in the Chapter on the Dalton’s of South Wales.

After the Dalton meeting in South Wales, our cousin John Dalton from Lancashire drove us north to a time share resort that was once owned by our ancestors. This was Thurnham Hall near the city of Lancaster. This was a very moving experience for both of us. There were no rooms available in the main building, but we did have a suite in a small cabin next door. After informing the people in charge that we were some direct descendants of the Dalton’s who once owned the property, I had a good time being “The Lord of the Manor.” There are some photos at the end of this chapter about the places in Lancashire we visited.

The Story of Cockersand Abbey:

by Mrs. Kate Dalton (Copied from Vol. 4 of the DGS Journal)

The contents of this article are based on a paper by John Swanwarbrick, F.R.I.B.A. entitled 'The Abbey of St. Mary-of the-Marsh at Cockersand' and published in the Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Volume XL in 1925.

Cockersand Abbey, or to give it its full title, the Premonstratensian Abbey of St. Mary-of-the-Marsh at Cockersand, can be found in a relatively remote and deserted marshland area of the Lancashire coast. The Abbey is positioned between the estuaries of the River Lune and the River Cocker. It is approximately twenty-five feet above sea level and just eight feet above the surrounding marsh.

The Abbey commands a view across the water of Pilling Church, the Fleetwood grain elevator, Walney, Piel Island and Sunderland Point. Close by on the near side of the Lune estuary are the Cockersand Abbey lighthouses and Plover Scar. To the east, the cultivated moss-land extends to the Cockerham, Thurnham and Lancaster road, whereupon it rises sharply to about fifty feet above sea level. The town of Lancaster is about six miles to the north. The surrounding land is so flat that at very high tides the aforementioned road is often impassable at Conder Green.

Along this part of the coast, a considerable amount of erosion has taken place. Tradition says that the site of the village of Singleton Thorp, near Rossall, is now beneath the waves. In fact, the danger of the waves caused Pope Gregory in October 1372 to grant a Relaxation, during twenty years, of one year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who would give alms for the repair of the monastery. Now, a modern stone sea-wall, about five or six yards high, protects the coastline in the vicinity for a considerable distance.

In early times it is thought that access to the Abbey was gained from the sea, on account of it being so unapproachable by land. Roger, an Abbot at the beginning of the 13th, Century described himself as 'de Marisco', which means 'of the marsh'. There even appears to be some ground for belief that Cockersand itself was at one time a port. Perhaps the tradition that Cockersand Abbey once stood on an island is due to its having been surrounded by the quagmires of Thurnham Moss. Some apparent substance was, however, given to this belief when the tidal wave, that rose during the night of 17th, March 1907, temporarily isolated the site of the Abbey from the mainland.

At Crook Farm, north of Cockersand and opposite Sunderland Point, a portion of the land rises thirty-eight feet above sea level and is known locally as Chapel Hill. Possibly a small square chapel may have stood on this hill. Much of the stone from the original Abbey has been re-used in recent times and an example of this may be seen in the buildings of Crook Farm. Other portions of the buildings have been washed away by the sea. Part of the core of a wall at the south west corner of the site of the Abbey still remains and is referred to locally as the ruins of 'John's Hall'. This may possibly be the remains of a structure called King John's Hall by the Commissioners of Henry VIII. Tradition states that the bells of the steeple of Cockersand Abbey are now in the tower of Cockerham Church; if this is so they have almost certainly been recast.

The Premonstratensians were Canons Regular, which means that they were living under rule. An Abbot always held the highest office. The Order was established on Christmas Day 1121 at a place called Premontre. The Virgin Mary indicated Premontre to St. Norbert, the founder of the Order, in a vision in a lonely place in the forest of St. Gobain, near Zaon. The Canons of Premontre became known as Norbertine or White Canons, white on account of the white habit they wore as a symbol of purity. The Order grew rapidly. Each Norbertine Canon is said to regard himself as a child of Mary and to owe her special devotion.

The first English house of Premontre was established at Newhouse in Lincolnshire in 1143. Among the many daughter houses of Newhouse was Croxton in Leicestershire and it is this house which was the motherhouse of Cockersand Abbey, which was founded in about 1190.

Cockersand Abbey takes its origin from the hermitage founded in 1180 by Hugh Garth, a recluse held in great reverence locally. The hermitage gave place to a hospital for the infirm and lepers. It was however given to the White Canons of Croxton who first founded a priory here. Pope Clement III confirmed the priory on 6th June 1190 as a Premonstratensian monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Before ten years had passed the priory rose by means of benefactions to the degree of an abbey. It is recorded that the Abbey suffered severely during the time of the Scottish invasion of 1316.

The site of the monastery lies on the Cockersand Abbey Farm and between the farmhouse and the sea. The farm orchard extends up to the Chapter House, the only part of the buildings that now remain. The rest of the walls are either very low or covered up. The structural remains are either a dark reddish sandstone or of a gray or light yellow millstone-grit. There is a shield carved in grit-stone on the top of the wall on the south side of the Chapter House.

The majority of Premonstratensian churches are similar in design and layout. However it seems that Cockersand does not conform to the regular designs. Firstly, the Chapter

House at Cockersand appears to be the only example of octagonal form in a Premonstratensian house in this country. The other main point of difference is that of a partly detached Lady Chapel. This is borne out by the records of the Commissioners of Henry VIII. One of the interesting features inside the Chapter House is the vaulting and the carved foliage on the central pier. This is shown in the drawing below. Documentary evidence shows that a Lady Chapel formed an important part of Cockersand Abbey Church. The Chapter room is supposed to be one of the earliest polygonal chapter houses in England and Wales. It was probably erected in the early part of the 13th Century. The vaulting is unusual since it has been divided into four irregular quadripartite cells. The Abbey was also said to have had six bells in the steeple. The earlier monastic buildings at Cockersand were probably built at about the time of the establishment of the Priory in 1190.

Substantial remains exist of the Chapter House of Cockersand Abbey, dating from the mid-13th Century. During the 18th Century the Chapter House was converted into a burial chamber for the Dalton family of Thurnham Hall. The rest of the Abbey was dismantled and some of its stone used for local region farm buildings and sea defense works.

At Thurnham Hall there used to be a large richly carved 16th Century chest, possibly the work of a Flemish carver. It bore a metal plate stating that it was the property of the Canons of Cockersand Abbey. At one end of this chest there was a representation of a figure holding a small church with a steeple which it has been suggested might be the old Abbey church. This chest would have contained the old charters and title deeds.

The Abbey remained until the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries in 1539 when Abbot Poulton and twenty-two Canons surrendered Cockersand Abbey to the Crown. John Kitchen of Hatfield, Hertfordshire purchased the property from the Crown in 1543 for 798p 8s 6d. He farmed the estates of the house and his daughter, Anne, married Robert Dalton of Bispham who had purchased Thurnham Hall. He died in 1580. So the estates of Cockersand Abbey were duly passed into the Dalton family of Thurnham Hall and there they have remained ever since.

Another history of the founding of Cockersand Abbey:

Copied from a book found at the LDS Family History Library in SLC Utah.

Book No. 942.7 C4c Vol. 3- 1885 at the LDS FHL in SLC.

Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquqrian society:

For a time the little house of Cockersand seems to have been in some way connected with the great establishment of St. Mary, at Leicester. But in the year 1190 Theobald Walter, brother of Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, gave a foundation charter. The deed declares that the donor gives and confirms " all my Haia of Pylin to God and the blessed Mary and the Abbot and Canons of the Premonstratencian Order there serving God, in clear perpetual alms, for the building there of an Abbey of that Order."

Thus the little hospital blossomed into an abbey, and in 1190 Pope Clement confirmed to the prior of the Hospital of Cockersand that the house should be called the Monastery of St. Mary, of the Premonstratensian Order of Cockersand. Richard I also confirmed the charters and John confirmed to the canons of Cockersand the pasturage of " Pilin," the place of " Cokersond," and they’re other acquisitions. In 1215 John again confirmed to “God and the Blessed Mary of Cokersand, and the abbot and canons of the Premonstra- tensian Order there, the patronage of the Church of Garstang, which they had by the gift of Gilbert Fitz-Reinfrid."

In the same year John confirmed to the abbey lands in Bolton-le-Sands, Newbiggin, and other places in the county of Lancaster. In John's reign the canons declare themselves to be troubled at the time of their election of they’re Abbot with the gentlemen of the country, they’re neighbors, and made suit to the King for his Maintenance to have free election amongst themselves. For this privilege of free election the monastery agreed to pay to the crown the sum of twenty shillings on every election. Grants of land and liberties flowed in upon the little monastery, until in 1292 the abbot claimed to exercise rights and privileges in nearly two hundred different townships. Notwithstanding this, the canons, in requesting Richard II to confirm their charters, style themselves" The King's poor Chaplains," and pray for a consideration of their poverty and that they are daily exposed to perils and destruction by the sea.

The possession of property brought with it trouble and responsibilities. The Chartulary of Lancaster Priory records two vehement disputes in 1216 and in 1256 between the Priory of Lancaster and the Abbey of Cockersand, as to the right to levy tithes in the neighboring townships.

For the next two centuries little is known of Cockersand, but at the commencement of the sixteenth century the rent rolls of the abbey was carefully written out by James Skypton, then the cellarer and afterwards abbot of the house. This rent roll, with its long list of tenants, is now in the Chetham Library and was printed in full in volume Ivii. of the publications of the Chetham Society.

When, a few years later, the storm of the dissolution came the monastery of Cockersand bent before the wind. The annual value of the house was stated to be 157p. 14s, and the abbey therefore fell with the other monastic institutions, the income of which being under 200p a year were condemned to be swept away. But the monks of Cockersand stoutly contended that the income of their house amounted to more than 200p a year, and that therefore the abbey ought not to be dissolved.

Another survey enumerates the various lands, which the abbey held. The demesne lands of the abbey were not extensive, but the lands in Pilling were kept by the abbot in his own hands. There was a windmill and a little moss for turbary. There were also barns at Garstang, at Winmarleigh, at Clevely and at Skerton. The rectory of Mitton also brought in a certain amount of tithe to the abbey.

The visitors left, and the monks of Cockersand waited as patiently as they could for the verdict, which was to confirm them in their home by the waves or to drive them forth to the four winds. And for a time their hopes revived, the king's letters patent restored the abbey, and confirmed Robert Pulton in the abbot’s chair. But the respite was a short one. In 1540 the monastery shared the ruin of the rest of the larger religious houses, and the monks were driven from it never to return.

Shortly after the dissolution of the abbey, another survey was taken of the abbey lands. These lands, including the site of the monastery, were declared to be worth 34p 12s per annum and it was declared that there was "no man that will buy the said demesnes but only John Kechyn." Accordingly, "John Kechyn, of Hatfield, in the County of Hertshire, Esquire," was on the sixth day of June 1544, declared the purchaser at the sum named. On his daughter's marriage the abbey lands passed to Robert Dalton, of Bispham, by whose descendant in the female line, Sir Gerald Fitzgerald, they are held at the present time. Of the abbey itself but little remains. The chapter house alone stands complete, Octagonal in form, with its roof supported in the centre by a single shaft, the chapter house is indeed a worthy relic of the once flourishing abbey. Its diameter is thirty feet, its walls two feet six inches in thickness. Its windows, five in number, have been partly blocked, and the floor has been considerably raised in order to render it available as the mausoleum of the Dalton family. In front of the chapter house was a vestibule of, which no trace now remains. To the north stood the church, long, narrow and aisle less. On the eastern side of the south transept were two chapels and perhaps the sacristy; the blase of the column dividing the chapels is still to be seen. On the eastern side of the north transept were two or possibly three chapels. Of the Church only small portions of the wall of the nave and transepts and the base of a column now remain.

On the inside upon the sides there are seven arched panels laterally ornamented with quaintly carved stone heads; the majority being in a fair state of preservation.

The floor is flagged, and upon it, in different parts, chiefly on the centre flags, the following names are inscribed, the bulk of those to whom they refer having, at time and time, been interred in the Chapterhouse: J. Bushell. L. Bushell. R. D., senr. E. Dalton. March 15th, 1865. B. D. M. D, junr. John Dalton, senr. M. D., senr. C. D. R. D., junr, E N. senr. E. N., junr. Upon a panel-shaped slab fixed on the south-western side, there is this inscription: “To the memory of Mary, wife of John Dalton, Esq, of Thurnham Hall, who died April 25th, 1819, aged 65 years; of Mary, their daughter, who died August 17th, 1820, aged 44; of Beatrice, their daughter, who died August 15th, 1821, aged 37; and of Charlotte, their daughter, who died February 26th, 1802, aged 16, who lie here interred. Also John Dalton, junr., Esq., their son, who died May 18th, 1819, aged 41, and was interred in the Cathedral at Bath. R.I.P. And of John Dalton, senr., Esqr., husband and father to the above, who died March 10th, 1837, aged 90; also Lucy Bushell, their daughter, who died November 4th, 1843, aged 67; and Joseph Bushell, her husband, who died January 27th, 1860, aged 69 years. Also Elizabeth, daughter of John Dalton, senr., Esqr., who died March 15th, 1861, aged 81 years. R.I.P.” On the opposite side, upon a similar slab, is this inscription: ” To the memory of Robert Dalton, Esq., of Thurnham Hall, who died 22nd July, MDCCLXXXV; also Cecily his wife, who died 3rd May, MDCCXLIX; also Elizabeth, his second wife; also Frances, his daughter to his first wife; also Robert, his son to his second wife; also Bridget Metcalf, daughter to his third wife; who lie here interred. This stone was placed by John Dalton, Esqr., of Thurnham Hall, in the year of Our Lord MDCCCX. R.I.P. Elizabeth Naylor, died Aug. 13, 1816.” To the left of this a diamond-shaped slab, fixed against the wall, bears the inscription; Charlotte Dalton, obt. 26 Feb., 1802, aged 16. RIP.” And on the other side, on a similar stone, is the following: ” Elizabeth Mary Angelina Naylor, obt. 24 July, 1810, aged 14. RIP.” The inscriptions on the flags in the floor are evidently a sort of resume or condensation of the names contained on the mural slabs.

Mr. Joseph Bushell, who married one of Squire Dalton’s daughters, and whose name appears amongst those in the Chapter house, was a magistrate, and for some time chairman of the Lancaster and Preston Railway Company and he resided at Dolphinlee, near Lancaster. The earliest date recorded amongst the foregoing inscriptions relates to Robert Dalton’s first wife, who was interred in the Chapter house in 1749. But nearly 40 years before that time there was an interment at the Abbey, and probably in the Chapter house. During the interval as well as more remotely there may also have been burials in it. When the Chapter house was first used for the interment of members or relatives of the Dalton family it is now impossible to say.

Tyldesley has the following entry in his diary, under date December 10th, 1712: “Went to Thurnham to poor W. Houghton funeral, where most of the neighboring gentlemen was. Wee carryed him to the Abbey. This “poor Mr. Houghton” was an army officer, and younger brother of John Houghton, who assumed the name and arms of Dalton; and he was a great grandson of Thomas Houghton, the Royalist colonel, who was fatally wounded at the second battle of Newbury in 1644.

The last person interred in the Chapter house of Cockersand Abbey was Miss Elizabeth Dalton. Her funeral, which took place on the 21st of March 1861, was of a very imposing character. After Mass in Thurnham Church, the remains, preceded by upwards of 40 of the tenantry, on horseback, were conveyed to the Chapter house, the interment therein being accompanied with all the solemn funereal rites of the Catholic Church. At Thurnham Hall there was subsequently a large gathering, and during the proceedings 81 loaves, a number corresponding with the years forming the deceased lady’s age, were distributed.

Before we end Chapter 1, lets view a very important document that lists our Dalton family in various years of their history. This document verifies much of the written history put together by many, many Dalton researchers.

The following data is from the many Volumes of the Victoria County History of Lancashire. Many thanks to Michael Cayley, the Historian of the Dalton Genealogical Society in England who copied and summarized them. This document from these Volumes of the VCH of Lancashire.

Victoria County Histories of Lancashire:

Complied and edited by Michael Cayley.

Vol. 2 page 110 - 1456-8

William Dalton was prior of Lytham.

Vol. 2 page 123 - 1516 -

The auditor of the apostolic chamber issued a decree on behalf of John Dalton, abbot of Furness, and some monks who had been thrown into prison by Alexander Banke, who subsequently became the penultimate abbot before the dissolution, during a suit about the monastery’s rights.

Vol. 2 page 130 - 1196 –

Michael of Dalton was abbot of Furness.

Vol. 2 page 129 – 1412-

The coucher (a large breviary which lies permanently on a desk or table) of Furness Abbey was compiled by the monk John Stell at the command of the abbot William Dalton.

Vol. 2 page 131 - 1416-7 -

William Dalton, abbot of Furness died.

John Dalton is cited as abbot of Furness in the years 1514-1516.

Vol. 2 page 150 - 1347 -

Thomas of Leatherhead, prior of Burscough, was indicted for alleged participation in the abduction of Margery, widow of Nicholas de la Beche, by John de Dalton and others, in which two people were killed and others injured. Witnesses came forward to establish Thomas’ innocence.

Vol. 2 page 157 - 2 September 1543 –

John Kitchen bought the site and demesne of Cockersand Abbey from the crown for £700. By the marriage of his eldest daughter Anne to Robert Dalton of Thurnham Hall the Abbey passed to the Dalton’s.

Vol. 2 page 165 -

When Thomas of Lancaster forfeited his lands, William de Dalton became warden of the Hospital of St Leonard, Lancaster. He ejected some of the lepers and the poor and sublet the wardenship to Alan de Thornton and William de Skipton, who diverted much of the revenue of the Hospital for their own use. Following complaints, there was an official enquiry and in 1326 the crown appointed a new warden.

Vol. 2 page 172 – 1527-

Syon Abbey (Middlesex) owned the priory of Lancaster in 1527. Syon Abbey was dissolved in 1540. In 1557 the crown sold the bulk of the Lancaster Priory estate to Robert Dalton of Bispham for £1667.

Vol. 2 page 204 - 1347 -

John, son of Sir Robert de Dalton, and many other knights and others, mostly from Lancashire, abducted Margery, widow of Nicholas de la Beche, by night from the manor of Beaumes near Reading, within the verge of the court of Lionel Duke of Clarence, son of the king and keeper of the realm while the king was abroad. They killed Margery’s uncle.

Vol. 2 page 245 – 1715-

Richard Dalton was one of the Lancastrians taken prisoner at the collapse of the 1st Jacobite Rebellion and sent to London. John Dalton was pardoned.

Vol. 2 page 564 –1557-

Robert Dalton bought Lune mill from the crown in 1557/8. The mayor and burgesses of Lancaster rented it from him for 6s 8d a year until in 1571 a flood destroyed it. Robert Dalton died a few years after 1571, and the inquisition post mortem on his estate was held at Wigan on 13 January 1578/9.

Vol. 3 page 151 – 1347-

Robert de Dalton had lands in Halewood. His son Sir John, Lord of Bispham, did too. By a settlement dated 1367, the remainders went to Sir John’s sons, John and Robert. The property consisted of a house, garden and 40 acres at a rent of 7s a year. In 1443 Robert, younger son of Sir John Dalton and grandson of another Sir John Dalton, sued Katherine, widow of his elder brother Richard, in connection with these lands, and his niece Alice was called to warrant her mother. In 1472 Robert Dalton of Bispham and his son & heir apparent Richard leased their Halewood lands to Robert Lathom of Allerton for 39 years at a rent of 40s.

Vol. 3 page 251 – 1391-

Joan daughter of Hugh Venables married Sir Thomas de Lathom who inherited the family lands in 1370 and died in early 1382. They had a son Thomas who died in 1383, leaving a widow Isabel who subsequently married Sir John de Dalton. Isabel and Sir John were related within the fourth degree, and because they knew this when they married they were excommunicated. They separated and were given a license to remarry and a papal dispensation in 1391. The dispensation declared that their children would be legitimate.

Vol. 3 page 254 – 1323-

Emma, wife of Robert de Taldeford, claimed lands at Taldeford (a hamlet near Lathom) from Sir Robert de Dalton of Bispham and his wife Mary and Robert de Bispham.

Vol. 3 page 401 – 1753-

In a fine of 1753 Ditton was included in the Dalton manors. In 1755 Robert Dalton sold or mortgaged his Ditchfield Hall estate there and sold Marsh Green to William Woods, skinner.

Vol. 3 page 411 - 1325 -

Godith de Penketh and her seven sisters inherited land at Penketh. She married John de Dalton, clerk, from whom his son Richard de Dalton claimed a messuage in 1325.

Vol. 4 page 94 - 1347 -

After abducting Margery de la Beche, Sir John de Dalton and his accomplices took refuge for a period in the then vacant manor of Dame Maud de Holland at Upholland. They fled north when the king’s writ for their arrest arrived.

Vol. 4 page 98 - 1291 -

The Dalton’s probably held their lands in Dalton under the Holland’s and their successors.

1291- Robert de Dalton mentioned (Inq. and extracts 276)

1305- Robert de Dalton claimed common of pasture from Ellen, widow of Henry de Lathom, and prior of Burscough. He allowed the prior to approve in the hey of Dalton.

Another Dalton family held land from the Torbocks: Gilbert son of Alan de Dalton refers to “my Lord, Henry de Turbock” [VCH gives no date].

1369- Sir John de Dalton who abducted Margery de la Beche, died holding 40 acres in Dalton from Roger la Warr at a rent of 9d a year. Ellen wife of Robert de Urswick was executrix.

Vol. 4 page 100 - About 1437 -

John de Ashurst married a daughter of Roger de Dalton.

Vol. 5 page 90 -

Isabel daughter of Roger de Pilkington married (1) Thomas son of Sir Thomas de Lathom and (2) Sir John de Dalton.

Vol. 5 page 247 - 1521 -

Lady Strange held land in Chorley and Bolton from Thomas Ashton and Roger Dalton of Croston.

Vol. 6 page 82 – 1525-

Robert Dalton was one of the Croston landowners contributing to the lay subsidy.

Vol. 6 page 88 -

From August 1439 to c.1443 Richard Dalton was vicar of Croston.

Vol. 6 page 92 -

Elizabeth (daughter of William Fleming of Wath who died about 1470) married Robert Dalton of Bispham and her share in Croston descended through the Dalton’s until it was sold in 1558 to Sir Thomas Hesketh of Rufford.

In 1482 Robert Dalton claimed a moiety of Croston from Margaret Dalton (widow), Richard Dalton and Elizabeth, Richard’s wife. Richard Dalton owned the share in 1500.

In 1500 Roger (son of Richard Dalton) granted some land in Croston and Mawdesley. There were various transactions and disputes with the Hesketh family about the Croston lands.

In 1533 William Dalton demised land in Croston to Thomas Hough.

In 1558 Robert Dalton of Bispham and Joan (widow of William Dalton) sold their interests in Croston to Sir Thomas Hesketh.

Vol. 6 page 94 - 1556 -

Richard Dalton bought property in Croston and Mawdesley from Joan Dalton (widow), Robert Dalton and Anne, Robert’s wife.

Vol. 6 page 95 - 1546 -

Joan, widow of William Dalton claimed land in Croston from Henry Croston. In 1545 she and her son Robert, William’s heir, acquired land in Croston.

Vol. 6 page 101-2 -

Sir Robert de Dalton held Bispham in about 1324 and died in 1350. He and his son Sir John fought at Crecy in 1346.

1348 - Sir Robert de Dalton and his wife Mary were pardoned for any part they may have played in the abduction of Margery de la Beche.Sir John was pardoned shortly after on account of his “good service”.

1369- Sir John de Dalton died, holding Bispham from Sir William de Ferrers and others at a rent of 3s 4d: his heir John, a son by a later wife was then 6. In his settlement he names his wife Ellen (who later married Robert de Urswick of Up Rawcliffe) and his younger son Robert

1385- Sir John’s heir John, later a knight, was pardoned for marrying Isabel daughter of

Roger de Pilkington without license of the Duke of Lancaster. He left two sons: the elder, Richard, married Katherine and their daughter & heir Alice married William Griffith in or before 1448. John’s younger son Robert recovered some lands in Bispham but failed in a claim for the main manor. Robert’s son Richard married Elizabeth daughter & coheir of William Fleming of Croston and was followed by his son Roger (who in 1492 made a feoffment of his lands) and grandson William I: a grant of 1500 to William gave the remainder to William’s brother Richard.

1527 - Roger Dalton (son & heir of Richard) and William II (Rogers son and heir apparent) made a grant which mentions Rogers Uncle William I, as still living.

William I’s will (1543) is in the British Library (Add 32104 f.1474) and names his wife Jane, his younger son Richard, his four daughters and his Uncle Richard Radcliffe.

1558 - Robert son of William I sold the Bispham estate to William Stopford.

In December 1557 Robert Dalton of Bispham and his mother Joan entered into various covenants in connection with the sale.

Vol. 6 page 132 -

In late 15th century Joan, Lady Strange held a moiety of Chorley from Thomas Ashton and Roger Dalton of Croston.

Vol. 6 page 206 -

John Houghton’s son William (born 1659) married the daughter and ultimate heir of Robert Dalton of Thurnham. In about 1710 their son John took the name and arms of Dalton. In the latter 18th century the Dalton’s sold Park Hall, Charnock

Vol. 6 page 208 – 1717-

Robert Dalton was, as a papist, doubly assessed for lands at Charnock, which he registered.

Vol. 7 page 255 – 1579-

Lands at Cockersand were granted to Roger Dalton for 21 years

Vol. 7 page 257 – 1357-

William son of John de Hackinsall and his wife Alice granted the manor of Hackinsall to John son of Robert de Dalton for life.

Vol. 7 page 259-60 – 1569-

Robert and Thomas Dalton bought the manor of Hackinsall, with a dovecote and lands, from Richard Hothesall and his wife Anne.

1578- Robert Dalton of Thurnham held a fourth part of the manor of Preesall with Hackinsall. His heir was Robert son of his brother Thomas.

Roger Dalton acquired part of the Cockersand Abbey estate after the dissolution of the monasteries. In 1586 Anne Dalton granted this to feoffees. In 1587 the feoffees and Roger Dalton sold most of it to Robert Brindloss of Borwick. Roger Dalton died in 1595 holding the Lower End of Pilling.

1581 - Roger Dalton claimed turbary (the right to cut peat or turf from someone else’s land or from common land for fuel) in Preesall Moss and a property there

1601- Robert Dalton claimed land at Cockersand called Tunges.

Vol. 7 page 333 – 1557-

Pilling was settled on Anne daughter of John Kitchen. Anne was the wife of Robert Dalton and died without issue in 1593, having outlived her husband. Her heir was her brother Barnaby Kitchen, age 58.

Vol. 8 page 15 – 1574-

The mayor and corporation of Lancaster granted Robert Dalton of Thurnham a lease of a plot called Green Acre in the waste of Lancaster, for him to build a large house for a watermill, or for two mills, with permission to make a dam and millstream. The mill probably replaced the old priory mill in Bulk

Vol. 8 page 41 – 1578-

Robert Dalton of Thurnham died, holding 15 acres in Lancaster, which used to belong to the friars.

1582- The Ringmaiden family’s estate in Lancaster was sold to Roger Dalton.

1784- Private Act passed to allow John Dalton to grant leases of tje Friarage etc.

Vol. 8 page 42 - 1579 -

Robert Dalton bought some unidentified lands previously belonging to Lancaster Priory.

Vol. 8 page 48 - March 1557-

Aldcliffe and Bulk were sold by the Crown to Robert Dalton I of Thurnham. In due course one portion went with Dorothy (younger daughter and coheir of Robert Dalton III who died in 1700) to the Riddells of Swinburne Castle, Northumberland. The rest, having been devoted to the maintenance of Roman Catholic secular clergy, was confiscated by the government in 1716 after an inquiry. Dorothy Dalton’s husband Edward Riddell died in 1731. Their son Thomas took part in the 1st Jacobite Rebellion, was imprisoned at Lancaster, escaped and shared in the general pardon. Thomas was succeed by his son Thomas whose third son Ralph Riddell ultimately became his heir.

Vol. 8 page 49 – 1626-

Robert Dalton II gave the manor of Aldcliffe (held from the king by knight’s service) in trust for his younger daughters, sisters of the Thomas Dalton who was mortally wounded in the 2nd battle of Newbury. There were 11 daughters, but 4 had probably died, unmarried, by 1664. 7 of them were convicted of recusancy in 1640 and in 1643 two-thirds of their Aldcliffe estate was confiscated by Parliament. Two were still living at Aldcliffe in 1674 and the house became known as the “Catholic Virgins”. The daughters left their interest to Robert Dalton of Thurnham in trust for the use of priests of whom Peter Gooden was the first - he had a small school there for boys who might go on to seminaries abroad.

Vol. 8 page 50 – 1557-

The crown sold Bulk to Robert Dalton of Thurnham. In 1569 and 1576 Robert Dalton obtained the reversion of messuages in Bulk held for a set period by Francis Tunstall and Christopher Preston.

Vol. 8 Page 58 – 1557-

The Crown sold to Robert Dalton, along with Aldcliffe and Bulk, the lands at Scotforth previously owned by Lancaster Priory.

Vol. 8 page 60 – 1749-

Robert Dalton sold part of the Lune fishery.

Vol. 8 page 74 -

In the early part of 1570 Roger Dalton had a lease of some property at Middleton.

Vol. 8 page 81 - 1688 -

Robert Dalton of Thurnham held the manor of Caton. With Dorothy, one of his daughters, it went to Dorothy’s husband Edward Riddell of Swinburne Castle.

Vol. 8 page 82 -

The priory estate at Caton was regarded as a dependency of the manor of Bulk and passed to Robert Dalton of Thurnham [presumably in 1557]

Vol. 8 page 90 -

Between 1629 and 1631 Thomas Dalton compounded for £15 to save two-thirds of the Thurnham estates from sequestration for his being a Roman Catholic.

Vol. 8 page 95 -

John Dalton of Barton-on-Humber forfeited some lands in Cockerham during the Commonwealth. He preferred to confess delinquency rather than wait for the decision of the Barons of the Exchequer. He was fined £46.

Vol. 8 page 100 - 1578 -

Robert Dalton I of Thurnham held land in Ellel from the queen by knight’s service. This land had been part of the Cockersand estate.

The will of Anne, wife of Robert Dalton I, was dated 1593.

Robert Dalton II was a recusant. He was present at the Queensmore meeting in 1625. He died in 1626 and was succeeded by his son Thomas (born in 1609). Thomas, a Roman Catholic, was at a royalist meeting at Highton Tower in July 1642 and raised a royalist troop of horse. He was fatally wounded in the second battle of Newbury on 27 October 1644, and died at Marlborough a week later. Thomas’s son and heir Robert Dalton III was 5 when his father died. The estates were seized by Parliament. In 1678 Robert Dalton III was indicted for recusancy. In 1689 he was imprisoned with other Catholic gentry for not supporting the Glorious Revolution. He obtained from John Calvert and John’s wife Elizabeth a third part of the manors of Thurnham and Bulk, with messuages, a dovecote, fishery etc. In 1688 he made a settlement of his manors at Thurnham, Caton etc.

Robert Dalton III died in 1700 and his two daughters inherited. Elizabeth, the elder, married William Hoghton of Park Hall in Charnock and inherited Thurnham, Bulk and other properties. Dorothy, the younger, married Edward Riddell of Swinburne Castle, Northumberland and inherited Caton and a moiety of Aldcliffe. John, son of William and Elizabeth Hoghton, assumed the surname Dalton in 1710 and succeeded his father in 1712: a staunch Roman Catholic and Jacobite, he joined the 1st Jacobite Rebellion at Lancaster in 1715 and was captured at Preston. His life was spared and he redeemed his estates for £6,000. He died in 1736. His son Robert Dalton IV died in 1785.

In 1753 Robert Dalton IV and his wife Elizabeth and others made a feoffment of the manors of Thurnham, Glasson, Bulk and Ditton. His son was John Dalton. In 1799 there was a recovery of the manors of Thurnham and Bulk and the vouchers were John Dalton the elder and John Dalton the younger. John Dalton heir of Robert Dalton IV had several children but at his death in 1837 his heirs were two daughters: Lucy, wife of Joseph Bushell, who died without issue in 1843; and Elizabeth who died unmarried at Thurnham in 1861.

John Dalton son of Robert Dalton IV made a settlement to deny his property to his brother William Hoghton Dalton, a Protestant, and W.H.Dalton’s descendants. When John died, the manor of Thurnham went to a cousin, Sir James George Fitzgerald, who took the additional surname Dalton. Sir James was the son of James Fitzgerald (died in 1839) who in turn was the son of James Fitzgerald by his wife Bridget Anne Dalton, daughter of Robert Dalton IV of Thurnham by his third wife. Sir James died in 1867 and was succeeded by his brother Gerald Richard Fitzgerald, who likewise took the additional surname Dalton. When Gerald died in 1894, Thurnham went to William Henry Dalton, son of the William Hoghton Dalton whom John Dalton had sought to debar. William Henry Dalton was faced with a lot of litigation about his inheritance; he died in 1902 and was succeeded by his 28-year old son John Henry Dalton.

Vol. 8 page 104 -

The Dalton family portraits were at Boghods Hall, Essex.

Vol. 8 page 106 -

The Dalton family used the chapter house of Cockersand Abbey as a burial place from the mid 18th century to 1861 when Elizabeth Dalton was buried there. The chapter house contains numerous Dalton memorials. The earliest is dated 1749 and relates to the first wife of Robert Dalton IV.

In 1543 the Crown granted the site of Cockersand Abbey to John Kitchen whose daughter Anne married Robert Dalton I who seems to have held Cockersand absolutely: he died in 1578 holding the site from the queen by knight’s service. He also held Cockshotts in Ellel and the Bankhouses in Cockerham. All passed to his nephew Robert Dalton III who held by knight’s service in 1626.

Vol. 8 page 107 – 1582-

Roger Dalton claimed the land, which Furness Abbey had held in Forton by virtue of a lease from the queen, but William Corless, the holder, claimed he had it from a former lessee whose term had not run out.

Vol. 8, page 113 – 1557

Robert Dalton acquired land in Heysham when he bought Aldcliffe and Bulk from the Crown.

Vol. 8, page 170 – 1358-

John son of Robert de Dalton had custody of lands at Borwick belonging to John (son and heir of Ralph de Berwick) who was a minor.

Vol. 8 page 184 - 1288 -

Roger de Burton complained that Roger son of Henry de Croft and Ralph son of Ralph de Dalton had deprived him of estovers in 100 acres in Dalton belonging to his manor of Burton.

Vol. 8, page 185 – 1278-

Benedict Gernet in right of his wife Margaret held land in Dalton which had belonged to Hugh de Dalton whose son Thomas was claiming it.

Vol. 8, page 247 – 1349-

Ralph de Berwick held 60 acres at Whittington from Sir Robert de Dalton by knight’s service at a rent of 2s.

1369- Sir John de Dalton held lands in Whittington from the Lords de Coucy for knight’s service. The free tenants paid a rent of 43s 4d. The tenants at will paid 40s for 60 acres.

Vol. 8 page 269 - 1611 -

James I sold the manor of Lindale to John Edred and another, who transferred it to Robert Dalton and another, who sold it in 1622 to William Thornburgh.

Vol. 8 page 279-

The Lancashire visitation of 1613 mentions that Robert Thornburgh married Jane daughter of Thomas Dalton of Thurnham.

Victoria County Histories of Yorkshire:

Complied and edited by Michael Cayley.

Vol. 1 page 424 - 27 October 1304-

The Chapter of Beverley gave Robert of Dalton, clerk, 9 days to stop teaching at a school he had established at Dalton or he would be publicly excommunicated in Dalton church. This order was made at the instigation of Thomas of Brompton, who himself ran a school. Robert took little notice of the order and on 9 March 1306 the chapter of Beverley ordered 2 clerks to tell Robert to cease teaching within 3 days, and, if he ignored the order, to excommunicate him. Robert failed to comply and was duly excommunicated. On 8 November 1306 he was absolved. The background is probably that Robert, like a number of others in the area, had established an unlicensed school.

Vol. 1 page 514 – 1334-

Pleas of the forest were held at Pickering for the royal forest of Pickering. Pleas of the forest were court sessions which investigated possible offences against the forestry laws, held officers of the forest to account, and handled administrative matters. The constables of Pickering Castle acted also as wardens for the forest and had to present their records - the "rolls and muniments" of the forest. One of the former constables (under Thomas Earl of Lancaster who was executed in April 1322) was John Dalton. His returns showed that when he was warden he took 134 harts and 158 hinds, bucks and does. In addition he allowed Henry Percy to take five hinds, and he gave away three hinds, three red deer fawns, two fallow deer and two roe deer. The deer in the forest were the property of the monarch and could not be killed or taken without official permission. John Dalton proved, with the help of warrants, that Earl Thomas had ordered him to take deer and give them away. He produced evidence for authority to deliver 72 harts, 56 hinds and 42 fallow-deer for the Earl's larder; 14 harts and 18 hinds as a tithe to the abbot of St Mary's, York; 3 hinds to the Bishop of Ely; and many single deer to leading local families. Two roe deer and two red deer fawns had been accidentally taken by his hounds and he had been unable to save them. He denied giving away three hinds and two fallow deer but the judgement on this went against him and he was fined £2 and required to produce sureties for good behaviour. Permission to fell trees was also subject to official authorisation. While John Dalton was warden, several hundred oaks were felled, mainly for works on Pickering Castle. John Dalton produced authority for all but five oaks, and for these five he was fined 6d and oak plus 30s.

Vol. 2 page 452 -

George Dalton was a bell founder at Stonegate, York. In 1764 he moved his premises to Lendal, where there was more waterpower. Over 70 of his bells survive, including rings at North Cave, Market Weighton, Easingwold, Burnsall, and St Olave’s, York. R. Dalton cast a ring of bells for Tadcaster in 1784. George’s sons Henry and Robert moved to Castle Howard and Knaresborough respectively, but there is no evidence of them continuing the bell-founding business.

Vol. 3 page 111 –

William Dalton became abbot of St Mary’s Abbey, York in 1422 - he died in 1423.

Vol. 3 page 121 -

Alice Dalton, a nun of Nunkeeling, was guilty of immorality and had apostatized. Making penance at Yedingham, she showed considerable contrition and asked to return to Nunkeeling. On 4 March 1444 Archbishop Kemp wrote to Joan Bramston, the prioress of Nunkeeling, telling her to arrange for Alice to be received back.

Vol. 3 page 175 - November 1322-

The nuns of Rosedale were dispersed because of the raiding of the Scots. By June 1323 they were re-gathering at Rosedale.

On 3 June 1323 the Archbishop ordered the priore to readmit Joan de Dalton.

Vol. 3 page 255 -

Roger, de Dalton is mentioned as prior of Watton (a Gilbertine house) in the period from 1267 to 1272.

Vol. 3 page 266 – 1350-

Richard de Dalton was warden of Beverley Friary (a Grey Friar’s establishment)

Yorkshire, East Riding:

Vol. 1 page 54 – 1488-

John Dalton (d.1496), mayor of Hull, was appointed commissioner of the Humber (acting as admiral)

Vol. 1 page 81 -

Thomas Dalton, (d.1503) asked for services to be sung for his soul by all the priests of the table at Holy Trinity, Hull, accompanied by the ringing of the great bell, and in addition after his wife’s death “the bellman to go about the town after the custom”

Vol. 1 page 84 -

Agnes (d.1459) wife of John Bedford, merchant of Hull, had previously married 2 other merchants, Richard Dalton of Hull and John Strother (? of Newcastle). Katherine, the daughter of Robert Alcock (d. 1484) merchant of Hull married first John Dalton merchant (d. 1496) and then Robert Harrison merchant. The Dalton merchants of Hull were related to those of York.

Vol. 1 page 113 and 125 -

Four members of the Dalton family served as aldermen of Hull, two of these also as MPs; another, Sir William, was recorder (and would have been consulted on the town’s customs and privileges). The recorder received a fee and occasional presents of ale and wine from the corporation

Vol. 1 page 122 -

The Dalton's abandoned municipal affairs at Hull after the resignation of Robert Dalton (d.1626) from the magistracy in 1602. They then featured as wealthy East Riding gentry, and one, Sir William, was King’s Attorney in the North.

Vol. 1 page 141 -

Thomas Dalton of Hull (d.1503) was also a Calais Stapler, trading in wool, cloth and lead.

Vol. 1 page 303 – 1668-

Anthony Lambert and William Skinner granted the rectory of Sculcoates to John Dalton.

Vol. 1 page 333 – 1558-

The Carthusian Priory at Hull was acquired by Sir Henry Gate and Thomas Dalton (d.1591)

Vol. 1 page 347 -

John Dalton at a date not known bequeathed £5 to the corporation of Hull for the poor. In 1619 the funds were amalgamated with other funds held by the mayor for the poor.

Thomas Dalton (d.1591) and John Gregory left a house and garden in Hull for the benefit of the poor.

Vol. 1 page 461 -

Matthew St Quintin sold land in Southcoates to Thomas Dalton (d.1591) in 1569 and the Dalton’s held land there until the end of the 17th century.

1574 Henry Curdeux sold land in Southcoates to Thomas Dalton (d.1591). In 1653 John Dalton exchanged this land with Joseph and John Micklethwaite

Vol. 1 page 462 -

By some date before 1628 Robert Dalton owned Drypool Grange.

Vol. 1 page 464 -

Shortly before 1682 John Dalton sold Kirk Field at Drypool to the Crown for the construction of a citadel.

Vol. 1 page 468 – 1558-

Sir Henry Gate and Thomas Dalton (d.1591) acquired the manor of Sculcoates. In 1560 they are said to have divided it between them, with two-thirds going to Thomas Dalton

Vol. 1 page 472 -

1569 Matthew St Quintin sold land at Sutton to Thomas Dalton (d.1591). Dalton’s held this estate until 1700 when Thomas Dalton bequeathed one farm to his servant John Champney and the rest passed via his widow [Elizabeth] to the Witham family.

In 1668 and 1675 the corporation of Hull sold land in Sutton to John Dalton.

1574- Thomas Dalton acquired property in Sutton, Holderness from Henry Curdeux.

1606 - William Dalton acquired some more property there from John Rand and Frances Smith. The Dalton’s retained these interests until the 18th century.

1701 - Elizabeth Dalton gave most of this property to Benjamin Dalton of Beverley. The fraction she kept probably became part of the Witham estates in Sutton. [Elizabeth’s maiden name was Witham; after her husband Thomas Dalton’s death she married Robert Dolman.]

1734 - Samuel Dalton sold the property given to Benjamin.

Vol. 1 page 473 – 1565-

The Hastings family interest in property at Sutton was sold to Thomas Dalton (d.1591). In 1594 Robert Dalton (d.1626) sold some of this to John Milner.

Vol. 2 page 252 – 1568-

Sir John Constable sold property in Kilham to Thomas Dalton.

Vol. 4 page 34 – 1772-

George Dalton of York made 5 bells for North Cave church.

Vol. 4 page 69 – 1793-

The manor of Heslington was reunited when Thomas Norcliffe Dalton, great grandson of Mary and Fairfax Norcliffe, sold his share to Henry Yarburgh.

Vol. 4 page 80 - 1418-1423-

John of Dalton was rector of Cottingham.

Vol. 4 page 81 – 1753-

George Dalton of York made a bell for Cottingham church.

Vol. 4 page 91 -

William Dalton held the living of South Dalton in 1339 - he was a royal clerk later captured in France and was probably not ordained a priest.

Vol. 4 page 193 – 1857-

John Dalton and others bought Hall Farm at Wilberfoss.

Vol. 5 page 11 – 1653-

Joseph Micklethwaite and his son John sold the manor of Great Nuthill or Nuttles to John Dalton. Thomas Daltons Widow Elizabeth married Robert Dolman after Thomas’ death and she and Robert had the manor by 1704. By 1731 it had passed to Elizabeth’s nephew John Witham.

Vol. 5 page 20 -

Nuthill was a Roman Catholic stronghold. In 1623 James Dalton of Nuthill was a missioner.

Vol. 5 page 143 -

Sir Robert Tyrwhit (d.1581) inherited the manor of Welwick or Welwick Kelk. His daughter Anne succeeded; she married Thomas Dalton (d.1591). In 1607/8 the Dalton’s sold the manor to Nicholas Waller.

Vol. 6 page 198 -

William Dalton was one of the keepers of Beverley in 1406/7

Another William Dalton was a keeper in 1345.

Vol. 6 page 264 -

Benjamin Dalton (in a will proved in 1713) left 10 acres at Beverley for a charity for the poor. In 1713 the income was £10 a year - in 1823 it was £48. The trustees always belonged to the Independent Chapel in Lairgate.

Vol. 6 page 267 -

Benjamin Dalton left money to the Independent Chapel in Lairgate, Beverley.

Yorkshire, North Riding:

Vol. 1 page 75 -

In 1642 and 1644 Conyers d’Arcy and his wife Grace sold the manor of Yafforth to Sir William Dalton of Hauxwell and his son John. John’s great granddaughter Mary married Edward Graham Viscount Preston in 1703. Mary and her sister Elizabeth and her Uncle Charles Dalton sold the manor to John Brockhurst and Thomas Newsom in 1716.

Vol. 1 page 91 - 1266 -

Isabel (widow of Thomas son of Michael de Dalton in Yorkshire) sued for her dower rights the overlord and others in Dalton Michael.

Vol. 1 page 93 – 1174-

Benedict de Dalton, who had some territorial link with Dalton Travers and the surrounding area, paid 10 marks to the king for permission to withdraw from a lawsuit against his nephews.

Vol. 1 page 183 – 1784-

Dalton of York cast a bell, inscribed “Glory be to God in the highest, Hallelujah”, for Kirkby Wiske church.

Vol. 1 page 247 – 1747-

Francis Topham and his wife sold their interests in East Manors, Hauxwell to Sir Charles Dalton, from whom the property descended to Colonel Wade-Dalton.

Vol. 1 page 248 – 1631-

Thomas Jopson and his wife Rose sold their manors at Hauxwell to Sir William Dalton Kt, third son of Thomas Dalton (mayor of Hull 1569). Sir William was a member of the Council of the North, and died in 1649. His son John, Lt.-Colonel in the king’s army was mortally wounded while escorting the Queen from Bridlington to Oxford in 1646. John’s son William II was knighted at the Restoration and buried at Hauxwell in 1675. Marmaduke, knighted in 1676 succeeded William II, who was drowned in 1680.

Marmaduke’s three daughters were Grace (died in childhood, Elizabeth who inherited Hauxwell, and Mary who married Edward Graham Viscount Preston. Elizabeth bequeathed her interest in Hauxwell to her uncle Sir Charles Dalton, who died unmarried before 1747 and was succeeded first by his nephew Charles Dalton (son of his brother Darcy Dalton) and then by Charles’ younger brother Francis Dalton. Francis died in 1792 leaving a daughter Mary, married to Henry Gale of Scruton. Mary died in 1845 and had four daughters - Harriet, Mary II, Katharine and Anne. Mary II died childless in 1794. Katharine and Anne inherited Hauxwell. Anne, the last survivor of the daughters, died unmarried in 1877 and Hauxwell passed to Harriet’s daughter Mary and her husband Colonel Hamlet Coote Wade with the request that they change their surname to Wade-Dalton. In 1914 their descendant Lt.-Colonel Hamlet Wade-Dalton owned Hauxwell.

Vol. 1 page 250 -

There are monuments in Hauxwell church to William Dalton (1671), Marmaduke Dalton (1680) and his wife Barbara (1708). The church plate includes a cup of 1704 inscribed “the gift of Mrs Dalton 1714”

Vol. 1 page 311 -

In the chancel floor of Catterick church is a memorial slab to Isabella (d.1684) daughter of Roger Croft of East Appleton and wife of William Dalton of Hauxwell.

Vol. 1 page 312 -1805

The Rev J Dalton gave a paten to Catterick church.

Vol. 1 page 346 - 1677

Sir Marmaduke Dalton Kt (whose mother was Elizabeth Wyvill) held the manor of Clifton-upon-Ure. His daighter and sole heiress Mary married Edward Graham Viscount Preston and sold the manor after her husband’s death to John Hutton in 1735.

Vol. 1 page 400 -

Marmaduke Grimston (d.1623) made a settlement in 1618 on his wife Anne Dalton. They had a son, William (d.1664) who was age 3 in 1623.

Vol. 1 page 474 -

By 1676 the manor of Butterwick had passed to Sir Marmaduke Dalton Kt. His daiughter Mary (married Viscount Preston) inherited. By 1747 it belonged to Charles Allanson.

Vol. 2 page 36 -

On the South wall of Hawnby church is a monument to Charles Tancred and his wife Barbara, daughter of John Dalton of Hauxwell.

Vol. 2 page 77 -

In the 13th century Stephen de Dalton was one of the tenants of the manor of Rainton at Topcliffe.

Vol. 2 page 444 – 1324-

Richard Kirkby of Kirkby Misperton granted the mill at Kirkby Misperton to John de Dalton of Pickering [the bailiff of Pickering]

Vol. 2 page 463 – 1312-

John de Dalton, a bailiff of Pickering Castle, led 300 tenants clad in forest green against Scarborough and then on to Lancashire and on to attack Sir Adam Banaster and the royal forces in the North in support of Thomas Earl of Lancaster their overlord.

Vol. 3 page 180 -

Elizabeth Silton, daughter of John and Cristina Silton, inherited land in Sheriff Hutton. She married Robert Dalton and they sold the land in 1560/1 to John Witham.

Vol. 3 page 445 – 1324-

Richard de Kirkby sold the manor of Kirkby Misperton to John de Dalton of Pickering {presumably the warden of the forest of Pickering]. John had three sons, John II, Thomas and Nicholas, and was succeeded by John II who was apparently the father of the Sir John de Dalton, lord of the manor in 1371. Thomas Dalton was involved in an attack on Ralph Eure before 1467. The manor was held by Edmund Dalton at his death in 1529, when it passed to his son Roger, a minor. In 1562 Roger made a settlement of the manor; he died in 1586 leaving a son Roger Dalton of Lincoln’s Inn who with his wife Alison sold the manor in 1594 to Thomas Phelippes.

Descendants of John Dalton of Yorkshire:

The following is a document stored in the Public Records Office, Kev, England.

Under the title: Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office. Early proceedings, Richard II to Phillip and Mary.

"John Dalton, of Kingston upon Hull, son of Robert Dalton. v. Thomas Cooke and William Morcell, executors of the said Robert. Detention of deeds relating to messuages and gardens in Beverley, York".

Notice that it says, of Kingston upon Hull. He was probably living at Hull when this document was written. This means that there is probably in fact a link from the Lancashire Dalton's to the Yorkshire Dalton's.

The Yorkshire Dalton family was well established in Kingston-upon-Hull by the middle of the fifteenth century.

This Dalton family were merchants of the staple (the staplers traded in wool and had their chief office at Calais) and must have been both prominent and prosperous, for, as early as 1487, John Dalton was elected Mayor. The city had been founded in the reign of Edward I and the first mayor was appointed, starting in 1332.

All through the sixteenth century the family kept on producing the Chief Citizen; several of them serving twice or thrice over a period of years, often holding the office of Sheriff before being elected Mayor. One of them, Thomas, an Alderman and Merchant, was also very holy. By his will dated 1497 (the year Cabot sailed to Newfoundland and Labrador) Mae founded a Chantry in Holy Trinity Church. He also left his house near the Church to the table-priests and their successors, and gave them his "great picture of beyond sea work which cost him 8 pounds sterling to set up over the Altar of St. Corpus Christi in the Church." And he asked to be buried on the north side of the aisle.

The family's activities as Mayor, however, were not always plain sailing. In 1540, King Henry VIII visited Hull on his way to meet his nephew, James V of Scotland, at York, and, after being suitably entertained, he left for that city. Meanwhile, the election for Mayor was due, and the candidates were Mr. Dalton and Mr. Johnson. Alas! before the votes were cast, the King unexpectedly returned; the election was postponed and the candidates went to meet him. When he heard about the election, Henry ordered the Corporation to meet again and mentioned that Sir John Eland should be nominated along with the other two. At the election, the King voted for Sir John, and of course the latter was elected. I suspect that democracy was but skin-deep in those days, and in any case it was discreet not to thwart a Tudor monarch.

Another Dalton, Thomas, during the first of his three mayoralties, was in office in 1554 when a rich citizen called Sir William Knowles presented the Corporation with a gold chain weighing 41/2 ounces upon condition that the Mayor should wear it every Sunday, holiday, and on particular occasions or else forfeit 40 pence for every omission. This story has a sequel. The chain, presumably first worn by Thomas Dalton in 1554, is still the basis of the chain worn by contemporary Lord Mayors of Hull, and was worn when the writer, l0th in descent from Thomas, during his year as High Sheriff of Yorkshire, entertained the Lord Mayor of Hull to luncheon at the Assizes.

The last Dalton to be Mayor, in 1588, was Robert, and I am sorry to say he brought discredit on this family. He was accused later of having "engrossed most of the mills in his hands, taking (instead of money) moulter corn, and more of it than he should, and aggravated his offence by mixing plaster with it to increase the weight." For this grave offence he was severely repremended" and might well have been fined too had he not apologized and promised never to repeat the crime. Honesty compels me to record this blot; family pride makes me add that the culprit was not a direct ancestor of the present Dalton line.

By the end of the sixteenth century, the family was ready to expand its life away from the channels of commerce. For some time they had married into the families of the landed gentry, and had been well educated. In particular, William Dalton, second son of that Thomas who had three times been Mayor, became a lawyer and was Recorder of Hull. He then moved and settled at or near Otley in the 'West Riding of Yorkshire. He was made a member of the Council of the North at York, was subsequently (in the language of the period) Attorney-General of the Northern Court- which probably meant secretary to the Council in modern terms - and became also Recorder of York. His office was at The King's Manor in York, which is still in existence and is now part of York University. King Charles I knighted him at Whitehall Palace in 1629. A few years later we find his signature on a letter from the Council to the Mayor and Aldermen of Hull about the fortifications of the town and the payment for them: I hope it gave him satisfaction to take some part in the affairs of his native place. It is not known when he was born, but he died in 1649, a staunch but doubtless saddened Royalist, and was buried in York Minster. There is a portrait of him, as an old man, at Hauxwell Hall. It was in 1631 that he had bought Hauxwell for his son John, of whom more in a moment.

Before finally leaving Hull, it may be of interest to quote from an eighteenth century History of the town concerning the duties of Mayor in the earliest days, to show that the holders of that office were persons of consequence and had heavy responsibilities.

"During his year of office he is to see the laws executed, and the King within his district exercises his authority by the Mayor's administration, so that he is the King's Lieutenant in his absence. The Mayor of Hull gives place and drops the insignia of authority only to the Sovereign himself or the presumptive Heir to the Crown, in the presence of whom only he is dispossessed and on such occasions carries himself the mace before the King."

Hauxwell or Hawkswell:

The manors of East and West Hauxwell and of Barden in Yorkshire belonged after the Conquest to Earl Alan of Richmond and his brother. They descended through various families over the years and early in the seventeenth century were possessed by the Jopsons. From this family they were acquired in 1631 by Sir William Dalton for his son John, who thus became "First of Hauxwell" for our family. John had married Dorothy D'Arcy of Hornby Castle near Bedale and only three miles from Hauxwell. The house at this date was small and simple and John was perhaps some sort of agent for the D'Arcys. He was certainly "of their party" politically and shortly became second-in- command of his brother-in-law's troop of Royalist horse. (Several pieces of armor of the period are still to be seen in the museum at Hauxwell). The family's Hull origins were kept in mind by the inclusion in a window of Hauxwell Church of a heraldic shield of sixteenth century painted glass-depicting Dalton impaling Tyrwhitt. Ann Tyrwhitt had been the second wife of Thomas Dalton of Hull and was John Dalton's grandmother.

Whatever plans John, with his wife Dorothy, may have had as squire of Hauxwell, were shattered by the Civil War. John took service with his brother-in-law D'Arcy, and in 1643 they were assigned the duty of escorting the Queen, Henrietta Maria, on her journey across England. The Queen had landed at Bridlington on the Yorkshire coast in February, and after a delay in York began the hazardous cross-country journey to join the King at Oxford. She arrived there in July, but regrettably John Dalton was no longer with her. At the crossing of the River Trent at Burton, there was a skirmish with the Parliamentary troops; John was badly wounded. He was taken back to Yorkshire where he died a year later and was buried in York Minster. His father, Sir William, recorded this melancholy event, in his own handwriting on one of the flyleaves of his law manual (still at Hauxwell.)

"My only sonne John Dalton was wounded at Burton upon Trent the fifth of July 1643 and thereof dyed 1644 the 24 of July who was a valiant man and a dutiful and loving sonne." Would not any of us be satisfied with such a simple and moving epitaph?

One can imagine the disruption and distress caused by the Civil War, with allegiance divided even within families. Yet things soon returned to normal, and after his restoration, Charles II, now King, remembered those whose families had loyally supported his parents. John's son William was one of those knighted by Charles II. This second Sir William lived at Hauxwell and before he died had begun to enlarge the house. So far as is known, no celebrated architect was employed, but the work attributed to this period is typically restrained and eminently suitable for a squire's house.

The Dalton’s continued in the male line all through the l8th century when their most important member was Sir Charles, younger son of the second Sir William. He had been born in 1660 and in middle life obtained some minor appointment as an Usher at the Court in London. Here he mixed with fashionable and cosmopolitan people and acquired knowledge (and possessions) which were to influence Hauxwell permanently. It was in 1717 that he became the owner of the property, succeeding a niece whom was unmarried and who had got into financial difficulties. Having "bailed her out", he took over the property and commemorated the event by erecting a stone obelisk in front of his house. This monument stood sturdily for nearly 250 years before being severely damaged in the great gale, which ravaged this part of Yorkshire in 1962. It has since been repaired.

Sir Charles never married. In 1727 he became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, a position of some consequence in those days, which he held till his death twenty years later. During this time he built a wing to the house, the ground floor being a beautifully proportioned room decorated with carved wood panels and plaster work, and imported some notable pieces of Flemish tapestry which family tradition believes he "acquired" from the palace of Westminster: He also collected books, many of which have survived, as has also his court dress sword and a part of his black rod.

After Sir Charles's death in 1747 the property passed through a somewhat twilight period. For more than forty years his parson nephew, another Charles, was in possession and must have planted trees near the house where some very fine hard-wood specimens still stand. His brother Francis succeeded him in his turn for a short time. This brother had married a lady who was related to the Bathurst family and who inherited some family portraits as well as a house in Kent. This house was sold and the proceeds used to enlarge the Hauxwell estate. Francis and his wife had an only daughter who married into a distinguished local family called Gale and lived to be 55 years old. Her grand-daughter, who inherited Hauxwell, took the additional name of Dalton to her married name of Wade. After three generations of Wade-Daltons, the last of that line, being childless, gave the estate to his distant kinsman, Richard Dalton, born 1948, whose direct ancestor had bought it over 300 years previously.

Dugdale's Visition of Yorkshire:

Copied from Vol. 2 at the LDS FHL in SLC Utah.

l. _____ DALTON, had issue-

John Dalton (II)

William Dalton.

Of note: This blank name is probably that of John Dalton, son of Robert Dalton because of the following item.

" The following is a document stored in the Public Records Office, Kew England.

Under the title: Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office. Early proceedings, Richard ll to Phillip and Mary.

"John Dalton, of Kingston upon Hull, son of Robert Dalton. v. Thomas Cooke and William Morcell, executors of the said Robert.

Detention of deeds relating to messuages and gardens in Beverley, York".

This must prove that there is in fact a link from the Lancashire Dalton's to the Yorkshire Dalton's.

II. JOHN DALTON, of Hull, buried at Trinity Church there, died 11 Sept. 1458. Will 9 Sept., proved, 20 Oct. 1458. Married Joan ______ (remarried first John Whitfield, Mayor of Hull; secondly, Sir Richard York, M.P. Took the vow of celibacy. Will 20 Aug. 1506. They had issue;

1. Thomas, of Hull, merchant, Sheriff 1484, Mayor 1489 and 1499. Will 15 June 1497,

proved at York 4 Jan. 1502-3, to be buried at Trinity Church ; married Elizabeth who administered her husband's estate.

2. John (III).

3. Robert, buried with their father at Trinity Church.

4. William,

5. Elizabeth, named in her brother John's will.

III. JOHN DALTON, of Hull, merchant, Sheriff 1482, Mayor 1487 and 1495, died 10 Aug. 1494 and buried at Trinity Church, Hull. Will 12 Oct. 1487, proved at York 7 Sept. 1496. Married Catherine, daughter of Robert Alcock, merchant, Hull, niece of John Alcock, Bishop of Ely (remarried Robert Herrison, merchant, Hull), to be buried at Trinity Church. Will 13 May 1541, proved at York 13 July 1545. They had issue nine sons and four daughters.

1. William, named in his father's fill.

2. Robert, named in his father's and mother's wills, of Hull, Alderman and Merchant, buried at Trinity Church, Hull, 10 Apr. 1578. Will 7 Apr., pr. 7 July 1578 at York; married, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of _____Silleston, buried at Trinity Church, Hull, 1 Feb. 1587-8. They had issue;

1. Robert, named in his father's and grand- father's will.

2. Thomas, named in his grandfather's will.

3. Edward, named in his father's and grandfather's wills.

4. William, named in their father's will.

5. Barbara.

6. Emma.

7. Marie, named in her grandfather's will.

3. Thomas (IV).

4. Edward, named in his mother's will. Had issue;

1. Katherine.

5. John.

6. Anthony.

7. Elizabeth, named in her father's will.

8. Agnes, named in her mother's will.

9. Jennet, named in her mother's will.

IV. THOMAS DALTON, of Hull, merchant, Mayor 1547. Will 18 Aug., pr. at York 1 Oct. 1556, to be buried in Trinity Church, Hull; Married ______ daughter of ___________Wilkinson. They had issue;

1. John, of Hull, eldest son, named in his father's will, had issue;

1. William.

2. John, named in their grandfather's will.

3. Thomas, named in their grandfather's will.

2. Thomas (V).

3. Edward, named in his father's will. Will 8 June 1567, proved 6 Oct. 1575 married,

Mary ____They had issue;

1. Edward.

2. Thomas.

3. William.

4. Joan, named in their father's will.

5. Katherine.

6. Maude.

7. Elizabeth.

All named in their father's will.

V. THOMAS DALTON, of Sutton in Holderness. Merchant of the Staple and Adventurer, Mayor 1554, 1560 and 1569. Buried at Trinity Church, Hull, 6 Jan. 1590. Will 30 Dec. 1590, proved at York 10 Dec. 1591. Married, first, Ann Walker. Married, secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Tirwhit, of Kettleby, in Co. Lincohnshire, Kt. They had issue;

I. Robert of Swyne in Holderness.

2. Sir William (VI).

3. Philip, had lands in his father's will.

4. Edward, of Sutton, gent. Will 6 Jan, 1617-8, proved at York 17 July 1618, to be buried at Sutton Church; married ____ They had issue;

1. William.

2. Elizabeth.

3. Anne, named in their father's will.

3. Luce.

4. Frances, named in their father's will.

5. Thomas, had lands in his father's will.

Anne, married Sir Ralph Ellerke, son and heir of Edward Ellerk,r, of Risby.

Elizabeth, married. Walter Cave.

Susannah, executrix of her father's Will, under which she had lands.

VI. SIR WILLIAM DALTON, of the city of Yorke, and one of King's Concell in his court there for the Northern parts, died in 1649, knighted at Whitehall 28 Apr. 1629, buried 25 Jan. 1649-50 at York Minster. Married Theophania, daughter of John Boothe, of Killingholme, in Co. Lincohnshire, widow of Thomas Agard (Agar), marriage license 1598, buried at Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York, 18 Feb. 1601. Will 17 Oct. 1605, proved at York 28 Apr. 1606. They had issue;

1. John (VII).

2. Anne, wife of Marmaduke grimrton, of Grimston- Garth, in Holdernes.

3. Mary, died unmarried, buried at Belfreys, 10 Apr. 1624.

VII. JOHN DALTON of Hawkswell, died in 1646, at Newark Castle, of wounds received at Burton- on-Trent while conducting the Queen from York towards London. Baptised at Belfreys 17 Sept. 1603, buried 26 July 1644 at York Minster. Will 9 Aug. 1643, proved at York 15 Jan. 1645-6; married Dorothy, daughter of Conyers, Lord Darcy and Conyers, of Hornby Castle. They had issue;

1. Sir William Dalton, (VIII).

2. Thomas Dalton, of Yorke and Bedale, named in his father's will. Will 19 July 1710; married Ann Wyvill, daughter of Sir Marmaduke Wywill, of Constable Burton, Kt, and Bart., buried 28 Nov.1675 at Bedale (a quo Dalton of Slenningford; see Charles Dalton’s, “Wrays of Glentworth," and Burke's Commoners,"

3. Marmaduke, named in his father's will.

4. Mary, wife of John Beverley, of Smeton.

5. Barbara, wife of Charles Tanleard, of Arden.

5.Ursula, named in her father's will.

VIII. SIR WILLIAM DALTON of Hawkeswell, Kt. 19 Aug. 1665. Died 23 Mar. 1675, buried at Hawkswell, Married Elizabeth, daughter of Marmaduke Wyvill, of Constable Burton. They had issue;

1. Sir Marmaduke (IX).

2. Christopher, died unmarried.

3. Sir Charles, of Hawkswell, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, died unmarried 16 Aug. 1747, at Hawkswell.

4. Darey (X).

5. Thomas, buried at York Minster 9 Jan. 1692 (Skaife). Michaell, buried at York Minster, 7 Nov. 1682.

6. Isabell, married Roger Crofte, of East Appleton, d. 25 Feb. 1684, buried at Catterick.

7. Dorothy, married at York Minster 1 March 1689-90, Dr. William Stainforth, Canon Residentiary of York, buried in York Minster 17 Apr. 1707.

8. Elizabeth.

9. Ursula, married Sir Barrington Bourchier, of Beningborough, Knt.

IX. SIR MARMADUKE DALTON, of Hawkswell, Kt., 19 Aug. 1665. Drowned at Dalton Bridge 19 Feb. 1680, buried at Hawkswell. Married Barbara, daughter of Henry Belasyse, son and heir of Lord Fauconberg.

Died 12 Sept. 1708, age sixty-three, buried at Hawkswell. They had issue;

1. Grace, died Yorke, age twelve.

2. Mary, married in York Minster 5 Jan. 1703-4 ,to Edward Graham, Viscount, Preston.

3. Elizabeth, died unmarried. Left half the estate, including Hawkswell, to Sir Charles Dalton.

X. DARCY DALTON, M.A., Rector of Aston, matric. 25 Oct. 1712, Prebendary of York, died 27 March 1734, age sixty-four, buried at Aston. Married first, Mary Harrison, of Skellow, at York Minster, 25 Sept. 1701, buried at Owston 6 Feb. 1703-4. They had issue;

1. Darcy Dalton, living 1739, died unmarried.

Married secondly, Jane _____ died 5 March 1719, age thirty-six, buried at Aston. They had issue;

1. Charles Dalton, Rector of Hawkswell, succeeded his Uncle Sir Charles, died unmarried intestate 22 Dec. 1788, age seventy-five, buried at Hawkswell.

2. William, died unmarried.

3. Francis (XI).

4. Barbara, married Charles Tancred, of Arden. Married Gilbert Knowler, D.D.

5. Elizabeth, married Samuel Drake, Rector of Treeton and Holme on Spaldingmore, died 3 Nov. 1792 at Hawkswell.

6. Jane, died 5 Feb. 1729, age fifteen, buried at Aston.

XI. FRANCIS DALTON, of Hawkswell, sometime in the Six, Clerks' Office, died 21 Nov. 1792, age seventy-four, buried at Hawkswell. Married. Mary, daughter of John Tasker, of Wimbleton. They had issue;

1. Mary Dalton, only child and heiress; married Henry Gale, Esq., of Scruton, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, 3 Apr. 1779.

Children of JOHN DALTON and JOAN are:

i. THOMAS DALTON, died 1503; m. ELIZABETH.

Notes for THOMAS DALTON:

Vol. 1 page 81 - (Victoria County History)

Thomas Dalton died 1503) asked for services to be sung for his soul by all the priests of the table at Holy Trinity, Hull, accompanied by the ringing of the great bell, and in addition after his wife's death "the bellman to go about the town after the custom".

Vol. 1 page 141 - (Victoria County History)

Thomas Dalton of Hull (died 1503) was also a Calais Stapler, trading in wool, cloth and lead.

ii. JOHN DALTON, died August 10, 1494.

iii. ROBERT DALTON.

iv. WILLIAM DALTON.

v. ELIZABETH DALTON.

Next is a pedigree of John Dalton of Yorkshire and is from my Dalton FTM genealocial database. I copied it from a few sources and please be aware that it must be proven with documentation.

Descendants of John Dalton of Yorkshire

Copied from Rodney Dalton’s Family Tree Maker genealogy database.

(Please note that there my be some mistakes here and if so please advise)

Generation No. 1

1.JOHN DALTON (ROBERT DALTON, SIR JOHN DALTON 2ND., SIR JOHN DALTON 1ST, SIR ROBERT DALTON, SIR RICHARD DALTON 2ND, SIR RICHARD DALTON 1ST., JOHN DALTON 2ND., JOHN DE DALTON 1ST., LE SIEUR DE DALTON ( SIR WALTER DE ALITON) died September 10, 1458 in Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England. He married JOAN.

Generation No. 2

2. JOHN DALTON died August 10, 1496. He married CATHERINE ALCOCK. She died 1484.

Notes for JOHN DALTON:

JOHN DALTON, of Hull, merchant, Sheriff 1482, Mayor 1487 and 1495, died 10 Aug. 1494 and buried at Trinity Church, Hull. Will 12 Oct. 1487, proved at York 7 Sept. 1496. Married Catherine, daughter of Robert Alcock, merchant, Hull, niece of John Alcock, Bishop of Ely (remarried Robert Herrison, merchant, Hull), to be buried at Trinity Church. Will 13 May 1541, proved at York 13 July 1545. They had issue nine sons and four daughters.

1. William, named in his father's fill.

2. Robert, named in his father's and mother's wills, of Hull, Alderman and Merchant, buried at Trinity Church, Hull, 10 Apr. 1578. Will 7 Apr., pr. 7 July 1578 at York;

Married Elizabeth Silleston. Buried at Trinity Church, Hull, 1 Feb. 1587-8.

They had issue;

1. Robert, named in his father's and grand- father's will.

2. Thomas, named in his grandfather's will.

3. Edward, named in his father's and grandfather's wills.

4. William, named in their father's will.

5. Barbara.

6. Emma.

7. Marie, named in her grandfather's will.

3. Thomas.

4. Edward, named in his mother's will. Had issue;

1. Katherine.

5. John.

6. Anthony.

7. Elizabeth, named in her father's will.

8. Agnes, named in her mother's will.

9. Jennet, named in her mother's will.

John Dalton was Sheriff in 1452 and Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1487 and 1495.

Vol. 1 page 54 - 1488 (Victoria County History)

John Dalton (died 1496), mayor of Hull, was appointed commissioner of the Humber (acting as admiral)

Vol. 1 page 84 - (Victoria County History)

Agnes (died 1459) wife of John Bedford, merchant of Hull, had previously married 2 other merchants, Richard Dalton of Hull and John Strother (? of Newcastle). Catherine, the daughter of Robert Alcock (died 1484) merchant of Hull married first John Dalton merchant (died 1496) and then Robert Harrison merchant. The Dalton merchants of Hull were related to those of York.

Children of JOHN DALTON and CATHERINE ALCOCK are:

i. THOMAS DALTON, died 1556.

ii. WILLIAM DALTON.

iii. ROBERT DALTON, b. Hull, Yorkshire Co. England; d. April 10, 1578, Hull, Yorkshire Co. England.

iv. EDWARD DALTON.

v. JOHN DALTON.

vi. ANTHONY DALTON.

vii. ELIZABETH DALTON.

viii. AGNES DALTON.

ix. JENNET DALTON.

Generation No. 3

3. THOMAS DALTON died 1556. He married ANN WILKINSON.

Notes for THOMAS DALTON:

Thomas Dalton was Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1535 and 1547.

THOMAS DALTON, of Hull, merchant, Mayor 1547. Will 18 Aug., proved at York 1 Oct. 1556, to be buried in Trinity Church, Hull; Married Ann Wilkinson. They had issue;

1. John, of Hull, eldest son, named in his father's will, who had issue;

1. William.

2. John, named in their grandfather's will.

3. Thomas, named in their grandfather's will.

Children of THOMAS DALTON and ANN WILKINSON are:

i. THOMAS DALTON, b. Abt. 1516, Of Sutton-in Holderness, Yorkshire, England; d. 1591, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England.

ii. JOHN DALTON.

iii. ROBERT DALTON.

iv.EDWARD DALTON.

Generation No. 4

4. THOMAS DALTON was born Abt. 1516 in Of Sutton-in Holderness, Yorkshire, England, and died 1591 in Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England. He married (1) ANNE TRYWHITT, daughter of SIR ROBERT TYRWHITT. She was born in Kettilly, Lincolnshire, England. He married (2) ANN WALKER.

Notes for THOMAS DALTON:

THOMAS DALTON, of Sutton in Holderness. Merchant of the Staple and Adventurer, Mayor 1554, 1560 and 1569. Buried at Trinity Church, Hull, 6 Jan. 1590. Will 30 Dec. 1590, proved at York 10 Dec. 1591. Marr. first, Ann Walker. Marr. secondly, Anne,

Daughter of Sr Robert Tirwhit, of Kettleby, in co. Linc. Knt.

They had issue;

I. Robert of Swyne in Holderness.

2. Sir William,

3. Philip, had lands in his father's will.

4. Edward, of Sutton, gent. Will 6 Jan, 1617-8, proved at York 17 July 1618, to be buried at Sutton Church; married ____ They had issue;

1. William,

2. Elizabeth,

3. Anne, named in their father's will.

4. Luce,

5. Frances, named in their father's will.

6. Thomas, had lands in his father's will.

7. Anne, married Sir Ralph Ellerke, son and heir of Edward Ellerk,r, of Risby.

8. Elizabeth, married Walter Cave.

9. Susannah, executrix of her father's will, under which she had lands.

Thomas Dalton was three times the Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull. He had a grant of Arms in the 5th year of Elizabeth, from William Flower, Norry King of Arms.

Vol. 1 page 333 - 1558 (Victoria County History)

The Carthusian Priory at Hull was acquired by Sir Henry Gate and Thomas Dalton (d.1591)

Thomas Dalton (d.1591) and John Gregory left a house and garden in Hull for the benefit of the poor.

Vol 1 page 461-

Matthew St Quintin sold land in Southcoates to Thomas Dalton (d.1591) in 1569 and the Daltons held land there until the end of the 17th century.

1574 Henry Curdeux sold land in Southcoates to Thomas Dalton (d.1591).

Vol. 1 page 468 - 1558

Sir Henry Gate and Thomas Dalton (d.1591) acquired the manor of Sculcoates. In 1560 they are said to have divided it between them, with two-thirds going to Thomas Dalton.

Vol. 1 page 472 -

1569 Matthew St Quintin sold land at Sutton to Thomas Dalton (d.1591). Dalton’s held this estate until 1700 when Thomas Dalton bequeathed one farm to his servant John Champney and the rest passed via his widow [Elizabeth] to the Witham family.

1574 Thomas Dalton acquired property in Sutton, Holderness from Henry Curdeux. In 1606 William Dalton acquired some more property there from John Rand and Frances Smith. The Daltons retained these interests until the 18th century. In 1701 Elizabeth Dalton gave most of this property to Benjamin Dalton of Beverley. The fraction she kept probably became part of the Witham estates in Sutton. [Elizabeth's maiden name was Witham; after her husband Thomas Dalton's death she married Robert Dolman.] In 1734 Samuel Dalton sold the property given to Benjamin.

More About THOMAS DALTON:

Burial: 1591, Holy Trinity Church, Hull

Children of THOMAS DALTON and ANNE TRYWHITT are:

i. ROBERT DALTON, b. Abt. 1541, Of Myton, Yorkshire Co. England; d. June 23, 1626, Kingston-upon-Hull.

ii. SIR WILLIAM DALTON, b. Abt. 1542, Kingston - upon - Hull, Yorkshire, England; d. January 25, 1648/49, York Minster, Yorkshire Co. England.

iii. PHILIP DALTON, b. Abt. 1544.

iv. EDWARD DALTON, b. Abt. 1546.

v. THOMAS DALTON, b. Abt. 1548; m. ELIZABETH WITHAM.

vi. ANNE DALTON, b. Abt. 1550; m. SIR RALPH ELLAKER; b. Abt. 1555, Risby, Yorkshire, England.

vii. ELIZABETH DALTON, b. Abt. 1552; m. WALTER CAVE.

viii. SUSANNAH DALTON, b. Abt. 1554.

Generation No. 5

5. ROBERT DALTON was born about 1541 in Of Myton, Yorkshire Co. England, and died June 23, 1626 in Kingston-upon-Hull. He married (1) ELIZABETH CONSTABLE. She was born about 1543. He married (2) DOROTHY HILTON.

Notes for ROBERT DALTON:

Vol. 1 page 122 - (Victoria County History)

The Dalton's abandoned municipal affairs at Hull after the resignation of Robert Dalton (d.1626) from the magistracy in 1602. They then featured as wealthy East Riding gentry, and one, Sir William, was King's Attorney in the North.

Children of ROBERT DALTON and ELIZABETH CONSTABLE are:

i. THOMAS DALTON, born about 1569, Of Myton, Yorkshire Co. England; d. 1639.

ii. ROBERT DALTON.

iii. HENRY DALTON.

iv. JOHN DALTON.

v. JAMES DALTON.

vi. AMBROSE DALTON.

vii. ANNE DALTON, m. ROBERT BACON, 1601, St. John's, Beverley, Yorkshire Co. England.

The following are some histories and notes of descendants of John Dalton of Yorkshire:

SIR WILLIAM DALTON was born about 1542 in Kingston - upon - Hull, Yorkshire, England, and died January 25, 1648/49 in York Minster, Yorkshire Co. England. He married THESPHANIA BOOTHE, daughter of JOHN BOOTH. She was born 1569, and died February 18, 1604/05.

Notes for SIR WILLIAM DALTON:

SIR WILLIAM DALTON, of the city of Yorke, and one of King's Councell in his court there for the Northern parts, died in 1649, knighted at Whitehall 28 Apr. 1629, buried 25 Jan. 1649-50 at York Minster. Married Theophania, daughter of John Boothe, of Killingholme, in Co. Lincohnshire, widow of Thomas Agard (Agar), marriage license 1598, buried at Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York, 18 Feb. 1601. Will 17 Oct. 1605, proved at York 28 Apr. 1606. They had issue;

1. John

2. Anne, wife of Marmaduke Grimrton, of Grimston- Garth, in Holdernes.

3. Mary, died unmarried, buried at Belfreys, 10 Apr. 1624.

Sir William Dalton was recorder of Hull, was appointed Attorney General to the Court of York. He was knighted by King Charles I at Whitehall, April 28 1629. He purchased Hauxwell in 1631.

Vol. 1 page 113 and 125 - (Victoria County History)

Four members of the Dalton family served as aldermen of Hull, two of these also as MPs; another, Sir William, was recorder (and would have been consulted on the town's customs and privileges). The recorder received a fee and occasional presents of ale and wine from the corporation.

Vol. 1 page 122 - (Victoria County History)

The Dalton's abandoned municipal affairs at Hull after the resignation of Robert Dalton (d.1626) from the magistracy in 1602. They then featured as wealthy East Riding gentry, and one, Sir William, was King's Attorney in the North.

Vol. 1 page 75 - 1642 and 1644 (Victoria County History)

Conyers d'Arcy and his wife Grace sold the manor of Yafforth to Sir William Dalton of Hauxwell and his son John. John's great granddaughter Mary married Edward Graham Viscount Preston in 1703. Mary and her sister Elizabeth and her Uncle Charles Dalton sold the manor to John Brockhurst and Thomas Newsom in 1716.

From the Register of Burials in York Minster:

Sr. William Daulton, buried twenty fifth January, 1649.

"Sir William Dalton, of York, knt., one of the Council of the North, son of Tho. Dalton, gent, of Sutton in Holderness, by Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Tywhit, of Kettleby, Co. Lincohnshire, Knighted at Whitehall 28 April 1629; married Theophania, daughter of John Booth, esq., of Killingholme, Co. Lincohnshire and widow of -- Agard. She died 18 Feb. 1605, aged 34, and was buried in the church of Holy Trindty, Goodramgate."

SIR WILLIAM DALTON is buried at York Minster.

Source: The Yorkshire Archaological and Topographical Journal. Vol. 1.

Book 942.74 at the LDS FHL in SLC Utah.

Vol. 1 page 248 - 1631

Thomas Jopson and his wife Rose sold their manors at Hauxwell to Sir William Dalton Kt, third son of Thomas Dalton (mayor of Hull 1569). Sir William was a member of the Council of the North, and died in 1649. His son John, Lt. Colonel in the king's army was mortally wounded while escorting the Queen from Bridlington to Oxford in 1646. John's son William II was knighted at the Restoration and buried at Hauxwell in 1675. William II was succeeded by Marmaduke Dalton, knighted in 1676, who was drowned in 1680. Marmaduke's three daughters were; Grace (died in childhood) Elizabeth who inherited Hauxwell, and Mary who married Edward Graham Viscount Preston. Elizabeth bequeathed her interest in Hauxwell to her uncle Sir Charles Dalton, who died unmarried before 1747 and was succeeded first by his nephew Charles Dalton (son of his brother Darcy Dalton) and then by Charles' younger brother Francis Dalton. Francis died in 1792 leaving a daughter Mary, married to Henry Gale of Scruton. Mary died in 1845 and had four daughters - Harriet, Mary II, Katharine and Anne. Mary II died childless in 1794. Katharine and Anne inherited Hauxwell. Anne, the last survivor of the daughters, died unmarried in 1877 and Hauxwell passed to Harriet's daughter Mary and her husband Colonel Hamlet Coote Wade when he requested that they change their surname to Wade-Dalton. In 1914 Hauxwell was owned by their descendant Lt.-Colonel Hamlet Wade-Dalton.

Children of SIR DALTON and THESPHANIA BOOTHE are:

i. LT. COL. JOHN DALTON, b. 1599, Of Hawkswell, Yorkshire, England; died July 20, 1644, York Minster, Yorkshire, England.

ii. ANNE DALTON, married MARMADUKE GRIMSTON.

iii.MARY DALTON, died April 10, 1624.

EDWARD DALTON was born about 1546. He married UNKNOWN.

Children of EDWARD DALTON and UNKNOWN are:

i. WILLIAM DALTON.

ii. ELIZABETH DALTON.

iii. ANNE DALTON.

iv. LUCE DALTON.

v. FRANCES DALTON.

THOMAS DALTON was born about 1569 in Of Myton, Yorkshire Co. England, and died 1639. He married ANN INGLEBY.

Children of THOMAS DALTON and ANN INGLEBY are:

i. JOHN DALTON, born Of Swine, Nuttles, Sutton, Yorkshire Co. England; married MARY BRUDENALL.

ii. JAMES DALTON, married CATHERINE CLARKE.

iii. WILLIAM DALTON.

iv. THOMAS DALTON, born Of Nuttles, Yorkshire Co. England; married ELIZABETH.

v. ELIZABETH DALTON, married SAMUELL SNAWSDELL.

vi. CATHERINE DALTON, married ROBERT DICKENSEN.

LT. COL. JOHN DALTON was born 1599 in Of Hawkswell, Yorkshire, England, and died July 20, 1644 in York Minster, Yorkshire, England. He married DOROTHY CONYERS DARCY April 22, 1627 in Hornby, Yorkshire, England, daughter of LORD D'ARCY and DOROTHY BELASTHLY. She was born about 1597 in Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, England.

Notes for LT. COL. JOHN DALTON:

JOHN DALTON of Hawkswell, died in 1646, at Newark Castle, of wounds received at Burton- on-Trent while conducting the Queen from York towards London. Baptized at Belfreys 17 Sept. 1603. Buried 26 July 1644 at York Minster. Will 9 Aug. 1643, proved at York 15 Jan. 1645-6; married Dorothy, daughter of Conyers, Lord Darcy and Conyers, of Hornby Castle. They had issue;

1. Sir William Dalton.

2. Thomas Dalton.

3. Marmaduke, named in his father's will.

4. Mary, wife of John Beverley, of Smeton.

5. Barbara, wife of Charles Tanleard, of Arden.

6. Ursula, named in her father's will.

Notice of death of "Captaine Daulton" from the Register of Burials in York Minster, Yorkshire Co. England.

“John Dalton. Esq., West Hawkswell, co. York, eldest son of Sir William Dalton, of York. Kt. One of the Council of the North, by Theophania, daughter of John Booth, Esq., of Killingholme, Co. Lincohnshire. Baptized at St. Mickael's-le-Belfrey, 17 Sept., 1602. Married Dorothy, daughter of Conyers Lord Darcy of Hornby Castle. Captain Dalton died at Newark Castle, of wounds received at Burton-upon-Trent, while conducting the Queen from York towards London. In his will, dated 9 Aug., 1643, he bequeaths " to my eldest sonne, William Dalton, all my armes, armour and military furniture."

John Dalton served as a Lieut. Col. under his brother-in-law, the Lord Darcy and was mortally wounded when conducting Queen Henrietta Maria from Bridlington to Oxford at the bridge of Burton-upon-Trent, July 5 1643.

Source:

The Yorkshire Archaological and Topographical Journal. Vol. 1.

Book 942.74 at the LDS FHL in SLC Utah.

More about John Dalton:

John Dalton was commissioned in the army at the tender age of 15 into one of the new Marine regiments raised for the Spanish war. A year later his father was dead, and what odds would have been laid against the survival of the family, vested only in young John about to go to war? Not only did he survive, but also he became the head of a family that was to proliferate through several generations.

John's career was remarkable, and started with five years as a second lieutenant on board HMS Preston of 50 guns, cruising in the East Indies and off the coast of Southern India. He then left the sea for the land and transferred to the East India Company's service as a captain in command of the Grenadier Company. This was in 1749. He became "a very intimate and worthy friend" (his own words, in a letter home) of Robert Clive, a friendship which lasted for life.

From now onwards, John saw much active service in the Company's war against the French. From 1752 he became the commander of the fortress of Trichinopoly, a key post which carried much responsibility both military and civil and which was not without excitement. Beleaguered by the French and their native allies, the commander of the fortress was the obvious target for assassination, and this was duly attempted. The would- be assassin, however, was caught and summarily killed by the gruesome (but effective) method of being blown from the muzzle of a gun.

By 1754, after nearly eleven years continuous service in the East Indies, John resigned his commission and sailed for home, having amassed a fortune of 30,000p, and still being young and healthy. The journey home by sea took six months and covered 14,000 nautical miles. He lost no time in visiting his mother, to whom he had written many tender letters over the years and who had been living at Kendal in Westmorland since her husband's death. It was on his journey north to see his mother that a charming and romantic episode took place. Having arrived at the "Bay Horse" Inn at Green Hammorton, one stage out of York on the road to the north, he stopped for the night and occupied the only sitting room available. Later, a coach arrived, carrying Lady Wray and her two daughters. John very naturally gave up his room to them, whereupon Lady Wray equally naturally invited him to have supper with them. He fell in love with one of the daughters, Isabella, and married her in Ripon Minster the following year and lived happily ever after.

The Church register of marriages records "John Dalton, Esq. of the parish of Hauxwell and Isabella Wray of this parish." The Wrays had a property, Sleningford, near Ripon. Some years later, John bought this from his brother-in-law, Sir Cecil Wray, and it remained in the family of his descendants for more than 150 years. He was a notably handsome man, perhaps a vain one too. On his visits to his mother in Kendal, he had himself painted twice by the well-known artist, George Romney, at 2+ guineas a time. Both pictures are still in the family. Later, when Romney went to London, the price went up to 5 guineas.

John had several sons, the youngest, Thomas, went into the Church and became Rector of Croft, in Yorkshire, for over forty years.

One of James's brothers, and his son, grandson, and two great-grandsons all served in the army in the Royal Artillery, and all became generals. The grandson, James Cecil, retired from the army before World War I, and settled at The Hutts, a small property near Ripon, and not far from Sleningford. He had married Mary Caroline Barker, great granddaughter of John Barker of Clare Priory, Suffolk, who, as a young officer, fought in the English army in 1774-6 at Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill. The Hutts was, and still is, a remote and lovely place high up on the edge of moorland country and with superb views for 30 miles over the Vale of York. There he raised his family, including the author of this article and his elder brother, Sir Charles, the latter going to live there in his turn on retirement from the army. Both brothers, incidentally, have served their year as High Sheriff of Yorkshire. Meanwhile, the younger brother lives at Hauxwell as caretaker for one, of his sons, Richard, who, as has been noted above, had received the estate in trust while still a child. In 1972, the wheel came full circle and Sir Charles's son, John, married Amelia Stanley-Price in Ripon Cathedral 216 years after his great-great-great-grandfather had wed Isabella Wray in the same place.

A description of Hawkswell:

Hauxwell or Hawkswell is a small parish lying between Finghall and Catterick, and is wholly of rural character. The soil is light and gravelly, and chiefly laid down for grazing. The parish includes the townships of East Hauxwell, West Hauxwell, Barden, and Garriston, covering a total area of 4,590 acres. The townships of East and West Hauxwell comprise respectively 1,249 and 892 acres, and are valued for rating purposes at £936 and £607. The population of the former in 1881 was 95, and of the latter 40. The estate, which comprises the two townships, with all manorial rights, formerly belonged to the Daltons, and a stone column in the grounds in front of the hall, thus records an act of generosity of a daughter and heiress of this family; "In memory of Mrs. Eliza Dalton, daughter and one of the co-heiresses of Fr. Marmaduke Dalton, who, in regard to her family, restored this estate to her uncle, Fr. Charles Marmaduke Dalton, Gentleman, Usher of the Black Rod, in the year 1717." It afterwards came into the possession of the Gales, and on the deaths of the Misses Gale, it was inherited by their niece, the wife of Col. Hamlet Coote Wade, who, thereupon, assumed the name of Dalton, in addition to his own.*

*Just as these sheets were going to press, the newspapers announce the death of the gallant Colonel on the 8th of December, 1889, at the age of 80. He was a magistrate for the North Riding, and succeeded the Duke of Leeds as commander of the North York Militia.

The Hall is a good stone mansion, erected about the time of James I and consists of a centre and two wings, surrounded by a well-wooded park. The north entrance gateway to the latter bears the arms of the Dalton family.

The village of East Hauxwell occupies a pleasant but secluded situation on the road leading from Constable Burton to Richmond.

West Hauxwell consists of Hauxwell Hall, above- mentioned, the rectory, two farmhouses, and two cottages.

Children of LT. DALTON and DOROTHY DARCY are:

i. SIR WILLIAM DALTON, born 1629, Hawkswell, Yorkshire, England; died March 23, 1674/75, Hawkswell, Yorkshire, England.

ii. THOMAS DALTON, born December 23, 1633, Of Bedale, Yorkshire, England; died July 10, 1710.

iii. MARY DALTON, born 1634; married JOHN BEVERLY.

iv. BARBARA DALTON, born 1636; married CHARLES TANLEARD.

v. MARMADUKE DALTON, born 1655.

vi. MARY DALTON.

vii. URSULA DALTON.

SIR WILLIAM DALTON was born 1629 in Hawkswell, Yorkshire, England, and died March 23, 1674/75 in Hawkswell, Yorkshire, England. He married ELIZABETH WYVILL, daughter of SIR MARMADUKE WYVILL. She was born in Of Constable Burton.

Notes for SIR WILLIAM DALTON:

SIR WILLIAM DALTON of Hawkswell, Kt. 19 Aug. 1665. Died 23 Mar. 1675, buried at Hawkswell, Married Elizabeth, daughter of Marmaduke Wyvill, of Constable Burton. They had issue:

1. Sir Marmaduke

2. Christopher, died unmarried.

3. Sir Charles, of Hawkswell, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, died unmarried

16 Aug. 1747, at Hawkswell.

4. Darcy

5. Thomas, buried at York Minster 9 Jan. 1692. Buried at York Minster 7 Nov. 1682.

6. Isabell, married Roger Crofte, of East Appleton, died 25 Feb. 1684, buried at Catterick.

7. Dorothy, married at York Minster 1 March 1689-90, Dr. William Stainforth, Canon Residentiary of York, buried in York Minster 17 Apr. 1707.

8. Elizabeth.

9. Ursula, married Sir Barrington Bourchier, of Beningborough, Knt.

Children of SIR DALTON and ELIZABETH WYVILL are:

i. SIR CHARLES DALTON, born 1660, Of Hawkswell, Yorkshire Co. England; died August 16, 1747, Hawkswell, Yorkshire Co. England.

Notes for SIR CHARLES DALTON:

Sir Charles Dalton was lord of the manor of Hauxwell or Hawkswell. Hawkswell, being the Dalton families resident for many years.

The below is copied from the DGSJ, Vol. 5.

The Dalton’s continued in the male line all through the 18th century when their most important member was Sir Charles, younger son of the second Sir William. He had been born in 1660 and in middle life obtained some minor appointment as an Usher at the Court in London. Here he mixed with fashionable and cosmopolitan people and acquired knowledge (and possessions) which were to influence Hauxwell permanently. It was in 1717 that he became the owner of the property, succeeding a niece whom was unmarried and who had got into financial difficulties. Having 'bailed her out", he took over the property and commemorated the event by erecting a stone obelisk in front of his house. This monument stood sturdily for nearly 250 years before being severely damaged in the great gale, which ravaged this part of Yorkshire in 1962. It has since been repaired.

Sir Charles never married. In 1727 he became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, a position of some consequence in those days, which he hold till his death twenty years later. During this time he built a wing to the house, the ground floor being a beautifully proportioned room decorated with carved wood panels and plaster work, and imported some notable pieces of Flemish tapestry which family tradition believes he "acquired" from the palace of Westminster! He also collected books, many of which have survived, as has also his court dress sword and a part of his black rod.

After Sir Charles's death in 1747 the property passed through a somewhat twilight period. For more than forty years his parson nephew, another Charles, was in possession and must have planted trees near the house where some very fine hardwood specimens still stand. He in his turn was succeeded for a short time by his brother Francis. This brother had married a lady who was related to the Bathurst family and who inherited some family portraits as well as a house in Kent.

This house was sold and the proceeds used to enlarge the Hauxwell estate. Francis and his wife had an only daughter who married into a distinguished local family called Gale and lived to be 95 years old. Her grand- daughter, who inherited Hauxwell, took the additional name of Dalton to her married name of Wade. After three generations of Wade-Dalton’s, the last of that line, being childless, gave the estate to his distant kinsman, Richard Dalton, born 1948, whose direct ancestor purchased it over 300 years previously.

ii. SIR MARMADUKE DALTON, born August 19, 1655, Hawkswell, Yorkshire Co. England; died February 19, 1679/80, Dalton Bridge, Yorkshire Co. England.

iii. REV. DARCY DALTON, born Hawkswell, Yorkshire Co. England; died 1734.

iv.THOMAS DALTON, born Of Bedale; died November 07, 1682.

Sir William the second, who lived at Hauxwell after the Restoration and who has already been mentioned, had a younger brother, Thomas. Nothing is known about him except that he lived at Bedale, a small country town a few miles east of Hauxwell. He had a son, John, equally obscure, and this John's only son was James, who grew up to obtain a commission in the army.

v. DORATHY DALTON, died April 17, 1707, York Minster, Yorkshire Co. England; married WILLIAM STAINFORTH, March 01, 1688/89.

vi. ISABELL DALTON, died February 25, 1683/84.

vii. ELIZABETH DALTON.

viii. URSULA DALTON, married SIR BARRINGTON BOURCHIER, April 19, 1692.

ix. CHRISTOPHER DALTON.

x. MICHAELL DALTON, died November 05, 1682.

“Michaell, son of the Lady Dalton, was bur. ye 7"' of November, 1682.

At the east end of the middle choir, 11 on S. side the N. great pillar, lyes a blne stone, about 2 kds long, wtil this Inscription engraven upon it:-' Michael) the youngest son of Sir William Dalton of Hawkswell, kt., lyeth here interred, who departed this life 5th day of Novbr 1682, in the 11th year of his age. To make room for this was a little white stone taken up (& now layd in the N. Quire, yet near the other), OXL Web, was this Inscription engraven: ' Here lyethe Elizabeth Wyvell, daughter of X'pofer Wyvell, Esqr. & Margarets his wyfe, whyche dyed the xiil of ApriU, in the yeare of our Lord God, 1565. "

Lady Dalton," mother of Michael, was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Marmadake Wyvell, bart., of Constable Burton, great-grandson of the above-mentioned Christopher and Margaret Wyvell. John Dalton, grandfather of the above Michael, was buried here in 1644.

Source: From the Register of Burials in York Minster.

THOMAS DALTON was born December 23, 1633 in Bedale, Yorkshire, England, and died July 10, 1710. He married ANN WYRILL, daughter of SIR MARMADUKE WYRILL. She was born Abt. 1636 in Of Constable Burton, England, and died November 28, 1675 in Bedale, Yorkshire, England.

Notes for THOMAS DALTON:

Thomas Dalton, of Yorke and Bedale, named in his father's will. Will 19 July 1710; married Ann Wyvill, daughter of Sir Marmaduke Wywill, of Constable Burton, Kt, and Bart., buried 28 Nov. 1675 at Bedale (a quo Dalton of Slenningford) see Dalton's Wrays of Glentworth," and "Burke's Commoners."

Child of THOMAS DALTON and ANN WYRILL is:

i. JOHN DALTON, b. 1675, of Bedale, Yorkshire, England; d. 1701.

SIR MARMADUKE DALTON was born August 19, 1655 in Hawkswell, Yorkshire Co. England, and died February 19, 1679/80 in Dalton Bridge, Yorkshire Co. England. He married BARBARA BELASYSE February 23, 1676/77 in Chiswick, London, Middlesex Co. England. She was born 1645 in Coxwold, Yorkshire Co. England, and died September 12, 1708.

Notes for SIR MARMADUKE DALTON:

Vol. 1 page 346 - 1677 (Victory County History)

Sir Marmaduke Dalton Knight, whose mother was Elizabeth Wyvill, held the manor of Clifton-upon-Ure. His daughter and sole heiress Mary married Edward Graham Viscount Preston and sold the manor after her husband's death to John Hutton in 1735.

SIR MARMADUKE DALTON, of Hawkswell, Knt., 19 Aug. 1665. Drowned at Dalton Bridge 19 Feb. 1680. Buried at Hawkswell. Married Barbara, daughter of Henry Belasyse, son and heir of Lord Fauconberg. Died 12 Sept. 1708, age sixty-three, buried at Hawkswell. They had issue:

1. Grace, died Yorke, age twelve.

2. Mary, married in York Minster 5 Jan. 1703-4 to Edward Graham, Viscount, Preston.

3. Elizabeth, died unmarried, left half the estate, including Hawkswell, to Sir Charles Dalton.

Children of SIR DALTON and BARBARA BELASYSE are:

i. GRACE DALTON.

ii. MARY DALTON, married EDWARD GRAHAM, January 05, 1702/03.

iii. ELIZABETH DALTON.

REV. DARCY DALTON was born in Hawkswell, Yorkshire Co. England, and died 1734. He married (1) JANE. He married (2) MARY HARRISON.

Notes for REV. DARCY DALTON:

DARCY DALTON, M.A., Rector of Aston, matric. 25 Oct. 1712, Prebendary of York, died 27 March 1734, age sixty-four, buried at Aston. Married first, Mary Harrison, of Skellow, at York Minster, 25 Sept. 1701, buried at Owston 6 Feb. 1703-4. They had issue;

1. Darcy Dalton, living 1739, died unmarried.

Married secondly, Jane _____ died 5 March 1719, age thirty-six, buried at Aston. They had issue:

1. Charles Dalton, Rector of Hawkswell, succeeded his Uncle Sir Charles, died unmarried intestate 22 Dec. 1788, age seventy-five, buried at Hawkswell.

2. William, died unmarried.

3. Francis.

4. Barbara, married (1) Charles Tancred, of Arden. (2) Married Gilbert Knowler, D.D.

5. Elizabeth, married Samuel Drake, Rector of Treeton and Holme on Spaldingmore, died 1792 at Hawkswell.

6. Jane, died 5 Feb. 1729, age fifteen, buried at Aston.

Children of REV. DALTON and JANE are:

i. REV. CHARLES DALTON.

ii. ELIZABETH DALTON, died November 03, 1792, Hawkswell, Yorkshire Co. England; married SAMUEL DRAKE.

iii. WILLIAM DALTON.

iv. JANE DALTON, died February 05, 1728/29.

v. BARBARA DALTON, married CHARLES TANCRED.

Child of REV. DALTON and MARY HARRISON is:

vi. DARCY DALTON.

ISABELL DALTON died February 25, 1683/84. She married ROGER CROFTS.

Child of ISABELL DALTON and ROGER CROFTS is:

i. MARY CROFTS.

JOHN DALTON was born 1675 in Of Bedale, Yorkshire, England, and died 1701. He married JANE THORNTON about 1693. She was born about 1667. Of Bedale, Yorkshire, England.

Child of JOHN DALTON and JANE THORNTON is:

i. CAPTAIN JAMES DALTON, born about 1699, Hawksworth, Yorkshire, England; died 1742, West Indies.

CAPTAIN JAMES DALTON was born about 1699 in Hawkswell, Yorkshire, England, and died 1742 in West Indies. He married ELIZABETH SMITH about 1725. She was born September 18, 1698, and died 1769.

Notes for CAPTAIN JAMES DALTON:

James Dalton was a Captain in the 6th, Regiment of Foot, who died while on active duty in the West Indies.

Child of CAPTAIN DALTON and ELIZABETH SMITH is:

i. CAPTAIN JOHN DALTON, born 1726, Hauxwell, Yorkshire, England; died July 1811, East Indies.

CAPTAIN JOHN DALTON was born 1726 in Hauxwell, Yorkshire, England, and died July 1811 in East Indies. He married ISABELLA WRAY March 11, 1756 in Slenningford, Yorkshire, England, daughter of SIR WRAY and FRANCES NORCLIFFE. She was born May 16, 1731 in Hauxwell, Yorkshire, England, and died May 29, 1780 in Tansfield, Yorkshire Co. England.

Notes for CAPTAIN JOHN DALTON:

John Dalton was a Captain in the H.E.I. Co.'s service (East India Company) in Southern India between 1743 and 1754, who acquired a very high reputation when acting as Commandant of Trichinopoly, 1752-4. He purchased Sleningford Park, Ripon, from his father-in-law, Sir John Wray.

Sources: Historical Manuscripts Commission.

UK National Register of Archives.

John Dalton

(1726-1811) Captain East India Co Army.

1746-54: journal of military transactions in the East Indies.

East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Records Service.

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections.

Children of CAPTAIN DALTON and ISABELLA WRAY are:

i. FRANCES ELIZABETH DALTON, born July 09, 1759, Sleningford, Yorkshire, England; died January 08, 1800; married WILLIAM GARFORTH, March 1778, Of Wigonthorpe.

ii. ISABELLA DALTON, born about 1763, Sleningford, Yorkshire, England; died June 18, 1833; married GEORGE BAKER, 1787, Of Elsmore, Durham Co. England.

iii. THOMAS NORCLIFFE DALTON, born December 31, 1756, St. Helen's, Yorkshire, England; died June 01, 1820.

iv. LT. COL. JOHN DALTON II, born July 24, 1758, Of Sleningford and Fillingham, Yorkshire, England; died September 29, 1841, Sleningford, Yorkshire, England.

v. REV. JAMES ROBERT DALTON, born November 14, 1761, Of Croft, Yorkshire, England; died January 01, 1843.

THOMAS NORCLIFFE DALTON was born December 31, 1756 in St. Helen's, Yorkshire, England, and died June 01, 1820. He married ANNE WILSON December 13, 1784.

Notes for THOMAS NORCLIFFE DALTON:

Thomas Norcliffe Dalton was Captain of the 11th, Dragoons, and was afterwards Lieutenant Colonel of the York Volunteers who inherited the Norcliff estates on the death of his aunt, Lady Norcliff in 1807. He assumed in 1807 the surname and arms of Norcliff.

Children of THOMAS DALTON and ANNE WILSON are:

i. MARY NORCLIFFE, died March 17, 1837.

ii. SIR NORCLIFFE (DALTON) NORCLIFFE, born September 24, 1791; died February 08, 1862; married DECIMA HESTER BEATRIX, June 24, 1824.

Notes for SIR NORCLIFFE (DALTON) NORCLIFFE:

Norcliffe who served in the 4th Dragoons during the Peninsular War and distinguished himself at Salamanca where he was severely wounded. This gallant officer who was a Knight of Hanover died a Major General in 1862 and leaving no surviving issue was succeeded by his niece Mrs. Robinson.

Norcliffe Norcliffe, Esq., the eldest son, was Major General in the army, and succeeded to the estate in 1820. He married Decima Hester Beatrix, daughter of John Robinson Foulis, Esq., and had by her an only son, who predeceased his father, unmarried. General Norcliffe died in 1862, and the estate passed to his niece Rosamond, elder daughter of his sister, Mary Norcliffe Best. This lady married Henry Robinson, Esq., of York, and died in 1881, when the Rev. C. Best Norcliffe, her eldest surviving son, succeeded to the estate.

LT. COL. JOHN DALTON II was born July 24, 1758 in Of Sleningford and Fillingham, Yorkshire, England, and died September 29, 1841 in Sleningford, Yorkshire, England. He married SUSANNA PRESCOTT March 01, 1783, daughter of ROBERT PRESCOTT. She was born about 1763 in Of Rose Green, Sussex Co. England, and died April 15, 1823.

Notes for LT. COL. JOHN DALTON II:

Inherited the Wray estates.

Lieut. Col. 4th, Light Dragoons.

Children of LT. COL. JOHN DALTON and SUSANNA PRESCOTT are:

i. JAMES ROBERT DALTON, born 1786; died 1860; m. ISABELLA DISS.

ii. MAJOR GEN. CHARLES DALTON, born 1789; died 1871.

iii. GEORGE DALTON, born 1794; died June 10, 1854, North End House, Uxbridge; married EUPHEMIA HANNINGTON, 1829.

iv. WILLIAM SERJEANTSON DALTON, born 1803; died December 17, 1853, Flesk Lodge, Killarney, Ireland. Married LAURA KING, March 08, 1830.

v. JOHN DALTON III, born 1784, Of Fillingham Castle, Yorkshire. Died July 01, 1864, Brighton.

vi. SUSANNA ISABELLA DALTON, b. 1785; m. SIR J C DALBIAC, 1805.

vii. MARIA CATHERINE DALTON, born 1805; died 1866; Married GEORGE CLEGHORN, 1830.

viii. ALBINIA DALTON, born 1808; died 1859; m. REV. GEORGE KELLY.

ix. MADELINE AGNES DALTON, born 1810; married REV. CECIL WRAY DALTON.

REV. JAMES ROBERT DALTON was born November 14, 1761 in Of Croft, Yorkshire, England, and died January 01, 1843. He married MARIA GIBSON 1794.

Notes for REV. JAMES ROBERT DALTON:

Rev. James Dalton, M.A., F.L.S., Rector of Croft, Yorkshire, Married Maria Gibson, daughter and co-heir of Rev. Edmund Gibson, Rector of Bishop Stortford, Herts.

Children of REV. DALTON and MARIA GIBSON are:

i. MARIE DALTON, born 1796.

ii. MARY ANN DALTON, born 1798.

iii. FRANCES ELIZABETH DALTON, born 1801.

iv. CECIL WRAY DALTON, born 1806, Copgrove; died June 14, 1888.

v. ESTHER JANE DALTON, born 1807.

vi. JOHN DALTON, born 1808; died 1854.

vii. ELIZABETH DALTON, born 1809.

viii.CHARLES JAMES DALTON, born May 13, 1812; died November 07, 1880.

MARY NORCLIFFE died March 17, 1837. She married DR. CHARLES BEST. He was born in York.

Child of MARY NORCLIFFE and DR. BEST is:

i. ROSEMOND BEST, born July 31, 1808; died August 19, 1881; married HENRY ROBINSON, May 12, 1830; born York.

MAJOR GEN. CHARLES DALTON was born 1789, and died 1871. He married MARY DUNCAN 1832.

Notes for MAJOR GEN. CHARLES DALTON:

Child of MAJOR DALTON and MARY DUNCAN is:

i.JAMES ROBERT DALTON, born 1831.

JOHN DALTON III was born 1784 in Of Fillingham Castle, Yorkshire., and died July 01, 1864 in Brighton. He married (1) EIZABETH LODGE 1812, daughter of RICHARD LODGE, ESQ. She was born in Of Leeds, and died October 08, 1900. He married (2) CATHERINE DODSWORTH 1844.

Children of JOHN III and EIZABETH LODGE are:

i. RICHARD HENRY DALTON, died 1890; married CHRISTINA LEAH HATFIELD, 1857; born Of Thorparch Hall, Yorkshire, England.

ii.THOMAS N. DALTON, died November 04, 1854. m. FANNY GABBETT.

Notes for THOMAS N. DALTON:

The Following obituary notice appeared in the "Illustrated London News"

"Major Thomas Norcliffe Dalton, of the 49th Regiment, was killed at Inkermann whilst gallanty leading his men in action, age 35. His loss is deeply deplored. The gallant Officer was son of John Dalton, Esq. of Sleningford Park, Co. York, late a Captain in the Army; and grandson of Lieut. Colonel John Dalton, whose father, John Dalton, Esq., acquired a hugh reputation in the East India Company's service. The immediate ancestor of the family, John Dalton of Hawkenswell, who served as Lient.- Colonel to his brother-in-law, the Lord Darcy, in the great Civil War, was mortally wounded on passing the bridge of Burton-upon-Trent while conducting the Queen from Burlington to Oxford. Major Dalton served in the 61st Regiment in the Punjuab campaiges of 1848-9; and was present at the passage of the Chenab and in the battle of Sauloolspere, Chillianwallah and with the field force in pursuit of the enemy in the Kyber Pass, for which he received a medal and two clasps. From the 61st he exchanged into the 49th at the Depot in Cork, in 1853 and served with the gallant Regiment ever since its arrival in the East. At the conflict of the Adens, Major Dalton whilst leading his men up the hill, had his horse shot under him; and in the hard fought affair of Balaklivi. He also took a prominent part."

Source: The history of the Wrays of Glentworth, 1523-1852, by Charles Dalton. Book no. 929.242 W924d at the LDS FHL in SLC Utah.

49th Foot:

Lieutenant A. S. Armstrong - killed at Inkermann - 5th November 1854

Near French camp, 49th Regt. cemetery. 'Lieut & Adjt. A.S. Armstrong Fell at the battle of Inkerman 5th Nov. 1854.'

Major T. N. Dalton - killed at Inkermann - 5th November 1854

Near French camp, 49th Regt. cemetery.

'Major T.N. Dalton fell at the battle of Inkerman while in command of HM's 49th.

iii. GERTRUDE DALTON, married FREDERICK THOMPSON.

iv. SUSAN DALTON, married GEORGE CLARK.

v. MARY SULLIVAN DALTON, m. (1) CHARLES PRESTON, 1847; m. (2) REV. CANON FISHER, November 18, 1862, St. George's, Hanover Square.

vi. ALBINIA DALTON, married WADHAM LOCKE, 1854.

vii. FRANCES ELIZABETH DALTON, died 1890; married WILLIAM HENRY CROMPTON-STANSFIELD, 1858; died 1888.

viii. ISABELLA DALTON, died 1890.

ix. JOHN DALTON LV, born 1813, Ripon, Yorkshire, England; died September 05, 1871.

Children of JOHN III and CATHERINE DODSWORTH are:

x. CATHERINE ELIZABETH DALTON, married WILLIAM DRIFFIELD, May 13, 1867, St. James, Piccadilly.

xi. CHARLES MONTAQUE CECIL DALTON.

CECIL WRAY DALTON was born 1806 in Copgrove, and died June 14, 1888. He married MADELINE AGNES DALTON October 1830.

Child of CECIL DALTON and MADELINE DALTON is:

i. JAMES DALTON, born 1831; died 1862, Bournemouth.

CHARLES JAMES DALTON was born May 13, 1812, and died November 07, 1880. He married MARY NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN 1847.

Notes for CHARLES JAMES DALTON:

Charles James Dalton was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and obtained a second lieutenant's commission in the Royal Artillery in 1829.

Children of CHARLES DALTON and MARY CLEGHORN are:

i. JAMES CECIL DALTON, born 1848, Of the Hutts, Yorkshire, England; died May 12, 1931.

ii. CHARLES DALTON, born September 25, 1850; died 1932; Married ISABELLA DALTON ROBINSON, 1880; died 1926.

iii. MARIE DALTON, born 1852; died 1933.

iv. GEORGE DALTON, born February 16, 1854; died April 02, 1858.

JOHN DALTON IV was born 1813 in Ripon, Yorkshire, England, and died September 05, 1871. He married GEORGINA ISABELLA TOWER 1842.

Children of JOHN IV and GEORGINA TOWER are:

i. EMMA ELIZABETH DALTON, died August 1914; married MAJOR HORACE CRAVEN, August 11, 1875, North Standley, Yorkshire, England.

ii. ALICE NEVILLE DALTON, died 1918.

iii. GEORGINA ISABELLA DALTON, born September 02, 1845, Ripon, Yorkshire, England; died April 07, 1918, Fillingham Castle; married SEYMOUR BERKELEY PORTMAN, June 1880, St. Gabriel's, Warwick Square; born January 12, 1838; died October 19, 1912.

iv. JOHN DALTON V, born 1849; died April 05, 1887; married CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH ELLIOTT, April 18, 1871, St. George's, Hanover Square, London; died December 23, 1895.

JAMES CECIL DALTON was born 1848 in Of the Hutts, Yorkshire, England, and died May 12, 1931. He married MARY CAROLINE BARKER October 30, 1899.

Notes for JAMES CECIL DALTON:

King's College London.

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives.

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defense Personnel, 1900-1975:

DALTON, James Cecil (1848-1931), Major General

Service biography- 
Commissioned Royal Artillery 1869; Afghanistan 1880; Staff College 1882; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Gibraltar and Cork, Ireland 1883-1887; Staff Capt and Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Topographical Section, Intelligence Div, War Office 1887-1892; Special Service Officer, Army Headquarters 1894-1895; Assistant Military Secretary, Army Headquarters 1899-1901; Col. on Staff, Commander Royal Artillery, Western District 1901-1904; General Officer Commanding, Royal Artillery, Gibraltar 1905-1906; Inspector, Royal Garrison Artillery 1906-1910; retired 1910; Col Commandant, Royal Artillery 1920

Children of JAMES DALTON and MARY BARKER are:

i. SIR CHARLES JAMES GEORGE DALTON, born 1906.

ii. JOHN CECIL D'ARCY DALTON, born 1907; died November 15, 1981, Hauxwell Hall, Leyburn, Yorkshire.

ALICE NEVILLE DALTON died 1918. She married LT. COL. JEMMETT DUKE October 07, 1886.

Child of ALICE DALTON and LT. DUKE is:

i. MARY GEORGINA DUKE.

SIR CHARLES JAMES GEORGE DALTON was born 1906. He married DAPHNE EVANS.

Child of SIR DALTON and DAPHNE EVANS is:

i. JOHN CHARLES TYNDALL DALTON.

JOHN CECIL D'ARCY DALTON was born 1907, and died November 15, 1981 in Hauxwell Hall, Leyburn, Yorkshire. He married PAMELA FRANCES SEGRAVE.

Children of JOHN DALTON and PAMELA SEGRAVE are:

i. JAMES WILLIAM DALTON.

ii.RICHARD JOHN DALTON.

The following is an article found on the Internet that shows the Haresnape and the Thurnham Dalton families.

The Haresnape family:

In about 1613, George Haresnape who was born in Stalmine and may have been the son of Robert, arrived in Thurnham with his wife Jennet. He seems to have been the first tenant of Haresnape's Farm and presumably gave it the name that exists today.

Superstition is common in any period of history and these years proved no exception. Disasters, plagues and misfortunes were often believed to be the result of evil forces rather than natural occurrences. Cottagers may have nailed horseshoes and suchlike over the entrances to their homes to ward away bad luck. Some individuals were singled out as witches who could be blamed for current misfortune. These people could be legally tried and punished for their supposed crimes. At nearby Lancaster castle in 1612, in one infamous event, nineteen men and women were convicted of witchcraft and ten of them were subsequently hanged on Gallows Hill (Witches of Pendle).

Haresnape`s farm in the 1600s was one of several which belonged to the Dalton family who were Lords of the Manor and lived at Thurnham Hall about half a mile from Haresnape`s farm. The Daltons had originated at Dalton, situated fairly close to Croston. There is some evidence that the Haresnapes were leaseholders on the Dalton estate here and moved north from Bispham to Cockerham when the Daltons sold the Croston estate and purchased the Thurnham estate.

The farm buildings, like many of the cottages in the area were constructed using stone blocks from the abandoned monastery at Cockersand on the coast. The abbey had once belonged to the Order of Premonstarianism (White Canons) but had suffered dissolution in 1536 - 1539 under the changes wrought by Henry the Eighth. The land on which the farm lies may have been monastery property at one time. The farmhouse itself was of single story with a thatched roof.

In those years, Thurnham had no church of its own but services were held at the nearby church at Cockerham. Plague certainly came to the area for one of the vicars is recorded as burying 11 members of the same family before he himself succumbed. In 1631 at Preston some 15 miles to the south, 1070 of the population (about a third) died from an epidemic. This illustrates that plague was a regular visitation to the population and was not confined to the infamous great outbreak of 1665 in London.

The Daltons, as did many of the upper classes, retained their Catholic faith following the Reformation and built priest holes (hiding places) into the walls of their home. For a century the Daltons were buried in the grounds of the old monastery (in the 13th century chapter house) and we can imagine the funeral processions trundling down the lane and past the farm, where our ancestors would have stood in respect. Further to this it has been observed that the Haresnapes at the farm at the end of the 16th century were Catholics too, being listed as “convicted recusants”. It is possible that their Catholic faith had survived continuously from before the Reformation, and was to continue into the next century (at least 150 years). The close association with the Daltons and later with the Gillows seems to confirm this. This Catholic tradition was not applicable to all the Haresnapes during these years, as can be seen from the fact that in 1674 a Roger Harsnep was incarcerated in Lancaster gaol for about 15 months for not paying his tithes (taxes to the Anglican church). He was also to be fined eight shillings in 1679 for attending a meeting at the house of Richard Cubban in Bickerstaff. Roger lived in the Aughton area and seems to have been an early Quaker.

The whole area is low-lying and at one time was regularly flooded by the sea. Although the area is now dyked and drained, the land in the 1600s may not have been suitable for crops and the farm used as a source of moss fuel. However there is evidence that the Haresnapes had shearing rights, and therefore sheep were probably kept on the land.

In 1641, the first raw cotton to arrive in Lancashire from America was unloaded from a sailing ship at Sunderland Point. This should have been visible from the farm, but it would have been impossible for the Haresnapes (John 1614 and his wife Ales) to have known what a tremendous change this heralded for the lives of the people of Lancashire, and indeed the future Haresnapes.

1642-52 encompassed the years of the English Civil Wars. Again, we do not know how this affected our ancestors, but perhaps everyone in the country was somehow touched by this dramatic period. Certainly the Daltons played their part and were Royalists supporting King Charles. Thomas Dalton was killed in the Battle of Newbury (Berkshire) in 1643. It has been said by historians that tenants would have followed the allegiances of their landlords, so we might speculate that the Haresnapes were Royalists too (even if passive ones). Civil War action in the area included the current Lord Derby (Royalist) trying to siege the castle walls at Lancaster, some five miles to the north, in 1643. He failed in his attempt and perhaps in frustration his army set fire to the thatched roofs of the town and these burnt fiercely. It took several years for the town to recover. Eight years later Derby was to be publicly beheaded at Bolton. In 1648, there was a major battle at the town of Preston, which had changed hands several times in the war. Oliver Cromwell and his battle - seasoned army put to route a far larger group of untrained Scots under the command of the Duke of Hamilton. There is a tradition at Cockerham that at this time Cromwell and his army crossed a stile here on their way to remove a band of Royalists from the church at Cockerham. (I wonder if any of these were Haresnapes). The stile is still referred to as Oliver`s stile.

The following material was copied from The Dalton Genealogical Society online web page. Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2002. Extracted by Michael Cayley, DGS Archivist.

Source:

The "Calendar of Fine Rolls" covers the period of 1292 -1343 during the reigns of Edward II and Edward III of England.

16 Oct 1300, Carlisle.

Order to John de Lythegreynes, Robert de Boulton and Ralph de Dalton to take fines from those convicted of desertion and other offences touching the king’s expedition to Scotland before the said Robert and Ralph and Peter becard in the county of York; the sheriff having been ordered to be intendant to them.

10 Feb 1303, Langley.

Order to all persons to be intendant to the king’s clerk, Ralph de Dalton, whom the king has appointed to survey and examine the business of the custom granted to the king from merchants of foreign parts on merchandise brought by them to the realm or taken thence, in every port, town and place beyond Trent, and to take the oath of the collectors thereof and the view of their accounts and to enquire touching the manner of the collection thereof, so that he can advisedly inform collectors touching the things that need correction, and to do and ordain all things expedient herein.

Vol. III, Edward II, 1319-1327, pub. HMOs 1912

3April 1322, Altofts.

Order to Henry de Percy to deliver John de Dalton, late servant of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, the king’s enemy and rebel, from the prison where Henry detains him, the king having been given to understand that Henry, by pretext of the king’s appointment of him to arrest all persons opposing the king and in rebellion in the county of York and their adherents and to commit the same to prison until further order, arrested the said John as an adherent of the said earl and detains him, and, at the request of Eleanor de Percy, mother of Henry, and of Henry himself, having granted that if Eleanor and he will mainprise to have the said John before the king or elsewhere at the king’s order to answer touching the things whereon the king would speak against him, he may be delivered meanwhile.

4April 1322, Altofts.

Order to Thomas Ughtred, constable of the castle of Pikeryng, in the king’s hand, to deliver to John de Dalton, whom at the request of Eleanor de Percy and Henry her son, the king ordered Henry to deliver from prison as above, the lands of the said John, and to the said Eleanor and Henry his goods and chattels, which Thomas took into the king’s hand, by indenture to be made between him and them or their deputy, sending one part of that indenture to the wardrobe.

13 June 1322, Haddlesey.

Pardon to John de Dalton of Pykeryng, late bailiff of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, the king’s enemy and rebel, at the request of the king’s kinswoman, Eleanor de Percy, and for a fine of 100 marks made by John, of the king’s suit for the charge made against him that he was the king’s enemy and rebel and adhered to the said Thomas and other the kingt’s enemies and rebels; and grant to him of his lands, goods and chattels, taken into the king’s hand on that account, to hold as he held the same before.

Note: The John de Dalton mentioned above is Sir John de Dalton 1st, born before 1300 and is a son of Sir Robert de Dalton. (RD)

7 August 1326, Pickering.

Of those who have made fines with the king to save their lives and to have their lands, to wit:

Robert de Dalton, knight, of the county of Lancaster, of late the king’s enemy and rebel, and on that account taken and detained in prison, has made fine in 100 marks to save his life and have his lands, whereof he will pay at the exchequer a moiety at Christmas next and a moiety at Easter following, and for payment thereof has found as mainpernors John de Bulmere, Thomas le Taillour of Pykeryng, of the county of York, and Adam de Asshurst of the county of Lancaster, each of whom has mainprised therefor and for Robert’s good behaviour, as is contained on the dorse.

8 April 1326, Kenilworth.

Robert de Dalton of Lancaster was one of the mainpernors for the fine paid by Robert de Irlaund to recover his wife’s lands following his part in Thomas of Lancaster’s rebellion.

Note: This Robert de Dalton is Sir Robert de Dalton of Lancashire, born about 1279 in Byspham, Lancashire Co, England. (RD)

1 June 1336, Woodstock.

Commission to Ralph de Middelneye, reciting the appointment of the king’s clerks, John Cok of Exeter, Hugh de Eboraco and William de Dalton, to take into the king’s hands and keep safely until further order the goods and chattels, both jewels and other things, late of Robert de Tanton, keeper of the wardrobe of the household, owing to the account which he was held to render on the day of his death of the time when he was keeper; and appointing Ralph to cause to be ground all the corn late growing in the lands of the temporalities of the provostship of Wells, late of the said Robert, provost of Wells, which the said Hugh has caused to be collected and put in the granges of Coumbes St Nicholas and Wynesham, in the counties of Somerset and Dorset; and to cause the same to be sold by view and testimony of good men of that place, so that he answer for the money arising therefrom; the king having ordered the said John, Hugh and William to deliver the corn to him.

Note: This William de Dalton, born 1305, is the son of Sir Robert de Dalton of Byspham, Lancashire Co, England. (RD)

Vol V, Edward III, 1337-1347, pub. HMSO 1915

8 March 1341, Westminster.

Commitment during pleasure to Robert de Dalton, for good service, of the keeping of the Tower of London, with the usual fees.

Order to William Lenlis, late keeper, to deliver the same to him, with the prisoners, arms, victualls and all other things therein.

Note: Sir Robert de Dalton again.

18 Sep 1341, Westminster.

Order to the collectors of the customs of wools, hides and woolfells in the port of Great Yarmouth to permit Laurence de Dalton, pursuanty to the king’s grant, to lade in that port three lasts of hides and to take them to Flanders to the king’s staple there, receiving from him a mark for each last for the custom due.

Note: This Laurence de Dalton name is a new name name for this time period and further research is needed to connect him to one of our known Dalton names. (RD)

17 May 1343, Westminster.

Grant for life to John de la Ryvere and Richard le Pedelowe, for good service, of the king’s sluices and weirs of the water of Lymeryk in Ireland, and of the king’s fishery there, which William le Surgien, deceased, held of the king at farm, to hold at the rent of 12 marks a year at Michaelmas at the excjequer of England; mainpernors, John de Pomfreit and Geoffrey le Bruere of London and William de Dalton and Hugh son of William of the county of Dublin in Ireland. By King because it was suggested that William rendered only 100s.