Reference
Z1669/3/1
Title
Dalton Family Scrap Book and connections compiled by Charlotte Louise Fitzgerald Dalton.
Date free text
Compiled c. 1960-70s
Scope and Content
Contents Page. Photographs of the Dalton Family and contents page. Photographs as follows: Dean Flower Show 50th show committee at opening, 1939. (The show was started by FVD in 1889 and in 1939 ELD was president and CLFD Hon Sec); The family at Bryant Cottage 1969, CLFD off to WI garden party at Buckingham Palace, 1965.
Page 1. Photographs as follows: ELD, FVD, EMFD and CLFD in the snow 3 May 1912; CLFD in WVS uniform 1940; Saidee Mary Smith and Louis Fitzgerald Verity Dalton wedding at Kegworth, 1918, George Mackay Brown 1938; Mrs Diggle of Old Warden, Princess Elizabeth and EMFD Guide County Commissioner at Bedford 1947; EMFD at work on Millow Hall Farm 1915; CLFD WI jam making in courtyard of Dean House, 1940.
Page 2-3 - The Nelson family of Rousham.
Page 4. Note that FVD and ELD first met at Melchbourne Park. Photographs of FVD at dog show at Dean Grange 1912; ELD in a deck chair 1914.
Page 4-5 Notes on descendants of the Knights of the Garter.
Page 6-7 Notes on ELD (Ellen Louise Dalton, ne Nelson). Photographs of: Tennis party at Bletsoe Cottage 1891 group photograph of Mrs Fred (aunt Marion), Uncle Fred Nelson, Laura Nelson, unknown, ELD, FVD and Gramma Welshman; Dean House drawing room; Walter Nelson in the uniform of the 6th South Staffordshire Infantry 1915 with his sister ELD.
Page 8-9 Notes on FVD (Fitzgerald Verity Dalton).
Page 10-11 Notes on LFVD (Louis Fitzgerald Verity Dalton).
Page 12-13 Notes on EMFD (Ellen Margaret Fitzgerald Dalton), photographs mostly associated with farming in 1915 and the girl guides.
Page 14-15. Notes on CLFD. Photographs of Tipperary Ward Addenbrooks Hospital 1915 and Rouen. Note that 'No cameras were allowed in Rouen until peace was proclaimed'.
Page 16-17 Notes on George Mackay Brown including photographs of GMB as a boy.
Page 18-19 Notes on Charlotte Margaret Anne Dalton (ne Verity), Henry Robert Samuel Dalton.
Page 20-21 Notes on Lady Lucy Fitzgerald and Lord Robert.
Page 22-23 Notes on Judge Jeffries.
Page 24-25 Notes on Lord Chancellor Finch and the Daltons of Thurnham Hall.
Page 26-27 Notes on: an American lace maker, Henrietta Louise and the Pomfret Family and R Verity.
Page 28-29 Admiral Bayntun and his service.
Page 30. 147 Kimbolton Road, Bedford.
Page 31. Dalton Cottage, Upper Dean. Reay Cottage, Sharnbrook.
Page 32. Letter re Lord Ed Fitzgerald's dagger.
Back pocket: Full list of ancestors traced, press report on the Masque of Lady Margaret, correspondence re. rooms in Paris.
Level of description
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