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I do not guarantee the names, dates, places and relationships mentioned in these pages to be correct. Not all of the information has necessarily been confirmed to the extent normally considered acceptable or sufficient for genealogy and family history purposes.

Please contact me for further details if you see something of interest. The information in these pages is based on data that I have assembled with the help of others. I would be very pleased to share information with you, but for your protection (and mine), I reserve the right to explain and qualify it.

 

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Acknowledgement

Many people, most of whom are cousins (or 'cousins-in-law'), have generously shared information with me. I am deeply grateful for their help, information, support and encouragement. 

This website is dedicated to my 3rd cousins the late Christobel SANGSTER (née WILLIAMS) and the late Jocelyn MOORE (née DALWOOD) who started researching the Dalwood family many years ago. They provided me with a wealth of information and encouragement. A very special thankyou to Roma and Bill GOFFETT (my 4th cousin) for your work in the UK and for your friendship. Thankyou to Bev and Bill DAWSON (4th cousin 2x removed) for generously sharing the results of your extensive and comprehensive research in South Australia. These are your pages, too.

The information presented in these pages is the result of our collective endeavours. There are still many gaps and unexplored lines. The purpose of this section of the website is to consider our research in general, and to highlight areas where more work is needed. Perhaps you have a puzzle piece?

The 'family tree'

We often speak of the 'family tree' and refer to branches of it, but I believe we rarely appreciate the full significance of the tree metaphor. It is intriguing to consider that every person sits at the converging point of an ancestor 'structure' - the roots (which are often hidden), and unless childless, at the base of a descendant structure - the branches. Thus each individual corresponds to the trunk of the tree.

It is also interesting to consider the mathematics of it all. As we work back from ourselves, (usually) each generation doubles the number of parents. Each set of parents usually has its own array of descendants through a number of children. Hence for each generation we go back, the number of potentially identifiable cousins grows immensely. My simple analysis, using conservative assumptions (for my family, anyway), suggests that I could have around 3,800 fourth cousins (and maybe 38,000 fifth cousins)! The common ancestors of fourth cousins are only 3xgreat grandparents, which are generally reasonably traceable.

Like most genealogists, I want to trace as many generations of my ancestors as possible. As a family historian, I want to discover as much as I can about the lives of these people and the places where they lived. I would like to find as many of their descendants (ie, my cousins) as I can. In particular, I want to identify as many as possible descendants of my oldest traceable Dalwood ancestor - a rather ambitious task, I concede.

Places of particular interest

I am particularly interested in exchanging information with people having an interest in, or information about, any of the names or places mentioned below.

From 1561 (or earlier) until 1978 (or later) Dalwood family events have taken place at the parish church in Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset England, near Dorset. Various family members have been linked also with the following villages nearby (all within a radius of 10 miles of Yeovil):

  • Barwick
  • Martock
  • Milborne Port
  • Misterton
  • Montacute
  • Pendomer
  • Sherborne (Dorset)
  • South Petherton

Names of particular interest

Of the names linked with the Dalwood family in the above-mentioned area of England, the following are among those of particular interest:

  • TREVETT, in particular, Meshech TREVETT, and his daughter Hannah, (c1811-1878)

  • THORNE, what is the connection between the Thorne and Dalwood families???

  • GEAR, Sarah

I have some information, and am seeking more, on the following names linked with the DALWOOD family in South Australia (SA):

  • MARSDEN - Francis MARSDEN (1858-1934) m. 1882 SA, Catherine Denton COCKBURN; and his father William Henry MARSDEN - Francis came from Dalston in London, England

  • COCKBURN - Charles Samuel COCKBURN (father of Catherine, above)

  • FENTON - John FENTON (1822-1893) m. 1853 SA, Georgina WALTER (1828-1905) - John FENTON is believed to have emigrated from Scotland

  • WALTER - Georgina WALTER (wife of John FENTON, above)

I am also trying to trace descendants of the following South Australian (or originally South Australian) families:

  • BAUM - Elizabeth Jane DALWOOD (1836-?) m. 1864 John Charles Conrad BAUM

  • BUTTERICK - Constance Louise G. DALWOOD (1873-?) m2. 1912 SA, Lionel William BUTTERICK

  • Augustus George DALWOOD (1868-<1949) m. 1890 SA, Leah Rebecca GUYMER, children:

    • David George DALWOOD

    • Leah Emmie DALWOOD

    • Edith Rachel DALWOOD

    • Lily May DALWOOD

    • Charles Edward DALWOOD (not the one below)

    • Miriam DALWOOD

  • Cecil Aubrey DALWOOD (1889-1916) m. SA, Mary Martha ISLES

  • Charles Edward DALWOOD (1866-1948) m. 1896 SA, Annie Maud Bede WESTMAN, child:

    • Kathleen Grace DALWOOD

  • Douglas Gordon DALWOOD (1899-1945) lived in Western Australia

  • Hurtle Randolph DALWOOD (1888-??) m. 1908 SA, Millicent Agnes Jane PERRY (<1889-1966)

  • DRUMMOND - Frank C. DRUMMOND (?-1903) and Ernest John DRUMMOND, who were sons of Achsah Mary DALWOOD (1839-1913) m. 1864 SA, Charles DRUMMOND (1835-1913)

  • LETHABY - Sarah Ann DALWOOD (1832-1910) m. 1849 Henry LETHABY (1824-1912)
    Note: this family subsequently changed the spelling to LETHEBY

  • OELMANN - Herman Adolph Theodor m. 1861 SA, Annie Eliza DALWOOD, children: 

    • Annie OELMANN

    • Nellie Wilhelmina OELMANN

    • Arthur Hermann OELMANN

    • Evelyn Augusta OELMANN

    • Francis John OELMANN

    • Hubert William OELMANN

    • Elsie Maud OELMANN

    • Edith Constance OELMANN

    • Clarice Adelaide OELMANN

    •  Annie Elsie OELMANN

  • OLDHAM - Constance Louise G. DALWOOD (1873-?) m2. 1891, SA, Herbert G. F. OLDHAM, children:

    • Irene OLDHAM

    • Dorothy OLDHAM

  • SULLIVAN - Sylvia DALWOOD (1861-?) m. SA, 1902 Ralph Edgar SULLIVAN, child:

    • Lawrence Ralph SULLIVAN

... and the following (originally New South Wales) families:

  • Albert E DALWOOD (c1862-?) m. 1886 Julia PETTMAN, and children:

    • Stanley J DALWOOD (1887-?)

    • Olive G DALWOOD (1889-?)

    • Harold Pettman DALWOOD (1893-1931)

  • Benjamin C DALWOOD (1866-?) m. 1888 - Eva Jane SOUTER (1863-1926), and children:

    • Alma L S DALWOOD (1889-?)

    • Norman Christopher Souter DALWOOD (1890-1940) m. Annie Murray Florence MITCHELL (1888-?)

    • Edgar J S DALWOOD (1893-?)

    • Hazel E S DALWOOD (1895-?)

    • Roy C S DALWOOD (1899-?)

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