Earlier this morning I set myself to the task of untangling the Welsh line of William Griffiths, and surprisingly, that went just fine. Thanks to the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
However. The same sort of easy and reliable resource does not exist for the Daltons, one of whom married into the Griffith line.
The Alice Dalton I've linked to here (and who is still given as the mother of Jonet verch William, which might or might not be true), WAS married to Gwilym Fychan ap Gwilym whom we used to call the Chamberlain of North Wales, but I took that out; the Dictionary says he wasn't Chamberlain, that was his son and grandson.
at any rate. I detached this Alice, rather than merging her with the Alys (Alice) Dalton married to The-Gwilym-Who-Wasn't-Chamberlain-After-All, because THAT Alice Dalton was the daughter of Richard Dalton and Katherine Venables, and was born about 1428.
THIS Alice Dalton is the daughter of a different Richard Dalton, and Alice de Clifford, and she is born in 1390. Not the same Alice Dalton. (We had all these similarly named people conflated, understandably.)
Fine fine fine, that's fine, BUT
Who are the parents of HER Richard Dalton?
His profile says, in his curator's notes, that he's the son of John Dalton and Margaret Pilikington, but if you find them, she's not Margaret, she's Isabel, and they already HAVE a Richard Dalton son, born in about 1590, which would make sense, as if THIS Richard Dalton were their son they would both have been about 5 years old or so when they had him, which I do not believe.
I find it fairly hilarious that in this case the Welsh were easier than the English, but there you are.
All of this is to say -help!
I am going off for a bit to have my life that exists outside Geni, but then I will come back, and I will try to figure out Daltons some more.
But we have them extremely mixed up.
Don't mess with the William Griffiths, though! I have them done and dusted, according to the Dictionary.
This Alice Dalton is NOT married to William Griffith.
Following, with interest. I have 3 sibling lines from the 2 wives of Gwilym, so curious to know which Alice Dalton is correct.
As long as you're working in this area, when you look at the profile of Richard Dalton's father, John Dalton, Jr, the curator's box states he has 2 known sons - 4 are listed.
Also, Gwilym's granddaughter, Janet Gruffydd, dau of William Griffith, m. William Herbert -- but, which one? The likely candidate, by birthdate, is Sir Wm Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. However, he has 3 wives already. His half-brother, William Herbert of Troye, is the next possibility. The profile connected to Janet doesn't list parents...is it likely that William descends from William ap Thomas, the Blue Knight of Gwent??
Glad you're willing to wade in here! :-)
Thanks to Felipe González de Otoya De Narváez followup we now think we have this Ales Dalton with her correct parents. Well done!
Anne Brannen I think that we have to find out about the parenting of Ales (Alice) Dalton, of Althorp.
The dates of birth of Katherine de Venables to be her mother.
More Alice de Clifford the daughter of the 5th Lord Clifford. Not the 7th Lord Clifford.
Please help.
Sure, this is an interesting problem, as the sources are contradictory. But the Welsh source seems the best. :) In a sense we need a summary "opinion" to explain the choices we've made for presentation on Geni?
I do think the curator's note reflects best evidence?
"Alice Dalton was the daughter of Sir Richard Dalton, Knight, and Alice de Clifford. She was born in 1390 in Wales and died in 1444 in Apethorpe, Northampton, England. She married William "Fychan" ap Gwilym, Chamberlain of North Wales. Two known children."
I haven't looked carefully at Katherine de Venables, maybe that could be an approach on my end?
The Griffitth comes from her grandfather.
I myself would call her Jonet verch William, and put Jonet Griffith in the nickname field, since she is often referred to as that.
OR the other thing I have been doing with what I think of as the Welsh Temporal Border Profiles (that is, they lived during the time when they had both Welsh names and the beginnings of "surnames," all of which are coming out of the older generations) is to put Jonet as the first name, Griffith as the last name, and verch William as the brth name.
And then the display name comes up as Jonet Griffith, which is how she was known, but if someone like me is searching for the actual name, the Welsh shows up easily, AND it's visible in the profile, making the name switch visible.
And I would add Janet Salisbury into the nickname field.
So!
This was from 2016; things are still messed up; This Alice Dalton cannot be the child of the mother she's been given, AND her dates contradict the curator's notes.
So we need to untangle again, and lock everything down.
Erica Howton -- you were in on this. And this merge might be good but might be problematic -- https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=69869153520
The problems with the merge undo (besides curator notes & dates) is the source documents are attached, in great detail, to Ales (Alice) Dalton, of Althorp and not to Ales (Alice) Dalton, of Althorp
So I think we’ll want to determine which curator note applies to which Alice, and re merge ?
Isabel "Margaret" Pilkington is Ales (Alice) Dalton, of Althorp's grandmother! Applies to either mother so that doesn’t help.
If the “Stanley connection” is meant to be blood relation, then wouldn’t her mother have been Isabel Dalton ?
For what it’s worth Wikitree is showing her with mother unknown in the tree, estimated birth date 1422, daughter of the Richard who married Katherine Venables but didn’t necessarily have children with her.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dalton-724
How do you feel about this solution?
And … we still didn’t make a decision!
https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000006444557733
Two Ales, two mothers, which do we go with?
Or unknown mother.
Ales (Alice) Dalton, of Althorp
Ales (Alice) Dalton, of Althorp