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The Genealogy of the Dallett Family The Genealogy of the Dallett Family Fancis James Dallett Philadelphia, PA 1946 1llalldt (DALET) DEDICATED to BETTY (ROSE) DALLETT 1744 - 1832 and to her last surviving great granddaughter CATHERINE ELIZABETH (DALLETT) SMITH born 1860 INTRODUCTION The lack of a printed genealogical record of the Dallett family has been greatly felt with the diminishing of the family and the scattering of private manuscripts. This volume, my attempt to fill the gap, is the result of several years research and correspondence done only in leisure time. The first six genera­ tions are fully documented, and, with very few exceptions, every descendant of the family in this country has been listed. There is still a tremendous amount of work to be done in English records to make_ a Dallett record really complete, and it is my hope that this may be done. The expense involved in engraving has pre­ cluded illustrations, but Marjorie Hemphill Williamson has been gathering together copies of many family pictures of the older generations, and prints of these to be bound in the bac;k of indi­ vidual copies may be obtained. I acknowledge with many thanks the assistance given to me by various m~µibers of the family, some now dead, and the interest manifested in the preparation of this volume. It is hoped that any additions or corrections will immediately be brought to my atten­ tion so that in future a sheet may be issued giving such further information, and that it will be possible to locate still other older family pictures, particularly of the first two Thomas Dalletts, and any of our English antecedents. FRANCIS JAMES DALLETT, JR. Wayne, Pennsylvania May, 1946 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Origin of the Name . 7 Beginnings of the Family in England . 7 The Dallett Lineage . 1 O References to the First Six Generations . 74 Other Dalletts in America . 77 The Dumbrell Family .. -. 77 The Woodman Family .....·. 79 The Rose Family . 82 The Saunders Family . 87 The Jenkinson Family . 88 Index .......... ·. 93 Abbreviations Used b.-bom bur.-buried bapt.-baptized d.-died dau.-daughter of memb.-member of m.-married unm.-unmarried prob.-probably Names should first be looked for in the index. The bracketed number following the individual's number preceding the name is the number of the parent through whom the descent is traced. THE DALLETT FAMILY Origin of the Name HE surname, Dallett, is of French origin, and is a variant of T Dalet or Dalette. Dalette or Alette, in the Bourbon dialect, diocese of Boulogne, is a word for a small wing in architecture, 1 of which Webster says "Roman and Neoclassic arch, the pilaster­ like abutment of the arch seen on either side of the large engaged column, or pilaster, which carries the entablature."2 The closely related old French word, ailette, signified an iron or steel shoulder­ plate worn by men-at-arms before the complete evolution of plate armor, the original of the epaulet, and sometimes charged with heraldic bearings; this being a diminutive of aile: wing, from the Latin, ala.2 Thus the name was probably assigned to its earliest bearers because of their connection with a certain arch or because they wore a distinctive shoulder-plate. The name gained the CCD" from the French preposition de: of, for example, Philippe de Alette (Philip of the arch, or Philip of the shoulder-plate) be­ came Philippe d'Alett. The name seems to occur in several sections of F ranee. At the turn of ~~ twentieth century, at the village of Goderville, N.E. of Havre, in the Seine-Inferieure Dept., the mayor was a M. Dallett, and he owned a beautiful dairy farm which had been in his family for generations. 3 The family of Dalet, from which the family dealt with herein may be remotely descended, was seated in the ancient province ( now Dept.) of Auvergne, in southern France. Beginnings of the Family in England The name of Dallett early appears in Sussex and Kent in southeastern England, in several variants. The will of one John Walter, of Iden, Sussex, dated March 14, 1551-2, states that his executrix "wth the consent and advyse 1 of John Dallet and Goddard Foster" is to "bestowe the sayd vij i so receyved in the kyngs highway in places moost nedefull betwene Hapys Hill in Iden and the Hyll in Playden comenly callyd beggeryshe hill." 5 7 The Genealogy of A Sir Thomas Dollet was curate of the church of Saltwode, Kent, in 1552.6 A John Dallett, of Rye, Sussex, had will dated December 2, 1587, and proved February 27, 1588;7 he is probably the husband of Mrs. Ellen Dallett, of Rye, whose estate was administered July 14, 1593.8 There is, in the middle aisle of the Church of All Saints, Lydd, in the Romney Marsh, Kent, a slab to William Dallet who died in 1598.9 It seems likely that all of these Dalletts were several genera­ tions at least removed from F ranee. By the beginning of the following century the name was well established in Sussex and Kent. Alexander Sharppeighe, of Benenden, Kent, an officer of the East India Company, ubound for the fourth voyage to the East Indies; general of the ships 'Ascension' and 'Union' of London" made his will, dated March 22, 1607/08, on board the Ascension, in the downs near Deal in Kent, naming many relatives to share in his large estate in­ cluding his mother Alice Sharppeighe, widow of Stephen Sharp­ peighe, and the children ( under sixteen) of his sister Anice, wife of John Dallett. It was proved June 1, 1620.10 Three of General Sharppeighe' s brothers were wealthy clothiers and the family represented a branch of the Sharppeighe family whose pedigree is recorded among those of the leading Kentish gentry in the Herald's Visitation of 1592. John Dallett who married Anice Sharppeighe was probably a descendant of the John Dallett of Iden, 1552 (above), and was apparently also the John -Dallett, yeoman, of Iden, ( which was near the Kentish border) , who as "widower" aged about 40, married at Appledore, Kent, September 8, 1620, Susan Cheese­ man, widow, aged 36, the recent wife of William Cheeseman, yeoman, an Iden Neighbor of John Dallett's.11 On November 24, 1637, Ellen Bigge, of Cranbrook, Kent, widow of Smalehope Bigge, clothier, made a will (proved Febru­ ary 12, 1638) in which she mentioned "William Dallett, son of my dee' d. sister Bridgett" and his son ( under age) .12 Smalehope and Ellen ( ? Pilcher) Bigge were of Rye, Sussex, and Cranbrook, Kent, and had relatives in New England. 12 8 THE DALLETT FAMILY We find record of the administration of a Thomas Dallett, of Udimore, Sussex, August 16, 1641. 13 Thus there is abundant evidence that the name was frequently found in this region in the first half of the seventeenth century. It seems likely, however, that these Dalletts, though perhaps stemming from the same family in France, were not the immediate progenitors of the Dallett family of Surrey. It is probable, on the basis of data which will follow, that the Surrey Dalletts de­ rived from a John Dolett, of Bokland [ i.e. Buckland], Surrey, whose will, written in Latin, bears date of December 3, 1487, and which says "to be buried in the churcliyard of Bokland. To t..lie high altar of the said church for tithes forgot 6d. To the mother church of Wip.chester 2d. To the light of the Cross 6d. To the repair of the way called 'ham gayt' 3s. 4d. To Joan my daughter a brass pot and a calf. To John my son a large brass pot. One pound of wax to the chapel of St. Mary in the said parish. Residue to Joan my wife, Executrix for my soul. John Chamberleyn, over­ seer." Probate not given.14 Further data is not at present available. The earliest records we have of our direct line spell the name "Dollett" more frequently than Dallett, although this was prob­ ably due to the British pronunciation as well as to clerical error. Records of the College of Arms, London, disclose that the coat­ of-arms registered for the name of Dallett is "Barry of four, or and azure/'15 the same arms borne by the Dalets of the Province of Auvergne, France.4 It is likely that the arms were obtained from France during the period of family prosperity in the early nineteenth century; it was said, jokingly, that the £our bars repre­ sented four bars of Dallett soap. A motto, "great in everything," was known to the descendants of Thomas Dallett (35) and Ann Saunders, but this, a crude translation from the Latin, is believed to have been derived from the Saunders arms which they quartered. The first example of the name in the immediate vicinity in which our ancestors lived is in the record of the marriage of Henry Mayo and M?,rgaret Dallett, on July 18, 1596, at Wimbledon, Surrey. 16 The next century finds members of the family living at Putney, Sutton, Worcester Park, Malden, Kingston-on-Thames, and Morden, Surrey. We have the following records of those in Putney.17 All dates are O.S. 9 The Genealogy of Baptised, 1664, December 11-Samuel, s. of George and Elizabeth Dollet. Baptised, 1666, February 24--Elizabeth, d. of George and Elizabeth Dollet. Baptised, 1668, January 17-George, s. of George and Elizabeth Dollet. Baptised, 1670, February 12-Christian, d. of George and Elizabeth Dollet. Baptised, 1672, December 12-John, s. of George and Elizabeth Dollet. Buried 1665, August 14--Mirs Joanes, at Dollets house.
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