THE JOURNEY OF OUR UTAH DALTON FAMILY

             FROM EARLY 1100 AD to 2002 AD and BEYOND

                                   Author and Compiler

                            RODNEY GARTH DALTON

                                        Co- Author

                     ARTHUR REXFORD WHITTAKER

        Published by the Dalton Family Research Group of Utah

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INTRODUCTION

This book has been written to tell the story of our Utah Dalton family who traveled from far away across the sea to finely settle in the Great State of Utah.

Our pedigree tells us that the first Dalton probably come from Normandy France and settled some where in the area of Lancashire County England that was called "Dale-Tun", or of a little town in the "dale." From that time on he was called "Le Sieur de Dalton."

Le Sieur in French means "Mister". "De" or "Of" means of a place. Surnames were not used in England until around the 13^th, Century.

Dalton family tradition tells us he may have been named Walter de D’Aliton and was with King Henry II during the invasion of Ireland around 1171. Read the story of the Irish D’Alton line in chapter two.

From this very first "Dalton" there is evidence that most of the Dalton’s in the world today are descendent from this first Dalton.

As you read through these chapter’s of our Dalton family lives, remember that somehow they survived many hard and troubled times and conditions - Wars, famine, plagues, the trip to America, another war, frontier Indian battles, mob justice, crossing the plains,

more Indian wars and then living in the wild, wild West. You wonder how they all survived to this day, but they did!

Photo's - Maps - Documents - Family Group Sheets - Pedigree's - Histories - Stories

Rodney G. Dalton, December 2002 AD.