Grant-Dalton family

[sandrastocks54]

Not sure if Youngatheart is still looking for their great grandmother, but it looks like she emigrated to South Africa in 1938 and died there in 1954.

Her estate papers are indexed on the National Archives of South Africa website http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm30ddf0?2016091920001827811C69&DN=00000001

You may be able to get a copy of her Estate Papers from the Cape Town Archives - archives@westerncape.gov.za - using the details above. 

Sandra

[Vesta]

I did say that Jessie Mackay Grant-Dalton died in S. Africa at E. London
Death ref Mooc 6/9/23265 5962   Age 62 yrs 8 months
Her birth Ref GROS 1892 W.Kilpatrick Dunbarton 501/00 0152
Vesta

[sandrastocks54]

Sorry Vesta.  I didn't see that

Sandra

[swillott]

George Grant married Mary Foster (date unknown) They had 9 children including Robert Foster Grant (d.1854) he married Mary Slade Dalton (b.1783) in 1810, and in 1826 adopted the name Grant-Dalton. George and Mary's daughter Mary Grant (1798-1884) married Charles Thellusson (1797-1856) of Brodsworth Hall near Doncaster in South Yorkshire. Their granddaughter was Constance Thellusson (1858-1893).
Robert Foster and Mary Grant-Dalton had four children one of whom was Robert Dalton Foster Grant-Dalton (1812-1890). In 1848 he married Alice Charlotte Bettsworth Trevanion (d.1903). They had 12 children one of whom was Horace Grant-Dalton (1853-1899). He married Constance Thellusson (above). Another child was Gerald Grant-Dalton (1851-1927) who married Emma Kate Skilbech (d.1932). they had three children one of whom was Eustace Foster Grant Dalton. Constance and Horace had two sons Charles (1884-1952) and Stuart (1886-1971). Charles married Sylvia West, they Inherited Brodsworth Hall in 1931. Charles died in 1952 and in 1957 Sylvia married Eustace. After his death Sylvia lived on at Brodsworth until her death when her daughter Pamela gave the property to English Heritage. It is open to the public.

[Vesta]

Thank you Swillott for taking the time to reply. My connection is via Dalton Foster G-D  12 March 1812 -- 15 April 1890, who married Alice Charlotte Trevanion the daughter of Charlotte Trelawny who was a younger sister of my G. Grandfather.
Vesta

[Redroger]

In the mid 1980s as the then Chairman of Brodsworth Parish Council the then resident Mrs Sylvia Grant-Dalton offered the Hall to me for the Council. A small semi rural council with annual rate income £10k was clearly out of its depth, so I suggested she approach Doncaster MBC who couldn't take it either due to financial cuts. Luckily English Heritage stepped in and saved the day.
The last of the line was Mrs. G-Ds daughter. She married, but died without issue, so the estate is now owned by a man who has no blood link to the Grant-Dalton or to the Thellussons who built the hall What happens next is anyone's guess.