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Eeles family

Posted: 12 May 2003 11:04AM GMT
Classification: Lookup
Surnames: Eeles
Hello

My mother's maiden name was Eeles. She was the daughter of James and Amy Rose Eeles (nee Dellaway, from Croydon) and was born in Thornton Heath in 1920. All I know about my grandfather, who died in 1947 just before I was born, was that he had a brother called William and possibly a sister called Em.

Re: Eeles family

Posted: 28 May 2003 11:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 8 Jun 2006 3:38AM GMT
Surnames: Dellaway
I don't have any Eeles in my family, but I am researching Dellaway (from Croydon). My ggg grandfather (John Dellaway, wife Mary Smith) was from there & emigrated to Australia in 1862. I would really appreciate any info you have on the Dellaways.

Re: Dellaway family

P. Vivien Pegram (View posts)
Posted: 29 May 2003 9:48AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dellaway
I think your Dellaways are probably connected to mine. My grandmother, Amy Rose, was the eldest of 11 children (she was born in 1898) in a place with a curious name: Jolly Bleachings in Croydon. When I looked at the 1901 Census, there were a couple of Dellaway families living in this street, road or whatever it was (it has obvious connections with laudering).

My grandmother always said that the Dellaway family had connections in Cork, Eire. I never met any members of her family because by the time I was born she had lost touch with them. However, she did mention brothers and nephews who won scholarships to Whitgift School in Croydon and you might like to research that.

I am afraid that I cannot add much more than that, except when I looked at the page on the census there was a Mary Dellaway but obviously this was after your family had gone off to Australia.

Best wishes, P. Vivien Pegram

Re: Dellaway family

Posted: 30 May 2003 1:18AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 8 Jun 2006 3:38AM GMT
Surnames: dellaway
Thanks for replying so quickly. Could you tell me your grandmother's parent names? I had a look on the 1881 English Census & found a Henry Dellaway in Surrey, who I am fairly sure is the brother of my ggg grandfather John. On the IGI I found Henry, James & John Dellaway, all with the same parents names of John & Jane and all christened at St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey.
I would be really interested to work out where our connection is.

Re: Dellaway family

p v pegram (View posts)
Posted: 30 May 2003 10:43AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dellaway
I think my grandmother's father was called Henry Dellaway but I am not sure. When I looked on the 1901 census, I couldn't find my grandmother, although I know she would have been 3 at the time. However, I did find her via another method (parish record, I think) and she was listed as having been born in Croydon in 1898. As for her mother, I think her name may have been Mary but I am not sure about that either. All she ever told me about her parents was that her mother was of Scottish extraction and her father of Irish. I must ask my aunt who probably knows more.

Have you heard of any connection with your family and the address Jolly Bleachings?

As for the Croydon connection, I do know my g'mother grew up there and used to take me to a street market called Surrey Street in Croydon.

What part of the world are you emailing from? I am in London UK. Can you tell me what you have found out about your ancestors? I think my Dellaways were pretty humble folk. I seem to remember my grandmother mentioning her father was a greengrocer but again it is all veiled in the mists of time and my aunt is the only living relative from that side of the family! It certainly looks as if we probably are related in some way. There aren't that many Dellaways about - only a handful in the very large Greater London telephone book.

Writing this has made me curious about you - tell me more!

Best wishes, Viv Pegram

Re: Dellaway family

Posted: 1 Jun 2003 6:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 8 Jun 2006 3:38AM GMT
Surnames: Dellaway
Viv

This is getting really exciting. If your great grandfather is Henry, then he must be the brother to John Dellaway (my ggg grandfather) who emigrated to Australia in 1862.

John and his wife Mary left England on 2/8/1862 and arrived in Brisbane, Australia on 1/11/1862. With them was Alfred (my gg grandfather- he was about 6 at the time) and Maria, plus they had another daughter, Mary, who died on the voyage (she was only 6 months old.

My gg grandfather Alfred moved to NSW about 12 years later and according to his death certificate was a coalminer.

As you say, my Dellaways were humble working people as well, certainly no millionaires, I am sad to say. Alfred's son Thomas (my g grandfather) was also a miner. My grandmother (whose maiden name was Dellaway) died in 1985, and sadly I did not have a lot of information to go on when I started researching my family. I stumbled across the email of a woman in Melbourne (Victoria, Aust.) and she gave me a lot of information which helped a lot. Apparently when John and Mary came to Australia, they settled in Queensland, and as far as I can see had about another 6 children. The woman in Melbourne has a cousin in Queensland who passed on a lot of information to her, so it appears that there are still a few up there (I didn't know they existed), so it is really exciting when I come across people who are connected in some way.

I am in NSW Australia. I still live in the area where Alfred lived.

Please keep in touch, I would love to hear from you again.

Regards

Lee-Ann

Re: Dellaway family

Beth Bateson (View posts)
Posted: 8 Jun 2003 3:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dellaway Clegg Roach Smith
Hello LeeAnn and Viv,
I am very interested to see that we have found another possible connection LeeAnn. It would make sense if the ancestors in England were greengrocers because Maria Dellaway, my great grandmother who married Arthur Roach had a greengrocer's shop in Dinmore near Ipswich. She probably learnt about the do's and don'ts of greengrocering as a child!.. she also ran a boarding house.
I have not found anything more out, but I'm pleased to see you are still making headway!
Warm regards,
Beth ( in Melbourne, Australia)

Re: Dellaway family

Cheryl (View posts)
Posted: 4 Jun 2006 12:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dellaway, Dullaway,
Hi
Just browsing the net and came across your entry for Dellaway. My maiden name is Dullaway which through miss spelling should have been Dellaway however the spelling has stuck. I descend from Thomas Dellaway one of the sons of John and Jane Dellaway whom you mentioned coming from Croydon but the line orginated from Sussex. I also live in Australia. Arthur Richard Dullaway came to Australia in 1886 and settled in Rockhampton Queensland and my grandfather Thomas came out as a child with an uncle in 1913 and first went to Rockhampton, then later settled in Sydney NSW. All the Dullaways of Croydon and most of the Dellaways of the 1800's are all related having descended from John and Jane.
I would be very happy to hear from you and pass on the info i have.

Re: Dellaway family

Posted: 7 Jun 2006 3:51AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 8 Jun 2006 3:38AM GMT
Surnames: Dellaway/Dullaway
Hello Cheryl

Nice to get your email - I would very much like to see whatever information you have on the Dellaways/Dullaways. I haven't made any more progess on them so if you have some more information, I would love to see it. When I have access to my computer I will send you some of the info I have collected.

Regards - Lee-Ann

Re: Dellaway family

Cheryl (View posts)
Posted: 7 Jun 2006 5:38AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dellaway, Dullaway, Dillaway, Chilman, Pudwell, Puddle, Waller
Great to hear from you Lee-Ann
I have alot of information on the Dellaways/Dullaways. John Dellaway & Jane Waller were married 31 Jul 1817 Slaugham, Cty Sussex and had 13 cildren born
William 1817 (East Grinstead SSX) , Mary 1819 (born Croydon apparently but have never found her christening record), George 1823(from George onwards all the other children were christened at St John the Baptist, Croydon), Sarah 1823, Charles 1824, John 1827, Jane 1829, Henry 1831, Eliza 1834, James 1836, Thomas 1838, Harriet 1840 & Richard 1843 (Richard was born 1843 but not christened till 1849 his father John died two months before his birth and so the family was listed as paupers in the 1851 census).
If you belong to one of these Dellaways let me know which one and i'll pass on what i have
Cheryl
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