Good morning Jean, Once again, many thanks for your email. All the Dalmeny entries that you have listed have been looked at and researched in some detail. All have proved to be 'dead-end' with no further records found. Almost all other listings for Dalmeny in the Ancestry pages have proved to be street, house, building and business names, not surnames. This is a prime example of Ancestry padding its pages and numbers with geographical rather than genealogical data. The USA listings for Dalmeny in Ancestry are all descendants of a Gordon Bruce Dalmeny who changed his name from Daniel Clemo in 1924. The full story is known and available to anyone who has a family connection. On some sites listing the UK 1861 census a Thomas Dalmeny, born 1842, in Dublin is detailed but the original entry is badly written and difficult to read so it could be a transcription error. A check on other sites listing the 1861 census fails to find any evidence of the entry nor can the original entry or census page be found. As 1842 is well before the start of the Dublin BMD records we are unable to obtain a copy of the birth record from that source. This suggests that we will need to try the Dublin parish records and there appears to have been about twenty or so parishes in Dublin . It is understood that Dublin Cathedral acted as registrar and holds the records for all Dublin parishes and faiths. Can anyone confirm this? This prompts the question... does anyone know when the Dublin GRO BMD records will be available to search on line? The only other record found is of a Claude Philibert Dalmeny born 1795 in the Ain department of the Rhone Alpine region in France. Claude was just the right age to have been a migrant in the Frernch exodus that followed the civil unrest of the early 1800;s but again no further record found. The place name Dalmeny appears in Scottish records from cira 1200 with two Baronies of Dalmeny, one in South Glasgow and the other just north of Edinburgh from which the title name Lord Dalmeny stems. Considering that it was once the practise to name children "conceived and born in fornication" (church record wording), after the parish in which the child was born would suggest that the surname Dalmeny should be a little more commonplace than it historically is. The name has many alternative spellings with names such as Dalman, Dahlman, Dalmen, Dalmaine, De Meny and many other similar variations all listed as originating in the Hanoverian region. Again similar names can be found in most of the other European countries. This is when a good knowledge of geography, history and migration becomes a necessity in genealogical searches. Unfortunately I have a lot to learn. My plea is... if any reader knows of or has a connection with anyone named Dalmeny born before about 1926, please please please contact me. Sincerely.....Don Dalmeny> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:38:23 -0700> Subject: Re: [IRELAND] re. DALMENY> > Hi Don - On "googling" the web with the DALMENY surname - I started with > Ancestry.com. I found a reference to an event for a Clarence Victor DALMENY > with 1906 date July-Sept-Aug., Hull, Yorkshire-East Riding, Humberside. I > also found a reference to a Mark COUSENS event registration 1914 > Jul-Aug-Sept with spouse's name Blanche DALMENY, District Newport M, > Glamorgan, ?Gwent, Monmouthshire, ?Scotland. Do you have this? I believe > both of those can be found at Ancestry.com but by subscription only, along > with other DALMENY data. They had a free BMD Marriage Index 1837-1983 for > the UK. If some of the DALMENY is subscription-only data at Ancestry.com, > and you don't have a subscription, perhaps a lister who does can help you. > Looked like there might be USA data, too. You apparently have been in > touch with fellow researcher Audrey DALMENY who has posted queries to the > Internet. Apparently DUNMANYN and DALMENIE may be Scottish variations of > DALMENY surname. Sorry this note is not very specific, but if you are > interested in any of this I (hopefully) backtrack and find same. Jean> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donald Dalmeny" <[email protected]>> To: <[email protected]>> Cc: <[email protected]>> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:56 AM> Subject: Re: [IRELAND] re. DALMENY> > > > Dear Jean,> Again, many thanks for your email. You are a busy lass.> I have looked at the sites showing the 1901/1911 census results but nothing > so far. We will keep checking.> Unfortunately we have no firm details of birth, marriage or > deaths or of places, only broad estimates.> Other sightings of the Dalmeny surname are Clarence Victor > Dalmeny serving as a lieutenant in the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons,( not > listed in the British Archives army records) his son also Clarence Victor, a > merchant seaman,who in 1906 aged 35 , married Kirstine Lundgreen in Hull in > 1906. This suggests that Clarence was born 1871, place unknown.(no other > record found); a Blanche Dalmeny who on her second marriage in 1914 > described herself as a widow. We found Blanche, maiden name Wallace, in the > UK 1901 census as a 13 year old in a girls boarding school. This suggests > that she married Dalmeny between cira 1904 and 1913. ( Her vfather was an > army man serving in the 17th Lancers, who appears to have died in South > Africa in 1902). There is no record of this marriage and death in the UK or > Dublin GRO records., and finally there is a Lysle Dalmeny listed as having > sailed from Southampton bound for Shanghai in 1906, possible on missionary > work. That is about all we have.> We look forward to the publication of the Dublin GRO BMD records > on the internet (any news about when that may be?) and will keep checking on > further listing of the 1901/1911 census.> We will always be delighted to hear from anyone who knows of or > has any link with the surname Dalmeny> Good luck in all your endeavours,> Sincerely.....Don Dalmeny> > From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Date: Sat, 29 > Sep 2007 04:36:09 -0700> Subject: Re: [IRELAND] re. DALMENY> > Hi - Perhaps > on the 1901 or 1911 census of Ireland? Do you have a > date/place of death? > J.> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donald Dalmeny" > <[email protected]>> To: <[email protected]>> Cc: > <[email protected]>> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 4:26 AM> > Subject: [IRELAND] re. DALMENY> > > >> > Hi Jean,> > Many thanks for your > email. The person that I am looking for is > > Angus Dalmeny. He may have > been Scottish, Irish or English or even French > > or Dutch, but no record > of him can be found. He may have served as a > > Veterinary Surgeon at the > British army Veterinary Hospital based in > > Waterford or in any British or > Irish army unit in the period 1880 to 1920. > > He was married to a Margaret > Fordham and is believed to have had two sons > > John and Donald and two > daughters Margaret and Constance. No record can > > be found for any of his > family.> > That is about all I know. Hope it is sufficient for what ever you > > > have in mind.> > Sincerely.....Don Dalmeny > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Feel like a local wherever you go. http://www.backofmyhand.com