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John Dalyell-Stead - Scottish?

 
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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:28 am    Post subject: John Dalyell-Stead - Scottish? Reply with quote

I've found a reference to this man being born in Scotland in 1910 and his wife had a Tain connection but has anyone come across him on a memorial?

DALYELL-STEAD, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieut-Commander
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Formidable
Age: 31
Date of Death: 28/03/1941
Awards: D S O
Additional information: Son of John E. and Berthe M. Stead; husband of Rosemary Dalyell-Stead (nee MacIver Ritchie), of Tain, Ross and Cromarty.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 1, Panel 6.
Memorial: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL

He died at the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941 and his name crops up on the internet in relation to the battle but I can't find any refrences to him in Scotland.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John Dalyell STEAD born Sept Q.1909 Registered: Knaresborough WR Yorkshire

John Dalyell STEAD married Dorothy R(osemary) MacI(ver) RITCHIE 1938 Registered: Tain.

No hyphenations in sight Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Ken

Not born in Scotland then. Many thanks for confirming that. I doubt he'll be on any Scottish war memorial.

Note that tomorrow will be the seventieth anniversary of his death.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He was in Headingley, Leeds in the 1911 census; birthplace listed as Harrogate. The parents' names confirm that the family name was indeed Stead, and that Dalyell was John's middle name. No hyphens.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's interesting about the name. All refrences I've found of him call him Dalyell-Stead. I wonder if he chose to hyphenate it himself? If he joined the Navy as a young man it would have been in the 1920's at the height of the double-barrelling of names.

Thanks for the extra checks on him Ken and ADP. Knaresborough and Harrogate are near neighbours so he's a Yorkshireman, not a Scot.

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