Dana family index

My 3rd great grandmother

97 Charlotte Frances Dana, daughter of William Pulteney Dana and Charlotte Elizabeth Bailey was born on 22 February 1820 in Albrighton, Shropshire, England. She died on 9 November 1904 at Eurumbeen East, Eurambeen, Victoria, Australia.

Charlotte Frances Champion Crespigny née Dana (1820 – 1904) photographed probably in the late 1850s

Charlotte married twice.

She first married John James (1808-1855) at Albrighton, Shropshire on 14 May 1839. They had two children:

• Charlotte Constance James (1840-1935)
  • Charlotte Constance James born 1840
  • Charlotte Constance Blood nee James (1840 – 1935)
• John Henry James (1841-1842)

John James divorced Charlotte in 1849: Divorce of John James and Charlotte Frances née Dana

Charlotte married Philip Robert Champion Crespigny on 18 July 1849 at the British Embassy in Paris, France.

• Anniversary of the marriage of Philip Crespigny and Charlotte Dana

Charlotte and Philip emigrated to Australia: Australian arrival of the Champion Crespigny family on the ‘Cambodia’ 31 March 1852

the name Charlotte

Book:

• Charlotte Frances Champion Crespigny nee Dana (1820-1904) and her family in Australia
• C F C Crespigny nee Dana
• C F C Crespigny nee Dana (1820 – 1904): paperback book available

my 4th great grandparents

194 William Pulteney Dana, son of Edmund Dana and Helen Kinnaird was born on 13 July 1776 in Wroxeter, Shropshire, England. He died on 29 June 1861 in Shropshire, England.

He first married Anne Fitzhugh (1784-1804). He secondly married Charlotte Elizabeth Bailey in 1812 in Ireland.

195 Charlotte Elizabeth Bailey, daughter of Reverend Bailey was born in 1795 in Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland. She died on 13 May 1846 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

• F is for field day
• J is for jail: Bankruptcy of William Pulteney Dana
• William Pulteney Dana died 29 June 1861

William Pulteney Dana had 14 children – 2 by his first marriage and 12 by his second marriage. Two sons and a daughter, Charlotte (see above) came to Australia.

From his marriage to Anne Fitzhugh:

1. Edmund or William 1802–1803
2. Anne Frisby 1803–1850

From his marriage to Charlotte Bailey:

1. Helen Matilda 1813–1813
2. Anna Penelope 1814–1890
   • Bequests from Anna Penelope Wood
   • Two Years Before the Mast
3. Douglas Kinnaird 1815–1816
4. William Pulteney 1816–1817
5. Henry Edmund Pulteney 1817–1852
   • Henry married Sophia Cole Hamilton Walsh (1827-1860). They had five children:
     • William Harry Pulteney Dana 1845–1854
     • Cecile Sophia Dana 1845–1908
     • Charlotte Elizabeth K Dana 1848–1848
     • George Jamieson Kinnaird Dana 1849–1872
       • George Kinnaird Dana and Augustus Pulteney Dana
       • Y is for football at Yarra Park: G. Dana footballer
       • George Dana 1849 – 1872
     • Augustus Pulteney Dana 1851–1868
       • W is for Williamstown: funeral of Augustus Dana
6. Charlotte Frances 1820–1904
7. Douglas Kinnaird 1821–1821
8. Helen Kinnaird 1823–1882
9. Douglas Charles Kinnaird 1824–1878
10. William Augustus Pulteney 1826–1866
    • William married firstly his brother’s widow Sophia and secondly Antoinette Camilla Weber
    • Trove Tuesday: death of Captain W. A. P. Dana
11. Francis Richard Benjamin 1833–1833
12. Francis Richard Benjamin 1834–1854

my 5th great grandparents

My fifth great grandfather Edmund Dana (1739 – 1823) was born in Charleston, near Boston, Massachusetts to Richard Dana (1700 – 1772), a lawyer and a prominent local politician, and Lydia Dana nee Trowbridge (1710 – 1776). He was their second child.

At Edinburgh Edmund Dana met the Hon. Helen Kinnaird (abt. 1749 – 1795), daughter of Charles (1723-1767), sixth Baron Kinnaird of Inchture, and his wife Barbara Kinnaird nee Johnstone (1723 – 1765). Edmund and Helen were married on 9 July 1765 at the church of St Cuthbert in Leith, Edinburgh’s port, a few miles from the city.

The Reverend Edmund Dana (1739-1823) A miniature in the possession of my father.

• S is for Shrewsbury
• Wroxeter and Shrewsbury 11 May 2019
• W is for Whitehall

Edmund and Helen Dana had 13 children:

1. Frances Johnstone 1766–1767
2. Elizabeth Caroline 1767–1844
3. Frances Johnstone 1768–1832
   • Frances Johnstone Sherburne (1768 – 1832)
   • She married Joseph Sherburne (1751 – 1805)
   • O is for Opportunities Lost and Found
   • They had two children:
   • Pulteney Johnstone Poole Sherburne (1802 – 1831)
   • Frances Henrietta Laura Sherburne (1802 – 1819)
4. George Kinnaird 1770–1837
   • F is for field day
5. Helen Gordon 1772–1855
6. Harriet 1774–1803
7. William Pulteney 1776–1861
8. Henry Bertie 1778–1798
9. Barbara 1779–1779
10. Matilda 1780–1837
11. Henrietta Laura 1782–1814
12. Charles Patrick 1784–1816
13. Maria 1787–1787

my seventh great grandparents

Daniel Dana 1664-1749 was born and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1694 Daniel married Naomi Crossell 1670-1751.

• D is for Daniel

Other Dana family history

• Two Years Before the Mast
• The American Revolution: my Dana connection
• George III: my part in his downfall

• DNA analysis: matching the DNA results to the”paper tree”

Heraldry

• A search for the arms of the Dana family