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 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)
- 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.
Charlotte and Philip emigrated to Australia: Australian arrival of the Champion Crespigny family on the ‘Cambodia’ 31 March 1852
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:
- Edmund or William 1802–1803
- Anne Frisby 1803–1850
From his marriage to Charlotte Bailey:
- Helen Matilda 1813–1813
- Anna Penelope 1814–1890
- Douglas Kinnaird 1815–1816
- William Pulteney 1816–1817
- 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
- Augustus Pulteney Dana 1851–1868
- Henry married Sophia Cole Hamilton Walsh (1827-1860). They had five children:
- Charlotte Frances 1820–1904
- Douglas Kinnaird 1821–1821
- Helen Kinnaird 1823–1882
- Douglas Charles Kinnaird 1824–1878
- 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
- Francis Richard Benjamin 1833–1833
- 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.

Edmund and Helen Dana had 13 children:
- Frances Johnstone 1766–1767
- Elizabeth Caroline 1767–1844
- 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)
- George Kinnaird 1770–1837
- Helen Gordon 1772–1855
- Harriet 1774–1803
- William Pulteney 1776–1861
- Henry Bertie 1778–1798
- Barbara 1779–1779
- Matilda 1780–1837
- Henrietta Laura 1782–1814
- Charles Patrick 1784–1816
- 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.
Other Dana family history
- Two Years Before the Mast
- The American Revolution: my Dana connection
- George III: my part in his downfall