My mother, Edith Galton, was born and brought up in Poole, a place where the Galton name is well represented. Her father, Tom Galton, was a joiner and his father, Edward Thomas, was a carpenter. There are legends in the family that one ancestor was lost overboard from a clipper ship rounding Cape Horn and that one was transported to Australia but who they were is not known and my research so far has not found any such person.
Tom's father, Edward Thomas Galton, married Sarah Ann Davis, from Christchurch. Before they were married she had a son, George Edwin Dowling Davis, out of wedlock as his father is not recorded on his birth certificate. Both his birth certificate and baptismal record suggests that his father was Edwin Harry Dowling who died of TB a few months before George was born in 1864. George lived with Edward and Sarah Galton after their marriage but he died of pneumonia aged 17 in 1882. Tom married Elizabeth Ann Smith, who had come from Market Deeping with her employer's family, the Marstons. Walter Marston was a director of the Dolphin Brewery, Poole but came from a brewing family in Market Deeping. Elizabeth came with her sister Martha who also worked in the Marston household and also married a local resident, William Gillett, who came originally from Somerset.
Edward Thomas Galton's father was also called Edward Thomas, born in Poole in 1804. He was a mariner and appears to have died aged 44 in the Poole Workhouse of epilepsy in 1844. He married Elizabeth Grady in 1829 in Poole; they appear to have has just two sons, Edward and John.
My uncle Hattie emigrated to Winnipeg, Canada, in 1925, following his mother's brother Stephen Smith, who had emigrated in 1906 but returned during WW1 and when at home had marrried Mary Shotbolt from Spalding in 1919 before returning to Canada. Stephen Smith and Hattie Galton's descendants live around Winnipeg now.
The Galton family is set out in The Galton chart