My mother, Edith Elsie Galton was born and brought up in Poole, Dorset wher the Galton name is well represented. Her father, Tom Galton, was a joiner and carpenter and suffered from asthma for most of his life.
Tom's oldest son, Hattie emigrated to Winnipeg, Canada in 1925 to join his uncle Stephen Smith the youngest son of Philip Smith. Stephen had gone to Canada in 1906 and had served in Canadian forces in WW1.
Tom's youngest son, Philip, was killed in Germany in February 1945.
Tom's father, Edward Thomas, was also a carpenter. He married Sarah Ann Davis from Christchurch, her father was a cordwainer in that town. Sarah had an illegitimate child, whose father died of tuberculosis several months before the child was born and this child came with her on her marriage to Edward in 1874.
The earlier Galtons are hard to trace as the name is so common in the area to the west of Poole.
There is a legend in the family that an earlier ancester was a carpenter on clipper-ships and was lost rounding Cape Horn but I have found no evidence for this. In addition there was a tale that one member of the family was transported to Australia, thanks to a letter found in Ann Gatrell's Bible we now have details, see the Davis's page..
Edith's mother was Elizabeth Ann Smith who was born in Market Deeping, on the borders of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. She came to be in Poole as she, with her sister Martha, came in the domestic household employ of Walter Marsden, a director of the Dolphin brewing company, also from market Deeping. More on the Smiths family page.