Issue Date: 24/3/2004

THE DOLMAN FAMILY
      My wife's paternal grandmother was Florence Dolman (b 1892 in
Wolverhampton, Staffs, England) but lived in Canada with her husband:
Frederick Kirk-Owen.
       The Dolmans were a family of basketmakers in Alrewas, about 5
miles NE of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. They appear in the area
in the late 17thC and remain in the area to this day. They married into
a number of local families, including the Waits of Yoxall and
Trittlebanks of Alrewas. There are many well preserved gravestones in
Alrewas church yard featuring this family.  Some members moved to
Burton-on-Trent with increasing industrialisation. A line through the
more recent generations to our family is: Moses Dolman (1792, Alrewas,
son of Joseph & Mary (Monks) Dolman), a basket maker, married
Hannah Wait (b 1795, Yoxall, dau of John & Sarah Wait).
They had 13 known children: Joseph 1817, Mary 1818, Ann 1821, Edward
1823, Mose s 1825, Moses 1831, Moses 1841, Hannah 1827, Sarah 1829,
Elizabeth 1830, Reuben 1834, Reuben 1837, Enoch 1837.
       Enoch Dolman (b 1837, Alrewas) married Phoebe Coley (b 1837,
Dudley, dau of John & Mary Ann (Hill) Coley, a manager in an
ironworks). They had 9 known children, born in Burton & Stapenhill:
John (1860), Enoch (1861), John C (1864), Mary A (1866), Rose (1868),
Louisa (1869), Henry (1872), Walter (1876), Nellie (1878),
       Enoch Dolman & Alice Tate (b1863, Portslade, Brighton, dau
of Thomas Tate of Steyning and Anne King of Reading), he a meat
salesman. (B.1861 Burton-on-Trent). They had 5 children: Emily 1886,
Enoch 1888, Ethel 1890, Florence 1892, Reginald 1894.
        The Tate family were farmers around Steyning and Beeding,
villages North of Worthing, Sussex, England. They married into the
Goddard and are connected with the Lashbrook Laker family in Utah, USA
(ref LDS). This line of our family was tied together by the Thomas Tate
family Bible.
        Ann King was born in Swallowfield, near Reading in Berkshire.
Her family were agricultural workers in the area. Her mother was a
Watkins. It is interesting to speculate how three well-separated and
fairly humble families met up: did it coincide with improved rail and
other travel. Perhaps Enoch Dolman went to the South Coast for a
holiday?

Dolman Family in Detail
Tate Family in Detail