Hi again Lesley The CUTTS in Coventry are all from one family, originating from Joseph who was born abt 1754 - he was an apprenticed 'Cutter' Swordsmith/Gunsmith so must be on an apprenticeship roll somewhere, not Coventry though. When he came to Coventry in the 1770's he married a local girl. I've found likely Josephs in Derbys and Notts but can't get any further as I'm stranded here in Cornwall!! Ah well, plenty to look for in the meantime on the Internet. I now have a strong lead with an Elijah CUTTS - he bought a grave for my CUTTS family in Coventry but didn't live there - he may be from Derbys - rare name. Joseph/Elijah/Aaron pretty relgious stuff! Kind regards, William HARTLEY http://www.hartley-family.org.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Lesley Bayston [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 July 2001 22:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Coventry CUTTS - Re: Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry. Hi William Thank you for your message, but I feel a fraud! It is John Frawley who's doing all the work. John phoned me as he was having problems getting the messages to leave his Outbox. To try and solve the problem he forwarded them to me to see if I could send them to the list. As he can send other messages, and I managed to send them to the list, then the hiccup must be at his end. Unfortunately as I've tried to contact him several times in the last week and heard nothing, ..... Thank goodness we still have telephones for when emails fail! Can I look anything up at all for you? I felt out on a limb with my Pinxton Cutts, but I've now managed to link them into Jim Cutts's,but not until about the 1600s. We've had quite a few new subscribers (now over 50 in total) so you may be lucky and find someone else looking in the Coventry area. I'll pass your thanks on to John. Best Wishes Lesley ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "Lesley Bayston" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 9:28 AM Subject: Coventry CUTTS - Re: Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry. > Thanks Lesley for the Subject: [CUTTS] Fw: CUTTS - Commonwealth War Graves > Commission. > One entry for Aaron CUTTS I had missed as he lived in Coventry yet was in > the Worcestershire Regiment - he was my ggm's cousin. He was one of 11 > children - only 4 survived! Aaron died at the Somme, 2 years after his > father's sudden death. His father had been an apprenticed Watchmaker, later > a pallet maker, finally a chimney sweep. His wife survived him well into the > 1930's - this prompted my memory - my mum talked of the CUTTS family often. > I've managed to remember a few more vital details to go on the family tree. > It's good to see the pieces fit together yet I still can't find where the > single Coventry CUTTS line originated. Sheffield? Nottingham? London? > Keep up the fab work Lesley and all at [email protected] > Kind regards, William HARTLEY > http://www.hartley-family.org.uk/ > > >