Dear Ian, Lesley has passed me your website address http://member.melbpc.org.au/~ian giving details of your Cutts ancestry and has told me that you will be joining the Cutts List - so a big welcome from in Sunny Somerset, UK. Recently John Frawley, another member of the list, found details of a William Henry Cutts, (1828-1897) who arrived in Melbourne in the KENT in September 1852, went to the Ovens (Beechworth) goldfield and later to BENDIGO!! where he practiced medice but also pursued the profitable occupation of gold buyer for the banks. Wm. Henry was born at Chesterfield, son of John Cutts, solicitor, and his wife Mary Holehouse, married c. 1820s..........presumably near Chesterfield. He died in London 3.7.1897. (William's first wife Jane Thorpe (no other details) died and c.1895 he married Isabelle Rathie, educated at Edinburgh, Matron at Melbourne Hospital in 1890. Could you supply more details from your base in Melbourne please?) There were some Cutts who changed their name to Coutts (as you probably know this is the name of the Queen's bankers!) and I am wondering if this might be to set themselves apart from the workaday Cutts <g> Have you come across any Coutts in Melbourne by any chance? F. Coutts and Sons carried out Acid Treatments in Glasgow, London and Manchester and they had an agent - Mr. Robert Mackay, at 15 Collins St. West, Melbourne in 1876.. One of my Cutts married a Scottish Dr. MacKay and I am trying to see if their is a link. Mavis Johnson, born in Nottingham, researching All Cutts from East Midlands (Notts/Derbys/Leics/Lincs/+++)