----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 8:13 PM Subject: Re: Was Cutts name a short name for Cuthbert? Does anyone know about this. > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Cutts > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HhQ.2ACEB/108.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Can I add something to this conversation? > Sir John Cutte - ancestor of Cutts of Essex, England purchased Horham Hall in Essex in 1502. He was one of Henry VIII's faithful servants and acted as Under Treasurer of England to the King. The tower of Horam Hall was used by Elizabeth for a short while during her attempt to keep out of her sister Mary's way. He also had a manor built at Childerly in Cambridgeshire. By 1670 the name had changed its spelling and the Cutte was recorded as Cutts. It is recorded in some sources that William de Cutte came across from France with the invasion of William the Conqueror and for his services was granted "all the lands of Thaxted in Essex" Other sources hold out on the Cuthbert theory. The earliest recording of the name I can find is Cutus de Lincoln 1273 and Rudlophus Cutte 1379. By the way my grandmother was Mildred Mary Cutts from Essex. (There is an oriel window in Horam Hall which has a coat of arms and a record of the marriages of the early Cutte family members) >