Dear fellow lister, Thank you for your detailed information about the early Cuttes/Cutts. We certainly knew of these early Cutts but you have added a few more details. As you know, we are trying to find connections between the various groups of Cutts families and their movements abroad. It is evident that some of them used the variation 'Coutts' I am working on a theory that many of them would have worked on/for some of the landed gentry as grooms, bailiffs, tradesmen, etc. and this is how they met their partners and also how they had contacts in other areas of the country. (Many of them originate in the areas surrounding Rufford Park, Thoresby Hall, Welbeck Abbey, and Hardwick Hall, Bolsover Castle etc. Evidence shows that early Cutts were in Kedleston and Chatsworth also) If you have any evidence which supports this I should be pleased to hear from you. I have found families of Cutts from different areas living in the St. Pancras area in the 1881 census and wonder why/how they were drawn to the Big City and if they knew each other. e.g. By a VERY convoluted route I have found that Elizabeth Cutts, Widow, 75, b. (East) Bridgeford, had connections with my own Cutts family in Nottingham. But it only leads to more questions............. Regards, Mavis, in Somerset, researching all the Cutts families in East Midlands - and beyond..