--------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: kaboodle@worldnet.att.net To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: DUTTONs of Cheshire and Massachusetts Date: 3 Jan 1999 21:36:08 GMT Message-ID: <368FDE8E.249DD7EC@worldnet.att.net> References: <368EE8D9.1D7F@uncg.edu> Robert J. O'Hara wrote: > The Massachusetts immigrant Thomas DUTTON was apparently born abt 1621 > in Cheshire, England, and died 22 Jan 1697 in Billerica, Massachusetts. > He m Susannah PALMER in 1647 in Billerica. In starting to investigate > this ancestor I have found a number websites (for example > http://www.web-ster.com/miked/html/d0002/g0000166.htm#I1933) that trace > Thomas Dutton's ancestry back into the Medieval period through the > "Duttons of Dutton" in Cheshire. Does anyone here happen to be familiar > with this line, and can anyone tell me if this is solid or just some > family historian's fancy from the 19th century? (For all I know the > Mass immigrant may in fact not be linked to the Dutton family of > Cheshire at all; that may be where the imagination came in). Pointers > to recent sources (confirming or debunking) will be welcome. Many > thanks. I can't vouch for whether Thomas Dutton was of the well-known Cheshire Dutton family, But Obadiah Bruen, immigrant to Connecticut, certainly was. His 5th great grandfather, Sir John Dutton, died 1445. See TAG, Vol. 26 (1950), pp. 12-25, for an article by the great Jacobus himself on the subject. Jacobus was a Bruen descendant, as am I. Robert Abell, of Massachusetts, and Mary Mainwaring, immigrant to Maryland, also have this Dutton ancestry. See Faris for these lines. John Steele Gordon --------- End forwarded message ---------- ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]