--------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: "Robert O'Connor" <roconnor@es.co.nz> To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: DUTTONs of Cheshire and Massachusetts Date: 3 Jan 1999 23:49:21 GMT Message-ID: <01be3774$6081b5c0$44804dd1@default> References: <368EE8D9.1D7F@uncg.edu> The website to which you have referred and many others that I have come across on the Net show the father of the Massachusetts immigrant Thomas Dutton as on John Dutton & his wife Mary Neeld. They go on to record that this John was born in 1596 & died in 1693 at Reading, MA. The connection is supposedly made to the Duttons of Dutton through the Sherborne branch of the family by making this John the son of Sir Ralph Dutton d 1646 of the Sherborne line. This connection must be entirely FALSE as Sir Roger Dutton d 1646 was in fact baptised 13 Dec. 1601 at Sherborne - he could therefore NOT be the father of a man born in 1596. I have pointed this chronological problem to a number of the owners of the websites that make this connection - but they continue to make the connection. My interest in the Dutton family relates to the family of the name settled at Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire - the earliest being John Dutton whose daugther Rose was baptised there in 1645. My John may have been of the Northleach family of the same name, whose earliest ancestor Thomas Dutton d 1602 refers to land he owned at Sherborne thus indicating a substantive connection with the Sherborne line. I have put together a genealogy of the Dutton, of Dutton line (including the Sherborne branch) and would be happy to send it to you should you wish. It is a MS Word 97 file. Please advise Cheers Robert O'Connor Robert J. O'Hara <rjohara@uncg.edu> wrote in article <368EE8D9.1D7F@uncg.edu>... 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. Bob O'Hara (rjohara@uncg.edu) Experimental genealogy site: http://strong.uncg.edu/gen.html --------- 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]