Best Wishes to all the DUTTON researchers, The Darlington book by Cope (all 693 pages) mentioned by Phyllis (see extract below) is available (if somewhat pricy at US $87.00) from Higginson Book Co. of Salem, MA Dick Dutton ================================================== Phyllis Ryerse wrote: -------------------------------Snip------------------------------- > Now let's talk about Mary (Darlington) Dutton. Since she's our maternal > g-g-?-g-grandmother, her ancestry also becomes important. It appears that > our good friend Gilbert Cope was a prodigious historian and writer. I was > amazed at all the books I encountered that were written by him! (...and > one book of abstracted wills for Chester Co., done in 1896...was gathered > by a James Mortimer Dutton FOR Gilbert Cope....so one of our earlier > cousins was interested in family history too!) Anyhow...Cope wrote a > DARLINGTON Family History....much like the Dutton book. (Actually it's > bigger!) I found it about 10 minutes before the library closed (@#$%) and > could only study it in fast forward! > I believe, however, that it has been copied and is available on microfilm > from Salt Lake. I will check on that. Unfortunately, the book I saw had a > big note on it.....TOO fragile for copying......so I couldn't have copied > anything from it anyhow. > My quick look: The text began in the year 1282 with a John Darlington, the > Arch Bishop of Dublin, Ireland....but mentioned, tongue in cheek, that, > considering the rules of celibacy,,,the family probably descends from a > collateral relative! > It then picks the name up in London in the year 1484...there's a whole > chapter on "Our English Kith and Kin," and it has a coat of arms that says > "some Darlingtons in England make use of the arms as shown." It then jumps > right to the Darlingtons of ASTON!! I caught a glimpse of Job and Mary > Darlington being married at GREAT BUDWORTH (!) It was Job who Cope says > was a brother to Mary (Darlington) Dutton. It goes on to mention briefly > Thomas Rowland of Acton, Cheshire (another family connection?) and there is > a nice section on the Duttons. Here it states that John Dutton's death was > recorded in the Philadelphia Friends minutes...and suggests that he died > there. (I knew I saw that somewhere!) On page 53 it talks about John > Nield....who Mary Dutton married after John Dutton's death. And it > mentions that after the brothers Abraham and John Darlington migrated to > Chester Co. PA (they were Job's sons) ....succeeding generations then moved > westward into West Chester...where even today I drove down Darlington > Street! There is also a little village over that way called > Darlington....the name being as familiar in the area as the Dutton name. ---------------End of message--------------------------