Hello All, I received the copy of the Dutton Chart that Gail Dutton offered to send to those interested. It is quite a chart. Gail did a great job getting it copies onto a large single sheet of paper of considerable size. Thanks for helping us all, Gail. Many of you have received the copy of the Dutton Chart that I offered a couple of months ago. I can report that Gail's chart appears to be a direct image copy of the original P. H. Lawson chart. The chart I provided was a blow-up of a small black-and-white photograph of a hand-written copy of the Lawson chart. Gail's copy is in quite distinctive handwriting that is easy to read. The version I had was probably transcribed by students at the school in the old Dutton Hall where the original chart resided at least into the early 1970s. Gail's chart is probably the better one to work from. If you haven't asked for one, I suggest you do so. Now Dick Dutton reports having obtained a good professional photocopy of the same chart while in London. That's also great news for us all. Dick found his version at the Genealogists Society while in London. I suspect that Dick's copy is basically the same as the one that Gail has, though his may be a cleaner photocopy given the advances in that kind of equipment in recent years. I don't yet have Dick's copy but I do have a couple of comments after having made a comparison between the one I have and the one Gail has. 1. Gail's copy has some additional names added at the bottom of the chart in a different hand. They were evidently added later than the time when my transcribed copy was made. My guess is that these were added not on the original but on a copy that later became origin of Gail's copy. Thus, I would guess that these names may not appear on the version that Dick Dutton now has. (Dick - at the very bottom on the left hand side, do the the names Catherine Annie and Victoria Margaret along with other information in an obviously different handwriting?) 2. Gail's copy has some information that does not appear on my chart but which does appear to be in the hand-writing of the genealogist/author/artist. For example, on the bottom righthand side the name Thomas Murthwaight Murray Dutton is listed on both versions. On my version it simply says about his death "d. 1964". On Gail's copy it says "d. 1964, Dec. 30, bur. at Thornton-le-Moor". This additional information appears to be in the same handwriting as the rest of the chart, but it is squeezed in using smaller characters. My conclusion is that the author of this chart, probably P.H. Lawson himself, had completed it sometime around 1964. Then the three transcribers made a copy that was later photographed and became the origin of my copy. Meanwhile Lawson continued to add a few things in 1965 and maybe a few years after that. Then, a photocopy was made which became the origin of Gail's version. Maybe Lawson continued to work on it after that. If so, Dick Dutton's copy would reveal some additional information about the individuals still living in the 1960s. 3. The transcribing by three students could have introduced errors (a digit in a year, confused names). Though I have no proof of this and I don't plan to try to verify everything, I suggest that everyone use Gail's copy (or Dick's as we learn more about his) as the basis for further work. 4. Because Dick's copy was found at the Genealogists Society in London we may be able to track down information about the compiler, P. H. Lawson. If he was a practicing professional genealogist, his files might also be avialable at the Genealogists Society or they might have some record of where they are. This is important. We have only this chart to connect John Dutton the PA immigrant back into the family in Cheshire. We have no original source for this particularly critical piece of information. Lawson's material might provide an answer as to where/how he made this link. While some sources are listed at the bottom of the chart, from my knowledge, I can't identify one that covers this time period, so it may come from "wills, marriage licenses,....private information" that ought to be tracked down. Maybe Lawson is even alive and could provide the sources for at least this one individual in the tree - or maybe he wrote a Dutton genealogy to go along with the chart that is hiding in someone's library somewhere. Dick, did you check on who Lawson might be at the Genealogists Society? Doug Hall