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We know from Aunt Margaret that her father, young Charles (the older gent in the photo above) was born 31st May 1898 at Newburgh (Fife) to Charles Hutton Senior and Jessie Gorrie. He also had a sister Annie. They lived 218 High St, Newburgh (St Katherine's Court area). Jessie Gorrie died young and the two bairns were looked after by the Rogers family to help Charles Senior.
Annie married Archie Bett who lived in Abernethy (Fife), with a berry farm & coal merchant business, and they had 7 bairns.
Charles Hutton Jnr died in ~1969 and his wife Jane Hutton (Clark, Keay) died in ~1954 {Thanks Alastair}.
Charles Senior went on to marry a second wife named ??Catherine?? who had 5 children - Kate (who died earlier this year), Mary, Alec, Will & Madge.
I searched for those details on some databases available via the Internet:
- the marriage register
- the deaths register
- the National Census
In the register of marriages, a Charles Hutton and Jessie Gorrie married in Newburgh in 1890.
From the 1901 census for Newburgh - they are all there, but at 186 High St. (their home is registered as having 2 windowed rooms).
- Charles Hutton Snr, born Glasgow (37) apparently employed as a Floorcloth Worker (I've since found that means what we call Linoleum. Kirkcaldy was a major centre for lino manufacture from the late 19thC.)
- Wife Jessie (36), and their children all born Newburgh;
- our young Charles (2)
- and Annie (9 mth).
Register of Deaths
The Register of Deaths for Newburgh lists a Jessie Hutton who died in 1903, aged 38. Her 'other surnames' are listed as Brown, Gorrie, Clark. The surname Brown is a new one on me. And Clark made sense but then I realised that I was thinking of another generation, my Great Grandma Jane (Clark, Keay, Hutton)! So that's confused me. I wonder if they are any relation to Jane Clark (later Charlie's wife, from 1922).
{Also their 1922 marriage certificate gives me his sister's name as Ann Clark Hutton, living with his widower father at 4 Tay St., Newburgh - we know she married later.}
Also a Charles Duff Hutton (aged 75) who died in Newburgh in 1939. That would probably be Charles Senior (Jessie’s husband) and makes his birth year approximately 1864.
An Anna Maria Hutton (nee Scotland!!) who died aged 75 in 1944 is a possibility for Charles’ second wife. Does that name ring a bell, she could just as easily be a sister/cousin??
Many thanks for your continuing interest
Lisa
Sites which maybe of interest here:
a map of High St, Newburgh, Fife
a site with nice photos of Newburgh
historical info on Newburgh
and finally - amazing what you can find on Google!, #167
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