My Personal SUTTON Family Research
Descendants of Joshua SUTTON
Notes
Birth: Calculated from 1861 & 1871 Census Barnston, Quebec. NAC C-1323 &
C-10090. Ages 58 (next birthday) & 67, respectively.
Listed on marriage of her daughter Mary Harriet Sutton. ANQ film 125.1 fr 2347
Marriage: Anglican church Charleston/Hatley. ANQ film 125.3 fr 68.
Death/burial: Vital Records Turner, Maine. FHL 0012259. Age 75 years 1 month.
Obituary: Stanstead Journal article 10 May 1900.
Turner town clerk records lists birthdate as 24 Sep 1810, age 89y, 7m, 7d.
Birth/christening: W. Methodist church Compton, Que. ANQ film 125.9 fr 636.
Listed on marriage of her daughter Mary Harriet Sutton. ANQ film 125.1 fr 2347
Marriage: Anglican church Charleston/Hatley. ANQ film 125.3 fr 68.
Death/burial: Vital Records Turner, Maine. FHL 0012259. Burial in Turner
Village cemetery or Upper Street cemetery.
Note: Death record gives date of birth as 24 Sept 1810 and the middle initial
as E. These are probably incorrect.
3. Mary SUTTON
Microfilm "Drummondville protestant congregation 1823-1875"
"Married by License on the Twelth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred & twenty five Thomas WIlliam Bridson of St Francis, Lumber Merchant to Mary Sutton of St Francis aforesaid,"
Sam. S Wood, Rector
This marriage was solemnized at Mr Sutton's Wendover River? St. Francis."
Marriage recorded in St Paul's Church [of England] register, Kingsey,
Drummond, Quebec, CANADA
on 5 October 1846. LDS microfilm, frame #1165, folio #7. Witnesses: Robert
Sutton, John B Abercrombie.
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Death recorded in St Paul's Church register. Died 2 May 1861, interred 5 May
1861. lists William Hamilton Sutton, farmer, as son of Joshua Sutton and
Catherine Hamilton.
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Letter dated 2 July 1994 from Mrs. R.C. Kellerman, 1851 Beech Grove Dr,
Cincinnati, OH 45233:
Dear Cousin Jim:
I guess you have heard that all family members to a Scotsman are "cousins." I
recently answered a letter from Ian R. Smith [PO Box 151, Danville, Quebec,
J0A 1A0, CANADA] who sent me your address with an inquiry.
There is very little I know about the SUTTON family except the first
generation were Mary Bean Abercrombie - called "Polly", daughter of Robert
Spence ABERCROMBIE and Mary BEAN, who married James SUTTON on 5 Oct 1846.
[This would be the William Hamilton SUTTON listed on the marriage register
entry at St. Pauls Church, Kingsey, Drummond, Quebec.] My information has been
handed down to me through the family. I do not know how much of it has been
documented. According to my records James & Mary had six children: John,
George, WIlliam, Mary, James and Clara. Clara married a man named Jenkins.
John married in 1847 Sarah Hamilton. [This date is incorrect as John was born
in 1847.] They had a daughter, Maud, who married Carl Witter and lived first
in Worchester, Mass. then moved to Coral Gables, FL.
I think the best thing for me to do is to send you the information that I have
on a chart. I made the chart from information I got here and there along with
information my uncle Towne ABERCROMBIE wrote in a book, but never had the money
to publish it. I believe his Great -grandson who is in law school is planning
to copy it on some kind of a copy machine. Since he is busy with school, I
haven't any idea when that will be accomplished.
One story that I think you should know so that you can understand some of
the things on my chart. It is an undocumented family story about Mary & Hannah
her sister two years younger. The two girls were working in a logging camp one
winter cooking and housekeeping for the loggers. Evidently James SUTTON was
one of the loggers. He must have been sleeping with both the sisters and both
became pregnant. Their father, Robert Spence ABERCROMBIE, told James to make
the choice - which one did he choose to marry? Mary was very pretty and he
chose her. Then Robert Spence and Mary Bean ABERCROMBIE adopted Hannah's baby,
a son named George Norman. Much later Hannah married Mathew Stewart, but for a
while Hannah and her son lived at home. Evryone like Hannah and George. Mary
and Hannah were very close friends. I've heard they are buried in a common
grave in Danvile Protestant Cemetery [Danville, Richmond Cty, Quebec]. I
visited there many years ago and didn't quite understand the double grave, but
now I've heard there is a new marker.
If you have any questions on the enclosed chart, I'll try to answer them. I'm
80 years old.
Sincerely, Dorothy KELLERMAN
1) Listed as Mary Abercromby in church register entry.
2) Buried in common grave plot with her sister Hannah Ames Abercrombie STEWART.
Abercrombie family story says she worked in a logging camp with her sister,
Hannah, where she met William Hamilton "James" Sutton and became pregnant.
Mary and James Sutton were married shortly thereafter.
25. Alicia Jane "Clara" SUTTON
The name and age of this child, Alicia, was consistently reported in the 1861
and 1871 censuses for Kingsey Falls, Drummond, Quebec.
The notarial record for the sale of farm land in 1868 by William Hamilton
Sutton's widow, Mary ABERCROMBIE, and children lists this child as Alicia Jane
Sutton.
Abercrombie family records records this child by the name Clara. She appears
with her widowed mother in the 1881 census as Clara. A newspaper article in
1917 lists her as Clara Sutton Stewart.
The 1861 Census for Shipton, Quebec finds Alicia Sutton and her family:
Names of Inmates Profession POBirth Religion Age(next Birthday) M/F M/S
Alex. Scott Farmer Ireland Episcopalian 38 M M
Elica Scott Ireland R.Catholic 40 F M
M. J. Scott CanadaE R.Catholic 13 F S
James Scott " " Episcopalian 10 M S
John S. Scott " " " " 8 M S
S. A. Scott " " R.Catholic 6 F S
E. G. Scott " " " " 4 F S
Thus Alicia Sutton was born about 1821.
From the Stanstead County Historical Society Inventory of Cemetery headstone
Inscriptions: Alicia M. Sutton wife of A. Scott, died 11 Apr 1874, age 59.
Crooker Brook Cemetery
Age reported on 1881 census in Coaticook, Quebec was 59 which would make his
birth date approximately 1822.
27. Mary Jane SCOTT
Had eight children.
29. Sarah A SCOTT
Second daughter.