Harry Dutton

Henry was the son of James (1844-1913) and Mary Ann Dutton (née Hurst b. abt. 1848 d. 1876).

James and Mary were married in 1864 (reg. JAS Newark) and had at least three children: William b. 1864 reg. Newark, Henry b. 1866 (OND) and Harriet b. 1868) who were born in Nottingham. James, a framework knitter, Mary, a lace clipper and their three children were living in Butcher's Court, Beck Street, Nottingham in 1871. James' wife died in 1876 and in 1881 James and two of his children, Henry, a lace mender (at home), and Harriet, a cotton doubler (Mill), together with his housekeeeper, who was also a lace mender working from home, were living at 87 Salisbury Street, Lenton, in 1881. William has not yet been traced on the 1881 census but when his brother Henry joined the Army in 1884 he named his father James, residence Old Radford, and brother William, residence Sneinton, as his next of kin. James was probably an inmate in the Nottingham workhouse, Bagthorpe, in 1911 (age 68, widower, occupation hosiery hand) and died in 1913 (reg. OND).

Henry served with the Notts & Derby Regiment and was in India between 1887 and 1892 and probably transferred to the Army Reserve in April 1892 as he married Maria Mayfield (b. 1873) on 3 April 1893 at Radford St Peter. They had seven children, one of whom, Albert, died in childhood: Harriett b. 1895, Albert birth registered 1897 (JFM) d. 1901 (AMJ), Henry b. 1899, Gladys May b. December 1902 (reg. 1903 JFM), Mary Ann b. 1904 and twins Fanny and Doris who were born in March 1910.

Henry served with the Notts & Derby Regiment in South Africa from March 1900 to October 1901 and at the time of the 1901 Census his wife Maria and their three children, Harriet, Albert and Henry, were living at 14 Duke Street, Radford.

By 1911 the family was living at 24 Redoubt Street, Radford: Henry a builder's labourer, Maria, Harriet, a reeler cotton, Harry, Gladys and Mary who were school age and the twins Fanny and Doris.

Henry and Maria had moved to 19 Duke Street, Radford, by the time he was discharged from the Army in 1919 and Maria was at the same address in 1921. Her six children were still living at home: Harriet, a cotton reeler, Harry a labourer (lace factory), Gladys and Mary who both worked for the Imperial Tobacco Company, Gladys as a cigrette packer and Mary as a machine assistant. The twins were school age.

Fanny Dutton died in 1936, aged 26 (burial 14 October).

Maria and her unmarried daughter Harriet, a hosiery winder, were living at 19 Duke Street when the 1939 England & Wales Register was compiled. Maria's other children were now married: Mary to Herbert Dring in 1923, Gladys to John Deeman at Radford St Peter in April 1928, Harry to Laura F Hinde in 1932 and Doris to James Jesse Turton at Radford All Souls in August 1938.

Maria died aged 83 on 6 April 1956; the funeral service was held at Radford All Souls on 10 April followed by interment at the General Cemetery. She was survived by her son and four daughters.