FAMILY GROUP RECORD
Last updated: 7 Jul 1995
HUSBAND William Hamilton "James" SUTTON-6
BORN: Abt 1818 PLACE: unknown CHR.: PLACE: DIED: 2 May 1861 PLACE: Kingsey Falls,Drummond,Quebec,Canada BUR.: 5 May 1861 PLACE: St Pauls Church,Kingsey Falls,Drummond,Quebec MARR: 5 Oct 1846 PLACE: St Pauls Church,Kingsey,Drummond,Quebec FATHER: Joshua SUTTON-353 MOTHER: Catherine HAMILTON-352
WIFE Mary Polly ABERCROMBIE-27
BORN: 26 Dec 1822 PLACE: Kingsey Falls, Drummond, Quebec, Canada CHR.: PLACE: DIED: 14 Jan 1898 PLACE: BUR.: 16 Jan 1898 PLACE: Danville, Protestant, Cemetery, Quebec FATHER: Robert Spence ABERCROMBIE-356 MOTHER: Mary BEAN-470
CHILDREN
1. NAME: John Abercrombie SUTTON-380
---- BORN: Abt 1847 PLACE: Kingsey Falls,
Drummond, Quebec, Canada
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DIED: 29 Mar 1920 PLACE: Worcester, Worcester,
MA, USA
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SPOUSE: Sarah Jane HAMILTON-468
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2. NAME: Mary SUTTON-18
---- BORN: Abt 1850 PLACE: Kingsey Falls,
Drummond, Quebec, Canada
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SPOUSE: William F SPRING-1044
MARR: Abt 1870 PLACE:
3. NAME: Robert SUTTON-381
---- BORN: Abt 1852 PLACE: Kingsey Falls,
Drummond, Quebec, Canada
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4. NAME: William SUTTON-382
---- BORN: Abt 1855 PLACE: Kingsey
Falls,Drummond,Quebec,Canada
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5. NAME: James Arthur SUTTON-14
---- BORN: 28 Sep 1858 PLACE: Kingsey, Drummond,
Canada
M CHR.: 29 Oct 1882 PLACE: St Patricks Chur,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
DIED: 31 Oct 1924 PLACE: Worcester,,MA
BUR.: PLACE: St. John's Cemet,
Worcester, MA
SPOUSE: Mary Agnes LYNCH-15
MARR: 29 May 1883 PLACE: Montreal,Quebec,Canada
6. NAME: Alicia Jane "Clara" SUTTON-383
---- BORN: Abt 1860 PLACE: Kingsey Falls,
Drummond, Quebec, Canada
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DOCUMENTATION
HUSBAND William Hamilton "James" SUTTON-6 Yr of Birth 1818 WIFE Mary Polly ABERCROMBIE-27 Yr of Birth 1822
HUSBAND - William Hamilton "James" SUTTON-6
Marriage recorded in St Paul's Church [of England] register, Kingsey, Drummond Co., Quebec, CANADA on 5 October 1846. LDS microfilm, frame #1165, folio #7. Witnesses: Robert Sutton, John B Abercrombie.
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 Worcester, 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
WIFE
DOCUMENTATION
HUSBAND William Hamilton "James" SUTTON-6 Yr of Birth 1818 WIFE Mary Polly ABERCROMBIE-27 Yr of Birth 1822
WIFE - Mary Polly ABERCROMBIE-27
Buried in common grave plot with her sister Hannah Ames Abercrombie STEWART. An 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.
CHILD 1 - John Abercrombie SUTTON-380
Death Date from 1921 Worcester City Directory.
CHILD 2 - Mary SUTTON-18
CHILD 3 - Robert SUTTON-381
CHILD 4 - William SUTTON-382
CHILD 5 - James Arthur SUTTON-14
CHILD 6 - Alicia Jane "Clara" SUTTON-383
The name and age of this child, Alicia, was consistently reported in the 1861 nd 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.
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