Thanks to Andrea Brown's ongoing Brown Family research, the records of Josiah Brown and Lucinda Chute Brown have been updated, in addition to the records of several individuals in the Abram Chute and Ann Harris Chute family.
We were saddened to learn of the recent passing of several members of the family:
Robert Phillips Chute checked in from Nova Scotia in 2001, and kept in touch with revisions and comments as often as he could. I was deeply saddened to learn of his death this month, and our hearts are with his family - of which he was always so glowingly proud. He will definitely be missed.
Other family records which have been updated: Clarence Roderick (or Roderik) Chute and Myrtle Lucy Bennett Chute. Unfortunately, Clarence's record did not contain a biographical summary. Myrtle Chute's record was not just updated but revised - a Bennett database had already listed her as deceased back in 1986, so it appears they confused her with someone else. She and husband George Edward Chute had also apparently had a son, Edward, and he has been added to the family records. Myrtle's biographical summary is wonderful to read - did you know that in 1968, she was crowned the TOPS Queen of Canada? Or that she created the recipe for the first batch of canned baked beans for the Graves/Avon canning factory? Apparently, she was also very creative - making special mittens ("her Christmas tradition was to knit unique mittens for her great- grandchildren and other lucky recipients") and quilts, along with her sister Margaret. If anyone has pictures of these items, we'd love to see them.
Thanks to Sharon Anne Chute's brave decision to boldly go where no Chute has gone before - and fill out the new Chute Family Online Data Worksheet - the family group of Alvin Leroy Chute has been updated.
The transcription of a Family Data Worksheet submitted by Raymond Jerome Chute, Jr. has revised his family record as well as the family record of his sister, Mary Dana Chute Clement and Frank Renal Clement.
The transcription of a Family Data Worksheet submitted by Llewelyn Lloyd Chute in 1951 has made extensive changes in his family line and added another interconnective "loop":
Revision to the record of Charles Chester Chute and Florence ("Flora") Baker Chute, revision of the record of her parents Henry Lambert Baker and Lucy Ann Stronach Baker; addition of a Family Group record for her grandfather Henry Baker and Eunice Tupper Baker as Eunice's second marriage; the connection of this record to the existing record for her first marriage to Jordan Bowlby.
Jordan and Eunice were the parents of Alice Maria Bowlby, who married Gilbert Randall Chute. Gilbert and Alice Maria were the parents of ... Charles Chester Chute.The record of Gilbert Randall Chute has been revised to include his military service in the Civil War with the Company M, 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment Massachusetts, and that information has also been added to the Civil War section on the Events in History page.
Thanks to Evelyn Roediger, the transcription error in Susannah Uhl's and Mary Eva Roth's birthdates has been corrected.
Garry Livingstone Chute and Deborah Mae Matthews Chute.
Trevor Wade Chute and Lisa Dawne Dinsmore Chute.
As some have noticed, I'm in the midst of trying to streamline the website: cleaning up the Home Page so that it's a little less confusing; moving past additions to an "archive" section, and a few other changes. Roberto Edouardo Chute suggested creating a "Who's Who In the Chute Family" section, quite some time ago (he probably has given up on me, by now) - but that is in the works also.
One new addition to the website is an online "Chute Family Data Worksheet", which eliminates the need for hard copy worksheets for those with computer access. For those who would prefer to complete worksheets manually and mail them in, that option is still available. The online worksheet is available on the Home Page, and may be used for additions, corrections or merely comments and questions.
Another change that will take place ... sometime! ... is the ability to add "post-it notes" or comments directly to the Family Group pages. This will be useful for those who are doing research on individuals in their own lines and want to share what they've discovered with other researchers.
James Cleveland Chute and Elizabeth Ellen Davis Chute.
Richard Holmes and Mary Elizabeth Chute Holmes.
Burton Manning and Jeanette Davis Chute Manning.
Philip Conrad Chute and Pauline Marie Gilson Chute.
Thomas Chute and Mary Webber Chute.
John Chute and Elizabeth Andrew Chute.
Abram Watson Chute and Catherine Weston Chute.
William Carr Chute and Rosannah (Rozanna) Mayberry Chute.
Nathan Church, Jr. and Miriam Chute Church.
Reverend Thomas Thompson Merry and Melinda Gage Church Merry.
John Marshall Church and Cordelia Hasty Church.
Nathan Andrew Church, III and Marilla M. Cole Church.
Edward J. Latta and Sabria (or Sabra) May Chute Latta.
James Bates Buffum Chute and Margaret Edna Grosbauer Chute.
Walter Richard Chute and Sophie Gwardoski Chute.
Raymond Lefferts Chute, Jr. and Catherine Bauer Chute.
Joseph Alec and Margaret Frances Chute Alec.
Carl King and Margaret Frances Chute King.
Tom Pilles and Margaret Chute Alec Pilles.
Robert Chute and Elizabeth Everett Chute.
Captain and Deacon Daniel Chute and Hannah Adams Chute. All of his WEC notes have been (finally!) added to his "Notes" section, as well as an additional reference ("Reminiscences of an Nonagenarian"), which adds another entry to the Chute Family Mysteries section: what WAS that 20-foot high "Flying Giant" of Byfield-Newbury that Daniel recorded in his diary? Apparently, he wasn't the only resident who witnessed the inexplicable phenomenon, which also appears to have badly frightened a herd of cows.
Daniel Chute and Elizabeth McGraw Chute. Craig E. and Betty Hubbard have done some impressive research on this Irish Chute branch, and the details and biographical sketches are all their work. Of this group (remainder to follow shortly):
Harold Lewis Yahn and Laura Regina Chute Yahn.
John Paul Cook and Rose Angela Yahn Cook.
Robert Michael Cook and Susan Burger Cook.
David Edward Cook and Therese Bartsch Cook.
Darrin Martin and Cathy Cook Martin.
Harold Dale Yahn and Nancy Jane Lease Yahn.
Arthur Thomas Stahl and Patricia Lee Yahn. [Note that the surname has been corrected from "Stohl" to "Stahl".
Gregory Alan Stahl and Kelle Jo Willyard Stahl.
Russell Thomas Stahl and Thea Louella Hubbard Stahl.
Lastly, Linda Shepperd of Woodfield Publishing, Ltd. has been kind enough to provide a direct link to Francis' book so those who have been having difficulty navigating directly to the book - try one more time by clicking on the book picture on the Index Page, and the link will take you directly to the book. Thanks, Linda.
Cloyd Clarence Chute and Jessie Mather Chute.
Elmer Fred Glanz and Leona Elizabeth Chute Glanz.
Harold Dillon and Dorothy Ann Chute Dillon.
Reverend Harold Samuel Chute and Doris Palmer Chute.
Joseph Anselmo and Phyllis Marie Chute Anselmo.
Robert LaVerne Chute and Leta Hudson Chute.
Russell Verne (or Vernon) Chute and Laura L. Rathenpahl Chute.
Samuel Sylvester Chute, Jr. and Tamar Ann Stahl Chute.
Samuel Sylvester Chute, Sr. and Louisa Kidwell Chute.
Vaughn Augustus Chute and Edna Blanche Einfeldt Chute.
Thanks to Brenda McClead, three more daughters and a second marriage have been added to the James Marion Chute family record.
From the Chute Family Message Board, Gladys Chutte. An Argentinian "Chutte", descended from two "Chutte" brothers, with a French Basque oral tradition somewhere in the family. While this may be a version of Lyman Wallace and Robert John that was garbled through the generations, if not, I thought the "French Basque" oral tradition was interesting, reminding me of the "Chevalier de Chute" that is part of the Irish Chutes folklore. I've put her into the Argentinian Index as well, and listed her as an Individual Entry - the translation of her posting is in her "Notes" section. (I just know that two generations down the line, SOMEONE is going to ask, "Where was that French Basque reference again?")
Here's a chance for Chutes who love challenges to figure out where Guilford Dudley Chute went, over the course of his life ... I've been peering at this account for most of the day, trying to read it. My grandfather had sent him a Chute Family Data worksheet to complete, and you're looking at one of the questions he asked. The legible handwriting asking the question belongs to George M. Chute, Jr. The response was written by Guilford Dudley Chute. It looks like he charged from one end of the continent to the other! I can make out some words in this: "wood-turning", "home-steading" ... Colorado? After that, my vision starts to blur and I develop a headache. :) Anybody else want to take a crack at this?
John Stevens and Lucy Belle Chute Stevens.
Robert Eugene Balcomb and Joan Elizabeth Chute Balcomb.
Raymond Croft Chute and Esther Elizabeth Keddy Chute.
William Alfred Maw and Minnie May Chute Maw.
W.A. Anderson and Elizabeth Jean Maw Anderson.
Thomas Charlton and Rose Ella Chute Charlton.
Guilford Dudley Chute and Alice Elizabeth Croft Chute.
Foster Morse Chute and Laura Belle Balcomb Chute. Clears up the confusion as to whether she was "Laura Balcomb Chute", or "Belle Balcomb Chute".
Silas Parker Chute and Lucy Balcomb Chute. Note that the two twins who were mentioned on WEC: page 158:IX.187 under "Silas Parker Chute" as "nameless" were identified by Hettie Morse Chute (II) and Winnie Laurier Chute as Harry Parker Chute and Hettie Morse Chute (I), and that information has been added to the database. Given Hettie's (I) middle name, you might assume her mother was Mehitable Morse, but the gravestone identifies them as the children of Silas and Lucy Balcomb Chute.
Maxwell Chute and Winifred Gertrude Owen Chute.
James Perry Chute and Adelia Foster Chute.
Samuel Balcomb Chute and Ruth Ann Margeson Chute. The full story behind the famous "Apple King of Nova Scotia" and the "Grand Old Lady of Kingston".
Harley Raymond Chute and Myrtle Lucy Shaw Chute. Addition of three unrecorded children of this family.
Winnie Laurier Chute. There was a collection of correspondence between Winnie Laurier Chute and George M. Chute, Jr. that covered the period from 1971 to 1976. Winnie is the Chute researcher who found the gravestones of Harry Parker and Hettie Morse Chute (see above), as well as a previously undocumented connection between the Barteaux, Charlton and Chute families which I tried to piece together with some online assistance from the Charlton family website. More dramatically, it was in transcribing the correspondence that I realized that, even though carbon dating may cover huge periods of time, carbon paper doesn't -- my grandfather used carbon paper to make duplicates of his return correspondence, and his replies are now beginning to noticeably fade. So if anyone knows of sure-fire methods for preserving carbon-copies of things, drop me a line - I'd be very interested!
Clifford Earl Chute and Ida May Pineo Chute.
Allison Whitman Chute and Verna Long Chute.
George Murray Durno and Margaret Laura Chute Durno.
Robert Earl Chute and Myrna Gregg Bishop Chute.
Raymond Croft Chute and Esther Elizabeth Keddy Chute.
Robert Eugene Balcomb and Joan Elizabeth Chute Balcomb.
Albion Chute and Dorinda Philbrick Chute.
Albion Chute and Meribah Doe Roberts Chute.
Daniel Merrill Chute and Bathsheba Mayberry Chute.
Alphonso Blackmer Chute and Annette Fletcher Chute.
Charles Horace Fletcher and Lucy Jane Peverly Fletcher.
Deacon Nelson Van Buskirk and Elizabeth ("Betsey") Chute Van Buskirk.
Garrett Van Buskirk and Elizabeth Potts Van Buskirk.
Edwin Haskell Chute and Agnes Theresa Allingham Chute.
Clarence Chute and Harriet Sophia Cook Chute.
Harrison Smith and Grace Olivia Bunfill Smith.
Nelda Smith and William Green Smith.
William Windsor (Winsor) Chute and Lucetta Philbrick Chute.
Albion Chute and Dorinda Philbrick Chute.
Joseph Philbrick and Abigail Lang Philbrick.
Cornelius Chute. This is a shipping record which caught my attention for three reasons: I never heard of him before, he was connected with the Netherlands (which I'd not seen before) and he also may have come from a shipping family, with connections to Flanders. As there have been unsubstantiated hints that the Chutes were originally a shipping family from Flanders, before they were in Normandy - this record stuck out for a number of reasons, so I've added him to the database in the hope that someone in the Chute family can make more sense of him at some point. Can anyone here read medieval Dutch?
Sir Thomas Waller and Lady Margaret Lennard Waller.
William Frederick Chute and Addie Gertrude Blake Chute.
Earle Douglas Chute and Leona Mae Smith Chute.
Frederick Thomas Chute and Marilyn Adelaide Brooks Chute.
Mark Andrew Chute, Teresa Bryant Chute and Andrew Douglas Chute.
Percy Richardson Chute and Hazel Geraldine Griffin Chute. Note that a letter from Percy Richardson Chute has been added to his "Notes" section, which added a second wife, and altered the children's parentage.
Based on the same letter, Harney Hilty and family have been corrected to reflect his correct name, Harvey Hiltz.
Vernon Ethelbert Chute and Mary Eva Ogden Chute.
Jacob Franklyn Ogden and Sarah Ann Little Ogden.
Roy Burgess Chute and Georgia Burgess Chute.
C. Parker and Gertrude Amelia Chute Parker.
Henry Franklyn Chute and Margaret Hutchinson Chute.
Gordon Ethelbert Chute and Jean Hammersley Chute.
Dorothy Gertrude Chute Purchase and Dr. Emmerson Purchase, M.D.
Robert Elmer Chute and Doris Ashby Chute.
Robert Elmer Chute and Irene Dimmock Chute.
John Isley Chute and Gloria Ruth Slinn Chute.
George Douglas Chute and Myrtle Marie Whitman Chute.
The addition of Vincent Chute, police officer in Lambasa, Fiji to the South Pacific Database.
Lawrence J. O'Dea, Jr. and Janet Eilene Chute O'Dea.
Vernon Ethelbert Chute and Mary Ogden Chute.
Lieutenant Alexius Hugh ("Brian") Cartright and Marian Edith Chute Cartright.
William Henry Judson Chute and Margaret Nesbitt Baker Chute.
Lawrence M. Boyd and Annie Chipman Potter Boyd.
C. Parker and Gertrude Amelia Chute Parker.
Mary Chute Bramston and Wither Bramston. This marriage also produced a Coat of Arms, although unfortunately not in color.
William John Chute, M.P. and Elizabeth Smith Chute. From all accounts, William John Chute was another interesting character - perhaps not as "notoriously" interesting as some of our other relatives - but still interesting. He did, however, make quite a memorable impression on his neighbors that many of them felt compelled to mention him in their own records.
William Nelligan and Dorothea Chute Nelligan (or Neligan): the addition of their son, John Chute Nelligan.
A new Chute Family Mystery to solve: an unexpected discovery of an "Aunt Chute" mentioned in a letter from Mary O'Connell to her son, Daniel, Jr. Not that an "Aunt Chute" is unique - but the letter writer definitely was unique: she was the wife of the man called the "Great Liberator" of Ireland - Daniel O'Connell. As O'Connell was raised in Kerry before he became world famous, we would have expected that he knew a few Chutes, but where did he get an "Aunt Chute"? Any Irish Chutes who want to take a crack at this mystery?
Francis Chute and Arabella Denny Chute. Their wedding announcement from the Connaught Journal.
George Chute and Elizabeth Gilbert Chute. These records have been condensed and George's Navesink Oath of Allegiance in NOV 1665 has been added to his records.
Francis Chute and Rebecca Welch Chute - their marriage record at S. Peter and S. Kevin in Dublin, in 1741. Nothing more is known about them.
William Lyde Wiggett Chute and Martha Buckworth Chute.
Ann Rachel Hicks Cromie and Sir William Lambert Cromie. Ann Rachel Hicks, the only daughter of Sir William Hicks and Ann Rachel Chute Hicks, was next in line to inherit at least three major estates - including the Vyne. She was "the Chute Heiress" of Hampshire in the early 1800's. But something happened that made her two Chute uncles hastily change their Wills, bequeathing the Vyne and all their estates to a Godson: William Lyde Wiggett (who cheerfully agreed to change his name to William Lyde Wiggett Chute), instead of to their niece, Ann. It's always entertaining to realize that the Chute family isn't always as solid, respectable and predictable as we like to think we are: "How Ann Hicks Lost the Vyne" is now in her notes section, courtesy of one of her in-laws. Keep in mind that the story was composed to elicit reactions of various sorts in Victorian drawing rooms, but, pertinent aspects of this story (such as marriage licenses, home sales, etc.) are backed up with records of one sort or another.
Lydia Eleanor Chute Normandin and Leonard W. Normandin.
George Arthur Chute, Sr. and Geraldine McCullough Chute.
Eugene Lewis Chute and Henrietta Nichols Chute.
Helen Harris Chute Dill and Ernest James Dill.
Lida Louise Chute Bogardus and Arthur G. Bogardus.
Izair Eugene Chute and Violet Mae Varguson Chute.
Daniel Richmond Chute and Beatrice Linsley Wyant Chute.
Leonard Ralph Chute and Barbara Nekrasoff Chute.
Edgar Eugene Chute and Julia Ulen Chute.
William Staake Chute and Eva Treadwell Chute. William Staake Chute is an addition to the database, based on a record of a telephone conversation between him and my grandfather, George M. Chute, Jr. - he is the son of Stanley Wilfred Chute and Charlotte M. Staake. His children, and allied family information, has been added to the database.
Bert Bowlby Chute and Lois Hattie Ramey Chute.
William Derward Chute, M.D. and Hazel Chestnut Angwin Chute.
Two family history sources have added details to the Surrenden/Bethersden Chute group - which, as always, continues to be a source of much suffering and angst among their record keeping descendants: one source was From Somerset to King and Queen County: A History of the Hendens and their American Connections. Of particular note are the Henden Family records of Thomazine Henden, who married Edmund Criche before marrying Edward Chute. The Henden records of her birthdate still do not coincide with the date (1581) reflected in her marriage license records, but instead coincide with the 1569 date in the Ancestral File. On the other hand, their records do reflect a sibling born in 1580, so perhaps there was a considerable gap in the births of the Henden offspring. The text of Steer's research can be found online at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hendon/somersettokingandqueen.htm.
But of equal interest are their photographs taken at an American-British Henden Family reunion recently, which includes photographs of the Henden family estate in Kent, as well as a wonderful photograph of the interior hall of Godinton Manor, which is the family home of the Toke family, in Kent. The Toke family also married the Chute Family in the person of Eleanor Toke, and it is for possession of this manor that Eleanor and her husband George Chute went to court when Eleanor's father Nicholas bequeathed it to a nephew as opposed to his daughters and their husbands. (They tried to declare Nicholas as incompetant, and lost the case - and the manor).
The management of the Toke estate is the subject of The account book of a Kentish Estate, 1616-1704, edited by Eleanor C. Lodge and published by H. Milford of the Oxford University Press in 1927, and is now available on Ancestry.com. It provides a wealth of wonderful detail on the management of a large country estate in the County of Kent, such as was held by the Tokes and the Hendens and the Chutes, and there are a few "Chute" entries in the estate account book.
George Edward Chute and Marie Sausser Chute. There were two entries in the database for this family: one with son Albert N. Chute and father "George E.", and another with daughter Lydia and father "George Edward". The two items have been merged. There were several letters written between Mary Irene Chute and George M. Chute, Jr. on family history which have been transcribed and added to her notes section. Irene wrote to her first cousin Lydia and asked her to contribute family history as well, so the Lydia Eleanor Chute Normandin and Leonard W. Normandin family has been updated with information from Lydia's letter.
Finally, the records for Reverend George Trevor Chute and wives Elizabeth Smyth and Maria Willington are more complete. There were several separate entries for members of this family which have been pulled together. It was their census location of Shropshire which tied the George Chute-Elizabeth Smyth family to George of the Kerry, Ireland land records, and the entry for George Chute who was the father of Violet E. Chute in Paddington, Middlesex. That George was the son of the Reverend George Trevor Chute. Stephen Silver Chute was added to this family as well from the "Miscellaneous Records" section. Finally, son William Walter Chute can also be located on an Australian passenger list, but as there is a death record for him in Britain, it does not appear that he remained in Australia. Also revised:
Richard Chute III and Theodora Blennerhassett Chute.
Francis Blennerhassett Chute III and Charity Herbert Roberts Chute.
James O. Searles, Sr. and Ida Gertrude Matthews Searles.
Edward Thayer White and Mary Jane Holland White.
Eliza E. Chute, Elijah T. White and Winifred Poore.
Louis G. Brackett and Eliza A. Brackett.
Mary C. Chute and John Markey.
Joseph Chute and Mary Jane Rowan Chute.
John Rowan and Mary Colleton Rowan.
Webster Freedom Chute and Rosa Belle Watkins Chute.
Albert Harris Chute and Margaret Alice McCarthy Chute.
Henry Chute, with a land record in Virginia, 1644.
Kenneth David Chute and Rose Marie Urich.
Donald David Chute and Irene Popp Chute.
Michael Donald Chute and Patricia Lemoyne McCarty Chute.
Michael Bryant Chute and Maureen Helen O'Connor Chute.
Louis Ray Chute and Unni Sjolie Chute.
Robyn Lynn Chute and Ameilia Martinez Chute.
Kenneth Dean Chute and Susan Elaine Welch Chute.
Robert Joseph Chute and Margaret Agnes Flynn Chute.
Cornelia Chute and Harry I. Taylor.
Robert Dingley Chute and Jennie Esther Foster Chute.
Winfred Sidney Chute and Winifred Rose Field Chute.
Margaret Chute and Elisha Turner Weston.
Oliver Danforth Hancock and Harriet Emiline Skillings.
William A. Abbott and Harriet Henrietta Hancock.
Margaret Lee Chute and Stanley Waldo Sabine, Jr.
Stanley Cromwell Chute and Vera Aldrich Chute.
Additional individuals in the South Pacific/Fiji Islands group were added, although their connections to the previously listed Chutes is not yet known.
Mae Elizabeth Chute and Donald Richard Garberson.Vaughn Augustus Chute and Edna Blanche Einfeldt.
Velma Fern Chute and Voyel Ward Conley.
Thomas Chute and Mary Curtis.
John Newcomb Sanford and Charlotte Woodworth.
Olivia LaVaughn Chute and Calvin Harding Devault.
Cecil Vaughn Chute.
Vivian Darline Chute and Gene Lewis, and Richard Novak.
Kenneth Dale Chute and Nora Reese.
Mary Chute and Calvin F. Brown.
William Carr Chute and Rosannah Mayberry.
William Carr Chute and Nancy Rowe.
Thomas Chute and Jane Wyer.
Caroline S. Chute and Robert King and Jonas Killmer.
James Chute and Eleanor Jane Mann.
Deacon William Chute and Emily N. Stuart.
Newell Nutting Chute and Mary Jane Chaplin.
Franklin A. Chute and Elizabeth J. Hall.
Captain and Deacon John Chute, Jr. and Mary Crocker.
Joanna Crocker Chute and Timothy Brooks.
Annie Myrtle Chute and Charles Edward Jenkins.
Emma Frances Jenkins and Harold D. Merriam.
Margaret ("Maggie") Maude Chute and Willard Rose.
Viola May Rose and Carl Dana Skillin.
James Albert Chute and Matilda Jane Robinson.
Sidney Chute and Phoebe Williams.
Harvey Lewis Chute and Carrie Van Horsen.
Charles Thrombley Chute and Latonia Morea Mercer.
I apologize for the delay in posting these additions - some of you may know I've returned to college in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and, although I've brought the Chute records with me, my time in always being able to post additions has been limited.
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