Three more Chute books have been added to the Chute family Library collection: Turning Samoan, by Dennis Chute, Reluctant Warrior, by George Chute, and The Making of Judge Dredd by David Chute. Note: the criteria for addition to the Chute Family Library is: I located one at Barnes & Noble and could employ a considerable discount, or they were sent to me ... all of them are going to Nova Scotia, with the family records. Dennis you all know: he's the brother of Steve Chute (the same Steve Chute who has singlehandedly uncovered more remote and vital family records than anyone can count) but Dennis is perhaps more famous now as "the only 'Inuit' thousands of Americans have ever met" - read his notes for the very funny biographical sketch which explains that ... George has been added to the "UFO" list, as I'm not sure which George he is! And, of course, anyone familiar with online film reviews (or the entire film career of John Woo, Asian animation or Indian cinema for that matter) is familiar with David Chute.
The following files have been updated:
William Niles Olney & Lottie Florence ("Flossie") Chute OlneyGordon Sylvanus Olney & Clara Meyer Olney
Donna Pope Webb, granddaughter of Evelyn Olivia Chute, checked in and updated her end of the Chute family tree - she'll be submitting more information on her grandparents when she gets a chance ... thanks, Donna!
The following files have been updated:
George Albert Pope, Sr. & Evelyn Olivia Chute PopeGeorge Albert Pope, Jr. & Carol Louise Fuller Pope
Eugene Jefferson Atchison and Janice Barbara Chute Atchison
Roy Alvin Chute and Grace Einfeldt Chute
Floyd Marvin Chute and Harriet Ann Lawrence Chute
Floyd Marvin Chute and Patricia Fuller Chute
Latonia Morea Chute Leppert and Earl Leppert
Latonia Morea Chute Leppert and (Given name unknown) Teters
Evelyn Lucille Teters Noble and William Eldon Noble, Sr.
Thurman Charles Teters and Lois (Surname unknown) Teters
Elizabeth Mullarkey Kenworthy, daughter of Peter Mullarkey Sr. and Catherine Chute, has checked in, offering to update their line and provide some photos ... and Charlotte Richards, granddaughter of Elwin Meredith Chute, also checked in, offering to update the Harvey Finney Chute line. Again, thanks to Jim Jessee of the Jessee Family organization, for updating the records on Floyd Marvin Chute's line, and a special mention of the Humbert Family, which provided some wonderful biographical information on the Alonzo Charles Chute & Lucille Rosalie Humbert Chute line - particularly their inclusion of the obituary information on son 1st Lieutenant Robert Gail Chute, Sr. - John DosPerros provided a wonderful biographical sketch of Rosalie's father.
The following files have been updated:
Floyd Marvin Chute and Harriet Ann Lawrence Chute. This is a new entry, with two additional Chute sons to add to the database. It appears that when Floyd's mother, Dora Eckles Chute, completed the family data worksheet back in 1952, she neglected to mention son Floyd's first marriage and two sons by Harriet Ann Lawrence ... the information was provided by James W. Jessee of the Jessee family organization - Harriet is a Jessee family descendant.John Lawrence Chute, Sr. & Lillian Frances Leville Chute
Roger Elmer Chute & Doris Cline Chute
Raymond Leslie Chute & Beulah Anna Morrill Chute
Harry Cressenden Chute & Ellen Agnes Young Chute
Moses Chute & Ruth Mosher Chute
John Alder Chute & Ellen Bryant Chute
Samuel Lawrence Chute & Lucy Jane Bragdon Chute
Daniel William Chute & Eliza Jane Marshall Chute
John Joseph Chute & Margaret Daly Chute
Floyd Melvin Chute & Dora Belle Eckles Chute
Merrill Patrick Clinton & Wilma Lorene Chute Clinton
Charles Thrombley Chute & Latonia Morea Mercer Chute
Alonzo Charles or Carl Chute & Lucille Rosalie Humbert Chute
1st Lieutenant Robert Gail Chute, Sr. & Eleanor Jane Wilde (Mantaro) Chute
The following files have been updated:
William Henry Leicester Stanhope & Ann Theodora Chute Stanhope. The lengthily-named William Stanhope was the 11th Earl of Harrington; there is something of a royal connection in that Ann Theodora's stepson, Charles Henry Leicester Stanhope, aka the Viscount Petersham, was the father of Lady Serena Stanhope. Serena Stanhope is married to David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, son of the late Princess Margaret. You can't really call this a "royal connection", more of a "poorer relations distantly connected by marriage". But for those of us who love brandishing such distant connections around, there you have it.Lewis McNeill Chute & Inez Nauss Chute. Note that her surname has been corrected from "Hauss" to "Nauss", based on her father's obituary, which has been added to her father's notes.
Philip Archer Chute & Helen A. Caswell Chute
Quincy Mayberry Chute & Melissa Dresser Lewis Chute
John Worcester Chute & Caroline Hanscom Peaver Chute
Samuel Varner & Susannah Uhl Varner
Peter Varner & Mary Eva Roth Varner
Andrew M. Lake & Elizabeth ("Betsy") Goss Lake
Solomon Goss & Olive Scott Goss
Archibald Lake & Mary Bird Lake
Eli Chute & Mary C. England Chute
Nathan R. England & Nancy Bartlett England
Lloyd William Hudson & Viola May Chute Hudson
George Alton Hudson & Elmina Gregory Hudson
George Gardner (or Gardiner) Hudson & Martha J. Guest Hudson
Lewis Hartford Chute & Helen L. Garnett Chute
The following files have been updated:
John Witham & Cora Bell Chute WithamWalter Coggins & Cora C. Chute Coggins
James Patrick Mahoney & Margaret Chute Mahoney
Moses Wales Whitcomb & Sarah Ann Marie Chute Whitcomb
George Washington Chute, Jr. & Maria Worcester Chute
William George Chute & Melvina Eliza Hadley Chute
Calvin Hadley & Eliza Teele Hadley
Linda Chute Wallace sent in Family Data Worksheets on Marsden Chute ... Jed Chute wrote in from Listowel, Ireland offering information ... and Adimaimalaga Chute, Executive Director of Women in Business Development Inc., in Apia, Samoa is filling out worksheets at the moment - we may finally get a handle on the Irish and South Pacific Chutes - Irish Chute history will almost certainly be of interest to Irish Immigrant Chutes in North America and Australia. While we're on the subject of South Pacific Chutes, Christine Liava'a, who is not a Chute but doing research on soldiers from Fiji in WW1, noticed in the 1911 Handbook of Fiji a Jno Chute as a planter at Nakuli, Fiji at that time.
Lastly, for those interested in the Chute Medical Database ... Eddie Chute also developed tinnitus in one ear, although he seems to be the only member of his immediate family who has it ... tinnitus seems to be a male Chute medical comment seen rather often ... so we're keeping a very unscientific track of it for anyone who might take interest in it later. (Tinnitus is a ringing noise in the ear which is annoying at best and can sometimes interfere with hearing at worst ... I've yet to hear of any Chute daughters who had problems with it later in life.)
Meanwhile, the following files have been updated:
Horace Barrows & Harriet H. Knight BarrowsGeorge Whitfield Barrows & Dolly Ann Wight Barrows
Col. Francis Chute & Martha Mayberry Chute
Margaret Chute Weston & Elisha Turner Weston
Merrill Knight & Rebecca Chute Knight
Johnson Knight & Elizabeth March Knight
John Hooper Chute & Miriam Turner Chute
John Hooper Chute & Joanna Pike Chute
Andrew Woodbury & Sally Stevens Woodbury
William Woodbury & Sarah ("Sally") Chute Woodbury
Patrick Henry Chute & Elizabeth Dean Chute
William Silas Chute & Clara Elizabeth Miller Chute
Charles Fairchild Chute & Mary Belle Henderson Chute
George Weaver Van Velzer & Phebe Ann Chute Van Velzer
Jacob Raymond Van Velzer & Susannah Weaver Van Velzer
Jacob Van Velzer & Sarah Raymond Van Velzer
Cloyd Clarence Chute & Jessie Mather Chute
Daniel James Chute & Mary Elizabeth Corbett Chute
The following files have been updated:
Harry Cressenden Chute & Ellen Agnes Young ChuteHarry Cressenden Chute & Lillian D. Carr Chute
Samuel Lawrence Chute & Lucy Jane Bragdon Chute
Bernard Jerome Willey & Agnes Mae Chute Willey
Leon L. Ballard & Myrtle Violet Chute Ballard
Fred E. Fisher & Myrtle Violet Chute Fisher
Alvin Leroy Chute & Shirley Marie Pingle Chute
Robert Charles Robinson & Sharon Anne Chute
Robert Charles Robinson & Sharon Anne Chute
Thor Smesmo & Ocie Ella Chute Smesmo
William Abbott & Mary (Polly) Chute Abbott
Lewis H. Sanborn & Mary Ann Abbott Sanborn
Joseph N. Abbott & Louisa Chute Abbott
James L. Green & Alfreda A. Abbott Green
William A. Abbott & Harriet Henrietta Hancock Abbott
Oliver Danforth Hancock & Harriet Emeline Skillings Hancock
John Hooper Chute and Joanna Pike Chute
Nathaniel Andrews and Joanna Pike Andrews
John Pike & Mercy Jordan Pike
The following files have been updated:
William Windsor Chute & Georgia Ellen Scribner ChuteJames Lemuel Chute, MD
Clyde Philip Chute
Philip Archer Chute
Mary Chute Robichaut & Donald Robichaut
Frank Chute
Lloyd Francis Chute
Athalia Mae Chute
Alice Eva Chute
Edwin Chute and Dorcas Cobb Abbott Chute
William Abbott and Mary (Polly) Chute Abbott
Lewis H. Sanborn and Mary Ann Abbott Sanborn
George Kingsbury and Susan Chute Abbott Kingsbury
Cyrus Andrews and Prudence Abbott Andrews
Paul Revere Chute and Beryl Alta Blaisdell Chute
John Douglas Chute and Grace Louise Searles Chute
Howard C. Watkins and Emma May Chute Watkins
Mary Olive Chute and Harold Hatch
John Marshall Church and Cordelia Augusta Hasty
Note: John is the son of Nathan Church and Miriam Chute; Cordelia's ancestry back to 1685 in Londonderry, Ireland was provided by one of her descendants Warren H. Hasty.
Helen Myra Chute and Earl or Earle Wyman Dresser
Lilla Mae Chute and Everett E. Bean
Mahlon A. Chute and Laura Augusta Jillson Chute
William Henry Chute and Martha or Mary Barrie or Barry
Walter Webster Chute and Ruth M. Beaulieu Chute
Adelbert C. Chute and Lizzie M. Jordan Chute
Adelbert C. Chute and Evelyn H. Hatfield or Brinkerhoff Chute
James Chute and Mary Ann Hoyt Chute
Arthur Murray Chute and Theresa Burns Chute
Agnes Mae Chute Willey and Bernard Jerome Willey
Revised update: after being hired for a new job last March, in April I was laid off AGAIN when they didn't get the contract they'd hired me to support - back to job-hunting. Finally, I was hired at as a contractual technical writer for a pharmaceutical company, and the ink had barely dried on that contract when I was offered another job working for a former employer beginning after Labor Day. So it looks like I'm finally back to work for good, this time!
In the meanwhile, hang onto your hats: the good news is that Steve (or was it his brother?) found the man formerly known as "Baron Edouard LeChute", the source of the "Baron Edouard" family lore!! He is, as suspected, not a Baron, but a Captain, and appeared in only one volume of only one edition of a 6-volume scholarly, encyclopedic study of the Norman Conquest, Edward A. Freeman's The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Its Causes and Its Results, published from 1867 to 1879. Why Edouard hasn't been found since then? He appeared only that once, in the first edition! (This is such a remote reference, neither Steve or I have even seen it yet - his brother is the one sneaking spare moments to copy pages of the book on the copy machine, as we speak - I want to say it's Dennis, and I hope Steve will correct me - quickly - if I'm wrong).
There have been some questions about Freeman's choices in original source material, but the criticism has been more focused on battle history than in actual names, which would suggest that his mention of a Captain Chute did come from an original source document. Steve also commented that he had a habit of anglicizing names, so we're unsure at this point if the name appeared as "Chute", or as something else and then was anglicized to "Chute". Freeman taught at Trinity College, Oxford, filling the office of examiner in law and modern history from 1857 to 1864.
Nonetheless, there is apparently a reference to one Captain Edward CHUTE, in the employ of Robert De Conteville, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall. Mortain was born about 1037 in Normandy, France, and died about 1091, also in France. According to Freeman, when William gathered his faithful retainers for a conclave in Dives, Normandy prior to the invasion itself, the good Robert De Conteville, Count of Mortain was such a loyal retainer that he failed to show up ... and sent a representative, one "Edward Chute" in his place. (And thank goodness for that - we might never have found him!) The Count - and by "The Count", he probably means "Edward Chute", who was his representative and a Captain - was put in charge of 20 ships, which sailed not to Kent, but to Cornwall, where it was their job to prevent the Cornish and the Welsh from joining the fray. Count Mortain was given lands in Taunton and Somerset for his effort ... and had more land than the Church. Edouard would have been given a sizeable tract in the area.
NOW ... remember that this information was apparently published ONCE in the very first edition ... subsequent editions apprently chopped our Edouard right out of it, in the interests of brevity. But the first edition had been published BEFORE William Edward Chute undertook his Genealogies, and we know he saw this entry. How do we know this? Because among Freeman's personal papers and notes, collected in Manchester, is correspondence with one William Edward Chute of Nova Scotia ...! (And why he couldn't have just cited Freeman as his source for Edouard, we'll never know!)
Now, for Robert de Conteville to have sent Edouard Chute to Dives as his representative says a great deal about Edouard Chute, because what he was doing was sending Edouard in his place to a meeting with his own half-brother, William ("The Conquerer"), Duke of Normandy. Bishop Odo of Bayeux was Robert de Conteville's brother. All three of them shared the same mother, Herleve de Falaise of Normandy, who was the mistress of William's father Robert. William the Conquerer was her first, and illigitimate, son; Robert de Conteville and Odo of Bayeux were William's younger half-brothers. After his coronation in 1066, William the Conqueror claimed that all the land in England now belonged to him. William retained about a fifth of this land for his own use. The rest was distributed to those men who had helped him defeat Harold at the Battle of Hastings. Robert of Mortain was granted manors in Cornwall (248), Yorkshire (196), Northamptonshire (99), Devon (75), Sussex (54), Dorset (49) and Buckinghamshire (29). He also had manors in ten other counties. His 793 manors made him the second largest landowner in England. One of these manors was granted to Captain Edward Chute. It could not have been the Manor in Taunton, because as you'll recall, that land was owned by the Church. How Adam and Alexander ended up on Church land in Taunton we don't know ... yet ... but Taunton would not have been the origin of the manor Edward Chute was granted. And one of these days, we might even find out which piece of land that was!
And the following files have been updated:
Eli Herrold Chute
Eaton Laury Chute
Eaton Chute
Marsden Edwin Chute
Edward Joseph Chute, Sr.
Lorenzo Chute
Leverett Livingston (Levi) Chute
Brian Vernon Chute
Vernon Livingston Chute
Glenna Idella Chute
Lillian Joyce Chute
Lester Allen Chute
Michael Alan Chute
Sherry Denise Chute
Eli Chute
Dr. George Hiram Chute, M.D.
Eliza E. Chute
Edward Thayer White
William Elwin Chute
Celia Mina Chute
Joseph Franklin Chute
Albert Chute
Samuel Sylvester Chute, Sr.
Elvira Chute
Jeremiah McLucas Chute
Elizabeth Belle Chute
Update on my own situation: a few of you know I was laid off last November when our company was sold and dissolved, and have been job-hunting in a dismal New York economy since then ... the good news is: I started a new job last Tuesday, and the bad news is: I started a new job last Tuesday! You know how exhausting and time consuming learning an entirely new job in an entirely new industry can be - if I seem to be reacting to things a bit slower than usual, that's why.
It seems that Archie Pearl Chute was married twice, and his daughter Roxanne Marie by second wife Irene Kober Chute is aiding in pulling this information together ... without any proof to support it, I just know that Irene Kober was related to Alvin Wellington Chute's wife Mae Kober in some fashion ... as soon as I figure out how, I'll update the Kobers, too.
Thanks to Corrine Chute Sharp, the Thorne family tree has been incorporated into the Allied Family database - Ethel Thorne was the wife of Clarence Hilton Chute. The data came from The Descendants of William Thorne, Generation #4.
Also, thanks to an obituary written for Hiram Robert Chute, recorded by Heather Leighton Waddingham, the records for his descendants has been partially updated - I say partially, because while obituaries do provide names, they don't provide dates of birth or other needed information, so if anyone knows this family, ask them for help in getting their records updated more fully.
Other Additions to the Web Site:
2001
24 Mar 2001 through 26 July 2001
26 July 2001 through 31 December 2001
2002
3 February 2002 through 26 April 2002
1 May 2002 through 29 July 2002
10 August 2002 through 27 October 2002
2 November 2002 through 28 December 2002
2003
10 Jan 2003 through 15 Feb 2003
2 Mar 2003 through 28 Sep 2003
28 Sep 2003 through 31 Dec 2003
2004
2005
2005
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