KG8 Sarah Kingdom married Thomas Dutton

Sarah Kingdom married Thomas Dutton

5. Sarah Kingdom married  Thomas Dutton who was the son of William Dutton born 1724 - 1794 and his wife Ann Millward.


Ann was the daughter of Thomas Millward and his wife Sarah Betham.  Ann was born in 1721, and baptised at St Andrew's London.

William Dutton was the son of Matthew Dutton and Sarah Betham and was born 1720 in London, and was baptised at  St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London, England. He married Ann Millwood on 5th Sept 1747 at in St. Andrew, Undershaft, London, England,  and died 16 Jan 1794

Dutton William  from Marston (1738-1794) was a clockmaker

William Dutton, the son of Matthew Dutton of Marston in Buckinghamshire, Gent., was apprenticed to George Graham on 5th January 1738. He received his freedom on 7th July 1746. He was a liveryman of the Clockmakers Company from 1766-94. He entered into a partnership with Thomas Mudge in 1755 and took over the business in 1771.


They had many children -

1. Mary Dutton 1745
2. Ann Dutton 1747
3. Nancy Dutton 1748 1748
4. Sarah Dutton 1750       m Archibald Buchanan  1777
5. William Dutton 1751 1757
6. John Dutton 1753 1787
7. Elizabeth Dutton 1757 1787    m Charles Wigley     1776
8. Matthew Dutton 1757 1838 m Catherine Dunant  1779
9. Hephzihab Dutton 1758 1837 m William Kingdom
10. Dorothy Dutton 1760  -     1839 m Thomas Strong
11. Thomas Dutton 1762 1847 m Sarah Kingdom
12. William Dutton 1764 1787


William's son Matthew was also a clockmaker, as was his grandson Matthew.

Matthew Dutton was the son of the eminent clockmaker William Dutton who was apprenticed to George Graham and in partnership with Thomas Mudge. Matthew was apprenticed to his father in 1771 and later in partnership with him in Fleet Street, London. He was admitted to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers’ and in the year 1800 became Master. Matthew had a son (also called Matthew) who was admitted to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers’ in 1815.

The clock at St Dunstan's, in Fleet Street London.  The shop where Thomas Mudge had his business is now a Starbucks Cafe.

 A fine ebonized striking table clock, Signed Thomas Mudge & William Dutton, London

5.9  Hebhzibah Dutton m William Kingdom

Their children were

1. Sophia Kingdom 1787 -1839
2. William Kingdom 1790
3. Lieut  John Kingdom RN 1792 1823   d  Sierra Leone
4. James Bowen Kingdom 1797 1889 m Ellen Turner Cope
5. James Kingdom worked at the Admiralty

5.11.  Thomas Dutton m Sarah Kingdom .

Their children were

1. Lieut Commander Thomas Dutton  RN 1795 - 1872  Tasmania  Heloise Lette
2. Sarah Kingdom Dutton         1798  - 1882  Exeter
3. Josephine Dutton                 1801 - 1893  Somerset   m Dr James Fox
4. Dorothea Dutton

5.11.1 Lieut Commander Thomas Dutton was born in London and joined the Royal Navy.  He was sent to Australia to manage the property Cressy, and establishment financed by backers in England.
Cressy was named by Bartholomew Boyle Thomas, Thomas was a representative of an English company, the New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Establishment, which had been granted 20,000 acres in the district.

He returned from Sydney eleven days later. The Ringarooma location was given up but a grant of 10,000 acres (4047 ha) was soon secured, with a reservation of a further similar area, and a farm with some buildings bought all together in one block on the west side of the Lake River. He named the place Cressy, after the battlefield where his ancestor had been created Knight Banneret. The partnership became known as the Cressy Co. or Horse Breeding Co.

The report of 13 August 1827 to the colonial secretary, John Burnett, of operations at Cressy for about ten months records impressive achievement in developing the holding, but financial matters and accountancy were neglected or ignored and became the subject of action by the Sheriff. 'Relying on information that later turned out to be inaccurate, the home directors dissolved their partnership with B. B. Thomas', by a press notice, 28 June 1828. Lieutenant Thomas Dutton, R.N., succeeded as manager.  The second manager was Lieut. Thomas Dutton, R.N., until June , 1830.

He married in 1835, Heloise Lette, the daughter of surveyor Peter Lemonde Lette and his wife Elizabeth Peck.  Her father was the son of Peter Lett who was born in Ireland and who left at the time of the invasion of the French.  He joined the East India Company and sailed on their ships.  He was taken hostage by the French near Batavia in 1804.

During this time in history, the French were very active in the shipping routes in the South East Asian waters.




Bell's Weekly Messenger of 15th July 1804 reported:

The Countess of Sutherland, also captured by Linios, was a country ship which had brought cargo to England on a private account, and was returning with considerable property belonging to private Merchants.  She is supposed to be the largest private ship ever built in India, being of 2000 tons burthen.

The Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal of 28th August 1804 reported:

"The daily reports of the French squad made many captures of our ships in the Indian and Chinese seas, we must in a certain degree, condemn, when there can be no authority for such rumours; as the last news of the enemy's operations are down to the month of May, which only confirms the former accounts, that the ships Countess of Sutherland and the Admiral Aplin, with the Bencoolen brig, had been taken and carried into the Mauritius.

The London Courier and Evening Gazette of 31st December 1804:

Madras June 13 -  We some time since, have to state the capture of the ship Henrietta, Captain Somerville, by one of Admiral Linois' squad to the Eastward:  she was carried by the captors to Batavia, where disease and death soon reduced the number of the Frenchmen in charge of her, to a small and feeble hand:- the Syrang and Lascars, who were kept on board, and obliged to work in the delivery of her cargo, observing the diminished numbers of the enemy, formed a plan for the recovery of the vessel - this they effected with much spirit, throwing a few of the Frenchmen overboard, making prisoners of the rest, and conducting the Henrietta to Penang, where she has since arrived in safety.

Morning Chronicle of 3rd January 1805

Calcutta July 4 -  Yesterday arrived the Danish ship the Elizabeth, Captain Hack, from Batavia, last from Bencoolen, on the 28th May.

The following persons, prisoners of war, are passengers on board her, from Batavia:-  Captains W.Somerville and Charles Egglestone, late commanders of the ships Henrietta and Countess of Sutherland; Mrssrs. Alexander Robertson, John Watson, Peter Lette, John Stevenson, T.E.E. Sherburne, Peter Lawson, William Daniel, Robert Freeman, William Sutherland, Nicholas Meeton, officers of ships; with twenty natives all prisoners of war.

By private letters from Bencoolen, received by the above conveyance, we are happy to find, that the expedition that had been fitting out at that settlement, had sailed for Mouchie, and dropped anchor before that fort, on the 14th April last.


He married Elizabeth Peck, in India, in 1810.  She had travelled with him from a journey he had made to Tasmania, then Sydney in 1809.  After living in India, they returned to Tasmania in 1818, and were granted lands.

Elizabeth Peck was the daughter of Joshua Peck, who came on the First Fleet to Australia, and Mary Frost who came on the Second Fleet.

 

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A repeating gold watch, the case chased and pierced with foliate scrolling and grotesque masks, with an enamelled outer case, attached to a châtelaine, elaborately enamelled in dark blue with cameo-style reserves showing figures ?Britannia, confronted male and female heads and a seated woman handing an infant to a nurse; with four chains. George Michael Moser (1706–83) was a renowned artist and enameller of the 18th century, father of celebrated floral painter Mary Moser, and, with his daughter, among the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. He was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and trained initially as a coppersmith in Geneva. He later learnt additional skills as a chaser, goldsmith and engraver.

He moved to London during the 1720s and works by him include elaborate gold snuff-boxes and watch-cases including movements by noted watchmakers George Philip Strigel and John Ellicott. He was the Royal Academy's first Keeper and as a teacher at the Academy taught many notable artists including William Blake. 

William Dutton was apprenticed to George Graham in 1738, became a member of the Clockmakers' Company in 1746, and continued as journeyman with Graham until the latter's death in 1751. He was in partnership with Thomas Mudge, another Graham apprentice and journeyman from 1755 to 1771. 

The business was carried on at the Dial and One Crown in Fleet Street, (later 148 Fleet Street).