 - Yes, date unknown
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| Name |
Adam Chewte |
| Gender |
Male |
| Land Record: |
1208 |
Taunton, Somerset, Great Britain  |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
| Notes |
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chute/gp25.htm#head5
«b»DeChete Records«/b»: (Unsupported but probable connection) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chute/gp8550.htm#head1
Walter John Chute and Mary Elizabeth Grace Powers Chute:
Walter John Chute was professor of Chemistry at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the time that the following letters were written, he was on sabbatical leave from this position, and in London, Great Britain.
«u»«b»Letter from Walter John Chute to George M. Chute, Jr., February 21, 1970«/u»«/b»
"Perhaps ten years ago I heard from you concerning inquiries you were making about the descendants of the Chute family. I believe my mother, Mrs. Jessie Chute, widow of John M. Chute of Brooklyn Corner, Kings County, Nova Scotia, provided some information from a Chute family Bible. I am curious as to how far you carried the compilation of an extended genealogy.
I am on sabbatical leave from my University this 1969-1970 year and have amused myself digging up Chute records in England. Various libraries including that of the Genealogical Society have provided some interesting records.
Previously, my knowledge had been limited to William E. Chute's genealogy of 1894. I am rather skeptical of details of William E.'s family pre the New England immigration. It is true that Burke's and deBrett's works carry a lineage which is roughly the same as that derived from an old parchment available in 1857 and recorded in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register XIII, p. 123. I wonder if that was the same as the record possessed by Thomas Chute of Marblehead, Massachusetts, for the Gore Roll of Arms of 1721?
At any rate, a similiar lineage back to Alexander of Taunton, 1268, seems to have appeared among the English Chutes about 1600, but no records appear to substantiate it. Alexander was not the chief tenant (constable) at Taunton in 1268, it was one Roger de Karswell. I have found that «u»Adam Chute«/u», reasonable spelling for the time, was a labouring, sub-tenant with 12 acres of the 17,000 acres of the manor in 1208-9!
Incidentally, William E.'s Baron Edouard leChute was not dreamed up over here. «u»It cannot be found in any of the English pedigrees«/u» and certainly the Englishmen would have stuck it in if there was any suspected foundation.
I suspect that "Chute" stems from Old English, pre-Norman usage. There are villages and a forest of Chute in Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset. Scholars of Old English have spent much effort on the origins which provide «u»Ceat 1110, Ceit 1178, Chut 1252, Cheut 1281, Chewte 1553 and Chute from 1600 onward.«/u»
I believe the spelling in some ways reflect the changes in vowel sounds with the years and never was very exact up to the 18th century!
I would be interested in hearing of the results of your searches. Perhaps I could provide more family background if you wished."
Sincerely,
Walter J. Chute
St. Albans Grove
Kensington, London England
21 Feb 1970
«u»«b»Letter from Walter John Chute to George M. Chute, Jr., April 10, 1970«/u»«/b»
"Since, in probability, I have finished the bulk of my digging into the past of the English Chutes, I thought I might send you a brief account.
Thanks to your letter, my family and I called on Mrs. Emerin Chute. Indeed we are invited again next week to meet her son who is home from Turkey. We enjoyed the visit and her memorabilia of the Chutes of the Vyne. Mr. Higgins of Rugby was most kind and advised about Dedham.
I have done the public libraries, the library of the Society of Genealogical Society and, lately, the British Museum which provides both manuscript documentation and files of court proceedings, etc from 1200 A.D. onward.
I believe I suggested to you earlier that Baron Edouard LeChute sounded like a fiction. Edward is not Norman - the Normans had no surnames as such e.g., William de Normandy or such place names, or possibly Robert Fitzwilliam. William's barons have been catalogued - no LeChute!
The Somerset lineage as given in the 1894 genealogy and provided in deBrett and Burke is also most delicious. In the case of both the Vyne Chutes and the early New England branch, there were copies of 'parchments' which carried the line back to Alexander, Lord of the Manor at Taunton, 1268. The two are so closely the same that they must have been taken from a like source. I learn that it was fashionable to commission family trees about 1600, particularly in Kent. I would guess that memory gave some truth for a generation or two behind Philip of Appledore and Anthony but the rest does not have much base.
Taunton belonged to the Bishop of Winchester from pre-Conquest days until it was broken up in 1647. Lord Denham (15th earl - of dubious qualifications and last of the line) never bought Taunton from Edmond Chute or anone else.
I did find Adam Chut (as in original Latin), a ploughman tenant at Taunton - I am not certain whether he was a freeman or bondman, in 1208-9.
There was a Thomas Chute (original latin) as a justice of the peace in Canterbury, Kent as early as 1256, so the migration from Somerset to Kent began before 1500.
I have several dozens of references to Chewtes, Choutes, latterly Chute from Kent and Essex through to Suffolk. In Devon and Somerset there were Shutes. These last were small tenants and one in 1349, Isabel atte Shute, who was a bondswoman.
A pair of brothers Richard and Nicholas Shute apparently were in a band of soldiers belonging to the Prince of Wales, who got in trouble from Scotland, Oxford and the King's park in Richmond from 1303-1343.
I wish I knew whether John Shute who held various manor posts (earned 12d day for the lot) in Essex under the King (1484) was an antecedant of Philip of Appledore.
Philip of Appledore, etc., the "standard bearer" to Henry VIII is well documented. I have notations on his doings year by year from 1538 to his death in 1566. He began hanging around court as a yeoman (45S.6d a quarter). Incidentally, the cost of living didn't rise rapidly then - he got the same pay several years later. He became Captan of the Castle at Rye (24 men) in 1540. He then had the Castle at Camber in 1541, with jurisdiction over Rye. In August 1544 he was standard bearer to the king's men at arms in Henry VIII's descent upon Boulogne. There were «u»300 1/2 men«/u» in the group with a Captain, Philip and four horse-keepers. [Wonder who the "half a man" was?] The campaign lasted from 16-31 Aug. The Captian got 10 s/day; Philip 6s/day, men at arms 18d/day and the footmen 6d/day. No doubt there were other gunners, archers, etc., up to a few hundreds or thousands, but this was the king's troop. Philip was given various bits of land in Kent - mostly taken from the church - or good Catholics. So the Chute family got its landed start.
Incidentally, Anthony, Philip's brother and our progenitor, was appointed gunner in the Tower of London, 14 Nov 1529 at 12 d/day.
As a matter of record, Philip's burial place at Appledore is said to be lost by some writers. Mrs. E. Chute, who sought for it at Appledore, has a note from the vicar there who says it is covered up by a mat.
On Lionel. I have the baptismal records of James, Feb 2, 1613-14 and his sister Mary, Mar 23, 1619 at Dedham. These the only Chute records there. The Dedham church records are scanty or non-existant 1620-44.
It seems obvious that Lionel was in Dedham 1613-14 - thus earlier than the Nov. 1621 when he became master in the school. He witnessed various wills in Dedham 1627 - 1638. The last date surprises me - he was, it seems, replaced in the school 1632-33 and it is known that he was in Ipwsich, Mass in 1639.
I have seen a copy of Lionel's father's (also a Lionel) who died 24 July 1592 - he left Lionel Junior a horse! Lionel Sr.'s brother Arthur who lived in Wrentham, Suffolk (nearby) is also connected. So also another brother Christopher. These were three sons of Anthony, brother to Philip.
I should have liked to have found record of Lionel's marriage and his taking ship to America. It seems shipping records here are troublesome. Many were lost. Others quite deliberately not made out because of general turmoil - religious and otherwise. I believe Governor Winthrop's passage is not documented, nor Samuel Symonds'. Symonds became Deputy Governor of the Mass. Colony. He was step-father to James Chute's wife. I would have liked to have seen the record book of Lionel's school in Dedham. It still existed in 1937. My attempts on the vicar at Dedham and at the Essex Record Office at Chelmsford have not revealed its hiding place. Chelmsford has the original charter and other records from the school.
I trust I do not bore you to much. I owed some reply for the introduction to Mrs. Chute and Mr. Higgins. We still hope to go to the Vyne.
Sincerely,
Walter J. Chute
St. Albans Grove
Kensington, London England
10 April 1970
A cousin, Dorothy M. (Bentley) Williams, de. Lina Evans Chute, comes here tomorrow. She has spent the year past on a round-the-earth tour - now to London. Perhaps I can get her to abet me.
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I55729 |
Glenn Cook Family |
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