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Descendants of Patrick Sutton

Generation No. 1

1. PATRICK¹ SUTTON was born 1821 in Ireland ¹, and died February 19, 1880 in Liverpool, England ². He married CATHERINE HENLY. She was born 1823 in Galway County, Ireland ³, and died in England.

Notes for PATRICK SUTTON:
Patrick Sutton and his wife Catherine immigrated to Liverpool from Ireland. Probably around 1845. There is a possibility that they were married in Liverpool; but is unknown at this point. They first appear in the 1851 census along with a daughter Bridget (Badelia?) Catherine was from Galway County. At this point I'm assuming the same for Patrick.
He was a dock worker and she and daughter Kate were fish sellers. The 1861 census lists Patrick (40), Catherine (38), John (9), Catherine (4) and Peter (2). All of the children were born in Liverpool. No mention of Delia. The 1881 census
listed Catherine, daughter Kate and daughter Mary, aged 17, a domestic servant.
The date of death of February 27 in his wife's letter to son John was probably the funeral date, as the death certificate says February 19, 1880 with it being registered on the 21st.

The following description of the Galway County area in the 1840s follows and perhaps relates to the reason for Patrick's emmigration:

Large-scale emigration from East Galway commenced in the 1830s. Emigrants at that time chiefly went to England and America. Australia as a destination for emigrants from here became popular in the 1840s. Of those who emigrated to the USA the chief destinations were Massachusetts and New York.
The Great Famine in East Galway was severe. Government and local measures were unable to cope with the large numbers who became desititute. There was a large drop in population over the period of the Great Famine.
The period of the Great Famine (1845 -1851) was a time of particularly high emigration from this area. The chief destinations of West Galway emigrants were the U.S. cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia. Others settled in New Brunswick, Canada and in New Zealand and Australia. There was also much seasonal migration from this area to the north of England and Scotland and many West Galway people settled there too.

The Great Famine dramatically altered and accelerated the rate and pattern of Galway emigration. Many thousands perished at that time. Such comments onm church records as '400 people from this parish died from Famine' bear testimony to this. Tens of thousands of people of Galway ancestry are to be found throughout the world today.

Notes for CATHERINE HENLY:
The Taum parish records show 2 records for births of a Catherine Henly. One on January 26th 1829 to John Henly and Judith Concannon. The other on July 9th 1833, to Michael Henly and Mary Higgins. While it is uncertain which of these are the grandparents of John Sutton, it is highly probable that the other are his aunt and uncle.

Children of PATRICK SUTTON and CATHERINE HENLY are:

DELIA² SUTTON, b. 1846, Liverpool, England ⁴; d. England.

Notes for DELIA SUTTON:
From AJMaddock, Liverpudlian researcher, writing to Jack Sutton, May 22, 1999:
"I have found a marriage of a badelia Sutton in Liverpool, indexed in 1863. This must surely be Delia. .... Although the additional name in 1851 census is clearly written Bridget (daughter of Catherine and Patrick), I suppose it is possible, looking at it, that the name on the original schedule....was misread because it was unfamiliar. In other words, Bridget might just be Badelia. To marry in 1863 she must have been born before 1851.

2.	ii.		JOHN SUTTON, b. December 25, 1853, Liverpool, England; d. June 19, 1931, Cawker City, Kansas.
	iii.		CATHERINE SUTTON, b. 1857, Liverpool, England ⁵; d. July 08, 1881, Liverpool, England ⁶.

Notes for CATHERINE SUTTON:
From AJMaddock, Liverpool researcher:

In any case I have determined that Catherine jnr was RC (Roman Catholic). I looked for her burial at Walton public cemetery (she was not in the St Augustine's register nor the Ford index), because this cemetery usually took Workhouse deaths. I did not find her, so I then looked at the Workhouse admissions registers, which give religious creed. Their so-called alphabetical system is anything but, there being several separate batches of the letter S under several years, so it took a while to find her. I have made a print-out of the entry for you. It shows she was RC, and confirms date of death.

iv.

PETER SUTTON, b. September 12, 1858, Liverpool, England ⁷; d. 1878, Galveston, Texas.

Notes for PETER SUTTON:
From one AJ Maddock; Liverpool researcher:

I next returned to the St Augustine's baptisms, and worked through from 1856
to May 1861 (end of book). Here at last I found one of the children, Peter,
born 12 September 1858, baptized 19 September. These registers (in Latin)
give mother's maiden name, but frustratingly I cannot be absolutely sure of
Catherine's. It looks like 'henley' with a small h. I tried to visualise it
as Conley (a more likely Irish name) but it definitely does not have the
right formation for this. The first letter does not match any capitals or
lower case letters used by the same writer anywhere else, so perhaps he just
made a slip of the pen and did mean it for Henley. The book itself cannot be
copied, but in about a month's time the films will have been checked, boxed,
labelled and released for use. A print-out could presumably be ordered
direct from the Record Office so you can see for yourself. I have the page
reference if this is required. The godparents are 'Andrea' (I'm not sure how
to translate the Latin version) Fitzpatrick and Mary Connor.

MARY SUTTON, b. 1863, Liverpool, England ⁸; d. Liverpool, England.

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