SUTTON FAMILY, Horden

[Blues Mark]

Am trying to find out whatever happened to Frederick and Alice Sutton originally from Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire who had moved to Horden by 1911. Frederick served in the great war unit unknown and survived but i have not found death certificates for them and dont know where they ended up. Alice was born in 1865 and Frederick in 1867.

[Nicolina]

he seems to be a bit too old to have been in WW!. There is a Frederick Sutton, from Gateshead, who was in the Durham Light Infantry between 1920 and 1933 but he was single. That's the nearest I can find.

[Blues Mark]

i never considered him to have been in the great war until i was sent a photo of him wearing his medals and read in the durham mining research pages of him on active duty.

[AdeleE]

On the 1911 census in Horden, Easington, Durham, Frederick is enumerated as Frederick Richard Sutton, born c1869. There is this death registration:

Name: Frederick R Sutton
Death Reg Quarter/Year: June 1946
Age (est): 76
Registration district: Durham Eastern
Volume: 10a
Page: 405

[Blues Mark]

That sounds like Frederick, i have a couple of photos of them during their old age which i always believed were taken in the potteries (until i found out they had moved up North) so Alice should be about that time too.

[Blues Mark]

|having spoken to one of there descendants on the Sutton line that would be the correct death and his wife on my line would have died about 1940/41. I have also been told that Frederick according to family legend served in the Irish guards as a sergeant but havent found anything to corroborate this yet. It also seems somewhere in that side of the family still exists some of her hand painted pottery from when she (Alice) worked in the potteries if it can be found i would love some photos...