BERTUNA'S CHILDREN

On 1 March 1898, Harold Edward D’Arcy Hutton married Lilias Marion Louise Mackenzie (22 March 1869 – 18 April 1945), at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London.Harold Edward D’Arcy Hutton (26 December 1872 – 19 February 1946) and Lilias Marion Louise Mackenzie (22 March 1869 – 18 April 1945)

They had three sons:- Harold Maxwell (1900 – 1971),  Derek Colville Conyers (1903-1968) and Ernest Robert (1910-1964).

Harold Maxwell D’Arcy Hutton (7 April 1900- 17 January 1971)

Harold Maxwell was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and was the oldest son of Harold Edward D’Arcy Hutton (26 December 1872 – 19 February 1946) and Lilias Marion Louise Mackenzie (22 March 1869 – 18 April 1945).

In 1901, Harold Edward, Lilias and Harold Maxwell returned to the UK on the Derbyshire from Colombo to London via South Africa and Plymouth. His brother, Derek, was born in 1903, and in 1904, the family employed Ada Annie Bennett (1875-1936) from Cuckfield, Sussex, who worked for them in various capacities for the remainder of her life.

Harold attended boarding school at Wellingborough.

In March 1911, his father sailed on the Royal Edward from Avonmouth to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, as a tourist. On 17 August 1911, Derek sailed with his mother, brothers and Ada Bennett (nanny) on the Empress of Ireland, from Liverpool to Quebec. Fourteen months later, the whole family sailed back from Boston, Massachusetts, on the Caronia and landed in Liverpool on 9 October 1912.

By 1916, his family had moved to The Old House, Great Barton.

In 1934, he lived at Chertsey, Surrey. In 1936, he went to Tewkesbury to attend the funeral of Ada Bennett who had died whilst on a visit to Harold’s youngest brother, Ernest, who was a precentor at Tewkesbury Abbey. Ada had been taken ill, spent three weeks in Tewkesbury Cottage Hospital and died on 21 November 1936. Ernest officiated at the funeral in his capacity as precentor (Gloucestershire Echo, 24 November 1936, p 3).

By 1945, Harold was married to Minna Augusta (1895- 16 October 1964), who was registered as living at 105, Ember Lane, Esher, in 1945 and 1946, though there is no mention of Harold. She was living at Patchways, Bucklebury, Berkshire, at the time of her death when she died at Peppard Chest Hospital, Berkshire, and was buried at Henley Rd Crematorium, Caversham She left £21,864 and awarded probate to Norman Spencer Mumsby, a chartered accountant, and John Northcote Davy, a company director. Harold died seven years later at Northampton.

 

Derek Colville Conyers D’Arcy Hutton (4 June 1903 – 23 November 1968)

Derek was the middle son of Harold Edward D’Arcy Hutton (26 December 1872 – 19 February 1946) and Lilias Marion Louise Mackenzie (22 March 1869 – 18 April 1945). He was born in Paddington, London, at the home of his maternal grandmother, Marion Mackenzie, née Colville. He was named Colville after the Rev. William Colville, his maternal great grandfather, and Conyers after an ancestor of his father.

As a baby, he was looked after by Ada Annie Bennett (1875-1936) from Cuckfield, Sussex, who was employed by his family from 1904 until her death in 1936.

In April 1911, Derek attended Aldeburgh Lodge, a preparatory school in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, whilst his mother and brother, Ernest, lived at Bridge House, Great Blakenham, Suffolk.

In March 1911, his father sailed on the Royal Edward from Avonmouth to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, as a tourist. On 17 August 1911, Derek sailed with his mother, brothers and Ada Bennett on the Empress of Ireland, from Liverpool to Quebec. Fourteen months later, the whole family sailed back from Boston, Massachusetts, on the Caronia and landed in Liverpool on 9 October 1912.

By 1916, the family had moved to The Old House, Great Barton.

Derek spent most of his adult life overseas. In 1921, he worked as a cable operator for Eastern Telegraph Company, which became one of the largest cable operating companies in the world, operating 160,000 nm of cables at its peak. Derek sailed second class to Gibraltar on the Soudan on 19 August 1921.

He sailed to Plymouth from Bombay to London via Aden on the Mandala on 4 September 1926 and gave his address at St John’s Well, Great Barton. In 1929, he gave his address as Lackford, Suffolk, and his profession as a clerk when he sailed first class from Gibraltar to Plymouth on the Mantua. On that occasion, he gave his last country of permanent residence as the Ascension Isles.

In 1931, he received a bequest of £1,500 from his paternal grandfather, John Timothy D’Arcy Hutton of Marske Hall (Yorkshire Evening Post, 21 April 1931).

In 1934, the Eastern Telegraph Company became Cable and Wireless Ltd as the result of amalgamations and takeovers. On 6 December 1935, Derek sailed first class on the Chitral from London to Port Said, and on 9 December 1938, sailed back to London on the Stratheden.

During the Second World War, Derek worked in Egypt, where Cable and Wireless Ltd. supplied the wireless equipment for the North African campaign in 1942. Whilst in Egypt, he met and married Inez Yole Podesta (5 June 1905 – 20 September 1952) who was born in Ash Shatibi, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt. Her father was Guglielmo Podesta, born in Malta, and her mother was Louisa Theresa Francoise De Meo, born in Italy. Inez and Derek lived in Alexandria and had two daughters. Eileen was born in 1942 and Ann Marion in 1946, but she died on the same day.

Inez died in South Africa in 1952 and 10-year-old Eileen was brought up by her mother’s brother and his family in South Africa. Eileen’s four daughters are the only surviving heirs of Harold Edward D’Arcy Hutton and Lilias Marion Louise Mackenzie.

Derek continued to travel back and forth to the UK and, on 9 May 1953, sailed first class from Southampton to Durban, South Africa, on the Oranjefontein.

Five years after the death of Inez, Derek married Rita Dorothy Playfair (5 November 1896 – ?), who was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but brought up in England and Ireland. She lived at Portsmouth (1901),  Dublin (1911), 147a, Cromwell Road, London, (1930) and 11, Emperor’s Gate, Kensington, (1940s).  Her mother, Georgina, died on 3 September 1949 and Rita sailed from Southampton to Durban on the Capetown Castle on 6 October 1949, intending to immigrate to South Africa.

He had retired by 18 June 1957 when he and Rita sailed on the Braemar Castle from Mombasa, Kenya, to London, where they planned to stay for a six-month holiday.

He died in 1968 in Natal, South Africa, at the age of 65.

 

Ernest Robert D’Arcy Hutton (7 February 1910 – March 1964)

Ernest was born at The Grove, Stutton, Ipswich, Suffolk, and was the youngest son of Harold Edward D’Arcy Hutton (26 December 1872 – 19 February 1946) and Lilias Marion Louise Mackenzie (22 March 1869 – 18 April 1945), the daughter of the Revd William Colville.

He was a direct descendant of Dr Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York from 1594 to 1606, and of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York from 1757-1758, and his parents hoped that he would be the third archbishop in his family.

He was looked after as a child by Ada Annie Bennett (1875-1936) from Cuckfield, Sussex, who was employed by the family from 1904 until her death in 1936. In April 1911, Ernest’s father was in Canada and Ernest was lodging with his mother at Bridge House, Great Blakenham, Suffolk.

On 17 August 1911, Ernest sailed with his mother, brothers and Ada Bennett (described as a nurse) from Liverpool to Quebec on the Empress of Ireland.  The whole family sailed back from Boston, Massachusetts, on the Caronia and landed in Liverpool on 9 October 1912.

On 4 April 1913, Ernest sailed with his parents from Southampton to New York on the Oceanic, accompanied by Ada Bennett, who was now described as a lady’s maid. They stayed in Canada and sailed back from Quebec to Liverpool on the Empress of Britain on 11 September 1913. His father sailed on the Mauretania from Liverpool to New York on 13 March 1914, and Ernest sailed with his mother on the Canada to Quebec on 5 July 1914. In Canada, they stayed at Port Arthur, Ontario, which had been designated as a city in 1907 and was the Lake Superior headquarters for the Canadian Northern Railway from 1900.

By 1916, his family had moved to The Old House, Conyers Green, Great Barton, where his parents were active members of the congregation of Holy Innocents’ Church, Great Barton, Suffolk. In 1916, his father became the vicar’s warden (Bury Free Press, 29 April 1916) and distributed 40 half-crowns to widows and other deserving poor of the parish in accordance with the will of the Revd William Howerdly, Vicar of Holy Innocents’ in 1492 (Bury Free Press, 03 January 1920). In 1920, his father was elected as the lay representative of the Ruri-decanal Conference (Bury Free Press, 08 May 1920).

Ernest was educated at Bradfield College, Berkshire, and then, according to Crockford’s Clerical Directory, attended Christ’s College Cambridge, where he was awarded a BA degree in theology in 1930 and MA in 1934 (Gloucestershire Echo, 22 July 1939).

In 1931, he received a bequest of £500 from his paternal grandfather, John Timothy D’Arcy Hutton of Marske Hall (Yorkshire Evening Post, 21 April 1931).

He attended Chichester Theological College and was ordained as a deacon in 1934 (Chelmsford Chronicle, 25 May 1934) and as a priest in 1935 at Chelmsford Cathedral.

He served as curate of St Edmund King and Martyr, Forest Gate, until 1936 when he moved to Tewkesbury, when the title of Abbey Precentor was revived. In September 1936, he was one of seven curates licensed by the Bishop of Gloucester at a ceremony at the Bishop of Gloucester’s Palace and was licensed to the stipendiary curacy of Tewkesbury, where he worked as assistant priest and precentor (with particular responsibility for the music) at Tewkesbury Abbey (Cheltenham Chronicle, 12 December 1936).

In October 1936, Ernest was visited by Ada Bennett, his old nanny. Whilst there, Ada was taken ill, spent three weeks in Tewkesbury Cottage Hospital and died. Ernest officiated at the funeral, which was attended by his parents, brother Harold and aunt Sybil (Gloucestershire Echo, 24 November 1936, p 3).

On 31 August 1939, he was ‘instituted, inducted and installed’ by the Bishop of London at Fulham Palace as Vicar of the Church of the Annunciation, Bryanston Street, Marble Arch, in the deanery of Westminster St Marylebone. Today this deanery extends from Edgware Road West to almost Tottenham Court Road, and north from Oxford Street up to Regents Park taking in the western side of the park to Hamilton Terrace. It was on the site of the old Quebec Chapel.

The Church of the Annunciation was the centre of Catholic Action in the Church of England, and it was expected that Ernest would be appointed as organising secretary of this movement.

The 1939 census recorded Ernest as living at 5D, Hyde Park Mansions, Marylebone, London, with a housekeeper, 53-year-old Jessie Montgomery, whose occupation was described as ‘unpaid domestic duties’.

In 1941, Ernest made the headlines when he was charged with ‘being in possession of an automatic pistol and six rounds of ammunition without a certificate, and of committing an improper act with 17-year-old youth’ (Cheltenham Chronicle, 15 March 1941). He was granted bail but committed for trial to the Old Bailey (Gloucestershire Echo, 09 April 1941).

It was alleged that the Rev Ernest Hutton had invited Ronald Ernest Fox (a 17 and half-year-old chauffeur) and his friend (a 15 and a half-year-old Jewish boy, who worked as a waiter and salesman) to stay at his flat whilst he found them film work, because the better address would give them an advantage. They slept at the flat in two large beds drawn together to form one bed. The boys lived rent-free and received pocket money from Ernest, who gave Ronald a gold signet ring. Occasionally, Gilbert Lang Meeson (a naval engineer lieutenant) stayed there as well.

In March 1941, Ronald told his friend about certain alleged happenings in bed and in the bathroom and they decided to leave. The following day, when they returned with Ernest Fox’s brother, Aircraftman George Albert Fox, to collect their belongings, Ernest pleaded with them to come back. He took Ronald into his study, where he urged him not to leave him and threatened to kill himself with a loaded pistol, which he held to his head. The other boys, hearing what was happening, called the police, who arrived soon afterwards.

Ernest was cleared, found not guilty of committing an improper act with 17-year-old youth and was discharged (Cheltenham Chronicle, 03 May 1941). Three weeks later, he was fined 40s. at Marylebone Police Court for ‘having had a pistol and ammunition without a certificate’ (Cheltenham Chronicle, 24 May 1941).

Ernest left the parish soon afterwards, and became a chaplain in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 1942 until 1945, and curate of St Augustine’s Church, Yorkton Street, Haggerston, London, [291 Gallery since 1994] from 1945 to 1947.  There are no mentions of him in Crockford’s Clerical Directory after 1949.

He left the church, ended his life working in a pub and died alone in 1964 at Bournemouth, Dorset.