Charles Cutts

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Maureen Withey on 24th August 2025

NSW 1828 Census Index. Charles Cutts, age 27, G.S. per Mariner, 1827, 5 years, protestant, Asst. Telegrapher, Field of Mars district. ------------------------------------------------------------ NSW Convict Index. Charles Cutts, per Mariner, 1827, Certificate of Freedom, 3 Aug 1831, No 31/0800. Applications to Marry. Charles Cutts, per Mariner (3), age 40; sentence, 5 years; Bond; and Mary Ann Blackstock, age 18, Free; Date of permission, 25 June 1829, Field of Mars. Charles Cutts, per Mariner 3, age 54; Sentence, 5 years; Free; and Ann Adams, per Surrey (9), age 27; 10 years; Bond. Date of Permission, 2 Oct 1843, Parramatta. NSW BMD Ref: 140/1843. Marriage of Charles Cutts and Ann Adams, 1B district. (Wesleyan chapel, Field of Mars; Parramatta district.) --------------------------------------------------------------- PARRAMATTA. INQUEST.-An inquest was held at Hunter's Hill, at the Clothier's Arms, kept by Mr Stephen Face, on Tuesday last, before Mr. C. B. Lyons, coroner for the district, on view of the body of Ann Cutts, then and there lying dead. The subject of this enquiry added another victim to the awful crime of intemperance. From the evidence of Mr. Patrick Neville, landholder, who resided next door to the late residence of deceased, it appears that on Sunday evening about eight o'clock, Charles Cutts, the deceased husband went to the house of Mr. Neville and said his wife was dead ; witness had heard of deceased, having a fit a little time before, and knowing she was subject to fits, did not think much of it, but went with Cutts to see deceased, and did not think she was dead ; witness's wife followed and remained ; deceased never spoke ; witness knew she had been drinking to excess for many days before her death ; he had seen her walking up the road an hour and a-half before she died. Her husband was always very kind to her, and to his (witness's) own knowledge there had been no fighting or quarrelling. The wife of the last witness confirmed the statement made by Mr. Neville, and stated that some time ago there had been a difference betwixt Cutts and his wife about drink, but finding he could not restrain her, he had let her have pretty well her own way, and was very kind to her, pitying her being afflicted with fits,—but for some months passed there had been no disagreement. Dr. Rutter, stated that he had examined the body of deceased, and had heard the foregoing evidence ; had also heard certain facts from the deceased's neighbours, and found that about ten months since, the deceased had an attack of apoplexy, which terminated in effusion upon the brain, and paralysis ; and that she had indulged in habits of intemperance from that time up to the day previous to her decease ; and from the evidence of the previous witnesses, he was induced to believe that another attack of apoplexy took place on the day of her death, and that she died in consequence. There was no doubt that intemperance was the cause of the attack of apoplexy which resulted in death. The jury returned a verdict that Ann Cutts came to her death by apoplexy produced by intemperance. Sydney Morning Herald, 25 Dec 1852. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Possible Death? Ref: 5284/1870. Charles Cutts, age 70 years, Died Parramatta.

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Maureen Withey on 24th August 2025

Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Charles Cutts, age on arrival, 38, per Mariner (3) 1827, Tried St Helena Island Atlantic Ocean, 1826, 5 years for Stealing sheep. DOB, 1789, Native place, Yorkshire England. Single. Cotton factory. Religion, Protestant.