THE ANCESTORS OF THOMAS ERIC SHUTT (1926 - 1975)

Tom was my wife Elaine's father who sadly died before I met her. Elaine knew very little about her dad's side of the family and so I thought it may prove an interesting exercise to conduct some research into her family's ancestry. Tom attended Sheffield City Grammar School and fortunately there were two references to him on their excellent website. The first was a mention in the 1945 school magazine in which the readers were informed that Tom Shutt, was serving in the Royal Navy but the second item was absolutely fascinating. There is a photograph which is posted below that shows Tom in the second year at the School in October 1938. No-one in the family had ever seen the photograph before - in fact this was the first time that Elaine had seen a photograph of her dad as a schoolboy. Tom is on the back row second from the left

Tom after leaving the Navy worked for British Rail. Here he is receiving an award at an annual presentation 

Tom was the only son of FRED and VIOLET SHUTT. It is believed that he had a brother who was either still-born or who died soon after birth. My wife seemed to recall that her grandmothers maiden name was MILLS and so with this information, I obtained the following data from the 1901 Census in respect of both FRED and VIOLET

Dwelling: 38 Houghton Street Brightside Sheffield

Reference RG13/4373 Page 20

Dwelling: 268 Dunlop Street Carbrook Sheffield Yorkshire

Reference RG13/4382 Page7 

Note: Up until the 1870's Dunlop Street was known as Dun Street. I am interested in obtaining any photographs that were taken of Dunlop Street in the first half of the twentieth century. If anyone can help me please let either myself or Mike Bailey know. Mike was born at 272 Dunlop Street in 1940!   

Please follow the link for further details on Violet's ancestors

There is an excellent photograph showing Fred and Violet on the beach in deckchairs. Unfortunately there is no indication of when or where the photograph was taken beyond the fact that the reverse of the photograph has the number "56" in pencil. I have also placed on a separate page further photographs of Thomas's family that also feature Fred and Violet as well as his own family

Further research revealed that FRED SHUTT was born in the September quarter of 1898 (Sheffield GRO Volume 9c Page 596). His elder brother ERNEST was born in the March quarter of 1891 in Sheffield (GRO Volume 9c Page 533). Their father THOMAS SHUTT was born in the March quarter of 1860 in Tipton but the birth was registered in Dudley ( Created 1st July 1837. In Staffordshire and Worcestershire Sub-districts : Dudley; Rowley Regis; Sedgley; Tipton. GRO volumes : XVII (1837-51); 6b (1852-1912), 6c (1913-30).Castle Hill (1837-1929), Coseley, Rowley Regis, Sedgley, Tipton) Tom's GRO reference is Volume 6c Page 61). 

The 1881 Census gives the following information with regard to THOMAS SHUTT

As the surname is relatively rare in Sheffield, I conducted further research of the 1881 Census for the name SHUTT

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