Cloutman cousins and ancestral lines -
research and information page Cloutman cousins and ancestral lines -
research and information page This Cloutman family branch is said to derive from five brothers of Hartland in North Devon, England. A Samuel Cloutman (d. 1763) is buried in the parish church of St. Nectan (in Stoke-by-Nayland) where records of the family reputedly go back to the 1600s.
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It
is possible - following traditional naming patterns - that John
Cloutman (1st) was one of (at least) two sons of the second of
the "five brothers" - William Cloutman - who had perhaps married a Curtis
daughter since John Cloutman (1st) -
with the (presumed) eldest son carrying his own name - John (2nd)
- named one of his other sons William Curtis. This latter ancestor married Elizabeth Brett.
William Curtis and Elizabeth named one of their children Curtis William who married Emily Jane Jullion. One of their daughters, Enid Audrey Cloutman, married Henry James Drew Smythe. The names Drew and Smythe were joined by the hyphen in the next generation and the hyphenated name was also adopted and used by Henry James and Enid Audrey Drew-Smythe during their lifetime.
Of the cousin branch of Thomas Cloutman and Mary Prust, there was one known son, Thomas Cloutman. It is believed that the Prust family were landowners of some substance from the Hartland and Elmscot area of Devon.
Reproduced here as a scanned image, courtesy of the copyright holder, Paul Cloutman, it is from an original embotint.
" ... a glass plate similar to a daguerrotype and is thought to pre-date collodion prints and Fox Talbot's work on paper-based photography."
Thomas Cloutman (1776 or 1774) married (unknown - possibly Sarah.) They had six (known) children.
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* Alfred Edwin Kent was the son of Sarah White (b. 1770) and John Kent. They were married in 1800. Sarah White was the daughter of a John White who owned a 1599 Geneva Bible - still held by descendant relatives.
Henry Cloutman (1825) married (unknown). They had six (known) children.
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Thomas Cloutman (d. 1907) married Annie Luddington (b.1866 d. 1943) They had nine (known) children.
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William Alfred Cloutman (1900-1987) married Amelia Stella Perry (1904-1995) They had two children.
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Writing in May, 2004, Paul states that there is a Cloutman's Lane in Croyde - seen recently by friends
of his son. Croyde
Bay is a popular surfing
beach in North Devon.
Paul continues: "I've sent the Croyde community web site an email asking if they know anything about the eponymous Cloutman - and/or about the reportedly nearby Cloutman's Farm, of which I heard from another source."
Further information will be placed here as soon as anything is known.
Paul was recently commissioned to write the
souvenir guide books for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
and for their country estate, Wakehurst Place in Sussex.
This project - which took over 18 months - was swiftly followed
by his being asked by Kew to write the History & Heritage
pages on their Web Site when they became a world heritage site last year (2003).
Paul was responsible for writing the Timeline and Places,
sections and for the subedit of Kew's own material on People
and Plants. This is a site well worth visiting - quite
apart from any family interest in the content! Better still - put
Kew and Wakehurst (.pdf)
on your itinerary. Wakehurst was long associated with the
Culpep(p)er family in general - especially during the time of the
settlement of Virginia and the New World during the 16th and 17th
centuries; for example, Sir Thomas Culpep(p)er
followed Berkeley as Governor of Virginia. For further Culpepper
information and linkages to Smyth/e - paternal
name of this Family Vault - see this link. (Use your browser Edit menu "find
on this page" and find "culpepper".
If this is the only page on your screen - with no navigation or header bars, click here.