As part of the global updating of the Chute Family Records, we are undertaking a systematic accounting of Chutes in Ireland. To make researching easier, Chutes located in Ireland will be listed in two directories: the main directory, in alphabetical order, and in this Ireland Chute Family Directory, which lists only Chutes in this area. The individuals are listed here in alphabetical order by first name - allied family members are listed following the Chutes in each section. This is only a very partial list at this stage, and there are many more records to be added to this section. To contribute data to the Chute family records, please contact me at "chiara2@aol.com". Thanks.
IrelandChutes in Ireland appear to have descended from several lines. The most familiar line is the "Chute Hall" line, originating with Daniel Chute, whose father George was part of the English force sent to suppress the rebellion of the Earls of Desmond. The living descendants of that line can be found in the United States, back in Great Britain, as well as in Ireland. A branch of that line settled in Tralee: some of have remained, while others have emigrated elsewhere. A third line, it seems, trace their ancestry to the Challoner Chute line, in the Vyne in Hampshire, and descendants of that line have settled, at least in part, in Listowel, where many still reside. Others have emigrated to the United States and Australia/New Zealand. We are just beginning to piece these lines together now.
TRALEE CHUTESChute, Charles A. ("Charlie") (Ireland - probably Kerry - to Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Katherine/Catherine ("Kate") (maiden name unknown) Chute. This family emigrated between 1861 and 1864 from Ireland to the United States, probably to the Port of New York. She was widowed after arriving, as the two youngest were born in New York. Details: Kate Chute, born ~1825, widowed, born Ireland, keeps house, both parents Irish. Children: Philip Chute (~1855), born Ireland, truck driver; Anne Chute (~1858), tailoress in shop; John Chute (~1859), born Ireland; Mary Chute (~1861), born Ireland, Bookfolder in shop; Joseph Chute (~1864), born New York, "Plummer apprentice"; Kate Chute (~1869), born New York, at school.
Charles Chute family line. According to grandson Benjamin David Chute, Charles was born circa 1905 in Ireland, orphaned, and sent to Liverpool and Manchester (Lancashire county area). He married, and named son Kenneth or Ken Chute. Kenneth/Ken married Edith Ruppe and had two sons: Francis or Frank Chute, and Kenneth or Ken (Jr.) Chute. Son Francis/Frank Chute married Susan Barrett. The family has remained in the Lancashire area since Charles Chute arrived there.
Francis John Chute tried his hand at being a coffee planter in Kingston, Jamaica and later returned to England where he lived with several of his sisters in Streatham, Surrey, identifying himself as a "retired coffee planter".
James Chute, born about 1828 in Ireland emigrated to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA where he worked as a flagman for the railroad. Wife Ellen; appeared on the 1880 United States census. May be related to the Michael Chute family, which also settled in Pawtucket; although they originated from West Hartlepool, County Durham, Great Britain.
Josephine Chute emigrated to Chicago, Illinois, USA shortly after her marriage to Denis Scanlan of Listowel.
Lisle Croasdaile Chute, son of Fitzjames Chute (who claimed to have been born in Cork), was born in Kerry and died in Kingsbridge, Devonshire at the age of 84. It is not known if Lisle married or had children.
Mairead Chute to Torquay, Lancashire, Great Britain.
Thomas Chute to New York, USA.
Elizabeth Chute to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Trevor Gerard Chute emigrated to Boston for 12 years, may have returned to Ireland with his children and returned to New York twenty years
later. Originally from Listowel. His children are:
Roland J. Chute
Mary Catherine Chute
Meanwhile, on a more humorous note: okay, which one of us pilfered the walking stick of a poor inmate of the Kerry County Jail? Found on the Lawlor Family web site was this rather pitiful verse, Maide Ui Leathlobhair, written in Gaelic, with the following explanation:
"According to Fr. Paul Lawlor, this was written in the Tralee Jail in 1834 probably by a Lawlor veteran of Ballyeagh. It was taken down by Padrig Ferriter in 1895 who had it from his father Muiris who got it in Tralee Jail in 1834. A footnote says: Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 1971, No. 4.
Note the "Chute" reference in the second to last line in the first stanza. The translation which follows had translated the word as "cute" ... but as the word "cute" in this context makes little sense, I'd written to ask if in fact the poet hadn't actually been referring to an actual magistrate with the last name of "Chute" - particularly since the "C" in "Chute" had been capitalized, as a proper name would be. The Lawlors are checking with their translator ... do any Chutes want to take a stab at this translation as well?
Update, Friday, July 29, 2005
According to a Professor of Irish History at the University of Michigan: this is actually a
pun. The translation of the word "cute" doesn't mean "cute" in the sense that we use the word
today (i.e, attractive), but instead meant something close to "acute": sharp, devious, clever,
bright and intelligent with a distinctively "sly and sneaky" tone to it. Another undertone
present in the pun is the use of the word in this context: it also had a sense of implied
familiarity and intimacy about it: i.e., you would use it more when you knew someone
personally.
Whoever wrote the poem may have used "Chute" as a pun - both in identifying him as an actual person and remarking upon his personal qualities as a magistrate - either, it is suggested, from knowing him personally, or from having spent more time than most people in the County Kerry jail! If you can remember the relationship between the character of Otis and Barney Fife in the old town of Mayberry, you get some idea of the relationship implied in the poem.
Source (Link No Longer Works - have no idea where the Lawlor Clan went! Possibly the stress of losing their walking stick finally caught up with them. Anybody know where they went?): palmbeachbiz.net/lawlor/history/history.htm| MAIDE UI LEATHLOBHAIR (fonn: Cill Mhuire) Casadh giustis cinn coram den comharsain seo liom agus me ag dul go sugach abhaile. do chuir se stro orm agus b'elo do sud san agus d'iarr se orm iasacht mo mhaide. Do cheapas mar slaitse do e'fhagail tigh Phope agus la arna mhaireach ar aon rata narbh fhulair do bheith romham, Ach in'ionad san cad do deanfadh Chute an diabloir na me 'fhagaint go bronach in'easnamh Ni lia clachan na lachtan na aitreabh ansud cuirt na teaglach i mbaile na gur thugas la 'n tseachtain go bronach faoi chumha ag feachaint ca bhfagainn mo mhaide. Is e deireadh gach pearsa na facadar e fa ndeara dom casadh go hatuirseach treith agus anois bim'om scoladh gach noimint domh shaol ag madraibh Chinn an Tochair an uair rachaim. Ni lia feadog na fuiseog ar thabh Chnoic an Fhomhair na fadhariog a bhi ar mo mhaide. Do bhi se go direach ar fhiordhath an oir agus biana beag thios ar a bharra. Mo lean is mo mhairg is m'osna trim chroi, is e'bhi go greanta agus gan maith dom e'mhaiomh, is na diabhail ud go grithheadh le heagla a gcroi and uair leagainn leis Cuilin sa lathaigh. |
LAWLOR'S (WALKING) STICK (Tune: "Church of Mary") I met a chief magistrate for this district and me going home "rightly". (plastered). He coaxed and cajoled me and asked me for the loan of my stick. I thought he could leave it in the Masters house and next day, anyway, wouldn't I be going that way . Instead what did the cute [or "Chute"] divil do but leave me in sorrow without it. There's not more hills or dales locally or homes in the townland. That I didn't visit daily...pining in sorrow looking for my stick. At the end everyone I met (returning ) noticed me weary and dejected. And now I'd always be giving off to the dogs in Ceann Togher-- when I go there. Less numerous is the whistle than the lark on Harvest Hill or the thorns on my stick. It was straight and the true colour of gold and little curls on the handle. Continuing my woe ( ful tale ) and heartbreak, it was beautiful -- and it does me no good to contemplate, and yon divils would ( will ) shake with fear in their hearts as soon as I can strike ( with the stick ) in the Sheugh again. |
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