Robert RUTTER ²

  Notes:

Robert was like his father a fisherman in Newton by the Sea, and had seven children with his wife Eleanor Wright (qv). Their eldest son was probably Robert (although his baptism has not been found) and was also a fisherman in Newton - his four sons were fishermen in Newton and Seahouses in North Sunderland, further up the Northumberland coast. Their eldest daughter Eleanor (qv) married James Thompson (qv), a mason. Their next daughter Margaret has not been traced after her baptism, and their next daughter Jane, who was the housekeeper at Newton Hall in 1851, died from tuberculosis when she was 35. Their two youngest daughters were Mary Ann who married Robert Wilson, a mason who became Keeper of Warkworth Castle; and Isabella who was a dressmaker and died in her early twenties. Their youngest son Thomas moved to Seahouses in North Sunderland, where he was firstly a fisherman, and then a boatman serving the Farne Islands - his six surviving sons from two marriages were either fishermen or coopers in the fish trade.

Additional source:
Census returns

Robert married Eleanor WRIGHT, daughter of William WRIGHT and Margaret MOLE, on 19 Jan 1812 in Holy Trinity, Embleton, Northumberland.¹ (Eleanor WRIGHT was born in Newton by the Sea, Northumberland ⁶, christened on 16 Jan 1792 in Holy Trinity, Embleton, Northumberland ¹ and died on 7 Dec 1869 in Newton by the Sea, Northumberland ⁷.)