William Dutton^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]}

1789 - 1876  (87 years)

• Name	William Dutton  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Birth	1789	Witney, Oxfordshire, England   [3, 4, 7, 12]
  Baptism	2 Oct 1789	Witney, Oxfordshire, England   [5, 9, 12]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Apr 1876	Witney, Oxfordshire, England   [1, 7, 14, 16, 18]
  Burial	21 Apr 1876	Witney, Oxfordshire, England   [7, 14]
  Person ID	I13700	DBH Twigs
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	John Dutton,   b. Est 1745, Oxfordshire, England d. May 1811, Witney, Oxfordshire, England (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Bird,   b. Est 1750, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England
  Marriage	18 Oct 1770	Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England   [19, 20, 21]
  Family ID	F6769	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charlotte Winkworth,   b. 1795   d. 1849, Witney, Oxfordshire, England (Age 54 years)  [8, 17]
  Marriage	2 Nov 1819	Witney, Oxfordshire, England   [6]
  Children	1. Mary Ann Dutton,   b. 12 Oct 1821, Bampton, Oxfordshire, England d. 1864, Witney, Oxfordshire, England (Age 42 years)   2. Emma Dutton,   b. 1826, Witney, Oxfordshire, England   3. John Dutton,   b. 1828, Witney, Oxfordshire, England d. 9 Apr 1893, Brighton, Sussex, England (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F5205	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2026

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Witney - Butter Cross Keywords: Place
  		Witney - Butter Cross Keywords: Place
  		William Dutton - church warden Oxford Chronicle & Reading Gazette Media Date: 29 APR 1854 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - church warden Media Date: 29 APR 1854 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - probate 1876 Media Date: 1876 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - probate 1876 Media Date: 1876 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - burial 1876 Media Date: 21 APR 1876 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - burial 1876 Media Date: 21 APR 1876 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton & Charlotte Winkworth - marriage Media Date: 2 NOV 1819 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton & Charlotte Winkworth - marriage Media Date: 2 NOV 1819 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - 1851 Census (2) Media Date: 1851 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - 1851 Census (2) Media Date: 1851 Keywords: Picture
  		Witney - Church Green Keywords: Picture
  		Witney - Church Green Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - 1861 Census Media Date: 1861 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - 1861 Census Media Date: 1861 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - 1841 Census Media Date: 1841 Keywords: Picture
  		William Dutton - 1841 Census Media Date: 1841 Keywords: Picture

  
  

  Histories

  George William Dutton - marriage Oxford Times Media Date: 12 MAR 1870 Keywords: Picture

  
  

• Notes

  https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/a8a329e4-92ba-3a7e-8e48-2116f4548def?component=629f554c-fbbe-3c10-9740-1a54cfc86a5d Reference GB 160 SL219/1/D/14-15 Dates of Creation 17/Nov/1835 - 18/Nov/1835 Scope and Content Parties: (1) George Sainsbury of Leamington, Warwicks., brazier, & Ann, his wife (late Ann Hudson, spinster) (2) William Dutton of Witney, mercer & draper (3) James Clinch of Witney, woolstapler (trustee) Property: Ninth part of the Crown Inn, Witney. Dutton's Farm on the Bampton road, bought in 1836 by a Witney draper, William Dutton, was rebuilt shortly afterwards as a villa residence in Georgian style; for a time in the mid 19th century it was called Curbridge Hall. (fn. 101) It is a two-storeyed, double-depth house of coursed and squared stone with ashlar dressings, a Welsh slate roof, and a symmetrical front with trellised porch. An outlying farm cottage, presumably built to serve a detached part of Dutton's farm, was on the site of Peashill or Peashell Farm by the 1860s, but did not develop as a separate, and eventually substantial, farm until the early 20th century. In 1871 a National mixed school was built on the south side of Curbridge Main Road on a site given by William Dutton; it was paid for by subscriptions (£204) and grants totalling £52 from the diocese, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the National Society. (fn. 7) The building, probably designed by John Collier of London, (fn. 8) was of stone and brick and comprised a single room (25 ft. X 16 ft.) with two porches. An uncertificated mistress was teaching 13 boys and 17 girls in 1871. (fn. 9) The school was administered by the Witney National Schools committee and was supported by a voluntary rate from 1874. (fn. 10) In 1884, when a grant was first applied for, the inspector's report was lukewarm, but after improvements had been made a provisionally certificated mistress was appointed in 1888. (fn. 11) In 1890 average attendance was only 15, and in 1892 the school was in financial difficulty in the absence of a grant; the rector was contemplating closure because of the near impossibility of finding a qualified teacher for so few pupils. The grant was resumed in 1892-3, when average attendance was 28, remaining at that level into the 20th century. (fn. 12) In 1904 the 'capital little school' was praised especially for the quality of its geography and arithmetic teaching. Good reports continued until the First World War, although the difficulty of teaching older children and infants (sometimes including babies) in the same unpartitioned room was a constant problem. In 1914, when there were 17 older children and 8 infants, it was proposed that pupils be transferred to Witney, though the school was not finally closed until 1923. The building, sold in 1927, survives as a private house. (fn. 13) 7 - School papers in possession of Mr J. Pole. 8 - Local information in Asthall, where Collier designed a similar school in 1873. 9 - Elem. Educ. Returns (Parl. Papers 1871 (201), lv), p. 324. The school was officially opened in 1872: Witney Express, 1 Aug. 1872. 10 - 'Witney Par. Diary', 32. 11 - Ibid. 61, 76. 12 - Public Elem. Schs. Return (Parl. Papers 1890 (403), lvi), p. 214; Return of Schs. 1893 (Parl. Papers 1894 [C 7529], lxv), pp. 490-501; Return of Non-Provided Schs. (Parl. Papers 1906 (178), lxxxviii), p. 20; 'Witney Par. Diary', 80. 13 - School papers in possession of Mr J. Pole; ORO, T/S Misc/55 (88).

  
  

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