DUTTON – Joseph 6th Battalion 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery

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Name	DUTTON – Joseph
Regiment (s)	Royal Artillery 6th Battalion 3rd Brigade
Regiment No (s)	17457
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	6th Sep 1843 / 18 years / Chester Cheshire England Shoemaker
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 11½ in Fresh / Hazel / Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	St. Helena – 8 years 3 months Turkey – 10 months Malta – 3 years 2 months
Length of Service	21 years 33 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Corporal / 27th Dec 1864 / Woolwich England
Campaign Medals	Crimean War Medal with Sebastopol Clasp Turkish War Medal
Intended Residence at Discharge	20 Red Lion Street Woolwich Kent England
Pension Districts	1864 Woolwich 1864 Worcester 1866 Chester 1867 1st Liverpool 1867 Tilbury Fort 1868 – 1875 Western Australia
Pension Paid	1/3½d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	12th October 1867 Portland England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	HOUGOUMONT 9th January 1868
Date/Place of Birth	c1825 Farndon Cheshire England
Date/Place of Baptism	17 April 1825/Farndon, Cheshire
Father Date/Place of Birth	George Dutton
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	GARNER Grace 26 June 1820/Farndon, Cheshire
Siblings	Edward Bp 12th November 1820 Farndon Cheshire England George Bp 15th February 1823 Holt Denbigh England Margaret Bp 15th July 1827 Farndon, Cheshire, England Richard Bp 15th July 1827 Farndon, Cheshire, England
1st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	HOPPER Mary nee SULLIVAN
Date/Place of Marriage	1869 Fremantle Western Australia
Children by 1st Wife	Charles Joseph B 1869 Fremantle Western Australia D 2 February 1870 Fremantle Western Australia BUR Skinner Street Cemetery Fremantle (Duttan) Joseph B 3rd August 1871 Fremantle Western Australia Bp 21st August 1871 Fremantle Western Australia D 24 November 1894 WA Unnamed Male B 1873 Fremantle Western Australia D 1873 Fremantle Western Australia Mary B 1874 Fremantle Western Australia D 1874 Fremantle Western Australia
1st Husband of Wife	HOPPER Martin (1825-1868) – 28th and 86th Regiment arrived VIMIERA 1865
Date/Place of Marriage	3 August 1859/ Waterford, Ireland
Children by 1st Husband	John or Joseph Hopper B 26 July 1863 Ireland
3rd Husband of Wife	HEAP John
Date/Place of Marriage	1881 Perth Western Australia
Children by 3rd Husband	Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	29 September 1885 Mary Dutton applied for a Pensioner grant on behalf of her late husband Joseph, however, it was refused due to Joseph Dutton having forfeited his claim by being dismissed the Enrolled Pensioner Force
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	The Western Australian Times Tuesday 28th May 1878 page 2 death Also Passenger list of the Annie Agnes
Departure from Western Australia	Not Applicable
Date/Place of Death/Burial	25th May 1878 Drowned – Fell overboard Annie Agnes near Rottnest Island
Date/Place of Death/Burial – Wife	12th Aug 1906 Roman Catholic Section Karrakatta Cemetery Western Australia
Will or Probate	Cons 3458/1895/013 Joseph Dutton Grants of letters for administration Cons 5800/1906/215 Mary Heaps alias Dutton died 12 August 1906 Perth Hospital. She was a widow and had no next of kin and had personal property of 6 shillings and 4 pence.
Further Information	British Army, Worldwide index: 1851 Joseph Dutton Gunner and driver Royal Artilley 3rd Batt 3rd Co location Gibraltar 1861 As above Gunner location Woolwich – Shoeburyness, Plymouth Discharge at own request having completed 21 years’ service. In the 1851 Census of England J. Dutton is an unmarried man age 35 a gunner with the Royal Artillery, born Chester England at the Plymouth Citadel St. Andrews, Plymouth, Devon, England Between their arrival in 1868 and Joseph’s death Mary and Joseph Dutton were charged repeatedly with being drunk and using threatening and obscene language towards the police and other members of the public. Mr Joseph Dutton and Mr Joseph Dutton junior were aboard the ‘Annie Agnes’ when it left Fremantle for Champion Bay.