Mrs Fannie A. Barton
(1834-1907)

Volume 1, sitting number 1274.

Fannie Annie Cutler was a British Subject born at Bordeaux in France in or about 1834.

On 27 September 1855 at the British Embassy in Paris she married Bertram Francis Barton, a British 'wine merchant' (1881 census) who was also born in Bordeaux. 

Mrs Barton appears on the 1861 census living at Oak Hill, a house in Surbiton in the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, with her three children: Mary (4), Bertram (2) and Eleanor (1). Also present on the night of the census were six live-in servants. 

In 1871 the family were living at Horsham Lodge in Walton-on-Thames. Another son, Harry Scott Barton, had been born since the last census and Mrs Barton now had eight servants to help run her house, including a butler and a footman. The family were still at Horsham Lodge in 1881. Ten years later they were living at Burley Lodge at East Woodhay in Hampshire. In 1901 they were living at Straffen in County Kildare in Ireland. 

Mrs Barton 'of Birtley, Bramley' died on 29 November 1907, leaving an estate valued at £ 31,882 (Surrey Mirror, 31 January 1908). The Irish Independent (24 January 1908) described her as 'Mrs Fannie Annie Barton, of Birtley, Surrey, and late of Straffen House, Straffen' and itemised exactly how much she left and to whom. 

[From an album compiled by Gertrude Frances Vesey of Long Ditton, Surrey. The daughter of George and Harriet Vesey, she was baptised at Long Ditton on 4 July 1842. She was 18 years old when she began to compile the album. She lived at home with her parents for many years, until on 23 November 1876, at the age of 34, she became the second wife of the 58-year-old Reverend John William Hawtrey (1818-1891). She appears on the 1881 census living at St Michael’s School, Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, where her husband was the headmaster 'without the cure of souls.' The couple had a three-year-old daughter called Gabrielle and a nine-month-old son called Guy.]