Hello. I'm trying to find some further info about my ancestor James Hutton. I estimate that he was born around 1780 as he was appointed as a purser in the Royal Navy on 10 Jun 1800 (although he might have joined the navy earlier and be older)
He served on HMS Chichester 1805 and was wounded on HMS Flying Fish 1806. He disappears from Navy lists c 1834, and I have his will, he died 1840.
His first marriage took place on 28 Dec 1816 at Yester, East Lothian to Mary Brown of Inverkeithling (daughter of Rev Ebenezer Brown and wife Erskine Gray) This record advises that James was living at Gifford Vale at the time, and Yester was his parish. They had three children, Mary Gray, Margaraet and Erskine Gray Hutton. His wife died and his second wife was Isabella Murray, married 1828 at St Cuthberts Edinburgh, they had two children, William and Isabella. He remarried in London 17 feb 1835 at St Pancras to Eliza Elizabeth Andrews (their daughter Eliza Robson Hutton is my ancestor).
Im keen to find out more about the Hutton family if possible, is there any way of identifying a baptism? Does anyone have access to parish records? Or to further info about the navy, would naval records give info about date or place of birth or family? And does anyone know where I could access these?
Someone else kindly provided the info I currently have about his navy career, so I havent seen any records at all yet.
Many thanks
