RootsChat.Com

Hello C

While looking at the Amsterdam addresses, I thought I'd take a peek at the Nutts too. In that cutting of Maud's wedding, the name "Morcott West" appears. It's the name of their house. I later found the full address ("Morcott West", Sussex Place, Slough), in an article which may be new to you: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1393963.

I cannot find the house today. The road is centred on SL1 1NH. On old maps (do you need links?) there are a few large properties at the eastern end north side. However the road has been remodelled and there is much new housing, perhaps war damage.

Before I found Morcott West, my first search found a village called Morcott near - guess where - Oakham. So AY Nutt probably named the house in Slough after his childhood home.

M

PS, I suspect the family photo was taken in the grounds of Windsor Castle. Where else would you take your Dutch relatives, if you had access?!

Can you personally say from those photos and the Art UK image of the portrait whether one of the girls even slightly resembles the sitter (nearly 20 years older)? If you can tell who is the one with the husband, she is the most likely.

Thank you for your reply.

If you were shown the photograph of Mrs Nutt and her daughters, then the Museum may already have the means to corroborate the sitter's identity, unless the girl in question is too young in the photo.

You might be interested to follow up Ida Mary Nutt, Raymond's mother.

Her father was Alfred Young Nutt (5th May 1847–25th July 1924) who was an English architect and artist, and Surveyor to the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor. Windsor museum has a number of his watercolours, but also a lovely portrait of someone who we think is probably his second daughter Lilian, painted by her Dutch cousin by marriage, Sara Johanna (Jo) Strumphler.

See http://www.artuk.org/artdetective/discussions/discussions/who-is-this-lady-in-a-blue-dress-when-was-this-portrait-painted

A third sister, Maud Evelyn, married Henry Thomas Malaher in 1919 and had a son Richard B.M Malaher, registered in Preston. Notice that Henry was one of the executors of your Benjamin Adam's will, so the Nutt girls clearly stayed close.

The art detectives hope that Adam and Malaher descendants have preserved images of the Nutt sisters to confirm the portrait sitter's identity. If you ever come across any such thing, please get in touch with them through the web address above or with Windsor Museum. Good luck in your own research.