Captain William Sutton also had another son, Abraham W. Sutton (1840 – 1915), a Cork ship-chandler (Cork Almanacs) who died in Marseilles, France in 1915. Captain William’s daughter, Catherine (b.1844), married John Sexton, a ropemaker from Midleton, whose sisters married Captain Robert Sutton (b.1832, Courtmacsherry) and Captain John Twohig (b.1838, Cork). Mate George Nathaniel Sutton (19 years old) took over the captaincy briefly at the start of 1862. While I had thought William Sutton (b.1814) had been captain up until that time, a newly discovered record (CLIP: BT 124) indicated Captain William Sutton’s de ath in Cork on 24 April 1860. This Captain Florence McCarthy was (like Captain William Sutton) born in Ring, Clonakilty. IMNCL suggests he might have retired from the Charles in 1865. He purchased the 19Tt St Patrick and took to fishing in 1877. I have found several Cork mariners taking a break from the Merchant Navy for deep sea fishing in the 1870s, whereas some of the Sutton mariners switched to steam tugs in Cork Harbour during that period. CLIP; IMNCL; Lloyd’s ; UK M&M; Sutton Family History.
References:
CHARLES
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Appledore, Devon 1865
87t; Schooner
Home port:
Youghal
Owner: Activity: Master:
Charles Green
Coaster
1867 – 9 William Eastaway b.1846 (Youghal)* 1870 – 7 Henry Eastaway b.1841 (Youghal)* 1878 – 81 James Prendergast b.1846 (Youghal)*# 1881 Patrick Prendergast b.1825 (Youghal)*# 1881 Michael Mangan b.1853 (Youghal)# 1881 Patrick Mangan b.1858 (Youghal) #
Mate:
Seaman:
Fate of ship:
The Charles was reported missing and the crew presumed drowned, February 5 th 1881. Two Prendergasts and two Mangans died.
Additional information:
Appledore is near Barnstaple in Devon.
Captain Benjamin Eastaway (b.1825, Swansea) and Captain William Eastaway (b.1815, Swansea) were from the prior
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