The Tutty Family
Our great-great-great grandparents on our mother’s side were John Pennefather and Emily Courtenay who married in St. Mary’s, Dublin, on January 2nd 1848. John and Emily had a daughter, Isabella Anna Pennefather (aka Mama) who married Charles Jones, decorator; their daughter, Tennie, married Joseph Edwards Dickson and was the mother of our maternal grandmother, Vera Williams, née Dickson. Emily Courtenay, who married John Pennefather in Dublin in 1848, was the daughter of Frederick Hall Courtenay and Mary Tuty or Tutty of 27 Wellington Street. Frederick Hall Courtenay (1791 - 1875) was married to Mary Tutty (1816 – 1878) who died in 1878. I discovered her family name in the parish register of St. James' Catholic Church. when their son, Thomas Courtney/Courtenay married Mary Browne on 5th June 1859. This register has her name spelt as 'Tuty' whereas an Edwardian Courtenay genealogy has her named as 'Tutty' of Carnew, Co. Wicklow. ...
