The SUTTON family, although I have never known any of them, are an interesting crowd.  Unlike most of my other lines, they stayed put in one place (Frodsham, Cheshire) for several generations,  and are another connection with the innkeeping trade. I may have discovered a pointer to Peter's earlier days in a will referring to "Peter Sutton, Miller of ffrodsham:" Watch this sapce.

All the earlier information depends on Emma and Emily (b1836) in various records being the same person: she appears as either in baptism and census records, as Emma on her marriage certificate:  she even got the name of her father wrong on the latter, but as he had died when she was three (and her mother a few years later), a mistake is understandable.  (Just in case you think I am assuming anything, I can let you have full chapter and verse, E-mail me.)

William (1804) and his wife Hannah both died young, and most of their children died in childhood. The only one I have traced after the death of Hannah (apart from Emma  and Ellen in 1901)is William, with a Rathbone uncle in Birmingham unclein 1851: Both he and the uncle disappeared from all Census indexes after that date.
 

Peter SUTTON (d1776) = Ester NEE?*
    Mary bapt c1730--------------------------------------------------------------------|
    Mary bapt 1738 bur 1740-------------------------------------------------------------|
    Thomas bapt1740 bur 1762------------------------------------------------------------|
    Elizabeth bapt 1743 bur1744---------------------------------------------------------|
    Isaac SUTTON bapt1743 = Ellen STIRRUP
         Elizabeth bapt1774
         John bapt1775 ?m Sarah PERCIVAL
         Thomas bapt1777
         William bapt1779 bur 1781-------------------------------------------|
        Hannah bapt1782
         Isaac bapt 1780 = Ann SHARP
             John bapt1807 m (1) Ellen ?
                      m(2) Hannah SIDDON
                  Henry bc1844
                  Edwin bc1846
                  Sarah bc 1848
                  Frederick bc1850
             Thomas bapt1809
             Hannah bapt 1812
        Mary bapt1784 m(1) John EATON 1807 (2) John WORTHINGTON (1820) (3) perhaps ?
            William SUTTON bapt1804 = Hannah RATHBONE
                 :  Ellen bapt1831 = John DAVIES
                       next DAVIES generation known to 1881
                  Ann Alice bapt1833 (last trace 1851)
                  James bapt 1834 (last trace 1841)
                 Emma/Emily bapt1836 = Edward MASSEY
                       7 MASSEY children including
                     Herbert MASSEY b 1870 Ruabon = Ada E WATERTON (my grandparents)
                William bapt 1838 (possible trace 1851)
                Peter Rathbone bapt 1839 (last trace 1841)
        Peter bapt1787

Notes:
Various things make me think that Ester may not have been Peter's first wife, nor perhaps the mother of these children.
I have more detail on many of these SUTTONS, Email me (click at end of page) for information.
All events at Frodsham unless stated. All surnames SUTTON unless shown.
My ancestors underlined.

THere were a couple in Winwick (then Lancashire, now Cheshire) named Peter and Esther Sutton at the same time as those above, but they are not linked, being part of a long established family there both before and after the relevent dates.
----------------| = known to have died unmarried and/or childless.
 
 

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