▶Date of birth:  c1802        Place of birth: Midhurst, Sussex

▶Father:  Richard Wardroper     Mother: Frances Catherine Cutfield

▶Spouse(s): (1) Jane Green, daughter of the Revd. James Carter Green, of North Grimstone, Yorkshire; (2) Anna Warmoll, eldest daughter of Stephen Butcher Esq., of Norwich; (3) Jane McGeogh     Date(s) of marriage:  (1) 9 January 1849; (2) 13 November 1862; (3) 1Q 1900       Place(s) of marriage: (1) Cheltenham; (2) Farnlay Tyas; (3) Wisbech

▶Occupation: Clergyman

▶Lifestory: Cutfield was the fifth son of Richard Wardroper. Before becoming a clergyman, Cutfield was articled to an attorney and solicitor in 1830. He later matriculated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, BA 1843, MA 1847.  He was ordained Deacon (Gloucester) in 1843, and Priest (Ripon) in 1848. From 1843-8 he served as Curate of Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, before being presented by the Earl of Dartmouth with the living as Perpetual Curate of Farnley Tyas, Huddersfield in 1848, a position he held for fifty-one years, until 1899.

He and his family were staying at 15 (now 67) Pittville Lawn at the time of the 1851 census, when he was Incumbent of Farnley Tyas (he and his wife had been married in Cheltenham two years earlier; she died in 1859). The Earl of Dartmouth also appointed Wardroper his Domestic Chaplain in 1852; Dartmouth had erected Farnley Church in 1840, and his Vicar lived in a portion of his mansion, Woodsome Hall. After the death of his first wife, Cutfield remarried, in 1862. In 1879 Wardroper’s affairs were “liquidated” as a result of the depreciation of prices on the share market.

Cutfield kept a wicker coffin at his residence in Farnley Tyas, ready for his use; as a niece died while visiting him, the first such coffin he had made was used for her, but he had another made, and left it in Farnley Tyas, which was reunited with him at his death (Yorkshire Post 16 March 1933).

In 1900, soon after leaving Yorkshire, he married again, to Jane McGeogh, forty-five years his junior, and in 1901 they lived in Wisbech. In his last years they lived at Hunstanton, where he died in 1905, at the age of ninety-one.

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▶Date of death:  30 October 1905      Place of death: Hunstanton, Norfolk

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▶Notes:        ID: 1211

Contributor(s):  Alan Munden/John Simpson