Researching Charles Clutterbuck

He was born in London on 3 September 1806, the son of Edmund and Susannah Clutterbuck, and baptised at Christ Church, Newgate Street, on 28 September 1806.

He married Hannah Kinloch in St John's Church, Waterloo on 16 October 1828.

Originally a painter of miniatures, who exhibited eight paintings at the Royal Academy, he began stained glass work in the 1840s. Examples of his work can be seen in many Churches in the South East of England. He has stained glass windows in two Buckinghamshire churches - two windows in St Mary's, Oakley and one in St Peter and Paul, Worminghall - as well as windows at Ely Cathedral and St Anne's Church, Limehouse.

Examples of his work may be found in Sydney, Australia, at Holy Trinity, Milson's Point, St Andrew's Cathedral, and Christ Church St Laurence.

He had moved to live in Essex by the time the national census of England was taken in June, 1841. He was described in the census return as an artist, living at Maryland Point with his wife Hannah and three of their children: Helen (Helen Susannah Clutterbuck), Robert (afterwards the Rev. Robert Hawley Clutterbuck), and Charles (Charles Edmund Clutterbuck).

Ten years later, in March 1851, he was again listed as a resident of Maryland Point, but was more fully described as an "Artist on painted glass, employing two men, five boys and one girl." Living with him were his wife, Hannah, and five children: Helen, Robert, Charles, Hannah (Hannah Charlotte Clutterbuck), and Hugh (Hugh Jones Clutterbuck).

Ten years later still, in April 1861, he is described as a "stained glass painter," living at No. 4, Frances Place, in the parish of All Saints, West Ham, with his wife, three sons and daughter (including his son Charles Edmund Clutterbuck, similarly described as a "stained glass painter").

He died at Maryland Point on 5 December 1861.

His son, Charles Edmund Clutterbuck(1839–1883) carried on the business until 1882.