The BUTLER branch

The BUTLER name started out as Le BOUTILLIER, as our fore fathers were boot and shoe makers in France. They moved to Jersey in the Channel Islands, and then to Weymouth with the name change along the way.

Walter BUTLER was so keen to marry Winifred ROSE that he worked his passage to Australia as a hairdresser on board a liner three times, in order to propose. Read about their romantic story here


A comprehensive history of the Le BOUTILLIER / BUTLER family has been written by my mother's cousins John and Mary Butler. Please get in touch if you'd like to see it.

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Winifred Rose, our grandmother, who married three times. Her second husband Walter was our grandfather.

 Walter Stanley BUTLER in 1920s

 Walter Stanley BUTLER on his way to Australia

to propose to Winifred

Walter Stanley BUTLER probably about 1930

probably taken in Ockendon Road, London. 

I am always glad to receive updates and corrections to  steve@stephencoote.co.uk

NOTES

Alfred Charles Le BOUTILLIER

'Fred' - called BUTLER on Walter's Birth Certificate in 1898

b 1869 at 4 Colomberie, St Helier, Jersey. Channel Islands

m ?

d 1956

Work: 'Journeyman', Grate fitter, Engine Fitter, skilled labourer at Dockyard, Portland

Addresses: 

20 Trinity Street, Weymouth,

5 Herbert Place, Weymouth (bombed WWII)

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Walter Stanley BUTLER

b 19 February 1898 at 6 Belmont Street, Weymouth, Dorset

m 18 April 1927 at St John's Weymouth

d 11 May 1941 Milton Cemetery near 'The Good Companion'

Work: Hairdresser on Orient Line, LDB Landport Drapery Bazaar

Hobbies: Flying

Addresses:

93 Lavender Grove, Daltson, London E8 3LR

43 Ockenden Road, Islington, London, N1 3NL

65 Warren Avenue, Milton, Portsmouth, PO4 8PX

11 Kimbolton Road, Copnor, Portsmouth, PO3 6BY (Roof destroyed WWII)

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Norah Edna COOTE (Nee Butler)

b 6 March 1931 at 43 Ockenden Road, Islington, London, N1 3NL (Cockney)

m 16 February 1952 at St Mary's Church, Portsea

Work: Tracer, Timothy White's, Debenhams

Hobbies: Mother's Union, Church, Gliding

Education: Meon Road Infants, Milton. Westover Road Infants, Miss Woodward. 

Evacuated: 1/9/39 Otterbourne, then Newton Vallence (School at Farringdon), 11+ held at Alton. Southern Grammar moved to salisbury (Barbara at Whiteparish).

More information is needed about:

Elizabeth RYAN (Ryian?)

1868-1948

Went into service aged 9, no schooling

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Louisa Ellen KING

1852-1932

Work: Milliner, french speaker, 14 children

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John RYIAN

Farm servant, Ireland

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Jane GIFFORD

1781?

'Of independent means'

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Francis Le BOUTILLIER

b 1811 St Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands

m?

Shoemaker

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Mary Jane GIFFORD

b 1811 St Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands

Shoemaker, 9 Children (Alfred 9th)