Butler of North Hampshire Family Chart no. 62

	James BUTLER		(1) Esther TAYLOR		(2) Louisa COLE		(3) Louis Mary GRAY
	born 26 May 1854 Baughurst		bapt. 26 Apr 1857 Tadley		born 26 May 1854 Lympstone, Devon		born 11 Dec 1868 Egham
			mar. 17 Nov 1877 at Tadley		mar. 17 Apr 1892 at Egham		mar. 18 Feb 1900 at Egham
	d. 12 Jul 1928 Woking				d. 16 Jul 1895 Egham
	Farm Labourer, Carter/Carman

Their Children

(1) David James	(2) Louisa	(2) William Herbert	(3) Edward	(3) Eliza Fanny	(3) Hannah Rose	(3) Edith Emily
born 20 Dec 1883 at West Heath, Tadley	born 3 Mar 1893 at Egham	born 4 Feb 1895 at Egham	born 1 Mar 1900 at Egham	born Jan 1901 at Egham	born 15 Jan 1902 at Egham	born 31 Aug 1905 at Egham
m. Rosina DIXON 3 Feb 1907 at Egham, SRY	m. ? BROWN	m. Lucy Ellen OTTAWAY 13 Jul 1921 at Egham, SRY
		d. 9 May 1971 Southall, MDX	d. 1960	d. 12 Aug 1901		d. 18 Mar 1906

Additional Information

James was first married to Esther TAYLOR on 17 Nov 1877 in Tadley. Esther was christened on 26 Apr 1857 in Tadley. Esther died sometime between 1883 and 1891. This family group appears in the 1881 Census.

James moved to Egham in Surrey and found work with the firm of Drake & Mount, Seed Merchants of Egham High Street, working as a carter. In the 1891 Census he appears as a widower in lodgings in the town, employed as a General Labourer and Carman (i.e. Carter). His son, David James, stayed in Baughurst, and appears in the 1891 census living with his grandparents, William and Sarah Butler. A year later James married his second wife, Louisa COLE, aged thirty-one to his thirty-eight. Louisa had moved to Egham from Devon, with her family, in the late 1860s. She was the daughter of William COLE and Maria BEARNE, and had been born in 1860 in Lympstone, Devon. She had been employed as Domestic Servant at the time of her marriage. She died on 16 Jul 1895 in Egham tragically young, of Typhoid Fever, and was buried on 21 Jul 1895 in Englefield Green, Surrey. Her son, William Herbert, my grandfather, was only 5 months old. In January 1904, Louisa's sister Sarah COLE was buried in the same plot in St Jude's Cemetery Englefield Green.

James waited five years before remarrying. James was by now 45 years old, his bride Louisa Mary GRAY was 31 and a spinster. Her father was William Charles GRAY, a gardener and groundsman in Windsor Great Park, and the family had for some years occupied one of the Park Cottages at Bishopsgate. Two of their children, Eliza Fanny and Edith Emily, died in infancy, one of them as a result of falling from their pram - as yet I have not identified which one was the victim of this tragedy.

Much of the information above, particularly the dates of birth of James children, was taken from the large Family Bible passed to William Herbert after the death of his brother David James.

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