Butler of North Hampshire Family Chart no. 92

	James BUTLER		(1) Esther TAYLOR		(2) Louisa COLE		(3) Louisa Mary GRAY
	b. 26 May 1854 Baughurst HAM		bap. 26 Apr 1857 Tadley HAM		b. 26 May 1854 Lympstone DEV		b. 11 Dec 1868 Egham SRY bap. 7 Feb 1869 at Englefield Green SRY
			m. 17 Nov 1877 at Tadley HAM		m. 17 Apr 1892 at Egham SRY		m. 18 Feb 1900 at St Jude's Englefield Green SRY
	d. 12 Jul 1928 Woking SRY, aged 74		d. 1889 Kingsclere RD HAM, aged 32		d. 16 Jul 1895 Egham SRY, aged 41		d. 27 Dec 1920 at 5 The Grove Egham SRY, aged 52
	General Labourer (1881) Farm Labourer Cowman (1891) Carter/Carman(1893, 1902) General Labourer (1901) Corn Merchant worker (1911)

Their Children

(1) David James	(2) Louisa	(2) William Herbert	(3) Edward	(3) Eliza Fanny	(3) Hannah Rose	(3) Edith Emily
b. 20 Dec 1883 at West Heath Tadley HAM	b. 3 Mar 1893 at Egham SRY bap. 28 May 1893 at St John Egham SRY	b. 4 Feb 1895 at Egham SRY bap. 28 Apr 1895 at St John Egham SRY	b. 1 Mar 1900 at Egham SRY	b. Jan 1901 at Egham SRY bap. 21 Mar 1901 at St John Egham SRY	b. 15 Jan 1902 at Egham SRY bap. 20 Mar 1902 at St John Egham SRY	b. 31 Aug 1906 at Egham SRY
m. (1) Rosina DIXON 3 Feb 1907 at Egham SRY (2) Carrie SPRATLEY between 1911 and 1913	m. Cecil Bertram BROWN 26 Sep 1936 at The Register Office Fulham MDX	m. Lucy Ellen OTTAWAY 13 Jul 1921 at Egham SRY			m. Sidney Austin 7 Jul 1945 at St Clement's Church Fulham MDX
d. 21 Mar 1956 at Knaphill Woking SRY		d. 9 May 1971 Southall MDX	d. 1960 [Family Bible]	d. 12 Aug 1901	d. 1 May 1985 at Hammersmith Hospital MDX, age 83	d. 18 Mar 1907 at 43 North Street Egham SRY, aged 6 months

Who They Were

James was first married to Esther TAYLOR on 17 Nov 1877 in Tadley. Esther was christened on 26 Apr 1857 in Tadley. 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, Eliza Fanny of bronchitis and Edith Emily of Broncho Pneumonia. William Herbert told me that one of the babies died as a result of falling from her pram but neither of the infant certificates mentions a fall.

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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	Click on the thumbnail to see a larger picture of James and Louisa Gray about the time of their marriage in 1900.

Where They Lived

1881 - Holly Bush Lane Baughurst; James and Esther.
1891 - Spring Cottage Egham SRY; James alone, a widower boarder. Louisa Mary Gray was a Nurse (domestic servant) at Fairwater Road Llandaff Glamorgan Wales.
1893-1895 - Station Road Egham SRY; James and 2nd wife Louisa Cole (baptisms).
1901 - 6 King's Road Egham; James and Louisa Mary, with Louisa, William H, Edward, and Eliza Fanny.
1907, 1911 - 43 North Street Egham; James and Louisa Mary, with William, Edward, and Rose (Hannah Rose), plus a boarder, Marey Chapman, widow 60.
1920 - 5 The Grove Egham at the time of Louisa Mary's death.
1921 - Egham; James with William Herbert and Hannah Rose.

Family Group Identifiers

Family: TADLEY01
Family Group: butham092