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Introduction to Butlers |
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For introductory page The furthest back that I have been able to trace the Butler family that is the subject of these pages is to Edward Butler of St Martin’s Birmingham, and Elizabeth Hammond Bishop, who were married at Kempsey, some four miles south of Worcester, 28 July 1794. Their fifth child, Alexander Bishop Butler was born in Birmingham, 3 May 1805 and christened much later, 12 November 1807, in the Non-Conformist Church, Birmingham. Alexander Bishop married Charlotte Selina Mortimer 13 September 1827, in the parish church of St. Saviour, Southwark. She was the daughter of Jackson Mortimer and Elizabeth Vaughan and was born in London in 1800. Her parents had been married at Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London 6 December 1788. Her father, Jackson Mortimer, was born 22 October 1762, the son of Samuel Mortimer and Eleanor Jackson, who married in 1752. Samuel, born at Warwick, was the youngest of twenty-one children born to his father, Edward Mortimer. Edward Mortimer himself was born (year unknown) at Newcastle under Lyme some 30 miles NW of Birmingham, had eleven children from his first marriage and ten from his second, and was an army captain at the time of King Charles I (d.1649). The newly wed Alexander Bishop and Charlotte Selina Butler’s first child, Alexander Edward, was born 12 July 1828, and was christened 15 February 1829 at Bethnal Green, London, in St. Matthew's Church. In 1837 Alexander Bishop and Charlotte Selina Butler and their family, which now included five children, moved to Tasmania. Alexander Edward Butler was married to Eliza Helyar, 8 April 1852 and after a distinguished career in public life in Richmond, Melbourne, he moved with some of his family to Sydney. His son, Edward William Butler married Lilian Blanche McLean 29 December 1897 at the McLeans’ home next to their cordial factory, 65 Fitzroy Street Surry Hills. Their fourth child, Malcolm Edward married Honor Dolores Whittaker at St Canice’s Church Elizabeth Bay 29 September 1936. They had three children: Paul Edward, Anthony Malcolm (the author of this history) and Adele Anne. The story of these generations can be read by clicking on the relevant links. |