James Butler^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]}

1854 - 1923  (68 years)

• Name	James Butler
  Birth	22 Jul 1854	26 Ufton Rd, De Beauvoir Town, London, England
  Gender	Male
  Emigration	1878	South Africa   [15, 16]
  Occupation	Panmure, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [5]
  Merchant
  Death	17 Jun 1923	Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [16, 17, 18]
  Burial	19 Jun 1923	Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [19]
  Person ID	I11119	master
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Phillip John Butler,   b. 18 Nov 1826, Alfred Parade, Bristol, Avon, England d. 24 Feb 1890, Lansdown Village, Barnstaple, Devonshire, England (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Mary Watts,   b. 11 Nov 1823, Bristol, Somerset, England d. 21 Feb 1900 (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F4190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Annie Letitia Collett,   b. Oct 1856, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 9 Apr 1951 (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	28 Mar 1882	Cradock Church (Methodist), Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [22]
  	Description: Rev W H Price
  Children	1. Mary Emma Butler,   b. 12 Nov 1884, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa + 2. Ernest Collett Butler,   b. 3 Oct 1886   d. 1965 (Age 78 years) + 3. Florence Letitia Butler,   b. 10 Apr 1889 + 4. Alice Emily Butler,   b. 3 May 1892 + 5. Ada Josephine Butler,   b. 31 Jul 1894 + 6. Senator James Watts Butler,   b. 30 Dec 1896, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 13 Nov 1966, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa (Age 69 years) + 7. Kathleen Ethel Butler,   b. 17 Oct 1901
  Family ID	F4189	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2014

  
  

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  Birth - 22 Jul 1854 - 26 Ufton Rd, De Beauvoir Town, London, England Emigration - 1878 - South Africa Occupation - Merchant - - Panmure, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa Marriage - 28 Mar 1882 - Cradock Church (Methodist), Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death - 17 Jun 1923 - Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa Burial - 19 Jun 1923 - Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Came to SA in 1876 A Bachelor when he married Anne COLLETT, so could not be the one married to Sadie CAWOOD Attended Croydon School, apprenticed for five years to Poole's of Fenchurch Street in 1870, where ships chronometers were checked and serviced when they docked in London. He was sent by his parents in London to South Africa at the age of 20 to recover from tuberculosis.

  
  

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  [S449] Collett, Joan, "A Time to Plant", 27 Feb 2003, p 211. "In 1879 a young Englishman named James Butler spent a month at Grassridge recuperating from tuberculosis. He kept a diary which describes the farm and their family life. He wrote of 'the large, intelligent happy family' with whom he walked, rode, read, played chess and croquet. He and Letty were later married and lived in Cradock where James ran a bookshop and printing business, publishing the Midland News. Emma married his younger brother, Charles, who joined for a time but later started a newspaper in Vryburg, then moved to Cape Town before finally retiring to Cradock where he was mayor from 1837-1940." [S49] Hope, Joan, 29 Jan 2003, reallyspecial@xtra.co.nz. James Butler........... this is what I have, which doesn't help you much, probably just confuses you more! (The reason for my concern in opening statement!!) Born 22 Jul 1854, Cradock married on 8 Oct 1879, Kimberley... to Sarah Lucy CAWOOD on 8 Oct 1879. He died 17 Jun 1923 and she died before him in 1903. Four children, one daughter, 3 sons. Next James Butler (with exact same dates of birth and death, no places though!) married a Miss Cawood (1856-1903), daughter of William and Sarah. Married on 8 Oct 1879, Cradock. His parents are Philip John BUTLER (1826-1890) and Mary WATTS (1823-1900). Same 4 children's names are given.... Third James BUTLER, with no given parents, (no day and month of birth or places, otherwise dates are all the same) married on 28 Mar 1882 Cradock to Ann Letitia COLLETT (1856-1951). 3 daughters one son. CONCLUSION! My source for this last entry is Duncan Ferguson of Cradock who has access to all the Cradock churches, but can be inaccurate. My other source is David Barlow's GEDCOM of the CAWOOD family! Well, the CAWOOD's are an absolutely enormous family. David has been at it for a while and I imagine he is quite thorough. I did once hear someone say that if you are related to a CAWOOD you are related to every other English speaking person in South Africa!!! (A bit like my HOBSON's and your TROLLIP's!!) Anyhow... the dates don't really mesh.... Unless of course James was into bigamy! Then again there could have been 2 James Butlers and over the years with various researchers not checking details, their dates have become the same! I had a similar problem with my James MURRAY's... However in 1820 Settler Women, by Stanley Shuttleworth I did find something of interest. Your James Butler who married Anne Collett was in fact an Englishman who in 1879, spent a month recuperation from tuberculosis on John Collett¹s farm ³Grassridge:. He kept a bookshop and printing shop. He is mentioned in his grandson¹s (Guy Butler) book ³Karoo Morning². So this James BUTLER was not actually born in Cradock, making their 2 James BUTLER's!! The other being a South African by birth... (I guess the date of birth in 1854 belongs to the South African BUTLER. The other date, we would need to confirm with a death certificate, which I don't have a copy of, Sorry!) [S80] Guy Butler, "Karoo Morning", (David Philip 1983 ISBN 0 949968 76 5), 29 Jan 2003, pp 14 -27. p. 15 "After a time at Croydon School, James (b.1954) ...tuberculosis struck again so severely that in 1876, at the age of 22, he was shipped off to the ends of the earth in search of health." p26 when James, son of Philip and Mary, dies. at the funeral..."there was our father; and his brother and five sisters - three of them with their Biggs husbands..." p 21 "on returning to Cradock, he entered into...holy matrimony with Letitia Collett in 1881." Pic on p147 [S1192] Horne, Becky, Horne, Becky, (emails on South-Africa-Immigrants-British@rootsweb.com), 25 Jan 2004, From Duncan Ferguson, beckyjh@telkomsa.net. No. 65. BUTLER, James, aged 68y11m, abode Cradock, buried 19 Jun 1923 [S412] Cradock Methodist Parish Records, Marriages 1858 - 1924, (LDS Microfilm # 1560899), as transcribed by Ellen Stanton. [S704] Barlow, David, CAWOOD File, (http://www.barlowd.tripod.com/framecawood.html). [S926] Barlow, David, HULLEY 1820 GEDCOM, (http://www.geocities.com/settlers1820). [S451] Lamusse, Mike G & Thurgood, Wally -, NORVAL GEDCOM. [S540] Butler, William, BUTLER Family Tree constructed by William Butler in Southport, England. [S539] Biggs, Alice and Vorster, Christine, BUTLER Family Tree produced by Alice Biggs and Christine Vorster. [S80] Guy Butler, "Karoo Morning", (David Philip 1983 ISBN 0 949968 76 5). [S546] Transcribed by his daughter Mary Butler (*12/11/1884)., "Jim's Journals", letters written by James Butler (*23/7/1854) to his. [S348] Whittal, Vernon, WHITTAL Family GEDCOM, (See list of further references below in the note). [S372] Dickerson, Trevor - DICKERSON Family Tree, DICKERSON Family Tree. [S546] Transcribed by his daughter Mary Butler (*12/11/1884)., "Jim's Journals", letters written by James Butler (*23/7/1854) to his, p. 14 et seq. [S539] Biggs, Alice and Vorster, Christine, BUTLER Family Tree produced by Alice Biggs and Christine Vorster, p. 14 et seq. [S80] Guy Butler, "Karoo Morning", (David Philip 1983 ISBN 0 949968 76 5), p. 14 et seq. [S407] Memorial Inscription on Tombstone. [S563] Cradock Methodist Register, Cradock and Fish River Burials 1914 - 1971, (CORY MS 17 412), (Entry# 65), transcribed by Derek Ferguson. from Becky Horne [S119] Stanton, Ellen, Stanton, Ellen, 28 Mar 2003, Microfilm #1560899. Entry #342 Husband: James BUTLER, Full, Bachelor, Merchant, residing Cradock Wife: Anne Letitia COLLETT, Full, Spinster, residing Grass Ridge, Father: John COLLETT Date: 3/28/1882 Witnesses: John WATTS?, Jessie M. COLLETT Minister: W. H. PRICE [S173] GISA website, 18 Mar 2004, Butler GEDCOM. Entry #342 Husband: James BUTLER, Full, Bachelor, Merchant, residing Cradock Wife: Anne Letitia COLLETT, Full, Spinster, residing Grass Ridge, Father: John COLLETT Date: 3/28/1882 Witnesses: John WATTS?, Jessie M. COLLETT Minister: W. H. PRICE It gives 25 March - must be when the reception was held [S558] Cradock (Maraisburg) Methodist Parish Records, Marriages 1882 - 1891, (LDS Microfilm# 1560910), as transcribed by Ellen Stanton.