Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Harry Roberts Butler

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 20 Apr 1900 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Christening: 18 Jun 1900 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁶⁸⁹ Death: 8 Aug 1901 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 1) ¹⁷³⁶ Burial: After 8 Aug 1901 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Cause of Death:
Events
• Minister/Priest: Rev. F. C. Willey, Methodist Church, 18 Jun 1900, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: John Jennings Butler Mother: Phoebe Miller Marriage Did Not Marry

Ivy Katherine Butler

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 1934 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Christening: Death: 6 May 1946 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 12) ¹⁷³⁶ Burial: Cause of Death: Died in house fire with other family members

Parents

Father: Alexander Jennings Butler ¹⁷³⁶ Mother: Martha Elizabeth Parmiter ¹⁷³⁶

Jabez Butler

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 13 Mar 1834 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰¹⁴ ^,1736 Christening: Death: 23 Jan 1924 - Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 89) ¹⁰¹⁴ ^,1736 Burial: After 23 Jan 1924 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Ship's Master, including of the ill-fated MARY.
• Occupation: Discovered the Bell Island iron deposits, Cir 1890, Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. "Once Upon a Mine: Sory of Pre-Confederation Mines on the Island of Newfoundland" by Wendy Martin. Special Volume 26 - The Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. 1983

Awareness of the Bell Island iron deposits waxed and waned throughout the 300 years preceding their development. In 1578 Anthony Parkhurst wrote of retrieving ore samples from an island of iron near St. John's, but in 1776 Robert Newman and Company of Dartmouth, England recorded: "Belle Isle. Nothing received for it. Fell due to us thro' a mortgage,"(2) saying nothing of the iron deposits. Twenty years after someone allegedly opened an iron mine at Back Cove on Bell Island in 1819(3), Joseph Jukes visited the island and described a bed of "bright red sandstone" without mentioning iron ore.(4) Yet even as Jukes penned his report, fishermen were using what they called the 'red rock' to ballast their killicks and boats. The practice led indirectly to the opening of the Bell Island mines. One day in the late 1880s, Jabez Butler of Port de Grave was sailing to St. John's when a storm forced him to land on the north side of Bell Island. He ballasted his boat with loose rock from the island and completed his journey. As he unloaded the rock at St. John's its obvious iron content attracted the curiosity of an English captain who took a piece home to be assayed. The assayer, however, needed a larger sample and wrote to Butler asking for 50 more pounds of rock. He, thinking the man wanted £50, ignored the request.(5) Some years later, one of Jabez's sons, Esau, moved to Montreal. Esau occasionally pondered the affair with the assayer and finally asked his father to send some of the rock to Montreal. There he had it analyzed. So impressive were the test results that he telegraphed his family to stake the source at once; and on 4 August 1892 Jabez Butler, his brother John, his three sonsEsau, John and Jabez-and James Miller applied for a mineral license to three claims on the north side of Bell Island.(6) The Butlers, being primarily farmers and fishermen, lacked the money to develop their claims and reluctantly approached a St. John's merchant, Joseph Pippy, for financial aid. Pippy presented them with a contract proposal that confirmed their worst suspicions of merchants. He and a partner, Alexander Shirran, agreed to sell or lease the claims for the Butlers in exchange for 20 per cent of any resulting profits; a further 10 per cent was to be reserved for expenses incurred in connection with the mine. Jabez sent the document to his son John, then living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John showed it to a mining consultant who declared: "Messers. Shirran and Pippy are offering to do for twenty per cent what a real estate agent can do for two."(7) However, for lack of an alternative, the Butlers accepted the merchants' terms and in May 1893 signed the indenture. Shirran and Pippy were greedy but competent promoters and within one month had an interested party: the New Glasgow Iron, Coal and Rail Company of Nova Scotia. The company's chief engineer, Robert Chambers, visited Bell Island in June with the Butlers, who first plied him with a meal of fresh lobsters and flatfish and then showed him their claims. As Chambers recalled: "It could be seen at a glance that the property was valuable."(8) He told the Butlers to obtain a mining lease for the land while he negotiated with Shirran and Pippy. On 3 September 1894 the deal was made. The company leased the three claims from the Butlers for $1000 and a royalty of 5 cents per ton on all shipped ore, and had the option to purchase the claims for $120,000.
• Property: Sold the rights to their land on Bell Island for mining, 1894, Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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According to Sean T. Cadigan in his "Newfoundland and Labrador - A History", pg, 162, "The farming and fishing family of John and Jabex Butler, on whose land the ore [iron] lay, sold their rights to the land [on Bell Island] to the Nova Scotia Steel Company which started a mine in 1894"

One would imagine that this was the source of the relative prosperity of these brothers and their families, farming and fishing not affording much of a livelihood in those days.

Parents

Father: John Butler ¹⁰¹⁴ ^,1218 ^,1736 Mother: Susannah Dawe ¹⁰¹⁴ ^,1736

Spouses and Children

1. *Emma Winsor ²⁸² ^,283 Marriage: 19 Dec 1859 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵⁹
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Rev. Daniel, 19 Dec 1859, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes

Date of marriage erroneously recorded in Aunt Jean's LDS records aas19 Dec. 1832 (before Jabez was even born).
Children: 1. Jacob Winsor Butler 2. John Jennings Butler 3. Jabez Henry Butler 4. Joseph Butler

Notes
General:

All the information on the LDS site pertaining to these relations to Jabez Henry Butler were provided by a Beverly D. Sturke, of La Mirada,CA. I'm not sure what her connection is to this line and I'm also not sure if this line is really relations of ours.

280109: From Wanda Garrett's family tree: "Emma married Jabez BUTLER son of John BUTLER and Susanna DAWE on 19 Dec 1859 in St. John's. Jabez was born on 13 Mar 1834 in Port de Grave. He died on 23 Jan 1924 in Chamberlains. He was buried in Topsail, United Church Cemetery."

140112: Contrary to notation above, there is now no doubt as to the relationship between this Butler family via the marriage of Jabez Butler to Emma Winsor. She has now been confirmed as a cousin of the Winsors in Aquaforte through information provide by Robert Hopkins.

Here is an account of a near disaster at sea as told by Jabez Henry Butler to his uncle, James Winsor and conveyed by a descendant, Joan Hierlihy to her nephew Bob Hopkins. In his words: "My interest in my Aquaforte Winsor connections occurred when my mother's sister gave me a write-up on The Loss of the Mary, a shipwreck which occurred in 1881. The letter was written by Jabez Butler Jr. to his uncle James Winsor. The Mary was a schooner named, I believe, after Mary Menchington wife of James Winsor."

The Loss of the Mary As told by my Father (Joan Hierlihy) In the year 1881, a little craft called the Mary, 67 tons sailing in the coastal trade, carrying lumber from a sawmill at Point Leamington Green Bay, and at differ-ent points on the coast. Some at St. John's and other ports, and returning with provisions to the mill after a fair summers work, was returning to the home port Do-minion Point, Exploits River, from St. John's. Leaving there on November the 24 1881. After being towed in a dead calm, and squaring away for the north. A south east wind came on with snow, and caused us to lower sail and reef, snow was heavy, but nothing unusual oc-curred through the night, and all day. Sailing close to the wind, with heavy seas on, and crossed Bonavista Bay. We lost our flying jib-boom with the sail furled, in a heavy sea. The Captain decided to heave back for Catalina, as the wind was heading us. All went well until we found the wind veering from the west again. Causing us to have to tack off Horse Chops, but the wind and sea was so heavy that we had to veer ship and consequently lost our foremast, carrying a double reef sail, then our main sheet parted, and put-ting a preventer on the boom as far out the leach as possible. The craft fell off, causing the boom to snap near the jaws, and pinned my Uncle Esau by the rail, breaking his leg near the hip, and he had to be carried below, as we thought to die. This was Nov. 26th. Then we were sailing as close to the wind as possible, carrying main sail and stay-sail, just hanging loose from the jump-stay. We thought to go through Baccalieu Tickle, but feared being caught on the lee shore but carried on and by night fall were about 8 miles off St. John's, but could get no assistance from there, so we had to run along shore that night south. Next day we passed St. John's again running northward to Baccalieu again, but too distant to be observed from the Block House, stormy winds (having) put us off from the land. A week after losing (the) foremast, winds came from the Southeast, raising our hopes to reach land, which was in full view. But the wind chopped in from the Northwest again and blew the stay-sail to ribbons, and our shroud on Mainmast worked loose. To stop the main-mast jumping the step and damaging the hull, we had to cut it away. Having lost both spars, we were at the mercy of the waves. So first smooth time, we got a strap on the stump of the foremast, and could hoist a topmast stay-sail and when (winds were) favourable, run toward the Gulf Stream, and much warmer water. Every day hoping to see shipping. We did see four ships, but too far distant to be seen by them. We were now in December, and drifted to much warmer climate, running south. Christmas day came, and to celebrate the day we had currant dough balls, and a drop of rum, and I caught a drink of water for the 7 of us from the rain that was falling. It gave us hope, as we saw a large Barque laying to, lumber laden from Que-bec we supposed, and while making sail we could see the men on the yard arm, but they failed to see us. We tried to follow the ship as she headed South by East Next morning at 4 am, we sighted a light right astern and finding our signals had failed to attract other vessels, we took in our lights, and waited until we lost sight of the light, and then got a bundle of hay from the hold, and set fire to it. Right after that, we saw coming toward us the light of a large steam boat, she kept a safe distance until daylight. She bore down, and asked if we could lower a boat, our answer was our boat had been wrecked. So after ten or more minutes we saw the lifeboat from the ship lowered and an officer and twelve men came to rescue us, telling us to hurry, as she was the mail-boat of the Cunard Line, called the Cythia of 3000 tons. Having a lame man below, my brother told the officer, he advised leaving him, but Jacob told him he would stay also, then the boat waited for the man to be brought on deck, and lifted into the lifeboat, and all got away. Having thrown our clothes bags into the lifeboat too. It was getting more stormy momentarily and arriving at the side of the Cythia, we were advised to clamber up the ladder and make room for the sailors to hook the life-boat and hook her in but the Captain thought it was too dangerous to hook one end and not the other of the life-boat and ordered the boat out again, taking all our clothes with it. We were left as we stood as regards to our clothes, but through the kindness of some of the passengers we were supplied with some of their clothing, and though not fitting us, we all appreciated it. At any rate we were rescued and happy. During the 32 days we were drifting we were put on water allowance of a teacup of water per man for 24 hours, making it hard for me, a boy of six-teen years, to do with so little water. I find to this day I would rather be without food than water. We had been rescued on Monday the 26 of December, and Saturday mid-night we arrived in Mersey Liverpool; the joy bells ringing in the New Year of 1882. We landed in Liverpool Tuesday morning, and were escorted to the Sailors Home, and stayed there until Saturday the 7^th of January, then on to Glasgow on Steamboat Owl via Irish Channel, landed at Glasgow Sunday morning, and then to Sailors Home again where we stayed until Wednesday the 12^th of January, and then embarked on S.S. Raleigh carrying a part load of pig iron, gas coal, and stone for the building of the Anglican Cathedral at St. John's. Mak-ing a stormy passage of 22 days. Thank God safe and well. Communications were not very good at these times, and for a time their families at home had given them up as lost, but the good news was received by the Clergyman of Exploits and conveyed to the Captain's wife of them being rescued. Names of the crew were as follows: Jabez ButlerCaptain Jacob Winsor ButlerMate John Jennings ButlerAble Seaman Esau ButlerAble Seaman Jabez Henry ButlerOrdinary Seaman Jacob SmithSailor John CousinsPassenger A strange coincidence occurred 10 years after. While sailing to Halifax on the Allen Line Carthagenia, I listened to the quarter master relating the tale of our shipwreck, and listening to it for some time I asked the officer if he would recognize anyone who was in that crew at that time. When I made myself known as the young man on board that schooner, he took me around and introduced me to all the crew and treated me very kindly. And this ends the tale of the loss of the schooner Mary. Jabez Henry Butler Robert M Hopkins (nephew of Joan Hierlihy) Notes Jabez Butler(1834-1924) Captain Jacob Winsor Butler (1861-1891) Mate John Jennings Butler (1862-1943) Able Seaman Esau Butler(1837-1926) Able Seaman Jabez Henry Butler (1865- 1944) Ordinary Seaman Jacob Smith Sailor John Cousins Passenger

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Will of Jabez Butler from Newfoundland will books volume 12 pages 530 to 532 probate year 1924

In re JABEZ BUTLER DECEASED.

This is the last Will and Testament of me Jabez Butler of Chamberlains, Conception Bay, in the Island of Newfoundland, Farmer. FIRST. I hereby revoke all former Wills and testamentary dispositions by me at any time heretofore made. SECOND. I give and bequeath to my sons John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate at Chamberlains aforesaid and bounded as follows, On the South by Fowler's road, On the West by land belonging to one Slade, On the North by land formerly belonging to Mrs Sarah Ann Butler, and on the East by land belonging to Joseph Fowler, to hold the same unto my said sons John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler absolutely in equal shares as tenants in common.

THIRD I give devise and bequeath to my said son Jabez H. Butler all that piece or parcel of land situate at Chamberlains aforesaid belonging to the estate of my late wife Emma Butler purchased from Mrs. Sarah Ann Butler together with the dwelling house barns and all other erections thereon, to hold the same unto my said son absolutely.

FOURTH I give devise and bequeath unto my said son Jabez H. Butler ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate at Chamberlains aforesaid belonging to the estate of my late son Jacob Winsor Butler, to hold the same unto my said son Jabez H. Butler absolutely.

FIFTH I give and bequeath to my said son Jabez H. Butler ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate at Chamberlains aforesaid purchased from McDougalls Estate and bounded as follows, on the South by the Main Road leading from St. John's to Harbor Main, on the West by Chamberlains Road, on the North by land belonging to Abraham Dawe, Thomas Dowden, George Chaytor and Allan Chaytor, and on the East by Chaytors Road to hold the same unto my said son Jabez H. Butler absolutely.

SIXTH. I give and bequeath to my said son John J. Butler the sum of Two thousand five hundred dollars. (I make this bequest for the purpose of putting my said son John J. Butler as far as may be in the distribution of my estate on an equality with my said son Jabez H. Butler to whom I have left more land than I have to my said son John J. Butler).

SEVENTH. I give and bequeath to my grand daughter Jessie Maud Butler one feather bed and bedstead.

EIGHTH. I give and bequeath to my grandson James Winsor Butler my gold watch.

NINTH. I give and bequeath to my grandson Harold G. Butler my silver watch.

TENTH. I give and bequeath unto all my grandchildren living at the time of my death (except the said Jessie Maud Butler to whom I have already given Four huhdred dollars) the sum of Four hundred dollars each.

ELEVENTH . I give and bequeath to my niece Emma Isabel Thomas the sum of Two hundred dollars.

TWELFTH . I direct that all my debts funeral and testamentary expenses be paid out of the residue of my estate.

THIRTEENTH. Subject to the next preceding paragraph of this my will I give devise and bequeath all the residue of my property to my said two sons John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler absolutely share and share alike.

FOURTEENTH. I appoint my said sons John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler to be Executors of this my will.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I the said Jabez Butler have to this my will set my hand this fourteenth day of July Anno Domini One thousand nine hundred and thirteen. JABEZ BUTLER.

Signed by the above named Jabez Butler as his last will in the presence of us, both present at the same time, who at his request, in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. Cecil B. Clift. Jessie E. White.

This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me Jabez Butler of Topsail, Farmer, dated the 14th day of July Anno Domini, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

I will and direct that the tenth and eleventh paragraphs of my said will be entirely stricken out and cancelled.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I the said Jabez Butler have hereunto set my hand to this Codicil of my Will at St. John's aforesaid this fourteenth day of October, Anno Domini, One thousand nine hundred and nineteen. JABEZ BUTLER. Signed by the above named Jabez Butler as a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. Jas. P. Blackwood. J.E. White.

CORRECT. William F. Lloyd Registrar of the Newfoundland Supreme Court.

(Listed in the margin next to this will the following) Fiat Feby 20/24 Kent J. Probate granted to John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler Feby 21/24 Estate Sworn at $11,394.06

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According to Sean T. Cadigan in his "Newfoundland and Labrador - A History", pg, 162, "The farming and fishing family of John and Jabex Butler, on whose land the ore [iron] lay, sold their rights to the land [on Bell Island] to the Nova Scotia Steel Company which started a mine in 1894"

One would imagine that this was the source of the relative prosperity of these brothers and their families, farming and fishing not affording much of a livelihood in those days,

Jabez Henry Butler

Sex: M
AKA: Harry Butler
Individual Information

Birth Date: 2 Jun 1899 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States of America ³³³ Christening: Death: 9 Jul 1984 - Derry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States of America ( at age 85) Burial: 12 Jul 1984 - Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States of America ²⁷⁰⁶ Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: US Federal Census; 300 Western Ave., 1900, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States of America.
• Military: WWI Draft Registration, 1917-1918, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States of America. Residence 51 Prince St.
• Occupation: Bookbinder, Standard Diary Co., 1917-1918, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States of America.
• Census: Living with wife and widowed mother, 1945, Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Jabez Henry Butler Mother: Julia Phoebe Moyes

Spouses and Children

1. *Jessie H Harding ²²⁸⁹ ^,2706 Marriage:

Jabez Henry Butler

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 26 Sep 1864 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Christening: 27 Oct 1864 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Death: 22 Apr 1944 - Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 79) ¹⁷³⁶ Burial: After 22 Apr 1944 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ ^,2097 Cause of Death:
Events
• Arrival: On board the SS NOVA SCOTIA, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States of America. Travelling to visit with son Fred; still shows his occupation as farmer.
• Alt. Birth: 27 Oct 1864, Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Ordinary Seaman on the MARY, 1881, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Immigration: From 1900 Census, 1890, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States of America.
• Census: US Federal Census; 300 Western Ave., 1900, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States of America.
• Occupation: From Census, Inspector, Electrical, 1900, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States of America.
• Arrival: From Newfoundland, Mar 1903, Vanceboro, Washington, Maine, United States of America. Occupation listed as farmer but shows he is returning to his permanent residence in the US and that brother John will be staying with him there. They are both shown as married.
• Arrival: On NEWFOUNDLAND, from St. John's, he listed as farmer, home Manuels, 9 Aug 1928, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States of America.
• Alt. Death: 4 Apr 1944, Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Death: 23 Apr 1944, Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Jabez Butler ¹⁶⁰ ^,1014 Mother: Emma Winsor ²⁸² ^,283

Spouses and Children

1. *Julia Phoebe Moyes Marriage: 23 Jun 1887 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Rev. William Fenwick, 23 Jun 1887, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes

Methodist Parish of Fox Trap, Harbour Main
Children: 1. Harold Gear Butler 2. Ralph Adams Butler 3. Walter Windsor Butler 4. Fred Moyes Butler 5. Emma Florence Butler 6. Victoria Jennings Butler 7. Jabez Henry Butler 8. Cyril Heyfield Butler

Notes
General:

Will of Jabez Butler from Newfoundland will books volume 12 pages 530 to 532 probate year 1924

In re JABEZ BUTLER DECEASED.

This is the last Will and Testament of me Jabez Butler of Chamberlains, Conception Bay, in the Island of Newfoundland, Farmer. FIRST. I hereby revoke all former Wills and testamentary dispositions by me at any time heretofore made. SECOND. I give and bequeath to my sons John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate at Chamberlains aforesaid and bounded as follows, On the South by Fowler's road, On the West by land belonging to one Slade, On the North by land formerly belonging to Mrs Sarah Ann Butler, and on the East by land belonging to Joseph Fowler, to hold the same unto my said sons John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler absolutely in equal shares as tenants in common.

THIRD I give devise and bequeath to my said son Jabez H. Butler all that piece or parcel of land situate at Chamberlains aforesaid belonging to the estate of my late wife Emma Butler purchased from Mrs. Sarah Ann Butler together with the dwelling house barns and all other erections thereon, to hold the same unto my said son absolutely.

FOURTH I give devise and bequeath unto my said son Jabez H. Butler ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate at Chamberlains aforesaid belonging to the estate of my late son Jacob Winsor Butler, to hold the same unto my said son Jabez H. Butler absolutely.

FIFTH I give and bequeath to my said son Jabez H. Butler ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate at Chamberlains aforesaid purchased from McDougalls Estate and bounded as follows, on the South by the Main Road leading from St. John's to Harbor Main, on the West by Chamberlains Road, on the North by land belonging to Abraham Dawe, Thomas Dowden, George Chaytor and Allan Chaytor, and on the East by Chaytors Road to hold the same unto my said son Jabez H. Butler absolutely.

SIXTH. I give and bequeath to my said son John J. Butler the sum of Two thousand five hundred dollars. (I make this bequest for the purpose of putting my said son John J. Butler as far as may be in the distribution of my estate on an equality with my said son Jabez H. Butler to whom I have left more land than I have to my said son John J. Butler).

SEVENTH. I give and bequeath to my grand daughter Jessie Maud Butler one feather bed and bedstead.

EIGHTH. I give and bequeath to my grandson James Winsor Butler my gold watch.

NINTH. I give and bequeath to my grandson Harold G. Butler my silver watch.

TENTH. I give and bequeath unto all my grandchildren living at the time of my death (except the said Jessie Maud Butler to whom I have already given Four huhdred dollars) the sum of Four hundred dollars each.

ELEVENTH . I give and bequeath to my niece Emma Isabel Thomas the sum of Two hundred dollars.

TWELFTH . I direct that all my debts funeral and testamentary expenses be paid out of the residue of my estate.

THIRTEENTH. Subject to the next preceding paragraph of this my will I give devise and bequeath all the residue of my property to my said two sons John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler absolutely share and share alike.

FOURTEENTH. I appoint my said sons John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler to be Executors of this my will.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I the said Jabez Butler have to this my will set my hand this fourteenth day of July Anno Domini One thousand nine hundred and thirteen. JABEZ BUTLER.

Signed by the above named Jabez Butler as his last will in the presence of us, both present at the same time, who at his request, in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. Cecil B. Clift. Jessie E. White.

This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me Jabez Butler of Topsail, Farmer, dated the 14th day of July Anno Domini, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

I will and direct that the tenth and eleventh paragraphs of my said will be entirely stricken out and cancelled.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I the said Jabez Butler have hereunto set my hand to this Codicil of my Will at St. John's aforesaid this fourteenth day of October, Anno Domini, One thousand nine hundred and nineteen. JABEZ BUTLER. Signed by the above named Jabez Butler as a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. Jas. P. Blackwood. J.E. White.

CORRECT. William F. Lloyd Registrar of the Newfoundland Supreme Court.

(Listed in the margin next to this will the following) Fiat Feby 20/24 Kent J. Probate granted to John J. Butler and Jabez H. Butler Feby 21/24 Estate Sworn at $11,394.06

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I am looking at information on the Ancestry family tree of Linda Parker Woodward and from this it is not entirely clear how long this family resided in the US. They evidently moved there in 1890-91 and were there in 1900 at the time of the census, but in 1928 they went to Boston on a visit evidently stating that their permanent address was in Manuels. So it appears they returned to Newfoundland sometime between 1900 and 1928.

Jabez Henry Butler

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 22 Jan 1883 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷⁰ Christening: 29 Jan 1883 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷⁰ Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Will: 1 Aug 1906, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Heir)

Parents

Father: John Jabez Butler ⁶ ^,70 Mother: Elizabeth Sarah Winsor ⁶ ^,282 ^,283

Spouses and Children

1. *Jessie Maud Butler ¹⁷³⁶ Marriage: 30 Jan 1907 ¹⁷³⁶ Children: 1. Living

Notes
General:

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I'm not really clear as to whether they both had the same surname before they were married.

Annotation on birth/baptismal record on NGB:

Md Jan 14 1869 Port de Grave METH. NOTE Topsail METH records have this son as b 22 May 1883, bap 29 May 1883. Jabez Henry Butler died 12 June 1966 Winnipeg MB. He md Jan 30 1905 Topsail METH to Jessie Maud BUTLER (dau of Jabez BUTLER & Emma WINSOR). All information from Randy Whitten.

There are a huge number of discrepancies in these facts due in no small measurre to people marrying within their own family and using the same Christian and Surnames repeatedly.

Jacob Winsor Butler

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Aug 1860 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Christening: 12 Sep 1860 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Death: 7 Jun 1891 - Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 30) ¹⁷³⁶ Burial: After 7 Jun 1891 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Ship's mate on the MARY, 1881, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Jabez Butler ¹⁶⁰ ^,1014 Mother: Emma Winsor ²⁸² ^,283

Notes
General:

280109: Wanda Garrett's family tree provides this information: "Jacob BUTLER was born in Aug 1860. He was christened on 12 Sep 1860 in Port de Grave. He died on 7 Jun 1891 in Chamberlains. He was buried in Topsail, United Church Cemetery."

James Butler

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: Bef 18 Jan 2009 ²⁷⁰⁰ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: James Winsor Butler ¹⁷³⁶ Mother: Flora Mary Jewer ²⁶⁹⁰

James Winsor Butler

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 24 Aug 1887 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁶⁸⁹ Christening: 13 Sep 1887 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁶⁸⁹ Death: 10 May 1969 - Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 81) ¹⁷³⁶ ^,2707 Burial: After 10 May 1969 - Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁷⁰⁷ Cause of Death:
Events
• Minister/Priest: Rev. M. Fenwich, Methodist Church, 13 Sep 1887, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Birth: 24 Sep 1887, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: John Jennings Butler Mother: Phoebe Miller

Spouses and Children

1. *Flora Mary Jewer ²⁶⁹⁰ Marriage: 9 Sep 1911 ¹⁷³⁶ Children: 1. James Butler 2. John J. Butler 3. Living 4. Living 5. Living 6. Living 7. Daisy Butler 8. Joan Butler

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Living Mother: Annie Irene Higgins ²⁷⁰³

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Living

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