Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Jessie Maud Butler

      Sex: F

Individual Information

     Birth Date: 12 Mar 1886 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶
    Christening: 
          Death: 3 Nov 1974 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ( at age 88) ¹⁷³⁶
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents

         Father: John Jennings Butler
         Mother: Phoebe Miller

Spouses and Children

1. *Jabez Henry Butler ¹⁷³⁶^,2555 
       Marriage: 30 Jan 1907 ¹⁷³⁶
       Children:
                1. Living

Notes

General:

241013:

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

Joan Butler

      Sex: F

Individual Information

     Birth Date: Cir 1920 ²⁷⁰⁰
    Christening: 
          Death: 18 Jan 2009 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 89) ²⁷⁰⁰
         Burial: 22 Jan 2009 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁷⁰⁰
 Cause of Death:

Parents

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

Spouses and Children

1. *Oscar G. Hierlihy ²⁷⁰⁰ 
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Living
                2. Living
                3. Living
                4. Living

Notes

General:

280114 From Barretts Funeral Home website:
In Memory of
Joan
Hierlihy
Obituary for Joan Hierlihy
Hierlihy, Joan- Passed peacefully away at the Hoyles Escasoni Complex, on January 18th, 2009, Joan Hierlihy, Age 89 years. Predeceased by her husband Oscar G. Hierlihy, her brothers: James Butler, John J. Butler and Bertram Butler; her sister Daisy (Tot) Hopkins. Leaving to mourn her daughters: Marilyn (Joseph White), Jo-Anne (Brian Cosier); her sons: Jim Hierlihy (Barbara Newell), John Hierlihy; sisters: Vicki Cheeseman, Margarite Drover and Flora Lougheed; brother Fred Butler; grandchildren Barbara(Gerard Hynes), Dianne (Claude Randell), Jackie (Jesse O'Donaghey), Stephen Griffiths (Corrina Ingram), Karl Griffiths (Tina Parker), Heather and Gillian Cosier, Adrienne (Walter Tilley), Paul Hierlihy (Kelli Lush); as well as a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Resting at Barrett's Funeral Home, 73 Commonwealth Ave.,Mount Pearl, on Tuesday from 7-9p.m. , on Wednesday from 2-4p.m. and 7-9p.m., and Thursday from 10a.m. - 12noon. Funeral service 2:00 P.M. on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009, from Topsail United Church. Interment to follow at Topsail United Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy flowers are being gratefully accepted or donations in her memory may be made to the Spina Bifida Association. The family express their sincere gratitude to the Staff of Hoyles-West 2 for their wonderful care and attention given to Joan during her time residing there. Please visit www.barretts.ca to sign the memorial guest book.

290114 from Bob Hopkins:

In records given to me by my mother's sister, Joan Butler Hierlihy, there was an account of The Loss of the Mary, a schooner that was lost on the Grand Banks in about 1880. It was written by my Great Uncle, Jabez Butler to his Uncle James Winsor describing how they came to lose the vessel and describes their rescue by an ocean liner out of New York who took them to Liverpool England.

A curious thing about this letter to Captain Winsor are the names mentioned in the write up. The Butlers and the Winsors have for generations named their children after specific individuals. My maternal grandfather, for example, was James Winsor Butler, after James Winsor his uncle. My uncle Fred, Alfred Jewer Butler is named after his grandfather Alfred Jewer. Similarly, Thomas Avery Winsor, a prosperous merchant in Exploits, is named after his uncle Thomas Avery a business man who operated out of St. John's and Portsmouth England in the eighteen hundreds.

John Butler

      Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 24 Jul 1806 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰¹⁴ Christening: Death: 8 Oct 1883 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 77) ¹⁰¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Events

• Occupation: Fisherman, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

         Father: John Butler ¹⁰¹⁴
         Mother: Dinah Lamb ¹⁰¹⁴

Spouses and Children

1. *Susannah Dawe ¹⁰¹⁴^,1736 
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Jabez Butler
                2. Esau Butler
                3. John Jabez Butler
                4. Mary Rebecca Butler

Notes

General:

020213:

There are many more children in this family according to Colleen Leduc Ancestry family tree but they are not relevant to my research so I have not added them.

John Butler

      Sex: M

Individual Information

     Birth Date: 1767 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰¹⁴
    Christening: 
          Death: 19 Dec 1852 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 85) ¹⁰¹⁴
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *Dinah Lamb ¹⁰¹⁴ 
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. John Butler

Notes

General:

020213:

There are many more children in this family according to Colleen Leduc Ancestry family tree but they are not relevant to my research so I have not added them.

John J. 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

John Jabez Butler

      Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 22 Mar 1845 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰¹⁴ Christening: Death: 19 Aug 1920 - Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 75) ¹⁰¹⁴ Burial: After 19 Aug 1920 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁰¹⁴ Cause of Death:

Events

• Alt. Birth: 1846, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Property: Sold the rights to their land on Bell Island for mining, 1894, Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
110522:

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.

• Occupation: Farmer, 1899, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Residence: at time of marriage a widower, 10 Feb 1899, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Will: 1 Aug 1906, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. John Butler

Will of John Butler from Newfoundland will books volume 14 page 172 probate year 1928

In re
JOHN BUTLER. DECEASED.

This is the last Will and Testament of me John Butler of Topsail in the District of Harbor Main Farmer hereby revoking all former wills and Testaments by me at any time made.
First. I give and bequeath to my wife Elizabeth, my daughter Annie, and my son Jabez Henry, the sum of One thousand dollars each.
Second. I give and bequeath all my land and houses situate at Topsail aforesaid and all my household furniture horses cows sheep and other livestock, carriages cars Sleighs and farming utensils and machinery and all other goods and chattles contained in and upon the said premises at the time of my death unto my said son, Jabez Henry, subject to the right of my said wife during her natural life or until she remarries to reside with my said son in the dwelling house at present in my occupancy and to her support and maintenance (excepting wearing apparel) whilst she resides with my said son as aforesaid.
Third. After payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses I will and direct that all the rest residue and remainder of the property of which I shall die possessed be divided in equal proportions between my seven children, Mary, Emma, Edith, John K, Maud, Annie and Jabez Henry.
Fourth. I appoint my said son Jabez Henry Executor hereto.
Dated at Topsail aforesaid this First day of August A.D. 1906.
JOHN BUTLER.
Signed published and declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in our presence who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other subscribe our names as witnesses hereto.
Chas H Hutchings
Wm White.

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

(Listed in the margin next to this will the following)
Fiat Jany
6th. 1928
Kent J.
Probate granted
to Jabez Henry
Butler.
Jany 6/28.
Estate sworn
at $250.00.

• Probate: Fiat granted to son Jabez Henry Butler, 6 Jan 1928, St. John's, Newfoundland.

Parents

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

Spouses and Children

1. *Margaret Macdonald ⁷⁰ ^,1014 Marriage: 4 Jan 1869 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷⁰ ^,1014

Marriage Events

• Witnesses: Jabez and Thomas Butler, 4 Jan 1869, Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Children: 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living 4. Living 5. Living 2. Elizabeth Sarah Winsor ⁶ ^,282 ^,283 Marriage: 11 Jan 1899 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹²¹⁸

Marriage Events

• Minister/Priest: Henry Dunfield, 10 Feb 1899, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Witnesses: Jacob Winsor and Annie W. Butler, 10 Feb 1899, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes

Marriage record viewed 160703 indicates he was a widower and she was a spinster.

Children: 1. Living 2. Jabez Henry Butler

Notes

General:

020231 I am not following the family of John Butler by his first wife as it is not connected to my line of research but the details are available on the Ancestry family tree of Colleen Leduc.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
110522:

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.

John James Butler

      Sex: M

Individual Information

     Birth Date: 6 Jul 1890 ¹⁴
    Christening: 
          Death: Cir 1973 - New Zealand ( about age 83) ¹⁴
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *Catherine Finlay ¹⁴ 
       Marriage: Cir 1916 - New Zealand
Marriage Notes 



Registered 1916/2964.

John Jennings Butler

      Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 27 Jul 1862 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Christening: Aug 1862 - Port De Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Death: 18 Jan 1943 - Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 80) ¹⁷³⁶ Burial: After 18 Jan 1943 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Cause of Death:

Events

• Occupation: Able Seaman on the MARY, 1881, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• 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.

Parents

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

Spouses and Children

1. *Phoebe Miller
       Marriage: 11 Jul 1883 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶
       Children:
                1. Julia Lily Butler
                2. Jessie Maud Butler
                3. James Winsor Butler
                4. Major Bertram Butler DSO, MC & Bar, M.I.D.
                5. Mary Emma Butler
                6. John Miller Butler
                7. Violet Butler
                8. Alexander Jennings Butler
                9. Harry Roberts Butler

Living

      Sex: M

Parents

         Father: John Jabez Butler ⁶^,70
         Mother: Margaret Macdonald ⁷⁰^,1014

John Miller Butler

      Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: 8 May 1894 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁷³⁶ Christening: 17 Jun 1894 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁶⁸⁹ Death: 16 Oct 1951 - ( at age 57) ¹⁷³⁶ Burial: Cause of Death:

Events

• Minister/Priest: Rev. J. Reay, Methodist Church, 17 Jun 1894, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

         Father: John Jennings Butler
         Mother: Phoebe Miller

Spouses and Children

1. Living

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