Histories

88 John Butler b. c. 1655 Barton, Glos, England Who were John's
parents? John m. Elizabeth Worley 13 Jan 1674 at St Mary Redcliff Bristol.
They are believed to have had a son John (b. c. 1670 bpt St Mary Redliff 5 Oct 1674) who m. Bersheba Noble and moved to Pennsylvania USA between 1704 and 1711, having Noble Butler (b.1704 Chester Co. PA), John, Bersheba, and Mary (all living in 1717). The family had a Quaker background. Further info sought. Phillimore's does not list a parish called Barton in the county of Glos. Could it have been Barton upon Humber? It seems probable that there is some sort of connection to the Richard Butler of Q7 in the Happy Families serial, who joined the Quakers on 16 March 1710. AND As a result of this entry, contact has been made with another branch of this family, currently resident in Florida, descended from the above Noble Butler, via Noble II, Noble III, Russell R., Levi, Henry, and Harold Butler of Coosa, Ala. USA AND yet another descendant has made contact (d/o Daisy, d/o Marian Alfred, s/o Zephania, s/o Bail (Beale) 1814, s/o Enos (1770), s/o Noble, s/o Noble, s/o
John) recommending a book "Noble Butler of Bristol, England, Philadelphia and Chester Co. Pennsylvania" published in 1982 West Chester PA by Butler Family Association, and available on microfiche in the Salt Lake Utah Archives under US/CAN Book#IS:929.273 b977 Microfiche No.IS:6110802.
115 Margaret Butler (1568-1652) Married Lawrence Washington
(1568-1616). A descendant wants to know more about Margaret.
Dear John,

In DS888 reference is made to Barton, Glos. Surely, given the connection with Bristol, this must be the St. James Barton district which is in the area of the Broadmead shopping centre (St. James Barton church was demolished in the 1960s to enable a roundabout to be created).

The attached Certificate shows that the birth of Florence Gale was registered in the sub-district of St Phillip & Jacob, Barton Regis.
Florence was my grandmother and her grandmother was Mary Butler from Horton, Gloucestershire where her ancestors have been traced back for several generations.

We also know that after the dissolution of the monasteries several manors in Gloucestershire that had belonged to Pershore Abbey were granted to John Boteler and that subsequently Hawkesbury manor was sold in 1609/10 by Nicholas Boteler of Badminton, his wife Margaret and son John.
Coincidentally Encyclopaedia Britannica says that Nicholas Boteler sold the manor of Badminton, Glos., at the same time, to the Somerset family, who became the Dukes of Beaufort, and who were later connected by marriage to the Ormonde line.

Who was this Nicholas and who were his ancestors? There was a Nicholas Boteler of Watton Woodhall living at this time, who was descended from the Oversley/Wem line, could they be the same person?

In 1614, a Nicholas Boteler with a wife Margaret was party to a deed in Wiltshire and the trail goes cold. Is there any evidence that the Butlers of Horton, a short distance from Badminton and Hawkesbury, are descended from the same line? The family certainly believed so as I have a cousin with Ormond as a given name.