Elizabeth Mary Butler

name:Elizabeth /Butter/ gender:Female birth:1816 Middlesex, Surrey, United Kingdom death:21 June 1858 Marylebone, London, England

Hi,

Bartholomew married Elizabeth Butler on 29 Jun 1851 in Trinity Church, Stepney, Middlesex.

If you do a search on Ancestry, you will find that record. It's on page 79 of the "London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921"

It states Elizabeth's parents are Charles John Butler and Mary Ann Butler. (not Joseph Butter and Susannah Smith) The signatures for Elizabeth and her parents are clearly spelt as 'Butler' not 'Butter'. The person who wrote this record crossed the 'tl' in the information area, which makes the name look like "Butter", so whoever transcribed this record didn't use their brains, or didn't look at the signatures.

It also states that Elizabeth is 'full age', which means she is 21 or older in 1851.

A search in FamilySearch will locate two records for a Charles and Mary Butler, with a daughter Elizabeth, near London. (There are others, but a lot further away) In one she is 35, so she'd be 16 on her marriage. That's not her, as she must be 21 or older. The other record shows she was born in 1825, (not 1815/1816) in Milton, Kent, which is about 20 miles east of Stepney.

Isabella is born in 11 March 1852, nine months later. (Guess they had a good night for their marriage!!)

An 1861 census shows Bartholomew Charlton Crawford living in Walker, Northumberland, and he's a widower.

Besides Isabella, he has two more children - William Ash (1857), and Charles James (1858), born in the West Indies. Elizabeth had to have gone there as well.

An 1871 census shows both of these boys were born in Guiana, South America. Guiana (now Guyana) is actually regarded as part of the West Indies, due to it's British history, and is the only English speaking country in South America. (They drive on the left, too, like us Aussies)

That census also shows he is an "Inspector of Steam machinery", so he was probably in Guiana on business, and took his wife with him. Elizabeth died sometime between 1858 (Charles' birth) and the 1861 census, either in Guiana, or back in England. There's no real record of where she died.

Bartholomew's mother was Isabel Redhead, baptised 06 Sep 1789 in St Mary, Stamfordham, Northumberland. Her parents were Bartholomew Redhead (a shoemaker, baptised 23 Aug 1747 in Bywell, Northumberland) & Margaret Charlton (baptised 21 Dec 1753 in Ovingham, Northumberland).

And now you know why William Crawford named his son Bartholomew Charlton Crawford - from the parents of his wife (her father's christian name plus her mother's maiden name), and why Isabel's name is Redhead, not Reedit.

cheers - Graham Crawford