Butler - Hennessy
My Great Grandmother, Emily Maud Mary Butler, was born at Geroge Street Newtown, Sydney, to parents William Butler and Margaret Hennessy on the 3rd March 1885. Her parents were William Butler and Margaret Hennessey; at the time of Emily’s birth William was 22 and Margaret 26.
William Butler was born 1862 at Windsor, NSW, Margaret was born 1858 at Kurrajong (near Windsor). The couple married at Petersham, Sydney, on the 24th February 1883.
I cannot write much about my Butler ancestors at the moment as Mum says her grandfather’s family were all quite old when she was a little girl. She has told me that they did live around Rookwood in Sydney and William’s brother Thomas was a gravedigger at the cemetery there.
William Butler, at the time of his marriage was working as a brickmaker and later served in the Bushmens Contingent with the newly formed Australian Regiment in the Boer War in South Africa in 1899-1901. He had a whistle that the infantrymen used and that is now in the possession of my cousin. William Butler’s army uniform and medals from his Boer War service were eventually donated by his family to the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra. He worked in his later years at a tannery in Chatswood.
The historic town of Windsor, NSW Australia.
The NSW Bushmens Contingent: served in the Transvaal Boer War.
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