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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: norvals on Friday 12 February 16 11:16 GMT (UK)
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On 4 June 1839, Mary Hope Johnstone Colvin (of Johnstone, Dumfriesshire) married Alexander Warren Buttery (of the Monkland Iron and Steel Company). Can anyone tell me anything about their descendants?
Norval Smith
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Hi, Norval
check out this link http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl, The 1851 census Alexander Warren Buttery age 1 Hellen 10 Isabella 5, Gartness Cottage Airdrie, the home of William Marshall ?
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I noticed the one-year old namesake, and I presume, son. I also discovered that Iron Master Buttery was staying in a hotel in Edinburgh at the time of the census at the same time as his brother-in-law, Iron Broker William Colvin (later of Craigielands), and as a banker, a broker, a solicitor and two American speculators. Doing deals, I guess.
Thanks.
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And meanwhile Mrs Buttery, née Colvin is keeping the home fires burning, with the help of some servants at home at Cardarroch.
Norval
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His wife Mary was at the family home Cardarroch, Chapelhall, parish of Bothwell in 1851 with a companion, a nephew Alexander B Marshall age 15 and a load of servants.
Alexander died on 20th March 1877 in Bridge of Allan usual address Cardarroch, Monkland. He was living at Cardarroch in 1871 with a couple of female servants and a visitor Henry Fisher age 19 from England ( transcribed as Alex A Busley on Ancestry!!)
Mary died in 1892 in a mental hospital in Edinburgh. She had been there since at least 1881.
Isobel
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Thanks a million for this information. Do you happen to know anything about their children? I am assuming that Alexander, Helen and Isabella were their children.
Norval.
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By the 1861 census these three children are shown with the surname Marshall and are living with James Marshall as his children. I'm not sure that Alexander and Mary had any children. The executor of Alexander's will was a John Buttery described as the sole surviving executor previously of Glasgow but living in London. Further research suggests this was John Buttery born in Monkland in 1832. He was an East India Merchant and was living in Belsize Ave, London in 1891 and 1901 but was in Cornhill, Monkland in 1881. He was married to Jane Kay and had at least one son, Alexander Kay Buttery.
Isobel
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Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936 - Alexander Warren Buttery - Cardonoch House,Parish of Bothwell died 19 March 1877 Bridge, Allan - testate granted at Glasgow to William Colvin, Merchant of Glasgow, John Buttery Merchant of London, and Campbell Gillan Merchant, sometime in Glasgow now abroad , Executors nominated in will or deed dated 23 August 1866 and recorded in Court books of Commissariot of Lanark (original confirmation 10 October 1877)- granted 24 December 1880
Sandra
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I think there is some problem with the way the 1851 census which shows Alexander Warren Buttery and siblings with the Marshalls has been transcribed. Familysearch shows the births of these children as Marshall (parents William and Mary) with Buttery as a middle name. I don't believe that Alexander Buttery and Mary Colvin had any children.
Isobel
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Thanks everybody, for all the information.
On Family Search I see that Alexander Warren BATTERY Marshall was born on 12 Jul 1849 and baptized at Shotts on 29th Jul 1849. Maybe the census-taker thought it was a surname. This suggests that Isobel is right. The children arrive at suspiciously even intervals every 2 years otherwise.
Alexander Buttery's vistor from England in 1871, the 19-year old Henry Fisher, has now made sense. I learnt a few minutes ago that Elizabeth Goldie Colvin, Mary's sister had been married, according to a 2003 request for information from a Ron FISHER in Australia, the Rev. James McNaught Fisher (son of a Dumfriesshire couple John Fisher, farmer in Rosebank and Loaningside and Janet McNaught).
Norval Smith
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Hi Norvals,
I have come across the Hall-Buttery firm before, and their engineering company. The third child of Rev Robert Colvin and Marion Laidlaw of Johnston parish, Dumfries-shire, she was born in 1818. her full name was Mary Hope Johnston Colvin, and in June 1839, she wed Alexander V Buttery, later of Monkland Iron and Steel Works.
I'm interested in tracing the life of the Rev Colvin's 6th child, Jessie Hunter Colvin, who was born in 1826. She died in 1890 in Stirling, which is the town I'm interested in. Mary HJ Colvin and Alexander Buttery had no children. She died at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Morningside and an inventory was made. She died on 21 Dec 1892, outlliving her sister Jessie, who died in 1890. Alexander left considerable legacies to his siblings, including the wife of the minister of Inchinnan.
Mary HJ Colvin or Buttery died in Morningside Lunatic Asylum, and her inventory says she held a bond secured over property in Govan. She had a curator from 1892, suggesting that she was not capable of running her own affairs, although no reason was given. Considering that she was born in 1818, she was now about 74, so was possibly suffering from dementia or another age related disease. Another outdated title for the institution in her inventory is Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the Insane. She was apparently admitted in September 1892. It is signed by William Colvin, stockbroker, who was her great nephew, not her brother of Craigielands (he was already dead).
I'm in search of a photo or other image of Jessie, but the Buttery family are even more intersting, although they're not the subject of my reasearch.
Does anyone have a picture of Jessie or any other of the Covlins?
Thanks