When Thomas Butcher was born on 20 November 1842, in Northill, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Henry Butcher, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Cooper, was 26. He married Mary Wheatley on 9 June 1862. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 5 January 1892, at the age of 49.
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English: occupational name for a butcher or slaughterer, from Middle English, Anglo-Norman French bocher, bouch(i)er, bowcher (Old French bochier, bouchier, a derivative of bouc ‘ram’).
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