When Mary Wheatley was born on 24 November 1844, in Upper Caldecote, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Wheatley, was 21 and her mother, Martha Fisher, was 20. She married Thomas Butcher on 9 June 1862. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Northill, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 60 years. She died on 19 February 1922, at the age of 77.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Wheatley, for example in Essex, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Yorkshire, or from Whatley in Somerset and Whateley in Warwickshire, all name of which are named with Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’. Compare Whatley .
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