When William W. Butcher was born in May 1851, in Monroe, Indiana, United States, his father, Elah R. Butcher, was 32 and his mother, Elvira Jane Givens, was 24. He lived in Bearcreek Township, Jay, Indiana, United States in 1860. He died on 20 July 1852, in Monroe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Van Buren Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States.
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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’).
Americanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Bučar (see Bucar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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