When Thomas James Butler was born on 8 March 1862, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Johnson Tenbroeck Butler, was 31 and his mother, Amanda Caroline Clement, was 27. He married Effie Maud James on 22 September 1898, in Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Lincoln, Ontario, Canada in 1911.
English: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula ‘bottle’). In the large households of royalty and the most powerful nobility, the title came to denote an officer of high rank and responsibility, only nominally concerned with the supply of wine, if at all. As well as being widespread in England, this is also the surname of an important Irish family, descended from Theobald FitzWalter, who was appointed Chief Butler of Ireland by King Henry II in 1177. It is Gaelicized as de Buitléir.
English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name from Middle English boteler ‘maker of bottles (usually of leather)’, a derivative of Middle English botel, Old French bo(u)teille ‘bottle’ and synonymous with Botelmaker.
Americanized form of French Bouthillier (see Bouteiller ).
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