Elizabeth Archer

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Archer was born on 17 October 1807, in London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Argent Goulding Archer, was 34 and her mother, Ann Elizabeth Ockford, was 27. She married John Butler Jr on 7 December 1837, in Redbourn, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1853 and lived in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 27 November 1888, in Lake Shore, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Payson City Cemetery, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Butler Jr
1812–1892
Elizabeth Archer
1807–1888
Marriage: 7 December 1837
Argent Butler
1839–1900
John Ockford Butler
1840–1923
Sarah Elizabeth Butler
1842–1920
Henry Butler
1844–1916
David Butler
1846–1930
Annie Harriet Butler
1848–1936
Esther Butler
1850–1852

Sources (36)

  • Eliza Butler, "United States, Census, 1860"
  • England, Birth record of Elizabeth Archer
  • 1837 John Butler and Elizabeth Archer, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

English and French: from Middle English archere, Anglo-Norman French archer, Old French archier ‘bowman’, hence an occupational name for an archer. This Norman French word partially replaced the native English word bowman in the 14th century. In North America, this surname may have absorbed some cases of European cognates such as French Archier. Compare Larcher .

German: from an agent derivative of Old High German archa ‘mill-race’ (from Latin arca ‘chest, box’). This surname is rare in Germany.

Germanized form of Slovenian Arhar: German-influenced patronymic from the personal name Arh (see Arch 3), an old vernacular equivalent of Henry . Alternatively, perhaps a topographic name derived from Old High German archa ‘mill-race’ (see 2 above), hence a cognate of Slovenian Rakar (see Raker 4).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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History of John David and Elizabeth Archer Butler by Wanda Sadler Dahl

JOHN DAVID and ELIZABETH ARCHER BUTLER B. 5 September 1812 B. 17 October 1807 Md. 7 December 1837 D. 15 February 1892 D. 27 November 1888 …

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