Clara Butt
31 October 1909–March 2003 (Age 93)
Crediton, Devon, England, United Kingdom
The Life of Clara
When Clara Butt was born on 31 October 1909, in Crediton, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Butt, was 51 and her mother, Eliza Berry, was 35. She died in March 2003, in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 93.
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Family Time Line
Richard Butt
1858–
Eliza Berry
1874–
Stanley Butt
1895–
Beatrice Maud Butt
1897–
Frank Butt
1903–
Brenda Butt
1908–1961
Clara Butt
1909–2003
Parents and Siblings
Richard Butt
1858–Male
Eliza Berry
1874–Female
siblings
(5)
Stanley Butt
1895–Male
Beatrice Maud Butt
1897–Female
Frank Butt
1903–Male
Brenda Butt
1908–1961Female
1909–2003Female
World Events (3)
1914
Age 5
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
1914 · Britain Enters the Great War
Age 5
After Germany declared war Russia, Britain entered The Great War and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. The war ended on November 11, 1918, as Germany signed an armistice that brought fighting to a halt.
1918
Age 9
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
Name Meaning
1 English: topographic name for someone who lived near a place used for archery practice, from Middle English butte ‘mark for archery’, ‘target’, ‘goal’. In the Middle Ages archery practice was a feudal obligation, and every settlement had its practice area.2 English: topographic name from Middle English butte ‘strip of land abutting on a boundary’, ‘short strip or ridge at right angles to other strips in a common field’.3 English: from Middle English butte, bott ‘butt’, ‘cask’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a cooper or as a nickname possibly for a heavy drinker or for a large, fat man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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