Edward's TreeTimeline Context
1837 Queen Victoria; 1901 King Edward VII; 1910 King George V
1850 Taiping Rebellion; 1853-1856 Crimean War; 1899-1902 Boer War
Family Sheet Links & Information
| Name | Birth | Birthplace | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 | 1911 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Butler | 1839 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook Ag.Lab. |
Cranbrook [a] Ag.Lab. |
Cranbrook Ag.Lab. |
Cranbrook Ag.Lab. |
Cranbrook Engine driver on farm |
Cranbrook [c] Nursery Labourer |
| Sarah Butler (Edwards) | 1841 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook [a] | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | |
| Sarah Charlotte Butler | 1862 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook [a] | Cranbrook | Cranbrook Servent |
Cranbrook Poultry woman |
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| Edward William Butler | 1864 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook [a] | Cranbrook | Cranbrook (1) Ag.Lab |
Cranbrook Engine Driver |
Cranbrook General labourer |
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| Ruth Butler | 1867 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook [a] | Cranbrook General Servent |
Cranbrook | |||||
| Edith Butler | 1869 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook [a] | Cranbrook | ||||||
| Kate Butler | 1871 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook [a] | Cranbrook | ||||||
| Mercy Saunders Honess (Butler) | 1873 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook Wife of Edward Honess |
Cranbrook [b] Wife of Ernest Saunders |
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| Grace Butler | 1875 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | |||||||
| Mary Butler | 1877 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | ||||||
| Rose Hannah Mercer (Butler) | 1880 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | Cranbrook | |||||
| Clara Butler (Bishop) | 1865 | Cranbrook | Cranbrook [c] |
Address Key
| [a] | Sissinghurst Castle Cottage, Cranbrook |
| [b] | Willesly Pound, Cranbrook |
| [c] | 3 Camden Terrace, Cranbrook |
| (1) | Edward Honess, Board, Single, 21, Gardner, Cranbrook |
Certificates
Mercy Butler (age 23, spinster, Tolhurst, Frittenden, father: Edward Butler, Gen.Lab.) married Edward Honess (age 26,The Hill, Cranbrook, Gardener Domestic,
father: John Honess, Builders Lab), on 20th July 1896 at Providence Chapel, Frittenden (Calvanist Strict Baptist). Minister: Thomas Butler (Mercy’s Uncle).
Wit: Henry Honess, Rose Hannah Butler. } cert.
Census Returns
1911 Mercy Saunders (Butler, Honess)
Photographs
Rose Hannah Mercer (Butler) & Family
Notes
Edward Butler married Sarah Edwards : jun 1860, cranbrook, 2a, 731 } FreeBMD
Sarah Butler died June 1901, Cranbrook, 2a, 469, age 60 } FreeBMD
Edward Butler married Clara Bishop, Dec 1904, Cranbrook, 2a, 1781 } FreeBMD
Rose Hannah Butler married Matthew Mercer .} Martin Hayward.
Rose Hannah Butler married Matthew Mercer, Dec 1902, Tenterden, 2a, 1797 ] FreeBMD
Mathew Mercer (Baptist Minister) died 1950.
Notes from “The Little Chapel, The History of St David’s Bridge Baptist Chapel Cranbrook” by A.F. Baldwin.
Edward Butler was baptised in 1878, and made a Deacon on 13th April 1879 and served in that capacity for 45 years until his death on 25th May 1924.
Rose Hannah Butler married Mathew Mercer, Pastor of the Chapel (1922-1950), on 20th October 1902. They had 3 children: Reuban Edward Mercer,
born 17th September 1903 (later Pastor of Station Road Chapel, Redhill); Caleb Boyd Mercer, born 6th October 1909 (later Deacon of St David’s Bridge Chapel)
& Mercy Sarah Mercer, born 30th August 1912 (member of the church for 52 years). Matthew Mercer also worked at the Union Windmill, Cranbrook. Rose Hannah Mercer (Butler) died in 1943.
Mercy Butler born sept 1872, Cranbrook, 2a, 642 } FreeBMD
Edward Honess died Sept 1901, Maidstone, vol 2a, pg 500, age 32. } FreeBMD
Mercy Honess, Mar 1910, Cranbrook, vol 2a, pg 1410 to Ernest Saunders } FreeBMD
