FERGUSON, Annie b.1859

FERGUSON

Annie

Date of birth: circa 1859, Ireland
Place of birth: Ireland
Date of death: 4-Nov-1896
Place of death: 32 Bolton Street, Workington, Cumberland, UK
Cause of death: Heart disease

Father last name: FERGUSON

Father first names: Hugh
Father DOB: circa 1830, Ireland
Father died:

Mother last name: 

Mother first names: Ellen
Mother DOB: circa 1826, Ireland
Mother died:

Spouse last name: BUTLER

Spouse first names: Edward
Spouse DOB: circa 1857
Spouse died: 10-Feb-1921, 116 Frizington Road, Frizington, Cumberland, UK

Married date: 24-Mar-1880
Married location: St Bees Roman Catholic Church, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK

Children with above spouse:

1. BUTLER, William John, b. 24-Sep-1880, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
2. BUTLER, Hugh, b. 1882, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
3. BUTLER, Joseph b. 4-Nov-1883, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK 
4. BUTLER, Sarah b. 14-May-1886, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK 
5. BUTLER, Annie b. 12-Feb-1889, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
6. BUTLER, Edward Ferguson, b. 3-Sep-1891, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK

About Annie Ferguson

Annie's marriage certificate records that she was a 21 year old spinster, and that she was the daughter of Hugh Ferguson, deceased, a Sailor.

Annie gave birth to six children that we know of. The first, my grandfather, arrived six months after her marriage. Life would have been hard for them all as Annie died just 16 years later, at the age of 37, from 'Heart Disease (Duration Indefinite), so one assumes that she'd been unwell for a while.

When Annie died, her youngest child, Edward, was just five years old.

Following Annie's death, some of her children went to live with various relatives. Edward would have had to keep working in the mines to feed his family, and in those days, men didn't stay home to look after their children, no matter the circumstances. That was women's work!

BUTLER, Edward b. 1857

BUTLER 

Edward 

Date of birth: circa 1857
Place of birth: Ireland
Date of death: 10-Feb-1921
Place of death: 116 Frizington Road, Frizington, Cumberland, UK

Father last name: BUTLER

Father first names: John
Father DOB:
Father died:

Mother last name: BRENNAN

Mother first names: Catherine
Mother DOB:
Mother died:

Spouse last name: FERGUSON

Spouse first names: Annie
Spouse DOB: circa 1859, Ireland
Spouse died: 4-Nov-1896, 32 Bolton Street, Workington, Cumberland,UK

Married date: 24-Mar-1880
Married location: St Bees Roman Catholic Church, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK

Children with above spouse:

1. BUTLER, William John, b. 24-Sep-1880, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
2. BUTLER, Hugh, b. 1882, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
3. BUTLER, Joseph b. 4-Nov-1883, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK 
4. BUTLER, Sarah b. 14-May-1886, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK 
5. BUTLER, Annie b. 12-Feb-1889, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
6. BUTLER, Edward Ferguson, b. 3-Sep-1891, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK

About Edward Butler

Edward's marriage certificate records that he was an iron miner, and that he was the son of John Butler, deceased, a Grocer's clerk.

In 1896, when his wife, Annie, died, her death certificate recorded Edward as a coal miner.

BUTLER, William John b. 1880

BUTLER 

William John Butler, b. 1880

William John 

Date of birth: 24-Sep-1880
Place of birth: 'Little Scotland', Chapel Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
Date of death: 26-Nov-1936
Place of death: 84 Queen Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
Cause of death: (i) (a) apoplexy (b) arterio sclerosis and (ii) asthma and bronchitis

Father last name: BUTLER

Father first names: Edward
Father DOB: circa 1857
Father died: 10-Feb-1921, at 116 Frizington Road, Frizington, Cumberland, UK

Mother last name: FERGUSON

Mother first names: Annie
Mother DOB: circa 1859
Mother died: 4-Nov-1896, 32 Bolton Street, Workington, Cumberland, UK

Spouse last name: McARDLE

Spouse first names: Rose Ann
Spouse DOB: 26-Mar-1883, Whithorn, Scotland
Spouse died: 6-Sep-1960,Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK

Married date: 28-Nov-1904
Married location: Catholic Church, Whitehaven

Children with above spouse:

1. BUTLER, Jessie Ann, b. 8-Jun-1907, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
2. BUTLER, Sarah, b. 23-Oct-1911, Lowell, Bisbee, Cochise, Arizona, USA
3. BUTLER, Joseph b. 25-May-1913, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK 
4. BUTLER, Hugh b. 17-Aug-1915, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK 
5. BUTLER, Arthur b. 1916, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
6. BUTLER, Edward Ferguson, b. 6-Jul-1919, Whitehaven, Cumberland, UK
7. BUTLER, Hugh McArdle, b. 21-Nov-1921

About William John Butler

William John Butler was my paternal grandfather. He died about 15 years before I was born. I know little of him except what my father, Hugh McArdle Butler, told me, and what I've been able to find in formal records.

The above photo is the only one I've ever seen of him, and I think it was taken in the doorway of 84 Queen Street, Whitehaven, where my father was raised, but I can't be 100% certain. The house was demolished before 1979, so only someone else's corroborating photos will help know with any remote certainty.

William was a coal miner, more specifically a hewer, and also a 'terrier'. The terrier used to plant the charge and then 'run like hell' before it was set off to break up more coal in the mine.

William worked in the Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona for some years between 1907 and 1912, possibly longer. He sailed there with his wife, Rose Ann, and their baby daughter, Jessie Ann. While in Lowell, a part of Bisbee, they had their second daughter, Sarah. Their next child, Joseph, was born after Rose Ann's return to Whitehaven, but I have yet to find details of their passage home.

Dad told me that William used to go by the name of John, not William or Bill, that he was often unemployed, and that he had emphysema. His death at 56 and life as a coal miner, coupled with his death certificate all tie in with this.