Mother Edna Marie and Dad George Jefferson

Early history of ancestors

Contents
Page
Surnames 8

Medieval Europe 9

William the Conqueror 1028 10

Roll of Battle Abbey 10

The Norman Invasion 1066 10

The Baron Wars 1221 16

The Magna Carta 1215 17

The Inquisition 1300 18

Bannockburn 1314 21

The Plague 1348 23

Renaissance 1400-1600 23

Reformation 27

Martin Luther 1517 27

Church of England 1536 27

The Dissolution of Monasteries 1535 29

The Pilgrimage of Grace 1536 31

Rising of the North 1536 36

James VI. of Scotland 1603 39

The Freeman Charters 1603-1625 39

Migration to America 41

Voyage to Freedom 1620 41

Colonial America 43

The Massachusetts Bay Company1628 44

Government of Massachusetts Bay 44

Religion and Massachusetts Bay 44

Declaration of Independence 45

Moving Toward Independence 1776 46

Revolutionary War 1775-1783 49

Minutemen 1645 - 1776 51

Battle of Fort Ticonderoga 1775 53

Church Restoration 55

Restoration Time Line 1805 55

The Kirtland Temple 1833-1836 58

Zion's Camp 1834 63

Kirtland Safety Society Bank 1837 66

Butterfields Mission 1838 69

Stopover for Saints Heading West 1847 70

Settlement and Statehood 72

The Great Depression 80

Thomas Butterfield 85

Benjamin Butterfield Sr. 86

Benjamin Butterfield Jr. 87

Thomas Butterfield 88

Benjamin Butterfield 89

Joseph Butterfield Sr. 93

Joseph Butterfield Jr. 94

Josiah Butterfield 95

Early Settlers of Dunstable 1705 97

Abel Butterfield 98

History of Farmington 1846 98

Zachariah Butterfield 100

Farmington Public Library 1799 100

Thomas Jefferson Butterfield 101

1839 103

Thomas Butterfield 111

George Jefferson Butterfield 113

Final thoughts 119

Famous Butterfield's 120

Veterans 120

Jacob Butterfield - Member of the Mormon Battalion. 122

Other Noteworthy Butterfield Names 122

Butterfield Records 129

Revolutionary War Massachusetts Soldiers And Sailors 129

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 137

Nauvoo Temple Endowment Name Index 1846 138

Butterfield's Living in Dunstable, Massachusetts 1742 138

12th Century Court Records 140

Yorkshire Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379 142

Halifax, Yorkshire, England Parish Records 1543 142

Slavery 1754 143

Important Places and Monuments 144

Butterfield House 144

Early Riverton & the Magnificent Dome Church 1886 145

Bingley Parish Registers 1577-1686 146

Bedern Hall 1300 148

Keighley, West Yorkshire, England 1304 148

Holy Trinity, Rolleston, Nottinghamshire 1502 149

Maps 154

Note: A reprint of "Descendants of Thomas Butterfield Volume

Surnames

[An understanding of surnames (last name) is important when searching ancestors prior to the 1500's. Below, I have included some background on the origins of our family name and a little background on surnames in general.]

Every day the task of the genealogical inquirer becomes more difficult. That which is but faintly remembered by one generation, is totally forgotten by another ; and tradition, which sometimes supplies the place of testimony, is thus entirely lost. Few persons are so insensible to the ties of kindred as not to feel a legitimate curiosity in the history and connections of the individuals of their own family a feeling which remoteness of time cannot impair, and which the proximity of relationship only serves to strengthen. If the greatest nations have been ambitious of deducing their history from the earliest times, surely individuals may be pardoned who seek to trace their origin in the earliest recorded annals of their country. "Without attaching undue value to the advantage of birth, the love of our race is laid so deep in the foundations of human nature that such adventitious circumstances will always influence our social position. It should teach us humility when we reflect how small a space we ourselves may occupy in the eye of posterity, and it may inspire us with the spirit of emulation to maintain the good name which we have inherited from those who have gone before us.

The common spelling of the name in New England is Butterfield, and the same prevails usually throughout the United States: though instances are found of Botefield, of the direct German extraction: and, occasionally, of Boterville, the French form. In England, the Butterfield family date their arrival from Normandy in the twelfth century. Robert de Buteville held two fees in Bedfordshire in 1165 and likewise in Norfold. John de Buteville was possessed of the lord of Cheddington, in Bucks, in 1316. The name Botevyle occurs in the Battle Abbey roll. The estate of Bouteville was near Carentum, in Normandy, a town at the mouth of the river Tante, where are yet to be seen old fortifications, a castle and a curious Norman church (The Norman People). A branch of the family settled at Church, Stretton, Shropshire. The English pronunciation indicates a corruption of the German word Botefeld (Bote, a messenger, and feld, field, or clearing where the trees have been felled). Similar instances occur in Butterley, Buttermere, Butterwick, Butterworth in England, and perhaps Buterville in Ireland: the affix in each case denoting locality-ley meadow, mere pond, wick bay, worth enclosure-where the messenger dwelt. Or, the derivation may be from botfeld, which, among the Anglo-Saxons, was that portion of the manor, the timber of which was reserved for the repairs of the manor house, buildings, etc., and the mending of the fences. Such privileges were styled Haybote (from hait, hedge, or the land enclosed by it, and bote, repair). The official charge with such repairs was styled the Hayward, whence the modern word: as also Heyward and Howard. Our word botcher, for a blundering repairer, is a survival of this same bote in common speech.

[The Butterfield name probably derives from the German Botefeld, the Alglo-Saxon bótefeld, or the field of some old Viking named Bothar. Several sources suggest that the origin of the Butterfield name came from a Viking named "Bothar".

Benjamin Butterfield fled England for America in 1638. But before we can fully appreciate the significance of that story, we first have to understand where the family came from, their experiences beginning in Medieval Europe and the conditions that developed influencing Benjamin Butterfield to leave his home for a wild, unknown wilderness at great risk.]

Thursday, October 22, 2009

This section is about my mother Edna Marie Naylor Butterfield. Mother was a wonderful
mother in many ways. She was a very strong person in being responsible for her children and
making sure that they ate properly, got the sleep they need and would not take any bickering
among her children. I remember her as a strict task master in working in the garden, the home and supporting us in things that would create strong characters, such as paper route, working for
someone else and looked out for us to get a honest pay for work that we did for someone else.
She cared for us and cared that we were treated equal in our association with others and would
talk to us about being honest in our work and dealings with others.
I was 14 years old when mother passed away, hyrum was 13 and Lola was very young.
I remember our family being called to the hospital and dad taking us to be with mom. The ,ie Dr
Daughters had mom sitting up in bed and very coherent and wanting to talk to us indivitually.
As I entered the room she had me sit on the bed and began talking to me. She told me that she
was not going to be with us much longer and that Heavenly Father was calling her home.
She told me that she wanted me to be a good boy and to listen to dad and help all I could in the
family. She said that we all would be missed and yes we to will miss her and we knew that because we did love her very much. She said other things also to me and we hugged and said goodby. She talked to Hyrum and Lola also as as dad took us home we were not home long and dad received a phone call to rush back to the hospital. I knew and saw the fear in my dads face and knew that our mother was not doing very well at all and that this could be her last day.
I was prompted to wonder through the field from our back yard and near the canal way back through the field I knelt in a large irragation ditch and there poured my heart to heavenly father and it became very dark around me and as I prayed I ask Heavenly Father why he would do such a thing as take our mother away from us.. AS time went by I received no answer and was
very lonely and thought I had been deserted. I climbed out of the ditch and began walking toward my aunt Lois house and as I was walking it was lit up around me , very light day and a
voice came to me and said: It will be all right !! and I was calm and comforted and began to cry
and continues to walk to my aunts house .. As I approached the home and knoked on the door
she let me in and sat me down and told me that she had just been told that our mother has died..
I had already known it just minutes before. She was very sorry and tried to comfort me. But
I had an answer to my prayer that we as a family would be alright and would continue on and
prepare our selves for our future. I continued to go to school and worked after school to help maintain my self as did Hyrum and Lola..
There are many other things I can tell you about our mother your grandmother. She was a very self reliant lady and was a very good home maker and provider for us as her children.

I will write more later