Irish Buttery Family Branch

I try to keep up with my documentation and record my research on this blog so the info doesn't get lost down the road and others can benefit from it. This may sound morbid, but during my research, I have greatly benefited from online documentation by other relatives. After attempting to contact two individuals regarding their research, I found that they had passed. If it weren't for their research before they died, I wouldn't know nearly as much as I do now and I'm so grateful, but disappointed I can't thank them. So...in case I pass...here it all is! :-) RIP Jerry Lomond.

Eliza Buttery Adams

Eliza Adams McKnight

To recap, my line of Butteries--the focus of this blog--descend from Dr. Benjamin Buttery and Jane Griffiths of Monmouth, Wales. Benjamin begat William and William begat the branches I study. William's son Albert Edward ended up in Newfoundland (my branch.) His daughter Eliza ended up in Ireland. She is the first of at least 3 Eliza Butteries--one being my great grandmother.

Eliza Buttery was born about 1847. She married a Samuel Adams Dec 31, 1878 in Channel Islands, and they lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Eliza and Samuel begat another Samuel (1881-1916). Samuel married Margaret Eccles (first wife) and was killed in WW1 on Oct 8. Jerry Lomond said this about him: “Samuel Adams ran away to Canada and signed up on November 19, 1914 to serve in the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force during World War 1. His name is on the Vimy Memorial, France. While in Canada, Samuel married Theodosia Johns and had a daughter.”

Samuel and Margaret begat Eliza Adams (1900-1974). She married Joseph McKnight and they lived in Northern Ireland. She died roughly a year before my g-grandmother Eliza Buttery Scott. Jerry Lomond has recorded Eliza and Joseph as having a son named Joseph McKnight (1926-1964.) I do not know anything past this.

Thank you, Joan H. of Ontario for sending me this photo.

Family Line

Benjamin Buttery

William Buttery

Eliza Buttery Adams

Samuel Adams

Eliza Adams McKnight

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Flight Over Little Bay East

This is beautiful footage! What better way to see your ancestral home?

Bay Largent is the little village next to LBE. The plane flies from the east across the Burin Peninsula, over LBE, onto Bay Largent and circles back around.

And here's a drone over Cape Spear. It goes through the iceburg.

R.I.P. Walter William Scott (1928-2014)

I am sad to announce the passing of Walter (AKA Walt or Sonny) Scott this morning in Rochester, NY. He was the son of Walter Archibald Scott from Little Bay East, Newfoundland. Obituary

Walter worked at Kee Lox, a paper company, many years before getting hired by Eastman Kodak and working on the instant camera until his retirement in 1990.

FYI: Many Scotts were associated with Eastman, including my great grandfather William Scott of Little Bay East.

Left with sister Shirley Alice mid 1930s

2nd from top right circa 1940s

Walter & Lorraine