Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
William Butterly was transported on the Elphinstone, departing 8th Sep 1838 and arriving 29th Dec 1838 with 95 passengers.
Elphinstone (generic)References
| Primary Source | "New South Wales, Australia, (NRS12210) Butts of Certificates of Freedom", (31 July 1848). Document facsimile at www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1689/images/31801_216729-00461 Ticket of Leave issued 9 Feb 1844: "allowed to remain in the district of Appin", per "New South Wales, Australia, Tickets of Leave" www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1781/images/32084_223234-00067?pId=43732 "New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851" records |
Claims
"William Butterly is my great, great, great grandfather. His daughter, Theresa Stella married my great, great grandfather by special license on 3rd May 1881 at St James's, Forest Lodge, Sydney NSW"
Photos
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Convict Notes
Height 5 feet 6¾ inches, complexion Dark Sallow, hair "dark brown nearly black", eyes hazel-grey, eyebrows meeting, hairy mole on the left cheek bone, small bruised(?) mole on the back of neck, six small moles on left arm, scar back of forefinger of left hand. (from Cert. of Freedom, 31 Jul 1848). His remains were originally buried at the Catholic Cemetery at Petersham, which received burials from c.1865 to 1905. The graves were relocated in 1926-27 to Rookwood and Botany cemeteries; the grave of William and his teenage son Stephen, who predeceased him by a few days, was moved to Catholic Mortuary 2 (Sect 13, plot 118) at Rookwood Necropolis. www.findagrave.com/memorial/148969491/william-butterley NSW BDM Death Index Nbr: 3602/1882, in the name William Butterley. The spelling of the surname for William and his children shows a spelling shift from "Butterly" to "Butterley" by the latter half of the 19th Century.