Richard Thomas (Dick) BUTT
Date of Birth:
7 Oct 1857
Date of Death:
23 Jul 1926
Richard was born in Lyttelton.
He married Esther Boulton (born at Pauatahanui in 1890) at Pauatahanui in 1890.
They had four children two boys & two girls.
One son, Richard Jnr, served with the Wellington Infantry in WW1.
From 1880 to 1890 Richard is listed as a farmer at Pauatahanui.
By 1896 he has his own butcher shop in Oxford St, Levin, two shops south of the Post Office. He sold this business to the Bulliman brothers in 1911 and went back to farming, in Levin.
Richard signed the "Yes" petition in the 1905 Levin township petition.
Relatives mentioned in profile:
Richard Thomas (Dick) Butt, Richard Groombridge Butt, Rosetta Harriet Wells, Esther Jane Boulton, Edward Boulton, Isabella Rodger Walker, Sydney Claude Butt, Edith Caroline Nicholson, Zoe Muriel Esther Butt, Horace Clement Noble, Richard Reginald Butt, Annie Winifred Watson, Leslie Esther Butt, Harvey James Adam Murray.