BUTCHER

This research has been to find a link between Dr Thos Coull and ? cousin, Helen Coull. Special thanks go to FTF member, Moggie, for her interest and help.

The quest began after a link was suggested in The History of Antigua Vol 1 by Oliver:

http://www.archive.org/stream/histor...ge/n9/mode/2up

Extract: 'A Dr Coull (he seems to have been a well-known Medical Man, as I see the name quoted in an old medical work). His daughter was a famous ...

This is my transcript of the Will Inventory of Patrick Coull (Scotlandspeople). This was all that downloaded for the will for him. See separate blog page about him and his family.

a) Ancestry, co.uk: UK, Extracted Probate Records: Coull, Patrick, late merchant in Cullen 23/11/1784. Book: Mort Roll from 1781 in the Register House, Edinburgh. (Death). Collection: Lanarkshire, Aberdeenshire, Banff, Ayr, & Stirling: - Commissariot Record of Hamilton and Campsie, Reg of Testaments, ...

This is the great grandfather of Thomas Coull born c 1800 - see his blog page. See separate blog page for Patrick's Will/Inventory.

As always, thanks go to experienced members of FTF, especially Moggie, for their perseverance and interest in finding out as much as we have done about the Scottish roots of the Antiguan Coulls.

Patrick Coull was born about 1722 and died end of April 1784 Cullen. Fortunately, his year of birth can be deduced from age given in ‘The plundering ...

My link to the Coull family is via the marriage of Eleanor Butcher, born 1838 St Pancras, to William Coull in 1859. This changed the direction of her life from that of a milliner in Islington to emigration to New Zealand with her ailing husband and his 2 brothers in 1871.

The 3 brothers, already established in the printing and publishing trade, went on to thrive in Dunedin, New Zealand. I am in touch with a direct descendant of William’s brother, Thomas. He has confirmed this tree, ...

After her father's death, Lucretia Butcher's journey took her out of the poverty her family were left in to stay with her better off aunts in Eastbourne and then Islington. Her widowed mother worked as a laundress and her sister, Elizabeth, from which my line is descended, did not fare so well.

As ever, FTF members have helped extensively with my research. I am in touch with a direct descendant of Lucretia's son, William Lewis. She lives in Australia and confirms some of the later ...