Ref K4
The parents of Sheena’s great-grandmother, Mary Aucherlonie (See Ref. K3), William Auchterlonie and Mary Buttercase, married at Cults 11.1.1818.
Buttercase/Butter Husband family
Our Mary was the third child and eldest daughter of George Buttercase and Ann Husband (See Ref.K41) who married at Leuchars, Fife 1.11.1796. Three of their children were baptised there and then five more at Cults. The move of domicile seems to have prompted a shortening of the name to Butter, although Mary seems to have added an “s”. Details are at Appendix 1 hereto.
Buttercase Hey Family
On a reasonable assumption basis, we think that George Buttercase was baptised 18.1.1774 at St Andrews and St Leonards, Fife , the son of George Buttercase and Isabel Hey. They married 12.11.1773 in the same place, he being styled “Butter” and she “Hay”. Their family is listed in Appendix 2 hereto. We have not come to any conclusion about Isabel’s origins. There was an Isabel Haw baptised 1750 at Forgan, which is on the north coast of Fife and also an Isabel Hay at Crail in 1748.
Buttercase Mitchell family
Again, on the same basis, we found a baptism at St Andrews and St Leonards 20.5.1751 for George Butters, son of George Butters and Agnes Mitchell. It seems that they married in Glasgow in November 1746 but appeared before the St Andrews and St Leonards Church 4.12.1746 to proclaim their marriage and to promise twenty pence to the poor. We have also seen a baptism for a daughter Elizabeth Buttercase 28.6.1754 at Glasgow.
Further back
We have not traced George’s baptism, although we did notice one for an Agnes Mitchell in 1726 at St Andrews and St Leonards. However it was quite a common name.
December 2017
Appendix 1 to Ref. K4
George Buttercase/Butter and Ann Husband Family
George Buttercase and Ann Husdband married at Leuchars, Fife, 1.1.1796. They had children baptised as follows. At Leuchars they were Buttercase and at Cults Butter.
George 1.5.1796 at Leuchars
John 3.5.1798 at Leuchars
Mary 19.4.1800 at Leuchars. See main text.
Elisabeth 23.5.1802 at Cults
Isabel 2.6.1805 at Cults
Robert 24.4.1807 at Cults
Alexander 3.4.1809 at Cults
Catharine 17.6.1812 at Cults
Appendix 2 to Ref. K4
The George Buttercase and Isabel Hey Family
“George Butter” and Isabel Hey married 12.11.1773 at St Andrews and St Leonards. They had children baptised under the name Buttercase at the same place, except for John, who was baptised at Leuchars, as follows:
George 18.1.1774. See main text.
Mary 29.10.1775
Alexander 19.10.1777
Jane 25.8.1782
William 5.9.1784
James 11.2.1787
John 3.3.1792
See map of the distribution of the surname Butters in 1881
Young Family History 