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From: "valerie.dkock" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] East Cape Newspapers, March, 1970 - BUTT
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:39:18 +0200
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Hi Becky,
Thanks for the list of Phone No.s The BUTTs in Kenton are my second cousins
and I have known them 'forever' but they might help me trace other
decendants.
Best wishes,
Val
----- Original Message -----
From: "Becky Horne" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] East Cape Newspapers, March, 1970 - BUTT


> Hi Val
>
> The only possible lead that I can suggest is that you contact the BUTT's
> that appear in the telephone directory.
> This news article was written in March, 1970 and it says Mrs. E.M. BUTT
from
> Kenton-on-Sea.
> Here are the BUTT's registered in the telephone directory and living in
> Kenton-on-Sea. .
>
> BUTT
>
> BUTT Cat Boat Builders PO Box 250 046-648 1356/ 046-648 1927. Cell 083 261
> 7996.
> BUTT JH 45 Bathers Street 046-648 2551
> BUTT JR van der Gama Road 046-648 1927
> BUTT TJ 51 Donkin Street 046-648 1855
>
> Good luck! Maybe try the cell first and try and get an email address. The
> folk in Kenton are very friendly and sure to help you further with your
> family research.
>
> Best wishes
> Becky
> Port Elizabeth, South Africa
>
> Researching: HENWICK; HILL; HORN(E); MEREDITH; DEYZEL; LARSEN; WILLSON;
> LYNAR; HENNING; STERLEY; THECK; BEST; BRAUN, GREENER; GLANVILLE; VAN ZYL
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: valerie.dkock <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 11:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [ZA] East Cape Newspapers, March, 1970 - BUTT
>
>
> > Hi,
> > Is there anyway of finding out who this Mrs. Butt is? Charles Butt
> > (8.12.1834 Littlehampton - 9.7.1906) had a son named Charles (19.1.1867
> > Salem - 19.11.1942 Bushmans River Mouth) This Charles married Evaland
> (Eve)
> > NIELSON (12.3.1892 Port Alfred - 19.6.1980 Kenton-on-Sea (Eve's Retreat
on
> > the road to Salem was named 'for' her.) . This property belonged to his
> son,
> > Stanley BUTT.
> > I would be very interested to know which Mrs E. M Butt is, as the only
one
> I
> > can think of is Esme Butt (normally living in Zimbabwe.
> > There are so few Butt family members inSouth Africa...
> > My ggrandfather was Charles BUTT born in Littlehampton.
> > Regards
> > Valerie de Kock
> > Gauteng, South Africa.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Becky Horne" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 8:17 PM
> > Subject: [ZA] East Cape Newspapers, March, 1970 - BUTT
> >
> >
> > > Hi there
> > >
> > > Newspaper cuttings from the Eastern Cape.
> > >
> > > New interest aroused over Bleak House, EP Herald, 1970.
> > >
> > > A report in a recent issue of the Herald's weekly supplement on Bleak
> > House, which is located on a place of ground to the north-east of the
Fort
> > England Hospital, once known as Mesopotamia, has attracted the attention
> of
> > Mrs. E.M. BUTT of Kenton-on-Sea.
> > >
> > > According to Mrs. BUTT, her grandmother was Hanna Christina WILD and
it
> > was her father who originally built the house. However, because of the
> > shortage of labour and material in those days, he was unable to complete
> it,
> > hence the half-finished appearance it always presented.
> > >
> > > In the house some years ago a mural depicting an English hunting scene
> was
> > discovered on a wood partition and this was donated to the Albany Museum
> by
> > the McCARTHY family who then owned the place. This painting, said Mrs.
> BUTT
> > was the work of Abraham WILD.
> > >
> > > PAINTING
> > > Mrs. BUTT, as a member of Charles NEILSON's family, remembers having
> > frequently visited people living in the house and having seen the
painting
> > while it was still in occupation. The McCARTHY's, according to her, were
> > then only cultivating the large area of ground surrounding it. There was
> > apparently two Abraham WILD's, father and son and it was Abraham senior
> who
> > built a small two-bedroomed house on another property he owned and named
> > Gooseberry Farm. It was from this house, which was later enlarged. that
> she
> > and her late husband, Charles BUTT were married.
> > >
> > > Best wishes
> > > Becky
> > > Port Elizabeth, South Africa
> > >
> > > Researching: HENWICK; HILL; HORN(E); MEREDITH; DEYZEL; LARSEN;
WILLSON;
> > LYNAR; HENNING; STERLEY; THECK; BEST; BRAUN, GREENER; GLANVILLE; VAN ZYL
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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