BUTTERTON, Stuart George
Born 19 July 1888; died 27 November 1918; buried on 28 November 1918; age 30*
Stuart BUTTERTON was born in the parish of Willesdon, Middlesex, England, the only son of George Butterton, a clerk, and his wife Lucy. His sister Gladys had been born two years earlier.
Having emigrated to New Zealand in 1908, Stuart took up work as a mechanic. In 1913, he married Olive Nesta TIPPLER. Very soon after, when the couple was living at 45 Waipapa Road, Hataitai, Stuart completed a will leaving his estate to Olive, or if she were to die before him or at the same time, ‘to the most deserving Charity, to be determined by the Magistrate of the district that I die in’.
In 1914, the year following their marriage, Stuart and Olive had a son named Maxwell Stuart. He was to be their only child.
The couple later moved. On 21 May 1918, a newspaper notification of men balloted in Class B, 2nd Division (that is, with one dependant) for the Wellington Recruiting District included the name of ‘Butterton, S G, foreman engineer, 19, Childer’s-terrace, Kilbirnie.’ When he took ill with influenza, Stuart was taken from this address to the temporary hospital which had been set up at Wellington College, where he died on 27 November.
Stuart was buried in the Anglican section of Karori Cemetery the following day, his passing being unacknowledged in the newspapers of the day, just as his life until then had been lived out of the public arena. When Olive died in 1971 after 53 years of widowhood she was cremated at Karori Cemetery, and her ashes were interred with Stuart.
*calculated from his birth record, although the death record itself says 29.
Researched and written by Max Kerr
Grave Information:
Section: CH ENG2
Plot: 148 E
Born 19 July 1888; died 27 November 1918; buried on 28 November 1918; age 30*
Stuart BUTTERTON was born in the parish of Willesdon, Middlesex, England, the only son of George Butterton, a clerk, and his wife Lucy. His sister Gladys had been born two years earlier.
Having emigrated to New Zealand in 1908, Stuart took up work as a mechanic. In 1913, he married Olive Nesta TIPPLER. Very soon after, when the couple was living at 45 Waipapa Road, Hataitai, Stuart completed a will leaving his estate to Olive, or if she were to die before him or at the same time, ‘to the most deserving Charity, to be determined by the Magistrate of the district that I die in’.
In 1914, the year following their marriage, Stuart and Olive had a son named Maxwell Stuart. He was to be their only child.
The couple later moved. On 21 May 1918, a newspaper notification of men balloted in Class B, 2nd Division (that is, with one dependant) for the Wellington Recruiting District included the name of ‘Butterton, S G, foreman engineer, 19, Childer’s-terrace, Kilbirnie.’ When he took ill with influenza, Stuart was taken from this address to the temporary hospital which had been set up at Wellington College, where he died on 27 November.
Stuart was buried in the Anglican section of Karori Cemetery the following day, his passing being unacknowledged in the newspapers of the day, just as his life until then had been lived out of the public arena. When Olive died in 1971 after 53 years of widowhood she was cremated at Karori Cemetery, and her ashes were interred with Stuart.
*calculated from his birth record, although the death record itself says 29.
Researched and written by Max Kerr
Grave Information:
Section: CH ENG2
Plot: 148 E