William Enoch Butland (1875-1939) was the oldest son of William Ellis Butland and had a particularly illustrious GWR career spanning 50 years. Like his father, he began his working life as a GWR carpenter, a job he was doing by the age of 16, in Taunton. Ten years later, he was living in Weston SuperContinue reading “Butlands and the Great Western Railway Part 2: Other Descendents of William Ellis Butland”
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Butlands and the Great Western Railway Part 1: Our Direct Ancestors (1811 – 2007)
Growing up, I was aware that my grandfather, William Edwin Godfrey Butland (1909-2007) had worked for a period for the Great Western Railway, and held a lifelong love of steam engines. However, it has only been through undertaking my own research that I have discovered that the Butland family connection with the GWR actually wentContinue reading “Butlands and the Great Western Railway Part 1: Our Direct Ancestors (1811 – 2007)”
Butland Gooding Family Tree 