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Butterworth, Henry
PERSONS/2/2313
1756 - 1847
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
With Richard Booth, this timber-merchant built Cow Lane Chapel, where his father was minister. Butterworth was a trustee of Draycote (Warwickshire) Baptist Chapel in 1813 (see PA101/151/1) and had property in Smithford St. (PA101/143/1) and Swanswell (PA101/8/19); he was a devisee of William Peart, selling the latter's Fleet St. house to turnpike trustees in 1823 (see PA353/1/19-20). See PA101/8/740-753 for Butterworth's testamentary papers (he died on 7th. Mar., 1847 aged 91). See also PA101/1/80-82; PA101/8/804; PA101/9/41; PA101/12/528. See PA14/6/42,43. Acted as trustee of Mary Jee's will, 1802 - see PA184/1/1-2. Butterworth was a mortgagee for Burges premises, 1826ff - see BA/A/G/24/27-28,31,32 - and trustee for Peter Seager's at Cross Cheaping (1792 - 1808: BA/A/G/30/3-5). See BA/A/G/28/1. Butterworth's trusteeship for Peart's property lasted until 1834 - see PA403/160/1. Butterworth was trustee for Foleshill land, 1794-96 (see PA436/6/13-18). PA466/4/5 fol. 185 shows that he had Hillfields land. PA484/1.I: PA56/64/3.III show that Butterworth had Harnall land in 1793 and before 1812. PA507/1/3.I: PA56/94/1.I: PA491/45/1.I show that Butterworth had ex-Dunchurch School and other lands near Swanswell. In 1807 he sold a Smithford Street messuage - see PA55/16/1. PA55/16/2 is his 1812 draft will. In 1808 Butterworth had a Warwick Lane messuage - see PA55/3/2. See PA56/44/42. For his accumulation of Smithford Street premises, 1795 - 1847, see PA56/117/2.I-VII,6-7,13-14: PA1023/7. As trustee for the currier Thomas Butterworth (q.v.)'s interest in land on the inside of the town wall between Hill Street Gate and Well Street Gate, 1795 - 1803, see PA2297/4/1,2. For his estate in the vicinity of Little Poddy Croft, see PA491/27/16,17. For Butterworth's interest in Dead Lane property, 1801, see PA491/80/2-3. In 1795 Butterworth was a trustee for sale of Great Heath property (PA491/95/5-8). PA491/97/11,14-16,23-29 passim show that he was one of the mortgagees responsible for Sarah Jackson's inherited personalty from 1785 and for her Earl's Mill Lane, New Street and Gosford Street property from 1787, both until 1820, and described initially as a carpenter and joiner, later as a gentleman. According to PA491/97/19, Henry's wife's name was Elizabeth. Qua Land Tax commissioner, 1798, see PA2473/6/15. CCA/2/3/157/56 shows Butterworth acting as trustee for Peter Seager (q.v.)'s conveyance of Great Butcher Row property to James Weare (q.v.) in 1804. As assignee of William Bidmead (q.v.)'s effects for the benefit of creditors in 1797, Butterworth was interested in Bastille Meadow property and was trustee for more which his brother Thomas (q.v.) sold in 1811 - see CCA/2/3/104/24-29 passim. As Seager's executor, see CCA/2/3/582/1.VIII,X; CCA/2/3/803/14. As trustee for Seager's purchase of Greyfriars' churchyard in 1784, see CCA/2/3/135/10-11; CCA/2/3/582/1.VII. CCA/2/3/19/32 shows that Butterworth was living in High Street in 1815. As the elder Seager's executor, Butterworth was involved in the sale of Greyfriars' Churchyard to that man's namesake son in 1808 - see CCA/2/3/135/12-14. As trustee for the silkman Samuel Pears(q.v.)' Smithford Street, Bishop Street and Well Street property, 1808-14, see CCA/2/3/1/17,21-23. As mortgagee for Smithford Street property on the same site when owned by the victualler James Miles(q.v.), 1828-41, see CCA/2/3/1/40-41,47. As trustee for Sarah Jackson's Much Park Street property, 1782 - 1820, see CCA/2/3/782/12-21 passim. As mortgagee for the "Bird in Hand", Little Park Street, 1830, see CCA/2/3/406/18,19. Qua trustee of Jackson family property beyond Greyfriars' Gate and in Earl's Mill Lane and Whitefriars' Lane, 1786-98, see PA2816/2/4,6. As trustee for William Robinson(q.v.)'s purchase of Greyfriars' Lane tenements, 1840, see CCA/2/3/940/29. See CCA/2/3/4/22.
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