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The Butterfield Family Line The Butterfield`s are a large family and they originated in England and came to America, to the Salt Lake area. One of the Butterfield ancestors developed and operated the Butterfield Stage Line, the ancestral lines show royalty, Counts, Countess's, Queens, Kings, the fairy tale King, Ole King Cole happens to be one of these, just to show that he actually did exist.
The
Coat of Arms of the Butterfield family is described as: Arms:
Gules, griffin passant argent. The
common spelling of the name in New England is Butterfield, and the same prevails
usually throughout the United States: though instances are found of Botefield, of the direct German
extraction: and, occasionally, of Boterville, the French form. In England, the
family dates their arrival from Normandy in the twelfth century. Robert de
Buteville held two fees in Bedfordshire in 1165 and likewise in Norfold (Liber
Niger). John de Buteville was possessed of the lord of Cheddington, in Bucks, in
1316 (Palsgrave, Parl, Writs). The name Botevyle occurs in the Battle Abbey
roll. The estate of Bouteville was near Carentum, in Normandy, a town at the
mouth of the river Tante, where are yet to be seen old fortifications, a castle
and a curious Norman church (The Norman People). A branch of the family settled
at Church, Stretton, and Shropshire. The English pronunciation indicates a
corruption of the German word Botefeld (Bote, a messenger, and feld, field, or
clearing where the trees have been felled). Similar instances occur in
Butterley, Buttermere, Butterwick, Butterworth in England, and perhaps
Buterville in Ireland: the affix in each case denoting locality-ley meadow, mere
pond, wick bay, worth enclosure-where the messenger dwelt. Or, the derivation
may be from botfeld, which, among the Anglo-Saxons, was that portion of the
manor, the timber of which was reserved for the repairs of the manor house,
buildings, &c., and the mending of the fences. Such privileges were styled
Haybote (from hait, hedge, or the land enclosed by it, and bote, repair). The
official charge with such repairs was styled the Hayward, whence the modern
word: as also Heyward and Howard. Our word botcher, for a blundering repairer,
is a survival of this same bote in common speech. The above description of the Butterfield name appears in a publication "The Butterfields of Middlesex", written by Geo. A Gordon, A. M. Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in (1890). Information
obtained from The
Butterfield Family Web
Site.
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