The Brown Tree » Albert BUTTON (1855-1938)

Personal data Albert BUTTON 

• He was born October 1855 in Brighton England.Sources 3, 4, 6
• Alternative: He was born in the year 1856 in Brighton, Sussex, England.Source 6
• Resident:
• in the year 1906: Newcastle Street, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.Source 5
• in the year 1871: Brighton, Sussex, England.Source 3
• in the year 1861: Brighton, Sussex, England.Source 6
• (Arrival) on August 23, 1858.Source 4
• (Facts) in the year 1940: Albert died in 1938, Robina in 1940. Most of Albert's children grew up, married, and had families in and around Perth, though his daughter-in-law Gladys, Bert's widow, moved away to Queensland with her daughter Inez..
• (Court at Perth) in the year 1910: Accused of Fraud.
• He died on May 30, 1938 in Perth, Western Australia, he was 82 years old.Source 2
• A child of Benjamin Richard BUTTON and Eleanor (Ellen) STACE

Household of Albert BUTTON

(1) He had a relationship with Margaret Elizabeth ROSS.

Child(ren):

1. Mary Eleanor BUTTON  1883-1884
2. Albert James Cecil BUTTON  1884-1916 
3. Benjamin Ross BUTTON  1889-1958

(2) He is married to Robina LYALL.

They got married on February 18, 1897 at St Johns Presbyterian Church, Cowes Victoria, he was 41 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Eliza Violet BUTTON  1898-1984
2. Lillian May BUTTON  1899-1966
3. Edith Isobel BUTTON  1901-1977
4. Edith Evelyn Button  1901-
5. Eleanor Constance BUTTON  1903- 
6. Ernest Lyall BUTTON  1906-1991
7. Charles Clarence BUTTON  1908-1966 

Notes about Albert BUTTON

· Albert Button disappeared from Brighton after 1871. In the 1871 census he is recorded asa butcher's assistant at age 15, living with his parents in Brighton. Information fromRosalie King (nee Button) suggests that he ran away to sea when he was 16, jumping shipin New Zealand. The timeline is interesting. His elder sister Mary Ann married GeorgeHenley in June 1874, shortly after George Henley's elder brother John had sailed to NewZealand with his family in April 1874. Could it be that Albert had sent letters home aboutthe great opportunities in this new colony? Or the other way round: in 1874 John was 30,Albert was 16.

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He worked in New Zealand as a butcher before moving to Melbourne, Australia where hemarried Margaret Ross, and had at least three children: Mary Eleanor (born 1883, died ininfancy), Benjamin Ross (born 1889), and 'Bert' (Albert
James, born 1884) who was killed in a bomb accident in
1916, on Salisbury Plains, England, and was buried atCodford St Mary New Churchyard, Wiltshire. Bert hadmarried Gladys Crowle before the war, and their daughterInez was just 3 years old at the time of his death.
Albert's first wife Margaret died on 3rd October 1895.
On 18 Feb 1897 Albert married Robina Lyall who, like
Margaret, was born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1865 (into a
well-travelled family: her mother, Eliza, was the first child
born at Gibraltar to British parents). Albert's brother William Henry and sister-in-lawHarriett attended the wedding. For both of them it was a second marriage. Robina hadpreviously been married to Henry John Livesley (in 1882), but divorced him in 1896 onthe grounds of desertion.
By 1895 (at the time of Margaret's death) Albert was running a hotel: Button's Hotel at 43Flinders Street, Melbourne. In 1897 after his marriage to Robina, the family moved toWestern Australia (their daughter Eliza Violet was born in Perth in 1897), and Albert didvery well there, eventually owning three hotels in and around the Perth metropolitan area:the Cleopatra in Fremantle, The Clarendon in North Perth, and the Spring Park Hotel inMidland (Guildford).

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