John Owen Butler
John Owen Butler was baptised in Sheffield on 24 March 1799, the son of Charles (a cutler) and his wife, Ruth. His name in the printed sources was usually John Owen. He may have been the cutler of that name listed in 1825 as a table knife manufacturer at Whitehouse Lane. Other sightings of ‘John Butler’ were in George Street, Little Sheffield (1828), Walkley (1841), Bower Spring (1846), and Portobello Street (1852). His first wife was Sarah and they had a son, John Owen Butler Jun. (1826-1....
