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Daniel Thompson Botterill (b. 1882), engineer, son of Dan Stephen Thompson Botterill and Mary Jane Harris, married Jessie Elizabeth Maslin (b. 27 Mar 1883), daughter of James Maslin and Jessie Elizabeth Dunford, at the church of St Nicholas, Deptford Green, on 2 Sep 1905. Witnesses were William Wilson and Florence Charlotte Maslin, the bride's younger sister.
Daniel and Jessie then had two sons:
- Joseph Daniel Botterill b. 1907 S Quarter in WOOLWICH Volume 01D Page 1203. Died 1908 M Quarter in WOOLWICH Volume 01D Page 761 and was buried on 25 Jan 1908 at Charlton Cemetery
- Daniel Thompson Botterill b. 1908 S Quarter in GREENWICH Volume 01D Page 1064
Both birth registrations list the mother's maiden name as MASLIN. The second boy, like David Copperfield, was a posthumous child, because Daniel Thompson Botterill had died, aged 26, in 1908 M Quarter in WOOLWICH Volume 01D Page 760, at 26 Inverine Road, Charlton and was buried, on 18 Jan 1908, also at Charlton Cemetery (Greenwich).
Not unsurprisingly, Jessie Elizabeth Botterill remarried, in 1910, to Evelyn John Gutton Budge (b. 17 May 1882 in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales), son of Charles Frederick Budge and Ann Bowen Harris.
Confirming I'd found the correct spouse, Jessie Elizabeth Budge, in 1911, was living with son, Daniel Tompson Batterell (sic) (2), in Gillingham, Kent. Her new husband was boarding in the household of a Henry Webb in Chatham, which suggests an estrangement, but there's no evidence of a divorce.
Evelyn John Gutton Budge arrived in Quebec, Canada in Jun 1911 having travelled alone. In 1913, he crossed the border into the United States, where he did Military Service during WWI and, on 1 Jan 1917, married (bigamously) nurse, Mabel Dorothy Morris. The couple applied for Naturalization in 1918. Evelyn John Gutton Budge died in Los Angeles, California on 2 Sep 1969 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Long Beach.
In 1912, Jessie Elizabeth Budge was listed on the Electoral Register at 80 Queens Road, Peckham (2nd floor), a mystery in itself as she would not have had the vote until at least 1918 and only then if she had enough wealth.
Jessie Budge (37) and son her Daniel (11) - listed incorrectly with his surname dittoed as Budge - are shown sailing on the RMS Empress of France (1913) from Liverpool to Quebec on 8 Jun 1921. Their last address in the UK was given as 5, Clarence Mansions, Bromells Road, Kent (Clapham, London) and their country of intended future residence as Canada.
Jessie Budge had bearly stepped ashore when she married (also bigamously), Gerald Foll (b. 30 May 1865), son of John Foll and Sarah Anne Linnell of Stowe, Northamptonshire, on 20 Jun 1921, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Gerald Foll died on 10 April 1947 and is buried at Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg.
Jessie Elizabeth Foll died on 24 Sep 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Searches reveal that Jessie's first cousin, Arthur Andrew Maslin, son of her father's eldest brother, Joseph Maslin, died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 26 Dec 1955, which may explain why she was in that area.
Daniel Tompson Botterill married Edith Evelyn Benson, in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1939. They had three children. Daniel died in Winnipeg on 18 Jul 1964.