Jean Butters Gravestone Newtyle Angus Scotland

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Channel: tourscotland · 2013 · Travel & Events

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Tour Scotland video of the Jean Butter gravestone on ancestry visit to the old churchyard in Newtyle, Angus. Butters was first used as a surname by descendants of the Pictish people of ancient Scotland. The ancestors of the Butters family lived in the counties of Perth and Fife, and is likely from the village of Buttergask in the parish of Ardoch. The surname Butters was first found in Fife and Perthshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

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