PIONEER FAMILIES
xv. BUTTLE, Henry. The third son of the Rev. George Buttle, he was born, at the Waipa Wesleyan Mission Station in 1848. IHe was educated at JVoodhouse Grove School near Leeds, his father* having taken his family to England on his retirement from mis-, sionary work. The Buttles returned to New: Zealand in 1862, Henry Buttle’farming at Pukerimu from about 1865 onwards. For ten years he was Master of the Sumner School for Deaf Mutes, his wife being Matron.. In 1903 he transferred to the Home for Defectives at Nelson, where lie was in charge for eleven years, retiring to live at Sumner. He died in 1937 at the age of 89. Mrs Buttle predeceased him in 1931.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3669, 17 February 1940, Page 4
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