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Irish Origins: Coat of Arms: A shield divided quarterly: Six gold cups on a red shield and two sections of gold and blue. Crest: A plume of ostrich feathers emerging from a crown with a falcon rising. Motto: As I find.	Irish Origins: Spelling variations include: Butler, Buttler, McRichard and others. First found in Kilkenny in Ireland. The first on record was Theobald FitzWalter, a distinguished Norman noble who accompanied Strongbow and was created the Chief Butler of Ireland in 1177. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Christopher Butler who settled in Virginia in 1670; the following, Charles, Daniel, Edward, Elizabeth, George, Giles, James, John, Joseph, Martin, Michael, Patrick, Richard, Thomas and William, all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860.
German Origins: Coat of Arms: Gold shield with a blue chief dancetee. Crest: Description not available	German Origins: Spelling variations include: Butler, Buttlar, Büttner, Butlers, Butlern, Butlen, Butlinck, Buttler and many more. First found in Prussia, where the name emerged in medieval times as one of the notable families of the region. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: settlers who travelled to the New World and established themselves along the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Butler English and Irish: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula ‘bottle’). In the large households of royalty and the most powerful nobility, the title came to denote an officer of high rank and responsibility, only nominally concerned with the supply of wine, if at all. Anglicized form of French Boutilier. Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): occupational name for a bottle maker, from Yiddish butl ‘bottle’ + the agent suffix -er. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4	Boutilier French: occupational name for a wine steward or butler, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Old French bouteillier, ‘butler’. This name is often Americanized as Butler. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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BUTLER

Irish Origins: Butler coat of arms

Coat of Arms: A shield divided quarterly: Six gold cups on a red shield and two sections of gold and blue.

Crest: A plume of ostrich feathers emerging from a crown with a falcon rising.

Motto: As I find.

Irish Origins:
Spelling variations include: Butler, Buttler, McRichard and others.

First found in Kilkenny in Ireland. The first on record was Theobald FitzWalter, a distinguished Norman noble who accompanied Strongbow and was created the Chief Butler of Ireland in 1177.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Christopher Butler who settled in Virginia in 1670; the following, Charles, Daniel, Edward, Elizabeth, George, Giles, James, John, Joseph, Martin, Michael, Patrick, Richard, Thomas and William, all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860.

German Origins:

Coat of Arms: Gold shield with a blue chief dancetee.

Crest: Description not available

German Origins:

Spelling variations include: Butler, Buttlar, Büttner, Butlers, Butlern, Butlen, Butlinck, Buttler and many more.

First found in Prussia, where the name emerged in medieval times as one of the notable families of the region.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: settlers who travelled to the New World and established themselves along the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Butler

English and Irish: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula ‘bottle’). In the large households of royalty and the most powerful nobility, the title came to denote an officer of high rank and responsibility, only nominally concerned with the supply of wine, if at all.
Anglicized form of French Boutilier.
Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): occupational name for a bottle maker, from Yiddish butl ‘bottle’ + the agent suffix -er.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Boutilier

French: occupational name for a wine steward or butler, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Old French bouteillier, ‘butler’. This name is often Americanized as Butler.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

The full mantle consists of the shield displaying the arms that was given to the person bearing this surname; a banner with surname; a helmet; and family crest [if known]. See a sample of full mantle by - at right. Normally the crest is displayed atop the helmet. To order a full mantle with coat of arms and family crest:

click here

Sample Coat of Arms - Full

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