Hello Graham and Margaret and other Butcher researchers, I agree this has been a quiet list and I know that there must be a lot of brick walls out there on our BUTCHER lines. Maybe we can all add a little and liven this up. Anyone out there searching Butchers in the state of Maryland? My earliest ancestor is John and Sophis Butcher of Frederick Co Md. Their son Thomas Henry Butcher is my gg grandfather bprn ca 1837 in Frederick Co but chr. in Poolesville Montg. Co Md and married Keziah Francis Oden 13 Dec 1859. He disappeared sometime between 1863 and 1870. As well as Keziah and the two boys William Thomas Butcher 1861-1935 and Marion Francis Butcher 1963-1919 in Laytonsville Montgomery Co(my line) md 9 Jan 1890 Merryetta Stevens. I suspect tthat these Butchers are "English" Butchers and orig. from Anne Arundal and Baltimoe counties and possibly from the Butchers there and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. There is another researcher that has done quite a bit of work on the German Butchers in Montgomery Co that lived around mine and we cant seem to find any connection. But of course I am at the guessing stage. These families were very prolific and I am hoping that there is a "cousin" sonewhere searching these same lines. Hope to here from all the Butcher researchers out there. We need to liven this list up!!! Jackie Butcher Kalinauskas in Boise Idaho