Mary Ann BUTTERWORTH [1031]

  General Notes:

Mary Julius appears to have committed her life to her husband and family and Parish work.
A rather unique opportunity exists courtesy of John Birch & Roy Waight authors of Old Julius, page 144, to quote their research on the family of Henry & Mary Julius.

The Julius Family:
It is appropriate before ending this account to show what became of Henry's large family.
Henry had always been supported in his work by his family. The log books of St Peter's
School show vividly the attention that Henry, his wife Mary and his daughters gave to the
school, with almost daily entries of their attendance and willingness to contribute to classes
and testing of reading, spelling, scripture etc.
The Julius family in these early years was heavily involved in the needlework undertaken by
the girls. The vicarage featured prominently in this and material was collected from there
and items were produced and weekly sales of work were held. These and other activities
(concerts, already mentioned) raised funds for various parish causes. From the proceeds of
these concerts the daughters paid for a number of church facilities. The St Peter's records
state that:
'In the early years of his incumbency a sum of money was collected by the daughters of Revd
Henry Julius to fill the east window with stained glass. This was removed in 1913. The
balance was used to provide the present brass lectern.'
Of the nine girls four were to marry.

Reference is made to Harriett below, she married the Rev. Arthur Parker, and lived with him in Rowledge for most of her married
life. They had six children, four girls and two boys. In their retirement the Parker's moved
to Tunbridge Wells where Arthur died in 1917. Harriett was to remain for a further 16 years
in their Tunbridge Wells home and died, aged 90, in 1933.

Maria Louise married a stock broker, Arthur Brewin, and they had five children, three boys
and two girls. Throughout their married life they lived in South West London, Richmond
and Twickenham. Maria died in Twickenham , in 1933, aged 88, the same year as her sister
Harriett. Like Harriett she was a fairly long time as a widow for Arthur had died in 1919.

Florence married James Stevens, who was a from a well-known Farnham family of solicitors.
Initially they lived in Castle Street but in later years were living in a substantial house on the
Hog's Back in Seale called Talvancroft. Florence has been quoted several times earlier as the
author of a book called 'Life in the Vicarage'.
She was a well-known Farnham resident and, apart from her writings about the town, she
had contributed significantly through a Genealogy of the Julius Family, which made a major
contribution to the Web Site, 'The King's Candlesticks,' and which provided much of the
material for our opening chapter. The Stevens had four girls and two boys. Florence's
husband, James Stevens, died in 1907. Soon after the end of World War I, Florence moved
back into Farnham where she lived in a house called Overlynch in Bridgefield, near to
Farnham Station. She was also long a widow, dying 30 years after husband in 1937, at the
advanced age of 91.

Ellen Georgina married the Rev. Ambrose Morris, in 1873, and following a short stay in
Guernsey, where their first three children were born, the family lived for some two decades
in South East London, where he became rector of St Thomas's Church in Charlton. It was
here that the remaining children were born. They eventually had a family of ten, five boys
and five girls.
In 1890, Ambrose and Ellen escaped from suburbia to the Worcestershire countryside, where
her husband, Ambrose, was appointed vicar of St Mary's Church, in the village of Wythall.
They did not remain long in Wythall as Ambrose retired, in the early years of the 20th
Century, and they returned to Surrey where they had a house in Lingfield.
Ambrose had a short retirement as he was to die in Lingfield in 1908 aged 70. Ellen
Georgina then moved back to live in the West Midlands. In the 1911 census she is living
with her daughter, Ellen Constance and her son Richard Gordon, who is recorded as a
nurseryman. They are then living at Abbey Hill Lodge in Kenilworth where Ellen Georgina
remained living until her death, aged 92, in 1941.

The four remaining Julius girls were spinsters.
Mary Isabel, Henry's eldest daughter, was trained as a nurse at Charing Cross Hospital,
where she appears in the 1881 census. In 1887 she left to join an Anglican religious order,
then called the Clewer Sisters, and based at their convent in Hatch Lane, Windsor. She
became known as Sister Mary Isabel. She was professed in 1889 and in 1890 went to India
where she was head of a sisterhood and served until 1894. Returning to England she spent
the remainder of her life at the convent in Windsor, where she died, in 1954, aged 56.

Octavia, after a short period working in a temperance home in Aldershot, became a
missionary. Shipping records show her to have departed aboard the SS Leviathan, in 1895,
from Liverpool to Montreal, Canada, returning to Liverpool from New York, in 1900, aboard
SS Majestic. She then spent ten years from 1900 - 1910 working in Japan. Returning to
England, she appears to have been like many of her sisters, living on her own means and
spending much of the time travelling.

Katherine, known as Kate, and Constance, both remained with their parents until they
passed away in Redhill. Kate was for some time the local secretary to the Church of England
Zenana Missionary Society, for which one of the Parker daughters, Mabel Alice, worked.
Following their parents' deaths, they moved together to another house in Croak Hill Road,
Redhill. Living on their own means, they spent a deal of time together travelling,
particularly in Italy and France. They continued living in their house in Redhill until their
own deaths, Kate in 1937, aged 85, and Constance eight years later, in 1945, aged 93.

As was described earlier, Henry's youngest daughter, Madeline, died at the age of 14.

Longevity, music and travel seem to be constant themes in the lives of the nine Julius
daughters. With the exception of Madeline and Mary Isabel, the remainder lived to
advanced years. Harriett 90, Maria Louise 88, Florence 91, Ellen Georgina 92, Kate 87,
Constance 93, Octavia 88 - an average age of death, for these seven sisters, of 90.

The following quotations from the Kings Candlesticks illustrate that a number of Henry's
daughters were avid travellers, this at a time when overseas travel was almost solely
confined to the wealthy and leisure classes. For example, and quoting liberally:

Florence
1902. Having left Talvancroft for two months last summer, spent part of August and September in
Switzerland. Mr Stevens and Alfred above the Rhone Valley, at Naye and Villais. Mrs Stevens
(Florence)with her sisters Katie and Octavia Julius, her four daughters, and Constance Parker, in
the Bernese Oberland. (One sees that the Julius and Parker families remained close).

Kate
1900 Miss E. K. Julius with her niece, Miss Brewin, and two friends had a very enjoyable tour to
Rome, Naples, Florence and Venice, etc., this spring.
1900 I fear I can say nothing original about the delightful Swiss tour that Constance and I
(Kate)enjoyed in the early summer.

1902
Miss Katie Julius and Miss Geraldine Morris have left England on a trip to Northern Italy,
where they are visiting the picture galleries of Milan, Florence and Venice. They expect to return
home shortly before Easter.

1911, sailed from London to Capetown on the Thermistocles.

Sailed from Southampton to Madeira on the Winchester Castle.

Octavia on returning following 5 years in North America and 10 years working in Japan.
'Miss Octavia Julius has gone to Switzerland for part of the summer.'

Henry John Julius:
It is appropriate to have left until last Henry John, Henry and Mary's only son, and the last
of their children to be born. Unlike Henry's brothers, all of whom were successful in various
professions, Henry John seems to have been something of a drifter. Little is known of his
early schooling, although it is known, from the 1881 census, that he was a law student.


Henry appears to have turned his back on a legal career and decided, in 1884, to emigrate to
Australia.
Having arrived at Victoria, aboard the S.S. John Elder, he spent most of his life in
Queensland. In 1886 he was married in Newcastle, New South Wales, to a lady called
Isabella Cram. In 1888, he is recorded as being a licensed victualler in Eulo, a small town in
Queensland, where he was declared insolvent. It was at about this time that his father,
Henry, advanced him a sum of money in advance of any inheritance, as is recorded in his
will.

Thereafter Henry, Junior, decided to take up farming, moving up country to an outback
ranch near Woodford, a small town some 50 miles north of Brisbane.
In 1900, he is recorded as living on a farm in Villeneuve, Woodford, Queensland. He
remained there until 1913 when he is shown in the Australian census to be living in Molonga
Creek, a small settlement to the west of Bowen, Queensland, where he is said to be a farmer.
Yet another move occurred in 1930, when the records show him to be living in Stewart's
Creek, Thurngara, Queensland. The census now records him as a labourer.
Information in The King's Candlesticks shows him living in fairly isolated outback locations,
and managing both crops and livestock. One gets the impression from reading his letters
that, although life is primitive, he is making a reasonable living. After one trip, he says:
'" There's no place like home," even it is only a bark hut.'
The scale of his adventures can be seen from the following quote:
'On Tuesday morning everybody was up and about very shortly after daybreak, packing portmanteaus
and "tucker" boxes, running up horses, greasing buggies, etc. However, it was fully 9 o'clock before a
start was made, my wife driving two children and Mrs. Thomas, the governess, in the buggy, whilst I
followed in the big 4-horse waggonette, and my little girl and her cousin, aged respectively 9 and 11,
rode their ponies. About 1 o'clock we find ourselves 24 miles on our journey when we camp for
dinner, boil the family "billy" (Anglice) kettle], and feed ourselves and horses.'1

The record above suggests that they possibly have three children. The only one whose name
is recorded, in the King's Candlesticks, is a girl called Constance Maria Isabella who was
born in 1890. Australian records show Henry John to have died in 1932 in Townsville,
Queensland. His wife Isabella died 5 years later also in Townsville.
One is inevitably tempted to speculate on what personal history lies behind this emigration
to Australia. The son's deserting his law studies and his country; his bankruptcy, occasional
brushes with the law in Australia, his being a licenced victualler, all suggest a story of
someone who, unlike his sisters, found the tropes of evangelical sobriety too stifling. Henry
Julius's will refers lovingly to his son, but one cannot but think of the story of the Prodigal
Son.'

The Parker Family:
Parker and Harriet had six children. Florence Ellen was born in 1869 and went to
Winchester High School between 1884 and 1887. She spent some time at the Mildmay
Missionary Hospital in Bethnal Green. She went to Bonn in 1888. Spending some time
overseas, to perfect a foreign tongue and 'finish', was common with the comfortably off, to
which group the Parkers apparently by this time belonged. She was at the Willows
Missionary Training College between 1894 and 1896, and then, in 1898, she went to the
family of the Rev. A W Wiseman in Ashton Vicarage, Preston, Lancashire, where she was
responsible for training his daughters and working with the girls in the parish. I suppose
she was what we would call, these days, a youth worker. She did not marry. It was
Florence who wrote the "History of Rowledge". It was she who started the family
connection with Rowledge by teaching there as a young lady.
Annie Sylvia was born in 1871 and went to school at Mrs Parker's establishment in
Weymouth. She went to Germany, to Düsseldorf, in 1888. She worked for a while at the St
Margaret Ladies Settlement in Bethnal Green. The settlement is still there. She became a
nurse and in 1911 she was made assistant matron working in Nottingham General Hospital.
She must have been an astonishingly talented craftswoman. It is said that, as a young
woman, she was responsible for carving the reredos in Rowledge church. She was a
member of the Band of Hope, did many local good works, and there is a record in her own
hand of a "boring trip" she made to Bavaria. She recounts how, in 1901, she met Frau
Wagner (the infamous Cosima, Liszt's illegitimate daughter, fierce defender of her husband,
Wagner's, reputation, and, eventually, an enthusiastic Nazi). She died in Hove in 1956.2
The Rev. Ernest Julius Parker was born in 1872, two years after his parents moved into the
Old Vicarage. He was educated in a private school in Winchester, and at Marlborough
College between 1886 and 1891, where he was head of school house. He went to Brasenose
College, Oxford, and pursued a clerical career. He was ordained at Chichester in 1895 and
from 1895 to 1898 was curate of St John's Church, Stamford Hill. In 1902, he went off to
Bulawayo and the Railway Mission under the bishops of Southern Rhodesia. After about
two years he was transferred to the capital, Salisbury, where he became rector and canon of

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 30 Mar 1851, Rectory Wrecclesham Farnham. Mary is recorded as a wife aged 35 born MDX

2. Census: England, 2 Apr 1871, Clifton House Clifton, GLS. Mary Ann is shown at her mothers home in Clifton aged 55 wife of a clergyman born London.

3. Census: England, 3 Apr 1881, Rectory Wrecclesham Farnham. Mary is described as a wife aged 65 born MDX London

4. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, Woodcroft Red Hill Reigate SRY. Mary is described as head of house a widow aged 75 living on her own means born London

5. Mary Ann Julius nee Butterworth: Will & Probate, 13 May 1893, The Grange Wrecclesham SRY.
Précis of Will.
Should I predecease my husband I give to him everything that I may die possessed of.
Should my husband die in my lifetime then I dispose of my property in manner following:
All my plate jewellery and personal ornaments to my executors to be divided between my children and grandchildren in accordance with schedule B attached.
All the residue of my estate after discharge of debts to my daughters Edith Catherine Julius and Constance Marion Julius in equal shares.
Alexander Kaye Butterworth and George Montagu Butterworth to be Executors
Signed Mary Ann Julius.
8 June 1887

B
List of plate jewellery etc for distribution amongst children and grandchildren.
1. Isabel \endash large gold pencil case, (present from her father to her mother).
2. Emily \endash Mrs Gilles 12 desert spoons 1 gravy spoon and 4 ladles (all engraved) silver branched candlesticks, 6 table forks \endash 6 desert forks 6 tablespoons (not engraved). Shakespeare in 8 volumes.
Florence Parker \endash her grandmothers watch and chain, without the pencil case.
Sylvia Parker \endash Serpent brooch with ruby eyes.
3. Louisa \endash Her mother's diamond ring and small crescent brooch, picture of Agnes Brewin and frame.
Ella Brewin \endash Geneva painted brooch.
4. Florence \endash The Epergne large cameo brooch, Coriolanus Parting From His Wife.
Elsie Stevens \endash Gold locket with Anchor
5. Ellen \endash China branch candlestick (from the Dunlops), 6 tablespoons, 6 desert forks, 6 tablespoons, 6 desert spoons. For metal and glass salt cellars and salt spoons, amethyst brooch, Bracelet of twisted wire.
6. Katie \endash Large gold locket serpent brooch with 4 turquoises, plain gold bracelet.
7. Constance \endash Best gold bracelet, plain gold bracelets, small amethyst locket, small gold pencil case (present from Isabel to her mother).
8. Octavia \endash Cameo brooch, stone brooch (present from her father to her mother).
All the rest plate china books furniture etc to Katie and Constance equally.
Henry R Julius.
Mary Anne Julius.
June 8, 1887.
Henry R Julius.
Mary Anne Julius.
August 27, 1888.
Affidavit as to identity of paper writing B filed the 13th day of May 1893 Probate of this Will is contained in writings A and B was granted to Alexander K Butterworth and George Montagu Butterworth the Executors

Julius Mary Anne of Woodcroft the Common Redhill Surrey Widow died 27 Mar 1893 Probate London 13 May 1893 to Alexander Kaye Butterworth and George Montagu Butterworth Solicitors. Effects £661 7s 10d
Ref: National Probate Calendar.

Mary married Rev Henry Richard JULIUS M.A. [776] [MRIN: 329], son of Dr George Charles JULIUS [51] and Isabella Maria GILDER [52], on 2 Sep 1840 in Clifton, GLS. (Rev Henry Richard JULIUS M.A. [776] was born on 30 Jun 1816 in Richmond SRY, baptised on 14 Apr 1818 in St Mary Magdalen Richmond SRY, died on 27 Mar 1891 in Woodcroft Red Hill SRY and was buried on 2 Apr 1891 in St John Church Yard Redhill SRY.)