Urban Designer - Vernacular Architect - Maritime Planner - Owner-Builder - Servant of Piglet - Educator - Author - Revolutionary - Peacenik - Tour Guide 

Tony Watkins

 ~ Vernacular Design 

Butler family
Butler Homestead Papatoetoe Print E-mail
ImageIn 1918 Michael Pierce and Bessie Butler came to Papatoetoe from Morrinsville to look for a place to live. They returned to Morrinsville with this photograph and decided to buy. They moved here in 1918.
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Butlers Garage Papatoetoe Print E-mail

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Percy Butler, Hugh McNiel, Tom Butler, Snow Munro,Jack Sheppard, Bill Marshall, Ben Brownrigg
In 1922 Butlers Garage opened for business on the Great South Road, Papatoetoe.

 

 

 

 

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Percy and Bessie Butler Print E-mail
ImagePercy Butler was born on Auckland's North Shore in (1897?. In 1906 he married Bessie Turnbull who was born in Morrinsville in 1877.
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