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Butch Cassidy

15th Cousin

Common Ancestor

Father: Richard De Langton
Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire, England
1450 - 1500

Mother: Isabel Gerard
Newton, Lancashire, England
1458 - 1516

Born: Died:
13 April 1886 7 November 1908
Beaver, Utah Territory San Vincente, Bolivia
Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch
Cassidy, was a U.S. train robber and bank
robber, and the leader of a gang of outlaws
known as the "Wild Bunch" in the American
Old West.

Parker participated in criminal activity for more
than a decade at the end of the 19th century,
but the pressures of being pursued by law
enforcement, notably the Pinkerton detective

agency, forced him to flee the country. He fled
with his accomplice Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the "Sundance Kid", and Longabaugh's
girlfriend Etta Place. The trio traveled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and
Longabaugh are believed to have been killed in a shootout with the Bolivian army in November
1908; the exact circumstances of their fate continue to be disputed. Parker's life and death
have been extensively dramatized in film, television, and literature, and he remains one of the
most well-known icons of the "Wild West" mythos in modern times.

After purchasing a ranch of his own in Dubois, Wyoming, in 1890, Cassidy continued to rustle
cattle and horses. In 1894, the law caught up to him, and he was jailed for two years for the
crime.

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