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Elizabeth

Name origin: Hebrew

Name meaning: God's oath; dedicated

Butler

Name origin: English and Irish

Name meaning: 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.

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