'Butler05'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Butler of Clare, Butler of Dunboyne

                               
James Butler, 2nd Lord (11th lord) of Dunboyne (d 18.02.1624)
m1. Margaret Fitzpatrick (dau of Barnaby Fitzpatrick, Lord of Upper Ossory)
1. John Butler (dvp 07.01.1602)
  m. Joan FitzPatrick (dau of Florence FitzPatrick, Lord of Upper Ossory)
  A. Edmond Butler, 3rd Lord of Dunboyne (d 17.05.1640)
  m1. (before 1627) Margaret Butler (b c1606, d 1632, dau of Thomas, Lord Cahir)
i. John Butler, 4th Lord of Dunboyne (d 1662)
  m. Ellen Butler (dau of Pierce Butler, Viscount Ikerrin)
  a. Margaret Butler
  m. (before 11.03.1666/7) Barnaby FitzPatrick, 7th Lord of Upper Ossory (d 1696)
  ii. Ellen Butler
  m1. James Butler of Fennor, younger of Ikerrin (dvp 1638)
  m2. Gerald Grace of Ballylinch Castle (d Kilrush 15.04.1642)
  iii. Eleanor Butler (2nd dau) apparently of this generation
  m1. (1641) Edmund Butler, younger of Caher (dvp by 1648)
  m2. George Mathew of Thomastown
  iv.+ 4 sons (dsp)
  m2. Ellen FitzGerald (d 1660, dau of Gerald, Earl of Desmond)
2. Pierce Butler of Ballydroghid (d 1626)
  m. Ellen Sutton (dau of Gerald Sutton of Ballykyroe)
  A. Edmund Butler of Curragh (d 1641)
  m. Honora Gould (dau of William O'Mulryan)
  i. Pierce Butler, 5th Lord of Dunboyne (d 03.05.1690)
  m. Catharine Hurly (dau of Sir Thomas Hurly, 1st Bart of Knocklong, by Lettice Shee)
  a. James Butler, 6th Lord of Dunboyne (d 01.1701)
  m. Elizabeth Everard (dau of Sir Redmond Everard, 2nd Bart of Fethard)
(1) Pierce Butler, 7th Lord of Dunboyne (d unm 1718)
  (2) Edmund Butler, 8th Lord of Dunboyne (d 11.1732)
  m. Anne Grace (dau of Oliver Grace of Shanganagh)
  (A) James Butler, 9th Lord of Dunboyne (dsp 12.12.1768)
  (B) Pierce Butler, 10th Lord of Dunboyne (d 20.08.1773)
  m. Maria Macnamara (dau of George Macnamara)
  (i) Pierce Edmund Creagh Butler, 11th Lord of Dunboyne (d unm 12.1785)
  (C) John Butler, 12th Lord of Dunboyne, Bishop of Cork (b c1720, dsp 07.05.1800)
  m. (1787) Maria Butler (b c1764, d 08.1860, dau of Theobald Butler of Wilford)
(D) Edmond Butler (dsp 1783)
  (E) Catherine Butler
  m. William O'Brien-Butler of Bansagh
  B. Pierce Butler (dsp)
  C. William Butler of Castletown had issue
3. Ellen Butler apparently of this generation, of this marriage
  m1. Maurice Fitzgerald of Laccagh identified in BP1934 (Dillon) as "6th in descent from Thomas, 7th Earl of Kildare"
  A. Katharine Fitzgerald ("ultimate heiress")
  m. Thomas Dillon of Brackloon (b 1592)
  This may have been the Ellen Butler who also married the following Theobald, who appears to have been younger than his step-son-in-law.
  m2. Theobald Purcell of Loughmoe (b 1595, d 1644)
4.+ other issue (dsp) - Walter, Thomas
m2. Margaret O'Brien (d 20.02.1636, dau of Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond)
6. James Butler of Grellagh
  m. Ellen Butler (dau of Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormonde, 4th Earl of Ossory)
  A. Thomas Butler of Kilconnell
  m. Ellen Dwyer (dau of Philip Dwyer)
  i. Richard Butler (dsp 1686 in Bohemia)
  B. Thomas Butler (dsp)
7. Edward Butler of Clare
  m. Elizabeth Dobibn (dau of Nicholas Dobbin, alderman of Waterford)
  A. James Butler of Clare
  m. Janet Cantwell (dau of Captain John Cantwell)
  i. Edward Butler of Clare
a. James Butler, Archbishop of Cashel (d unm 1774)
  b. Michael Butler (d 15.08.1776)
  m. Mary O'Leary
  (1) James Butler of Cragnagowra (d 22.05.1784)
  m. Bridget Sheehy (dau of Bartholomew Sheehy)
  (A) James Butler, 13th Lord of Dunboyne (b 25.07.1780, d 06.07.1850) had issue
  m1. (17.08.1799) Ellen O'Connel (b c1781, d 15.03.1817, dau of David O'Connell of Cork)
  m2. (19.12.1843) Mary Anne Vincent Vaughan (d 1847, dau of ? Vaughan of Belle Hatch House)
8. Theobald Butler of Killoskehan, co. Tipperary (d before 1600)
  m. Eleanor O'Meagher of Boulebane
9. Joan Butler probably of this generation, of this marriage
  m. Callaghan MacConnoghor O'Callaghan of the Rock O'Callaghan, of Clonmeen (b c1580, d 28.05.1631)
Probably of this generation, but (if so) by which marriage is unknown, was ...
10. Joan Butler
  m1. Maurice FitzGibbon (son of Edmond FitzGibbon, 'the White Knight')
  m2. Thomas FitzGerald of Glin (a 1635)

Main source(s): BP1934 (Dunboyne), TCP (Dunboyne)
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