'Butler12'
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Families covered: Butler of Caher (Cahir), Butler of Glengall, Butler of Knockanamonagh, Butler of Knocklofty
| James Butler | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | ?? Butler | ||||||||||||||
| BE1883 reports that "sprung from" the above James was the undermentioned Pierce. The dates suggest that there were some intervening generations. | |||||||||||||||
| A. | ?? Butler | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Pierce Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. Ellice (Elizabeth) Bermingham (dau of MacFeoris More) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Thomas Butler of Cahir-dun-Eske | ||||||||||||||
| m. Ellice (dau of Thomas, 8th Earl of Desmond) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Edmund Butler of Cahir-dun-Eske = Caher-down-Eske | ||||||||||||||
| m. Catharine Power (dau of Sir Pierce Power of co. Waterford) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Thomas Butler, 1st Lord Caher (d 1557/8) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Eleanor Butler (dau of Piers Butler, Earl of Ormond, by Margaret Fitzgerald) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Edmond Butler, 2nd Lord Caher (dsp 1560) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Fitzgerald (dau of James Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond) | |||||||||||||||
| BE1883 identifies Thomas's 2nd wife as Ellen, dau of Thomas, Earl of Desmond, but TCP identifies her as ... | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Ellen Fitzgerald (dau of Maurice Fitzgerald by Joan, dau of John Fitzgibbon, the White Knight) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Joan Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jeffrey Prendergast of Newcastle (d 12.03.1615) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Eleanor Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir John Fitzgerald (brother of Earl of Desmond) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir John Oge | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Pierce Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Butler (dau of _ Butler, Lord Dunboyne) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Theobald Butler, 1st Lord Caher (d 28.04.1596) - continued below | ||||||||||||||
| Theobald inherited the family estates but the title was a new creation. | |||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Cusack (a 1601, dau of Sir Thomas Cusack of Lismullen, Lord Chancellor) | |||||||||||||||
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| Theobald Butler, 1st Lord Caher (d 28.04.1596) - continued above | |||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Cusack (a 1601, dau of Sir Thomas Cusack of Lismullen, Lord Chancellor, by Maud, dau of George Darcy of Plattyn) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Thomas Butler, 2nd Lord Caher (b 1567-8, d 31.01.1627) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (before 10.1598) Eleanor Butler (a 1601, dau of Richard Butler, 1st Viscount Mountgarret, by Eleanor Butler) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Ellice Fitzgerald (dau of Sir John Fitzgerald of Dromana) | |||||||||||||||
| Not certain which wife was mother of ... | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Margaret Butler (b c1606, d 1632) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (before 1627) Edmond Butler, 3rd Lord of Dunboyne (d 17.05.1640) | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Piers or Edmund Butler of Cloghcallie | ||||||||||||||
| m. Eleanor Butler (dau of Pierce Butler of Callan) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Butler, 3rd Lord Caher (d by 1648) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (02.1624/5) Eleanor Power (dau by Helen Barry of John Power, son of Richard, 1st Lord) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Edmund Butler (dvp by 1648) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1641) Eleanor Butler (dau of Edmond Butler, Lord Dunboyne) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Pierce Butler, 4th Lord Caher (d 30.01.1676) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1663) Elizabeth Mathew (d 1704, dau of Toby or Theobald Mathew of Thurles by Margaret, dau of Sir Valentine Browne, Bart) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Elinor Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir John Everard, Bart of Fethard | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Margaret Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. Theobald Butler of Knockanamonagh, 5th Lord Caher (d 1700) @@ below | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Anne Butler (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| (4) | Mary Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Walsh | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Ellin Butler (b 1637-8, d 27.05.1721) probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c1665) Sir John Morres, 3rd Bart of Knockagh (b 29.08.1620, d 26.10.1720) | |||||||||||||||
| 3. | Pierce Butler (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| 4. | Richard Butler of Clonbrogan and Knockanamonagh | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Butler (d 1680) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Ellen Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. Theobald Stapleton | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Pierce Butler of Knockanamonagh | ||||||||||||||
| m. Catharine O'Brien (dau of Donogh O'Brien) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Theobald Butler of Knockanamonagh, 5th Lord Caher (d 27.09.1700) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Mary Everard (dau of Sir Redmond Everard, 2nd Bart of Fethard, by Elizabeth Butler) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Thomas Butler, 6th Lord Caher (d 22/9.05.1744) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.07.1709) Frances Butler (b c1687, d 1733, dau of Sir Toby Butler, solicitor general, by Margaret, dau of Dominick Roche of Cahirrevaghily, 'Lord Cahiravahilla') | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | James Butler, 7th Lord Caher (b 01.08.1711, dsp 06.06.1786) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (01.1739) Christian Moore (d 20.07.1759?, dau of Michael Moore of Drogheda by Alice, dau of William Alcock of Wilton) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Pierce Butler, 8th Lord Caher (b before 1727, d 10.06.1788, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| (3) | Margaret Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. Andrew Kennedy | |||||||||||||||
| (4)+ | other issue - Theobald (d young), Jordan (dsp), Thomas (dsp), John (dsp), Mary | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Mary Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Long of Dublin | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Joanna Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (1708) James Butler of Caherbane (d 08.01.1722) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Walter Esmonde, 6th Bart (d 1767) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (02.1693) Margaret Butler (dau of James Butler, 4th Lord) @@ above | |||||||||||||||
| d.+ | 1 son and 2 daughters (nuns) | ||||||||||||||
| 5. | James Butler of Knocklofty (d 17.04.1630) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Honor Walsh (dau of Walter Walsh of Castlehoel) presumed mother of ... | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Theobald Butler of Knocklofty (a 1641) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1630) ?? | |||||||||||||||
| i. | James Butler of Glengall (d before 29.01.1737) | ||||||||||||||
| a. | Theobald Butler (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Richard Butler of Glengall (d before 1750) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Butler (dau of Richard Butler of Ballynahinch) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | James Butler, 9th Lord Caher (d 07.1788) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sarah Nichols (b c1741, d 18.04.1814, dau of Henry Nichols of Knockeenglass by Jane, dau of William Purcell of Ballyragget) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Glengall (b 13.11.1775, d 30.01.1819) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (13.08.1793) Emily Jeffereys (b 1766-7, d 02.05.1836, dau of James St. John Jeffereys of Blarney Castle by Arabella Fitzgibbon) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Richard Butler, 2nd Earl of Glengall (b 17.05.1794, d 22.06.1858) had issue (2 daus) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (20.02.1834) Margaret Lauretta Mellish (d 1863, dau of William Mellish of Woodford) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Harriet Anne Butler (b 01.01.1799, d 14.09.1860) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1822) George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b 10.02.1797, d 20.10.1883) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Charlotte Butler (d 23.03.1846) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (12.1835) Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot of Margam | |||||||||||||||
| (iv) | Emily Arabella Georgiana Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (1836) Richard Pennefather of Darling Hill (d 1849) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (1852) H.A. Hankey (Major General) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | James Butler (d young) | ||||||||||||||
| (C) | Jane Butler (d 02.11.1846) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (28.10.1815) Thomas Manners-Sutton, Chancellor of Ireland, 1st Lord Manners (b 1756, d 31.05.1842) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Ellen Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Ryan of Banshigh | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Anastasia Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Murphy | |||||||||||||||
| e. | Elinor Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Macenery | |||||||||||||||
| f. | Mary Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Fitzgerald | |||||||||||||||
| B.+ | other issue - Thomas, Richard, Mary, Catharine, Ellinor | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Margaret | |||||||||||||||
| 6. | John Butler of Cloughbridy | ||||||||||||||
| A.+ | issue - Edward, John, Walter | ||||||||||||||
| 7. | Ellen Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Butler of Ballyboe | |||||||||||||||
| 8. | Mary Butler | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Cormac McCarthy of Blarney | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s): BE1883 (Butler of Caher and Glengall), TCP (Caher)
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