Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameEdmond BUTLER, 10G Grandfather
FatherJames BUTLER
Web Notes notes for Edmond BUTLER
7th in descent from Piers Butler, 4th son of James, 2d earl of ormond. Edmond was transplanted into Connaught in 1646.
The Butlers of Cregg traced their ancestry to one of the early Ormond earls. According to a pedigree compiled by William Hawkins, Ulster, about 1703 and preserved int he Office of Arms, Dublin, this family descends from the Butlers of Kiltorean, Co. Kilkenny, whose ancestor was a younger son of the 2nd Earl of Ormond. Edmond Butler was the first of the family to settle in Co Galway.285
Edmond Butler of Kiltorcan, seventh in descent from Piers Butler, fourth son of James, 2nd Earl of Ormond was a forfeiting proprietor, 1641. He supported the Ormond Peace of 1646, and was transplanted into Connaught, where he was granted 100 acres under Decree dated 24 May 1656 (Final Settlement 23 Oct 1656) (Ormonde MSS H.M.C., vol. ii, p. 123). In 1662, John Walsh, the Duke of Ormonde's agent, furnished his patron with a list of persons from whom to select Nominees deserving of restitution of their former estates in whole or in part. The name 'Edmond Butler of Kiltorkane' appears in that list, with a recommendation that 50 acres of his Kilkenny estate be restored (Prendergast MSS, vol. iv, p. 522, in King's Inns Library, Dublin). But in 1684 '250 acres part of Kiltorcan, property of Edmond Butler, Irish Papist' was included in the Schedule of lands in Ireland to be reserved for the Duke of York (afterwards King James II) (Cal. Treas. bks, 1681-5, vol. vii for 1681-85), and that no part of these lands were recovered by the former owner appears from a letter from Ormonde to Captain George Matthew, dated 26 Feb 1686-7, in which reference is made to a lost petition from Edmond Butler, stating that he had helped to make the duke's title in the Court of Claims and had been promised consideration, but that nothing had been done (unpub. Ormonde MSS, vol. vii, p. 487, in Nat'l Lib of Ireland).285
Edmond Butler married Honora O'Shaughnessy, daughter of Donal O'Shaughnessy of Rossane, Co. Galway, by whom he had a son and heir: Piers.
The Butlers of Cregg traced their ancestry to one of the early Ormond earls. According to a pedigree compiled by William Hawkins, Ulster, about 1703 and preserved int he Office of Arms, Dublin, this family descends from the Butlers of Kiltorean, Co. Kilkenny, whose ancestor was a younger son of the 2nd Earl of Ormond. Edmond Butler was the first of the family to settle in Co Galway.285
Edmond Butler of Kiltorcan, seventh in descent from Piers Butler, fourth son of James, 2nd Earl of Ormond was a forfeiting proprietor, 1641. He supported the Ormond Peace of 1646, and was transplanted into Connaught, where he was granted 100 acres under Decree dated 24 May 1656 (Final Settlement 23 Oct 1656) (Ormonde MSS H.M.C., vol. ii, p. 123). In 1662, John Walsh, the Duke of Ormonde's agent, furnished his patron with a list of persons from whom to select Nominees deserving of restitution of their former estates in whole or in part. The name 'Edmond Butler of Kiltorkane' appears in that list, with a recommendation that 50 acres of his Kilkenny estate be restored (Prendergast MSS, vol. iv, p. 522, in King's Inns Library, Dublin). But in 1684 '250 acres part of Kiltorcan, property of Edmond Butler, Irish Papist' was included in the Schedule of lands in Ireland to be reserved for the Duke of York (afterwards King James II) (Cal. Treas. bks, 1681-5, vol. vii for 1681-85), and that no part of these lands were recovered by the former owner appears from a letter from Ormonde to Captain George Matthew, dated 26 Feb 1686-7, in which reference is made to a lost petition from Edmond Butler, stating that he had helped to make the duke's title in the Court of Claims and had been promised consideration, but that nothing had been done (unpub. Ormonde MSS, vol. vii, p. 487, in Nat'l Lib of Ireland).285
Edmond Butler married Honora O'Shaughnessy, daughter of Donal O'Shaughnessy of Rossane, Co. Galway, by whom he had a son and heir: Piers.