2. Elizabeth (Eliza) Mary BUTLER (George James ) was born about 1826 in Dublin. She died 24 Oct 1864 in 17 Brydges St., Covent Garden, London.

It's possible Eliza's middle name was Agnes rather than Mary - it was given as Agnes on her marriage certificate and Mary on the birth certificate of her daughter Agnes and on her (Eliza's) death certificate.

Eliza died of "arthritis, 3 weeks; enteritis, 2 days". She was only in her late thirties.

Elizabeth married John William BUCKLEY, son of John BUCKLEY, on 27 Feb 1848 in Sutton St. Chapel, Soho, London. John was born about 1823 in Soho, London. He died aft 24 Oct 1864 and poss bef 1872.

According to his marriage certificate, John was an engineer, but the birth certificate of his daughter Agnes gives his occupation as a musical instrument maker, and according to the 1861 census he was a 'musical instrument maker and news agent', and the death certificate of his wife, Eliza, gives his occupation as "musical instrument maker (master)". Did he therefore work for his father-in-law who ran a musical instrument making business? The marriage certificate of his son George (who married in 1898) tells us John had been a banker's clerk whereas George's death certificate (1932) states that John had been a general merchant. It's quite possible George was never sure what his father had worked at given that he (George) was adopted and brought to Scotland as a child, following the death of his mother (or more likely the deaths of both his parents).     

At the time of the 1861 census and at the time of the death of his wife, Eliza, John and his family were living at 17 Brydges St. in Covent Garden which until 1859 or 1860 was the location of the Butler musical instrument shop. Prior to 1861, known addresses for John were 4 Sutton St., Soho (at the time of his marriage in 1848), and 28 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden (at the time of the birth of his daughter Agnes in 1854).

Because John's wife died in 1864 and because their youngest child, George (born in 1861), was adopted and because by the time of the 1871 census other children of theirs appear to be living with relatives, it seems that John may have died shortly after his wife, before the 1871 census as there seems to be no trace of him in that or subsequent censuses.

Marriage Notes:

Witnesses to the marriage of Elizabeth and John were Edward J. [illegible surname] and Lucy Moriarty.

5. George Patrick BUTLER (George James ) was born 1834 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. He died 18 Apr 1911 in 59 Rowan Road, Hammersmith, London.

George was a musical instrument maker in the family business. According to census information, George was born in the St. Martin-in-the-Fields registration district (now incorporated into the City of Westminster), although it's not known exactly where.  The Butlers' London shops as listed below would eventually be located in this area.

William Waterhouse's "The New Langwill Index: A Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors" gives the following dates and addresses for the Butler business (my notes are in parentheses):

1859: 17 Brydges St., Covent Garden, London
1860-1865: 57 Greek St., London
1865-1898: 29 Haymarket, London (now the address of the 'Tiger Tiger' club)  
1898-1913: 29 Haymarket (under the name 'George Butler & Sons')
1868-1882: 11 Ellis Quay, Dublin
1882-1926: 34 Bachelor's Walk, Dublin (in Monument House)  
1926-1927: 2 Lower Abbey St., Dublin  

[Notes on the above dates: (i) According to the 1871 census of England, George was employing at that time five men and four boys (in the Haymarket premises), and (ii) The business actually moved from Bachelor's Walk to Lower Abbey St. in 1917 although the family seems to have retained the Bachelor's Walk premises]

George and his wife, Jane, seem to have moved around a lot after their marriage: in 1863 they were living at 29a Haymarket (next door to their future shop?); their daughter Mary was born in the Richmond area in 1865, suggesting they were living there at the time; in 1871, according to the census of that year, their home was 6 Brompton Square, Kensington; by the time of the 1881 census, they were living at 32 St. Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington; in 1891, the census shows they were living at 9 Gunterstone Road in West Kensington; and by the time of the 1901 census, they had moved to 23 Rowan Road in nearby Hammersmith.

Interestingly, at the time of the 1891 census, the family of Thomas Hussey, whose sons married George's daughters, Mary and Jane, lived at 23 St. Mary Abbot's Terrace (having moved there between 1884 and 1991), the same street where George and Jane were living in 1881. Perhaps the two families had been close neighbours at some point and perhaps that's how Mary and Jane first met the Hussey boys. Another possibility is that the Butlers and the Husseys met through their connection with St. Edmund's College in Hertfordshire: Mary's and Jane's younger brother, William, may have attended the college at the same time as some of Thomas Hussey senior's sons.

George died in 1911 at the home of his son Thomas at 59 Rowan Road in Hammersmith. The cause of death was "cerebral haemorrhage, 4 months; hemiplegia; congestion of lungs".

George married Jane LYNCH, daughter of William LYNCH and Anne 'UNKNOWN', about 1862. Jane was born Mar 1836 in prob. parish of SS Michael and John (near Christchurch), Dublin and was christened 15 Mar 1836 in SS Michael & John. She died 22 Jul 1902 in 23 Rowan Road, Hammersmith, London.

Our source for Jane's birthplace is the 1891 British census which gives her place of birth is given as "Dublin, St. Michael". The only "St. Michael" parish in the city of Dublin at that time was "SS Michael and John" near Christchurch Cathedral. Based on this and the year of birth provided by the family (1836), the baptism register for that parish was checked in the National Library in Dublin. The only record for a Lynch baby baptised in 1836 was for a Jane Lynch born to William and Anne Lynch (Anne's maiden name is not given). It's therefore most likely that the record relates to "our" Jane. Sponsors were Joseph Boulger and Jane Heyfron.

According to her death certificate Jane died from "malignant disease of bladder".