16. George Charles BUCKLEY (Elizabeth (Eliza) Mary BUTLER , George James ) was born 4 Jul 1861 in 17 Brydges St., Covent Garden, London. He died 17 Aug 1932 in Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen and was buried in Huntly cemetery, Aberdeenshire.

I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO FIONA HAY, A GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF GEORGE ABOVE, FOR SHARING HER INFORMATION ON GEORGE AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

George was adopted by Charlotte Anne Brett (born 1829) of Huntly in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. Charlotte was the widow of Major Reginald Brett who had died in 1859 on board ship (the Eastern Monarch) on his way from India to England. She was a member of the Drummond family of Megginch Castle in Perthshire; her parents were Adam Augustus Drummond and Sandelia Symon, and her grandparents were Admiral Sir Adam Drummond and Lady Charlotte Murray. Charlotte and Reginald had had a child, Reginald Charles Augustus Brett, who was born 3 September 1846 but who died in infancy.

The circumstances of George's adoption are not known but it's not surprising he was adopted because some of his older siblings appear to have been raised by relatives, indicating their parents died when they were very young.

The 1871 census of Scotland lists nine-year-old George in Charlotte's household at Lonach Lodge in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. The 1891 census places him in Chapel St. in Huntly, his occupation being a painter's apprentice. At the time of his marriage in 1898 he was living at 5 Bogie St. in Huntly and was a journeyman house painter; and at the time of the 1901 census, he and his family were at 15 Littlejohn St., also in Huntly.

George and his wife Mary are both buried in Huntly, next to Charlotte.

George was not married (1) to Isabella BROWN, daughter of 'unknown' BROWN. Isabella died date unknown.

MANY THANKS GO TO JACKIE FISHER, A GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND ISABELLA, FOR SHARING HER INFORMATION ON THEIR DESCENDANTS.

According to the birth certificate of her son William, Isabella was a domestic servant.

George also married (2) Mary INGRAM, daughter of Thomas INGRAM and Ann WATT, on 29 Jan 1898 in St. Margaret's Catholic Church, Huntly, Aberdeenshire. Mary was born about 1864 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. She was buried in Huntly cemetery, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Mary's occupation at the time of her marriage in 1898 was "stocking weaver"; she was living in Back St. in Huntly.

Marriage Notes:

Witnesses to the marriage of George and Mary were Alex Innes and Ellen Jane Mark.

18. Mary Theresa BUTLER (George Patrick , George James ) was born 1865 in Richmond, Surrey.

At the time of the 1891 census, Mary and her husband, Thomas, were living at Albert Hall Mansions in Kensington which had been built by Thomas's father's company. They were still at Albert Hall Mansions at the time of the 1901 census (the surname appears as "Husey" on the 1901 return) and at the time of the death of Mary's father in 1911 they were at 59 Rowan Road in Hammersmith. At the time of the death of their son Ted in 1917, they (or probably just Mary as it appears that Thomas had died by 1917) were living at 57 Gunterstone Road, West Kensington, London.

Mary married Thomas HUSSEY, son of Thomas HUSSEY and Agnes DEVINE, in 1886 in Kensington, London. Thomas was born 1864 in prob. 9 Mayfield Place, Kensington, London. He died about 1916.

Thomas, who was educated at St. Edmund's Roman Catholic College in Hertfordshire, followed his father's footsteps and became a builder.

Thomas and his brother, James, were to marry two sisters, Mary and Jane Butler. It's possible the two families were neighbours at some point because at the time of the 1881 census, the Butlers were living at 32 St. Mary Abbot's Terrace in Kensington (they later moved but it's not known when), and at the time of the 1891 (and 1901) censuses, Thomas's parents were living at 23 St. Mary Abbot's Terrace (having moved there sometime after 1884). Perhaps that's how the Thomas and James first met the Butler girls; or perhaps the connection is through Mary's and Jane's younger brother, William, who may have attended St. Edmund's at the same time as some of Thomas's brothers.

19. Jane Frances BUTLER (George Patrick , George James ) was born 1868 in St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington, London. She died 1946 in London and was buried in prob St. Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green, London.

Jane and her sister, Mary, married two brothers: Jane married James Hussey and Mary married Thomas Hussey.

Jane married James HUSSEY, son of Thomas HUSSEY and Agnes DEVINE, in 1891 in Kensington, London. James was born 27 Sep 1865 in 9 Mayfield Place, Kensington, London. He died 1936 in London and was buried in prob St. Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green, London.

James went to school at St. Edmund's College near Ware in Hertfordshire. He went on to become a solicitor. At the time of the 1901 census, he and his wife, Jane, were living at 28 Westcroft Square in Hammersmith and at the time of James's mother's death in 1913 they were at Olympia Mansions in Hammersmith. They later moved to 35 Dewhurst Road, Brook Green, Hammersmith where they lived for many years.

According to family members, James was a fine organist.

20. William John BUTLER (George Patrick , George James ) was born about 1870 in poss. 6 Brompton Square, Kensington, London. He died 2 Nov 1933 in Dublin and was buried in St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton, Dublin.

It's possible that William may have attended school at St. Edmund's Roman Catholic College in Hertfortshire: in the course of my research into the Hussey family from Kensington (members of which attended St. Edmund's and later married into William's family), I came across information on a William Butler who attended the college from 1880 until 1882 and who was born about 1870 in Brompton, Middlesex; our William above was born about 1870 in Brompton which makes me think they could be the same person.

Our William became a musical instrument maker in the family business. Sometime after 1902 (he was still living at home at the time of the death of his mother in July of that year) he moved to Dublin to run the family's Dublin shop, located by then in Monument House at 34 Bachelor's Walk. During the 1916 Rising, the shop was taken over by rebels (who emptied the building of its musical instruments, some of which were later found on the bed of the River Liffey at low tide). To oust the rebels, the British shelled the building from what was then The Red Bank Restaurant on D'Olier St. The shop was badly damaged and the business was relocated the following year to the ground floor of nearby 2 Lower Abbey St. where further troubles were to be encountered during the Civil War (1920-1923): on 6 February 1923 the IRA targeted the Pathé Frères cinema company which occupied the first and second floors of 2 Lower Abbey St. A number of armed men entered the premises, poured petrol around the Pathé Frères offices and set it alight. It's thought the men also planted an incendiary bomb as an explosion followed the fire causing a number of Pathé Frères employees to be thrown off their feet as they fled the burning building. Miraculously nobody was killed but the building was badly damaged. Although William did receive a small amount of compensation as a result of the Damage to Property Compensation Act of 1923, there was no proper insurance cover because the damage was caused by an act of war. As a result the company found itself in severe financial difficulties and was forced to close down in 1927.

William and his family, who had lived for a time at 2 Lower Abbey St. following the company's move there, later moved to Howth in Co. Dublin. William seems to have moved back to his old Abbey St. home sometime after 1923.

There are still Butler-made instruments in existence, both privately-owned and in museums. The Kenneth G. Fiske Musical Instrument Museum in Claremont, California, for example, has a Butler keyed bugle made in Dublin c. 1835. The Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments has a Butler flute and cornet (dates of manufacture unknown), and the Horniman Museum in London has a Butler harp acquired pre-1900, bright green in colour with Irish images, such as round towers and an Irish wolfhound, painted on the soundboard. And the National Museum of Ireland has a Butler bugle in its Easter Week collection. This bugle, manufactured c. 1915, has an interesting history in that it was awarded to the Irish Citizen Army in 1915 for taking first place in a drill competition; then, following the surrender of Irish forces (which included the Irish Citizen Army) in the 1916 Rising, it ended up in the hands of the British Provost Marshall who subsequently gave it to a Dr. Laurence Moran who in turn gave it to a brother of Fianna Fáil T.D., John McCann. John McCann's brother later presented it to Éamon de Valera, participant in the Rising and founder of Fianna Fáil, who would, in 1959, be elected President of Ireland. On 4 September 1948, Éamonn de Valera donated the bugle to the National Museum of Ireland.

Note: The Bachelor's Walk shop is mentioned in James Joyce's "Ulysses":
"From Butler's monument house corner he [Leopold Bloom] glanced along Bachelor's walk." (p. 151 of the Penguin Edition of 1960).

William married Eleanor (Nellie) GILROY "Nellie". Nellie was born in Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan. She died 16 Nov 1922 in Howth, Dublin and was buried in prob St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton, Dublin.

Nellie and William lived in "Lismeen", Howth, Co. Dublin.

21. Winifrid BUTLER (George Patrick , George James ) was born about 1876 in Kensington, London. She died date unknown.

The name Winifred Butler is listed in the the 1891 census return for a boarding school in Isleworth, Middlesex. This may well be our Winifred because the Winifred from the census was aged 15 at the time which is the approximate age our Winifred would have been. Unfortunately the name of the school isn't given on the census listing.

Winifrid married John GALVIN, son of 'unknown' GALVIN. John was born about 1857 in poss Mount Talbot, Tisrara, Co. Roscommon. He died 14 Apr 1941 in Co. Wexford.

The Galvin family had operated a nursey business in Co. Roscommon since 1790 and from about 1890 John and his brother James ran the Galvin nursery in the grounds of Mount Talbot House (owned by the Talbot family) in Tisrara, Co. Roscommon. The family then set up a branch of the nursery in Mount Avon, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. By the early 1930s the business had expanded to Co. Wexford with a branch at Park Cottage, just outside Wexford town, which John ran with his son Seamus. John moved from Roscommon to live in Park Cottage, a large property, which was eventually sold in 1976.

There's a 1901 census record on www.leitrim-roscommon.com for a John Gavin, a 43-year-old "nurseryman / county councillor" from Mount Talbot in Tisrara, Co. Roscommon. This is almost certainly our John above. The John Galvin from the census doesn't seem to be married at this time because the only other occupants of the household were a nursery foreman, a servant and two visitors, the visitors being a nephew named William Finnerty, aged 30, who was a clerk of petty sessions, and a cousin named William Byrne, aged 35, who was a veterinary surgeon.