2. Jane LYNCH (John ) was born about 1834 in probably parish of SS Michael and John (near Christchurch), Dublin. 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 appears to be 'SS Michael and John' near Christchurch Cathedral. Other censuses just give Dublin as Jane's place of birth. There's a possibility, however, that Jane was born in Co. Kerry as a Jane Lynch, Kerry-born and aged 16, is listed in the 1851 census return of an uncle, John Egan, a tailor, and his wife, Mary who lived in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields in Finsbury, London. Listed with John and Mary are their children, Thomas, Edward, Fanny and Alice. This in itself wouldn't be sufficient to link our Jane to the Egans, but the witnesses to Jane's marriage to George Butler 11 years later were Mary Egan and Thomas Egan. If this Jane Lynch from the 1851 census is indeed our Jane, and if her uncle made an error regarding her place of birth, the fact that he wrote Kerry (it is spelled on the census form as 'Cerry') may indicate that the Lynch family originally came from Co. Kerry. However it's very likely that it's just a coincidence that the witnesses to Jane's marriage were named Mary and Thomas Egan.

We know Jane moved to London as an infant because an 1841 census return has been located for the household on Greek Street, Soho of her Irish-born parents, John and Mary Lynch. Jane was seven years of age at this time and her three siblings, all younger, were born in London.

By the time of the 1861 census the family, now larger, had moved to 57a Charlotte Street, St. Pancras (Jane's address on her marriage certificate from 1862). Jane is now a dressmaker.

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

I'm told Jane had a relative named Kate Lynch, a niece perhaps, who worked in Paris for a time, perhaps as a governess. The story goes that Kate later moved to St. Petersburg in Russia with the same family she was working for in Paris. Following the departure of this family from St. Petersburg, Kate stayed on as governess to the family of the crown prince, later Czar Nicholas II. It's said that during the Revolution of 1917, she escaped St. Petersburg in a cattle-truck. I'm also told that Kate had a close relative, possibly a brother and possibly named Philip, who spent many years in Africa, including 10 years at the Ashanti goldmine (in Ghana?).

Jane married George Patrick BUTLER, son of George James BUTLER and Margaret Lucy MEADE/NEAD, on 11 Jan 1862 in St Patrick's Chapel, Sutton St., The Strand, London. George 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]

"The New Langwill Index lists Algernon Rose's "Talk with Bandsmen" (London, 1894; reprint ed., London: T. Bingham, 1996) as a secondary source for George's business. According to Mr. Rose, "Sixty years ago all metal instruments of extended compass were played with keys. Mr George Butler, of 29, Haymarket, London, and of Monument House, O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, will tell you that in 1874 he came across a complete set of copper instruments with brass keys…. Mr. Butler's business was established in the Haymarket in 1826 [actually 1865], and he now exports largely to distant parts of the world. Both of his sons have had Continental experience. Mr. Butler's father succeeded Mr. Dollard, who set up in Dublin about the year 1810."

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 registration district in 1865, suggesting they were living in that area 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. Sometime after Jane's death in 1902, George moved to 59 Rowan Road where he lived with his son George and his daughter Mary and her family. It's not known who moved in with whom but George senior's name is given as the head of the household in the 1911 census.

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.

The cause of George's death was "cerebral haemorrhage, 4 months; hemiplegia; congestion of lungs".

Marriage Notes:

Witnesses to the marriage were Mary Egan and Thomas Egan.

9. Teresa L. LYNCH (John ) was born about 1849 in London. She died 1 Jun 1881 in 32 St. Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington, London.

Teresa died, aged only 31, at the home of her eldest sister, Jane. The cause of death was tuberculosis from which she had been suffering for at least six months.

Teresa married Frank Castle TURNER, son of Frank TURNER and Emma 'UNKNOWN', on 12 Feb 1874 in St. Patrick's Chapel, Sutton St., Soho Square, London. Frank was born about 1840 in Birmingham, Warwickshire. He died 1905 in Strand, London.

Frank was an artist. At the time of the 1861 census Frank was living with his parents and two sisters at 43 Michael's Place, St. Mary Abbot, Kensington, London.

Marriage Notes:

Witnesses were Teresa's siblings Anna Maria and William,  and the marriage was certified by her brother Edward. Teresa's address at the time of her marriage 21 Great Russell St., Bloomsbury while Frank's was 11 Sydney St., Chelsea.