Helen's Family Trees - Lynch

Descendants of William LYNCH

Third Generation

5. Mary Theresa BUTLER (Jane LYNCH , William ) 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.

They had the following children:

10 F i

Mary (Mamie) HUSSEY "Mamie" was born about 1888 in Westminster, London. She died date unknown.

Mamie lived in Wimbledon in London. She was a civil servant in the Department of Social Welfare.

11 M ii

Thomas (Tom) Leonard HUSSEY was born 1890 in Westminster, London. He died 1909 in poss Hammersmith, London.

There's an entry for a Thomas L. Hussey, aged 11, born in Westminster, London, in the 1901 census return for the household of Tom's uncle, James Hussey, in Hammersmith. The entry states that Thomas L. was a nephew of James. Because he's not listed in the census return for his own household, and because he was born in Westminster where Thomas's and Mary's other children were born, it's being presumed that Thomas L. is "our" Tom above.

Thomas died at the age of 19. We don't know what caused his early death.

12 F iii

Kathleen (Kitty) HUSSEY was born 1891 in Westminster, London. She died date unknown.

Kitty lived in Wimbledon and Barnes in London.

+ 13 M iv Robert (Bob) Edward HUSSEY was born 3 Jan 1892 and died 8 Oct 1947.
14 M v

Edward (Ted) Wilfred HUSSEY was born 1895 in Westminster, London. He died 16 Aug 1917 in Ypres, Belgium and was buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Belgium.

Ted was a Lance Corporal in the Queens Westminsters Regiment in World War I. He was killed at Ypres in Belgium, and is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Belgium (Plot XLVI, Row H, Grave 1). The cemetery, the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials, is situated 9km north east of Ieper (Ypres).

Ted's name is listed on a wall plaque in Brook Green Church in Hammersmith where he had been an alter-server.

15 M vi

Laurence (Laurie) HUSSEY was born 1896 in Westminster, London. He died date unknown.

Laurie served in World War I and survived. However we know nothing about his life after the war except that he lived in Wimbledon, London.

World War I military records (attestation, discharge and pension papers) were located for a Lawrence Joseph Hussey of 110 Baron's Court West in Kensington. Although it's being assumed that our Laurie's address at enlistment would have been 57 Gunterstone Road, West Kensington, London where we know his parents were living in 1917, there are similarities between this Lawrence and our Laurie: apart from the military and Kensington connections both had fathers named Thomas and both were born about about the same time (from census records we know that Laurie was born about 1896 and from Lawrence's medical report at enlistment we know he was born in late 1896).

In case they are the same person, details from the above records are worth noting: Lawrence Joseph Hussey was single, a fitter by trade, and was 5 feet 11 inches tall with grey eyes and black hair. He enlisted in January 1915 and was sent to France with the Royal Engineers regiment in April 1917. However only two days after his arrival he "fainted on parade following heavy march with full pack up hills" near Rouen and it was discovered he had "advanced valvular disease of the heart". He returned to England for treatment but was deemed unable to return to military service and received a discharge in March 1918.

16 F vii

Eileen HUSSEY was born prob 1903 in Hammersmith, London. She died date unknown.

Eileen isn't listed in the 1901 census return for her parents' household. Given that she was last on the list of Thomas's and Mary's children as provided by the family, she may not have been born until 1901 or later. She became a teacher and lived in Wimbledon in London.

6. Jane Frances BUTLER (Jane LYNCH , William ) 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.

They had the following children:

+ 17 M i Michael HUSSEY was born 1892 and died 1980.
18 M ii

Philip James HUSSEY was born 1894 in Hammersmith, London. He died 15 Sep 1916 in Rouen, France and was buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen.

Philip worked for The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) prior to enlisting for service in World War I. He was sent to France as a rifleman with the Queen's Westminster regiment and died from wounds sustained in the Battle of the Somme. His injuries had not been life-threatening, but conditions were such that he developed gangrene and died in a British army hospital in Rouen. He is buried in St. Sever Cemetery (not the adjoining St. Sever extension), Le Grand Quevilly, Rouen (Plot B, Row 19, Grave 3).

Philip's name appears on a World War I memorial plaque in Brook Green Church where he had been an alter-server. His name is also included on a bronze panel at Victoria Station in London commemorating members of LB&SCR staff who were killed in the war.

+ 19 M iii Stephen HUSSEY was born 25 Jul 1895 and died 7 Sep 1978.
20 F iv

Anne (Nan) Mary HUSSEY was born Jul 1899 in Hammersmith, London. She died 1990 in London.

Nan was a civil servant in the Department of Social Welfare. She lived with her sister, Winnie, in the family home at 35 Dewhurst Road, Brook Green, London.

21 M v

Martin J. HUSSEY was born 1901 in Hammersmith, London. He died 1969.

Martin worked with his brothers, Stephen and Austin, in the family building business, Hussey Bros. (Builders) Ltd., based in Queensway, Bayswater, London.

Martin married Marie HURST. Marie was born about 1910. She died date unknown.

Martin and Marie lived in Ealing in London and later on Rowan Road, Brook Green, London. They had no children.

Note: Martin's grandfather, George Butler, had lived at 23 Rowan Road and died at 59 Rowan Road. Was it to one of these addresses that Martin and Marie moved?

22 F vi

Winifred (Winnie) HUSSEY was born 1902 in prob. Hammersmith, London. She died 1993 in London.

Winnie was a teacher and lived with her sister, Nan, in the family home at 35 Dewhurst Road, Brook Green, London.

+ 23 M vii Austin HUSSEY was born 24 Apr 1907 and died Nov 1992.

7. William John BUTLER (Jane LYNCH , William ) 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.

They had the following children:

24 F i

Jennie BUTLER was born Jul 1907 in Dublin. She died Sep 2004 in Dublin.

Jennie married John HANNIGAN. John was born about 1917. He died about 1999.

John worked for the Hammond Lane Foundry. On reaching retirement he worked as manager of the Woodbrook Golf Club, and later the Bray Golf Club. He and Jennie lived in Priory Grove in Stillorgan in Dublin. They had no children.

+ 25 M ii George BUTLER

8. Winifrid BUTLER (Jane LYNCH , William ) 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.

They had the following children:

26 F i

Mary GALVIN was born 1902 in prob. Co. Roscommon. She died Mar 1930 in Dublin.

Mary, who was a doctor, died following a riding accident. She was only 27 years of age.

27 M ii

Seamus GALVIN was born 1904 in Co. Roscommon. He died Apr 1993 in Dublin.

Seamus moved from Co. Roscommon to Co. Wexford where he and his father ran a branch of the family's tree nursery. From 1949 he was also a director of the Portmarnock Country Club in Dublin. Seamus, who never married, eventually moved to Dublin.

28 M iii John GALVIN

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