Richard Butler (abt. 1699 - 1771)

Born about 1699 in Ballintemple, Carlow, Ireland

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Died 25 Dec 1771 at about age 72 in Kilkenny Castle, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Biography

Richard Butler born in 1699, second son of James and Frances (Abney) Butler. ^[1]

Richard married in 1728 to Henrietta Percy, daughter of Henry Percy.

Children included four sons and six daughters

1. Thomas born 1735, married Dorothea Bayly dau of Very Rev Edward and Catherine (Price) Bayley
2. Pierce born 11 July 1744 in Garryhundon, co Carlow, 3rd son; "Signer of the US Constitution"
3. William Paul
4. Jane
5. Eleanor
6. James
7. Henrietta
8. Ann Eliza born 1736 died 1764 married William Stewart

Sir Richard Butler died in 1771, at Kilkenny Castle, in County Kilkenny. His great grand daughter, Henrietta Maria Hickey, later recalled that he "died on a visit at Kilkenny Castle, to visit his cousin, Lord Ormonde, having been accidentally suffocated by the sulphur of Kilkenny coal in his bedroom."

Sources

1. ↑ "Wikipedia: 'Sir Richard Butler'" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Butler,_5th_Baronet

• Purcell, Michael (ed.), 'Family Chronicle' (1862), by Henrietta Maria Hickey, Pat Purcell Papers, London, 2012. A six-part online series of edited extracts from a 52 page letter of personal reminiscences produced by Henrietta Maria Hickey for her family in 1862 (IrishGenealogicalProjects.com). (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6).