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From: Georgia <>
Subject: [BUTLER-L] Re: James Butler, early settler
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:04:23 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200310241800.h9OI05Wp023911@lists5.rootsweb.com>
this is great new information on "James, early settler", I am descended from
James the oldest son and now live in NH where I have been hard at work this
year plowing through Butler data. If I can be of any help here in New
England, please let me know.
Georgia Evans
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> Dear Jack and interested others,
> big break last nite, friend and tenant of mine had 1896 copies of "Irish
> Pedigrees, or The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation" volumes I thru IV, each
> volume about 850 pages. James the Irishman-early settler was transplanted
> during the
> Cromwellian wars of 1542-53 where his father Sir James and numerous other
> relatives were hung, titles later restored but he and others not killed or
> hung were sent to Jamaica as slaves on the sugar plantations, james here in
> the states. So far as per books which are part of UK hereditary peerage his
> family is direct line to Edmund Butler, first Lord Dunboyne. Now while Burkes
> Peerage also confirms this, intense research and records show that even Burkes
> peerage has numerous errors, remember history is written from the perspective
> of the victors not the vanquished, there are two other lines that also have
> direct ancestories from James the early settler and I accept only wills,
> testaments, parish birth-death-marriage records that "still exist" and
> references to above named and ancestors from land sales etc. so more study is
> being done, but this appears strong. Old books and family stories etc. are
> only used as a very generalistic road map. On a personal note, are you from
> John!
> Butler, James the early settler or from John Butler son of James Jr., James
> the early settlers oldest son? One of our ancestor, mine and yours, smith or
> Campbell butler and families went to the state of washington and then oregon,
> then returned to the east where it appears the rest went to california where
> you now reside. Let me know what you have found from there if you would please
> and thank you in advance.
> Best Wishes
> Emmett Butler
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