Ancestry of Butlers of County Wexford Ireland: Butlers of Co. Wexford- Ch. 9: Sons of Pierce Butler of Kayer

Pierce Butler of Kayer had four sons- Edward, James, John, and Walter, as named in the Petition to King Charles in 1664 by Katherine fitzHenry alias Butler and by James, John and Walter,[1] the younger children of Pierce Butler of Moneyhore, co Wexford, deceased, shewing that:

“Pierce Butler died in the Usurpers’ time, having lost his estate by the said Usurpers. Pierce’s eldest son, Edward, was certified as loyal by the Duke of Ormond at the restoration, and your Majesty, by letters to Lords Justices Orrery and Mountrath, directed that he should be restored to what estate his father had in October 1641. Edward, getting no benefit of these letters, claimed restoration before the Court of Claims, and also claimed the interests settled upon the petitioners by their father. Had it been heard, this claim must have succeeded, since Pierce Butler was always loyal and Edward was in Paris from his eighth year till his said father’s death in Paris. At the end of the time limited for hearing claims, Edward’s claim was twice placed in the list for hearing, ‘but, by the subtle artifices of those interested in the said estate, was both times before the days intended for his hearing, struck off the said list… his said antagonists well knowing there was no other way…. to deprive him or the said younger children of their right.’

Edward then petitioned the Lord Lieutenant to direct a hearing of the claim aforesaid and the Commissioners were ready to grant the petition, but they were occupied with other cases in the last days of their sittings and the petitioners’ claim was never heard. They are consequently in great poverty ‘and the said estate possessed all by a very inconsiderable company of Anabaptists and Quakers, some whereof were taken and their letters intercepted going to join with that regicide Ludlow in the said Kingdom, notwithstanding your Majesty’s proclamation against him before that time; and others of them were actually in the plot that was intended at Dublin’ against the Lord Lieutenant.

It is ‘contrary to all the rules of Christianity” (that) petitioners should lose their estate without being heard, and they believe it is not your Majesty’s intention that they should be ‘indirectly shuffled out of their right.’

They pray a reference to the Duke of Ormond for certificate of the truth of the facts alleged above, and for an opinion as to how they should be relieved ‘upon the passing of these Bills now before your Majesty relating to the further settlement’ of Ireland, by provision for their being heard or otherwise.”

The eldest three sons, of whom there are few records, will be discussed in this chapter, however, the youngest son Walter played such an important role in the history of Wexford that he will be discussed in detail in a chapter devoted to Walter Butler and his descendants.

1. Edward Butler of Moneyhore:

Pierce Butler’s eldest son was Edward who would have been born in the 1630’s. The before-mentioned petition states he was in Paris from the age of eight until his father’s death in Paris, which therefore indicates he played no role during the Rebellion. He was probably sent to Paris at the beginning of the uprising c.1642 which would place his year of birth at about 1633/34. He was, however, an adult when Cromwell ordered the transplantation of Papists in the mid-1650’s, and he had inherited his father’s estate which he applied to have restored after the Restoration, according to the Petition.

In the 1641 Civil Survey of Co. Wexford, Pierce Butler was named as proprietor of 10,680 acres in the Barony of Bantry and 1,470 acres in Scarawalsh. As a consequence of Pierce Butler’s active role during the Rebellion, the family’s estates were confiscated and assigned to Cromwellian soldiers- Captain Robert Thornhill granted “in satisfaction of his military services the beautiful demesne of Kayer” (1,400 acres, although the castle had been destroyed) (P. H. Hore V. 6, pp.517, 591) and several adjacent properties; and Captain Thomas Barrington “in satisfaction of arrears of military pay, and as purchaser, of 2,500 acres of land in the county of Wexford, late the property of Pierce Butler of Mount-Hore”, (MS. Carte 33 fol. 395- 11 May 1664- Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: Carte Papers MS, www.a2a.org.uk) including ‘Templescoby, Davidstowne, Ballygisny, Cloghassia’, part of Moneyhore, and adjoining townlands, while the remaining properties were assigned in smaller parcels to several other soldiers and adventurers.( Books of Survey and Distribution Co. Wexford 1641-1701, National Library of Ireland, Ms 975). Captain Thomas Barrington was in Lord Henry Cromwell's regiment of horse.

According to Pierce’s son Edward, “Pierce, in 1652 refused to take back his estate from the Usurper on condition of acknowledging his authority, although lands were ordered to him by an ineffectual order ‘commonly called an intent’ by the Usurper.” (see below) This was Pierce’s response to the terms of the treaty referred to as the ‘Kilkenny Articles’, negotiated by the Earl of Westmeath and seven commissioners for the Irish at Kilkenny with General Ludloe commander-in-chief of the Parliament forces in Ireland, and signed on May 12, 1652.

Edward had been ordered to transplant to Connaught in 1653 by Cromwell, as his father’s heir. The heir and the next in line, were considered for transplantation if their father was guilty of rebellious behaviour.

Hore’s list of Transportable Proprietors has the following information, which describes how many people and what goods the transplantee would be taking to Connaught. The record for Edward states:[2]

Edward Butler of Clough, 17 Dec 1653, no of persons 49 (a comparatively high number), 14 acres of Winter corn, 27 acres of Summer corn, 6 cows, 4 garron, 83 sheep, 2 goats, 38 swine; date of inquisition 14 Feb 1653.

(NB His father was described as Pierce Butler of Clough in several depositions, viz. of Cloghnegeragh, or Kayer.)

The number of persons Edward listed to be transplanted was 49- this was a very large number of people he was responsible for, compared to the other records listed, including Viscount Ikerrin’s, whose story was related in the previous chapter.

These included family members, household servants, and tenant farmers on his estate.

It would be interesting to see the actual record, which would describe Edward’s age; his stature-tall, medium/middle, or short/low; and his hair colour- flaxen, yellow, black, brown, graye; as well as descriptions of all of his family and servants, plus his stock -an example given by Prendergast was:

Richard Butler of Garrinlowe in Co Waterford, thirty; flaxen; tall; tenant; six cows, twenty sheepe, twelve garrans; three acres of wheate and beare; Giles Butler, his wife, twenty-foure; brown; low [3])

It is not known if Edward actually transplanted or stayed in the area illegally. It would appear that no-one in Wexford had transplanted as ordered. The following “Orders to the Respective Sheriffs Touching Irish Papists Transplantable that Do Not Transplant” is quoted in Hore’s “History”:[4]

“Whereas the former orders from this Board issued in August and September last the High Sheriffs of Leinster for the reasons therein menconed were authorized and required by all due ways and meanes to informe themselves and to make strict inquiry within their respective Bailiwicks what popish proprietors of Lands Transplantable, do yet remain untransplanted… and what wives, children, or next heirs of those that are already Transplanted have not removed themselves as aforesaid, as also what Irish Papists have borne arms with the Rebels and do yet remaine untransplanted and to expresse which of them have been Commissioned officers in the Rebells’ Army, and in what capacity, and which of all those persons are by publique Authority permitted to stay, by whom licensed, and for what tyme, and to certify the same from time to time unto this Board as there should be occasion, together with the names, sirnames, ages, sexes, color of haire, and other Marks of Distinction both of themselves and of their wives, children, and next heires, with their places of abode where they respectively reside, as by the said orders more fully appeareth. Forasmuch as no returns have as yet been made from severall Counties of what by the said Orders they were directed, and that by fayling of the due Execucon thereof the publique hath received much prejudice; It is thought fit and ordered that Thomas Dancer Esq High Sheriff for Co Wexford, and for the townes of Wexford, Rosse and Inniscorthy, Colonel Robert Phayr, Lieut. Colonel Puckle and Captain Solomon Camby, or any two of them, do upon receipt hereof put the said Orders and Instructions into due and speedy Execucon in the County of Wexford, and that they make a returne thereof to this Board at or before the 1^st day of ffebruary next, and in a distinct forme according to the printed method herewith sent them. Whereof they are not to faile.

Dated at the Council Chamber in Dublin the 31 December 1656.”

However, on 3 June 1656 'Edward Butler fitzPierce of Cor (recte Clough) Co Wexford' had a Certificate from the Athlone Commissioners for 496 acres in Connaught, with a final settlement by the Loughree Commissioners dated 10 June 1657. [5]

He is on the list of people who were granted lands in Connaught: [6]

Edward FitzPierce Butler of Corr, Co. Wexford (noted: ie. Kayer)- land granted Barony of Ballynahinch, County Galway; two localities- Parishes of Ballynakill and Omey - 496 (?) Irish acres of which 540 “profitable decreed”.

(NB. The second figure exceeds the first, which indicates one of the figures is incorrect- possibly they were switched; or the ‘5’ in 540 should have read ‘3’ ie. 340). Ballynakill and Omey are on the far west coast line of County Galway.

Edward FitzPierce Butler of Corr (noted: Kayer, now Wilton, bar. Bantry), co. Wexford. (noted: Hore, Wexford, gives Revenue Certificate for Edward Butler of Clough but no decree.)- 496 Irish acres of which 375 “profitable decreed” in County Galway, Barony of Clare, two Parishes of Annaghdown and Lackagh- assigned by Order of Authority 12 Feb 1655-56.

This land is in the middle of Galway, near a great lake. Notably many Wexford landowners, particularly those who were closely associated with the Kayer Butlers, were assigned in this Barony- Bryen, Cheevers, Colclough, Devereux, Masterson, Murphy, Roch, Synnott etc.

Under the Qualifications, land allocations were supposed to be assigned at one-third of original land owned.

According to the above records, Edward’s total allotment was nearly 1000 Irish acres. 121 Irish acres = 199 statute acres, therefore 1000 Irish acres is equivalent to 1600 Statute acres. ( ie. one-third of 4800 acres in Wexford). However, the first settlement may have been replaced by the second, as the number of acres allotted is identical, viz. 496. Notably the first allocation was on the far west coast and probably unsuitable for farming.

Edward’s grants at:

Annaghdown 5 & Lackagh 99 (centre of map- Barony of Clare);

Ballynakill 17 & Omey 110 (far left- Barony of Ballynahinch)
(Source- R. C. Simington, Transplantation to Connaught 1654-58, University Press for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1970 )

Whether Edward actually went to Connaught is unknown. He would marry as his first wife, Jane, daughter of Colonel Thomas Bagenal who was transplanted with his family to Co. Galway- Killoscobe in the Barony of Tiaquin, No. 83 on the map- a few miles to the right of Edward’s land. However, this could be just a coincidence as the Bagenals were closely related to the Butlers of Ormond and Galmoy, and the association probably arose through this connection.

Hore gives a description of the townland of Templescoby, east of Enniscorthy: [7]

“The townland of Templescoby being included with others under Rossdroit Parish, the whole of which was owned by Pierce Butler, Irish Papist, in 1641, the above townland being granted to Thomas Barrington. This was afterwards leased by him to Edward Butler, Esq., of Moneyhore.” (see Deed below).

Following the restoration of Charles II in 1660, a Court was established to resolve claims for the restoration of estates back to their original proprietors, however few were fortunate enough to succeed. Most claims were disallowed, fearing an uprising by the soldiers and adventurers who had been allocated the confiscated estates. By the Act of Settlement of 1662, one of the provisos framed to prevent restoration to estates was that whoever had taken portions of land in Connaught during the Interregnum, were not to recover their original lands, although there were several exceptions made including Lord Esmonde 2^nd Bt. of Co. Wexford. A few of the principal gentry who had adhered to the treaties of peace made by Ormonde with the Confederates recovered parts of their properties.

On 15 March 1661, Edward Butler had a certificate from the King directing the Lords Justices, Crory and Mountrath (apt 31 Dec 1660) to restore him to the estates which his father had owned in October 1641, but he had no benefit from these orders:[8]

The King (from Whitehall) to the Lord Justices (Lords Orerry and Mountrath -Appt.31 Dec.1660) for Edward Butler of Moynehore (Moneyhore) Co. Wexford:

The Earl of Donegall and Lords Moore and Baltinglass report on his petition, testifying to his loyalty and that of his father Pierce Butler. Pierce, in 1652, refused to take back his estate from the usurper on condition of acknowledging his authority. Although lands were ordered to him by an ineffectual order, ‘commonly called an intent’, by the usurped power, the referees consider that he should be restored to the estates of which his father was dispossessed. Grant accordingly and Clauses for Execution, viz. He shall be treated as an ‘innocent person’ and restored to these houses &c. All persons possessed of the premises under colour of any actings of the late powers are to deliver up the lands to him. The Lords Justices and Sheriffs shall assist in the execution of this order. The Barons of the Exchequer shall put out of charge any rent charged on the premises under pretence of any title lease or interest derived from the late Usurped powers.

Captain Thomas Barrington wrote to Ormonde on 11 May 1664 concerning his assigned lands of Moneyhore, Templescoby etc.: [9]

Sir Thomas Barrington to Ormond, written from Dublin, has set out to view, in satisfaction of the writer’s arrears (of Military pay), and as purchaser of 2,500 acres of land in the county of Wexford, late the property of Pierce Butler of Mount-Hore, the lands are barren and cannot be let for above twelve pence per acre a year; so that, deducting quit rent, the profit will be but seven pence per acre, prays for a long lease thereof from his Grace… Edward Butler, son of Pierce, aforesaid, gives out in ordinary discourse that the Duke hath no right or title to that estate; and that he, Butler, is to be restored thereto, by name, in the Act that is to pass. ….

In May 1663, Edward was conducting business as the expectant proprietor of the lands of Moneyhore:

Petition to Lord Ormonde of Edward Butler of Moinyhora Co. Wexford, Esquire: Permission to purchase on Sir John Boyse’s valuation, the timber on Moynehora lands, security being given for payment should petitioner not be restored to said lands, 7 May 1663.’[10]

In August 1663, his claim was presented to the Commissioner of the Court of Claims in Dublin on two occasions but was each time struck off the list a few days before the hearing by his antagonists.

In 1664, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the Duke of Ormonde was ordered to select a list of nominees for restoration, of heads of families who lost their lands through the Cromwellian Settlement and were not restored by the Court of Claims in 1663, and were not, for the most part, compensated with grants in Connaught or Clare. A set of criteria was framed to take into consideration the nominees’ conduct during ‘the late horrid Rebellion’. Ormonde nominated ‘Pierce Butler of Moneyhore (600)’, who qualified under Clause H: ‘Those who submitted and constantly adhered to the peace of 1648’,[11] and consequently it would appear that Edward was restored to a very small portion of his inherited properties, in the Parish of Rossdroit, including Moneyhore.[12] Notably, ‘Edward fitzPierce Butler of Cor’ (Cayer) had received grants in Connaught, yet ‘Pierce Butler of Moneyhore’ was nominated for restoration. Possibly this was the strategy used to circumvent the exclusion clause for those who had taken portions in Connaught. When Thomas Barrington died in 1676 he was described as ‘of Ballymacane’ in the southern Barony of Forth, which he was granted in 1656/57, having served in Lord Henry Cromwell's regiment of horse. He was succeeded by his son, Thomas who succeeded to his estate 30 July 1676.

In April 1667, a lease was signed between: [Captain] Thomas Barrington Esq, Walter Butler of Clogh and Edward Butler of Monihore Esq’s for the term of 2000 years at the rent of £40 payable to Barrington and his heirs.

In 1680, Capt. Barrington’s son and heir, Thomas Barrington, then signed, Deeds of Lease and Release dated April 1680 between Barrington, of Ballymackehan Co Wexford, Gent, and Abel Ram of Dublin, Alderman, whereby the said Barrington for the sum of £100 (?) sold to the said Ram and his heirs all the lands granted to him in the Barony of Bantry set down in the Act of Settlement Book vol 2, p.119,120 with a clause of Warranty against any Claim (except one lease tripartite dated April 1667 made between Thomas Barrington of Wexford Esqr, Walter Butler of Clogh and Edward Butler of Monihore, Co Wexford, Esq’s, for the term of 2000 years at the rent of £40 payable to Barrington and his heirs, which rent of said Walter Butler was to pay to the said Ram and his heirs.)

Enrolled 8 May 1680.

(NAI Lodge/8/157, ‘Grant of an Indenture to Thomas Barrington in Wexford’, Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland)

Sir Abel Ram (d.1692), banker and goldsmith of Dublin, Alderman, and later, Lord Mayor of Dublin, was the son and heir of Abel Ram of Gorey in Wexford who died in 1676.

Map of Barony of Bantry, part of the lands of Pierce Butler- Wilton als Kayer, town of Clough (on the opposite side of the Boro River), Moneyhore, Davidstown, Ballygillistown, Clohass, Templescoby, Ballyknockan, Ballyeland, etc.

Edward did not make a claim for the restoration of the lands of Kayer/Clough assigned to Captain Thornhill, only those of Moneyhore, Templescoby etc., although in the Barrington Lease of 1667, Walter is described as ‘Walter Butler of Clogh’ for which he was paying £40 per annum ‘for 2000 years’- whether this meant lands around the town of Clough rather than the Castle is not clear. Certainly, by the time of brother Edward’s death in 1676, Walter is named as ‘Walter Butler of Monpine’ in Edward’s Will.

Captain Robert Thornhill appears to have had friends in high places. In 1667 he was appointed to aid and assist in the management of the Duke of York’s affairs in respect of his claims to the lands lately held by the ‘Regicides’ in Ireland, granted to the Duke in the Act of Settlement of 1662. Lord Ormonde wrote to the Duke’s secretary in December 1668 complaining that the agents, especially Thornhill, chosen to manage the Duke’s concerns in Ireland were “fellows of notorious infamy, by whose means multitudes of all sorts of persons have been put to extraordinary vexation and charge”, accusing them of seizing lands to which the Duke of York had no proper claim, and placing every delay they could to the Duke’s claim being brought to a hearing of the Commissioners, “for the sake of the gifts and fees made to them as agents upon making leases of the lands”. Ormonde made reference to an inquiry in 1659 in Co. Wexford into the conduct of Captain Robert Thornhill who was charged with several “misdemeanours rendering him incapable of continuing in his command in the militia”, the charges including “being cashiered from the army for cheating, being ejected from the Anabaptist Church, and of being a common liar”. One of the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, Sir Winston Churchill, attacked Thornhill and his fellow agents for their “fraudulent conduct”, calling them all “knaves”, and at a personal meeting with Thornhill in his chambers, passionately threatened to kick the Captain down the stairs.[13] In 1663, Thornhill petitioned Ormonde requesting to be released from gaol in Dublin claiming he had been falsely imprisoned and charged with being in the same barony when a criminal act was committed by the army, and that he had been cleared of the charge yet remained imprisoned, and that he had lived inoffensively as a farmer for the past twelve years. In 1695 a son of Captain Thornhill sold Clogh-na-Kayer to William Alcock who rebuilt the castle on the old foundations and re-named it Wilton. Wilton Castle remained in the hands of the Alcock family until it was destroyed by fire in 1923, set alight by rebels as civil war once again raged throughout the country, however the ruins can still be seen today.

The following information on the Act of Settlement was taken from The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society [14]:

“By the Act of Settlement, after the Restoration, one of the provisos framed to prevent restoration to estates was, that whoever had taken portions of land in Connaught during the Interregnum were not to recover their original lands. Indictments for high treason had, in 1642, been laid in Dublin against the principal gentlemen of the county. See Carte’s Ormonde, Vol ii, as to the nature of these indictments. The text implies that, although numbers of estated men were not condemned by any tribunal, the fact of their being expelled of 1654 enabled the Adventurers and Soldiers to keep them out after the Restoration. A few of the principal gentry of the county, who had adhered to the treaties of peace made by Ormonde with the Confederates, recovered parts of the properties, as Sir Thos Esmonde, Bart.; Robert Devereux of Carigmenan, who had been one of the Supreme Council of the Confederation; and Colonel Dudley Colclough of the Duffrey. (names a few others such as Philip Hore of Kilshalghan). But, as stated in the text, the mass of landed proprietors, having been ejected in 1654, were excluded by various circumstances and on various pretences from restoration.”

In April 1666, The Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland preferred to the King their “Humble Remonstrance, Acknowledgement, Protestation & Petition”,[15] in which they outlined their “injuries and the calumnies they had suffered” during the Cromwellian years and “prayed the royal protection”. This memorial was accompanied by the “Faithful and Humble Remonstrance of the Roman Catholic Nobility and Gentry of Ireland”, in which they set forth “the prodigious afflictions under which the monarchy of Great Britain had, before his Majesty’s happy Restoration, groaned these twenty years; and out of our sad thoughts, which daily bring more and more sighs from our breasts, and tears from our eyes, for the still as yet continued miseries and sufferings of the Catholic natives of this our unfortunate country, even amidst, and ever since the so much famed joys and triumphs of your Sacred Majesty’s most auspicious inauguration;” and the Petitioners, referring to and identifying themselves with the aforesaid Remonstrance of the Clergy, then proceeded to vindicate themselves, solemnly pledged their loyalty, and disclaimed any power of the Pope to loosen their allegiance, or sanction their rebellion. Among the 118 signatories were:

Edmond Butler Viscount Mountgarrett; Edward Butler of Monehore; Philip Hore of Killsallaghan (Edward’s brother-in-law); Pierce Butler of Callan; Pierce Butler of Killveaghlegher; James Butler of Ballinakill; Anthony Colclough, Patrick Sarsfield of Lucan, Thomas Dillon Viscount Dillon, Theobald Taaffe Earl of Carlingford, William Viscount Taaffe, Edward FitzHarris Bt., etc. (all names close to this Butler family.)

This would appear to indicate that Edward was the proprietor of the land of Monehore.

‘Edward Butler of Cloghast’ (Cloghass/Clohass- in the Templescoby Quarter) was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for Co. Wexford in April 1672.

The will of ‘Edward Butler of Moneyhore’[16] dated 21^st December 1676 also listed place names: ‘Templescoby, Cloghass, Ballyguilsory and Davidstown’, all part of his father Pierce’s original holding adjoining the lands of Moneyhore assigned to Barrington. Unfortunately, the Court of Claims generally granted restoration of properties for ‘a life interest’ only, which would mean the property was lost to the family on the grantee’s death, in which case Edward’s children would have lost ownership of these properties on the premature death of their father in 1676, unless he had purchased them. Neither Edward nor his son Pierce were listed in the 'Books of Survey and Distribution' as owning these lands.

Edward’s three younger brothers and his sister were deprived of their inheritances from their father Pierce Butler, and claimed “they are consequently in great poverty”.

Edward Butler’s marriages

Edward married twice, firstly to the daughter of Thomas Bagnall, a family closely associated with the Butlers, by whom he had several children, referred to in his will. However, only the name of his eldest son, Pierce, is named in his will [17]- it is unknown what happened to Pierce who would have been born c. 1655-1670.

Colonel Thomas Bagenal, a commander of Leinster troops, was brother to Col. Walter Bagenal of Dunleckney, one of the commissioners who negotiated the Kilkenny Articles and was soon after executed for murder committed during the rebellion. Walter and Thomas Bagenal were first cousins to James Butler 1^st Duke of Ormonde, their mother being Joan Butler dau. of Walter 11^th Earl of Ormond (and his wife Ellen Butler daughter of Edward Butler 2^nd Viscount Mountgarrett) and sister to Ormonde’s father Thomas Viscount Thurles. Thomas was son of George Bagenal of Dunleckney Co. Carlow (now Bagenalstown).

(The circumstances of Walter Bagenal’s case and execution were recounted in an earlier chapter)

Thomas Bagenal was forced to transplant with Jane his wife, their children (four sons and a daughter Jane), and an afflicted brother Nicholas, into Connaught in 1653. A book on the Bagenal family of Dunleckney, Vicissitudes of an Anglo-Irish Family 1530-1800, by Philip H. Bagenal,[18] provides some interesting information on Thomas:

“Thomas petitioned in 1655 to be allowed to come back into Leinster on business for a limited time and received the following reply from the Commissioners of the Government:

“Upon consideration had of the within petition of Col. Thos Bagnall, it is thought fit that the said Colonell reside in Connaught conforming to rule, Butt on application made to the Governor of Athlone he may have libertie from the said Governor for one of his servants to return to Leinster (iff a real necessetie thereof appear for the ends mentiuoned in the Peticion) and for such tyme as shall be said Governor be thought expedient thereto, provided good securitie be given for the said servant’s returne att the expiration of the said terme allotted him. Dated at Athlone 16 June 1655.”

Colonel Thomas Bagenal had a property of some 379 acres at Dunganstown, Co Carlow, which probably required his supervision and made him anxious to return. The condition of gentry driven into Connaught with their wives and families was sad enough. Deprived of their accustomed accommodation some went mad or died; others hanged themselves, and hundreds, throwing up their allotments or selling them for a mere trifle to the officers of the State, fled in horror and aversion from the scene and embarked for Spain.”

Thomas filed several claims of the Court of Claims for the return of his lands which were denied. Apparently various English authors of the time made jokes about his cases and his attempts to recover his holdings.

It is unknown exactly where Thomas and his sons ended up but it would appear (from Bagenal descendants’ research) that they settled in Co. Tipperary and Co. Cork, in the Province of Munster, as he was barred from returning to his lands in Leinster which had been confiscated and re-granted. Thomas’ sister Mary married __ Butler of Ballinakill Co. Tipperary (BTR 242, Thomas named as executor). She died 1656, sons named as James and Walter Butler.

Following his wife Jane’s death, Edward married secondly Marie Hore the daughter of Philip Hore, but had no issue.

His father-in-law Philip Hore (II), of Kilsalaghan Castle, co. Dublin (seven miles north of Dublin) was son of Philip Hore Esq (I)., who was appointed Grand Seneschal of Co. Wexford in 1596 and Collector of Customs for the whole of Ireland in 1601, and died in 1631.

This branch of the Hore family of Pole Hore, Co. Wexford, had a long association with the family of Butler.

Philip Hore (I) was related to the Butlers of Kayer, through his aunt, Annistace, daughter of Sir Nicholas Devereux and sister of Pierce Butler of Kayer (I)’s wife Margaret Devereux. His grandmother was the daughter of FitzHenry of Kilkevan, Co. Wexford..

Philip Hore (II) b.1603, d.1646, was appointed High Sheriff of Co. Dublin in 1639. In 1642, as a Catholic, he fled with his family to his kinsman Hore of Pole Hore in Wexford, was attainted, his estates confiscated, and two days later signed the Roll of the Holy Catholic Confederation, being elected President of the 1^st Council held in Wexford in August 1642. He served on the Supreme Council sitting at Kilkenny the following month and was chosen to serve in several general assemblies, before dying during the time of the Rebellion.

Philip Hore’s (II) widow, Mary (Molly) Hore, on getting the summons to transplant to Connaught, went down to her stable and hanged herself in 1657. [19] Prendergast recounts from p19 “Threnodia Hiberno-Catholica, etc etc. The Wail of the Irish Catholics: or, the Groans of the whole Clergy and People of the Kingdom of Ireland, in which is truly set forth an Epitome of the unheard of and transcendental Cruelties by which the Catholics of this Kingdom of Ireland are oppressed by the godless English under the Arch-tyrant Cromwell, the Usurper and Destroyer of the Three Realms of England, Ireland and Scotland. (By Friar Maurice Morison of the Minors of Strict Observance; Lecturer in Theology; an Eye-witness of those Cruelties”. Innsbruck, Printed by Michael Wagner 1659)

“In the month of January 1852, I went to see the lands of Kilsallaghan lying near Saint Margaret’s, seven miles north of Dublin, preparatory to bringing them to sale in the Incumbered Estates Court for the arrears of jointure of a kinswoman. It was church-time when I got there; and while waiting in a farmer’s house till the service was over, as the church was on the lands attached to the ruined castle of Killsallaghan, I asked the farmer’s daughter if she knew who dwelt in the castle in the old times, knowing very well that it had belonged to the Hores. She was quite aware of it; and on my asking if there was anything bearing the name of the family in the neighbourhood, she said there was Molly Hore’s Cross up the road a bit. I was getting ready my note book to copy the inscription, when she informed me that it wasn’t a stone cross, but a cross of the road so named. I asked how it got the name. She Said, “When the orders came from Cromwell to put the people out, Molly Hore couldn’t stand it, and she went into a stable they had down there, and hanged herself,”; and they buried her, of course, by the coroner’s ‘quest law, as a suicide, at the cross roads.

The book “A Genealogical History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland” written by J. Burke:

Philip Hore esq. Of Killsallaghan Castle- daughter Mary who married Edward Butler, esq. of Moneyhore, in the County of Wexford, grandson of Pierce, Baron of Kayer (sic- should be son of Pierce), and eldest brother of Colonel Sir Walter Butler, knight of that shire, and lord lieutenant of the county in 1689.[20]

Philip (II) and Mary’s son, also named Philip (III), b. 1625, although also attainted and excommunicated, eventually succeeded in recovering about one half of their extensive Co. Wexford properties.

Philip Hore (III) married the daughter of George Cheevers and Ellen Butler, daughter of Sir Richard Butler of Knocktopher [21]. His claim to fame during the latter part of the Rebellion was “to tear down the printed proclamation by Cardinal Rinuccini against the Declaration of Peace, which was nailed up against the door of St. Mary’s Church in Wexford Town, for which he was, as stated in his Petition to King Charles II, particularly excommunicated”. [22] At the time, Philip was living at Ballycheoge, staying with Dudley Colclough, the then owner. Rinuccini, the Papal Nuncio, supported the clerical faction of the Supreme Council of the Catholic Confederation, supported by Edward’s father Pierce of Moneyhore.

Burke’s book has:

“Philip Hore (III) esq., after his father’s death in 1646, had a commission as captain to raise a foot company for the confederates. On the usurpation his estates were seized by Cromwell in consequence of his having fought on the royal side, in opposition to the rebellious parliament, and the murderers of his king. He regained, after much expense and great difficulty, half of his father’s possessions and in 1666 obtained a patent for 4873 acres in Co Wexford and 1439 in co Dublin. In a Memorial to Charles II, he stated that “nothing could be objected to his innocency, he being an infant in 1641, and that when he grew to years and was able, he did to the utmost of his power further and promote his majesty’s interest, in opposition to the pope’s nuncio, whose excommunication he pulled down from the church door in Wexford, for which he was particularly excommunicated; and that the postponement of his claims was in regard that he took some inconsiderable pittance of land in Connaught from the usurped powers, which he was necessitated to take or to starve.”

Philip married Ellen dau of Sir George Calvert (NB. this should read George Cheevers), 1^st Lord Baltimore, and had four issue, (his daughter Margaret married James, son and heir of Colonel Nicholas Devereux of Balmagir and his wife Jane Loftus). Philip Hore and the Cheevers were assigned 800 acres jointly in the Barony of Tulla, Co. Galway in the Act of Settlement.

Philip Hore (III) died at Ballycheoge (now Bellevue) in 1681. He was succeeded by his heir, George Hore of Ballycheoge and Edermine, who received a pardon from Charles II in 1676 for having killed Edward, son of Sir Edward FitzHarris, bart. in a duel. He married 1^st March 1678, Eleanor Masterson, daughter of __ Masterson, esq. and a daughter of Sir Edward Butler, 1^st Viscount Galmoy. He was attainted in 1690, and following James II into France, died at St Germaine, leaving son Philip Hore who served in the Irish Brigade.”

Edward Butler died at a young age in 1676 and left a Will [23]:

BTR 70.

Edward Butler of Monyhoare (Wexford) dated 21^st Dec, 1676. Proved 6^th June 1677.

First wife: Jane Butler alias Bagnall.

Second wife and Executrix: Marie Butler alias Hoare.

Children by first wife referred to, but Pierce alone named.

Fathers-in-law: Thomas Bagnall; Philip Hoare.

Brothers and Executors: Walter Butler of Monpine (Monphin) and Nicholas fitzHenry.

Place names: Templescobie, Cloghass, Ballyguilsory; Davidstown.

Witnesses: Marcus FitzHenry, Morgan Birne, Rath Larey.

NB. The place names of townlands in Edward’s will, were all in the area previously owned by his father, which should have been his inheritance.

According to Patrick Lord Dunboyne’s notes, Pierce Butler of Moneyhore Co Wexford (son of Edward) had a daughter Ellen who married Thomas Butler son and heir of John Butler of Widdington Co Tipperary whose son and heir Edward Butler married Catherine daughter of James Butler of Derryluskan (ref.- Mrs Cookman’s notes)

2. James Butler:

The petition names James as Pierce’s second son. James married Mary Colclough, the daughter of John Colclough of the Duffry and Pouldarrig, third son of Sir Thomas Colclough of Tinterne, and brother of: Dudley Colclough of the Duffry in Monart, Barony of Scarawalsh, Anthony Colclough of Rathin and Sir Adam Colclough 1^st Bart of Tintern Abbey.

“Mary, daughter of John Colclough and wife Katherine Synnot, d/o William (or Walter) Synnott, married James Butler of Clough c.1654.” [24]

(NB. Anthony Colclough of Rathin’s daughter Mary (b.c.1645 d.1697) married a James Butler of Ballinleg c.1665 [25] - it is unknown which line that James Butler is from- possibly James the brother of 2nd Viscount Galmoye b.c.1640, as, part of Galmoye’s Wexford land was named Ballinluig or Ballinlug, very close to the Duffry- he died d.s.p.)

According to Lord Dunboyne, James Butler and Mary Colclough (dau of John) had children- Richard (ob.s.p.), Piers, Margaret, Elinora who married a Cavanagh, and Joan. [26]

Nothing for certain is known about this James Butler. The petition indicates that James was underage during the Rebellion. He is not named as a brother in Edward’s will, so may have died before Edward died in 1676. However, the brothers named in Edward’s will were also executors, and therefore James may not have been named as he was not an executor.

The petition of Katherine fitzHenry, James, John and Walter, described them as being left in poverty due to the confiscation of their father’s land. The petition therefore implies that James had not received any lands in the transplantation, in which case he is unlikely to have been the same James Butler discussed above in the transplantation lists.

Hore has the following record: [29]

1687, 10 October- Patrick Colclough Esq (son of Dudley Colclough) added to the list of Burgesses of the Borough of Enniscorthy.

and, 18 October- James Butler and Charles Kavanagh sworn as Burgesses.

Charles Kavanagh may have been the father of the Kavanagh who married James's daughter Elinora.[30]

Charles Kavanagh may also be the Charles, son of Sir Morgan Kavanagh of Clonmullen in the northern Barony of Scarawalsh Co Wexford, a close associate of Pierce Butler of Kayer during the Catholic Confederate rebellion who acted as a colonel of Wexford forces until he was killed in 1643. The Kavanaghs of Clonmullen had been close to the Butlers since the 15th century. Charles Kavanagh, who also supported his father during the rebellion, was killed during the 1690 rebellion supporting the deposed Catholic King James II against William of Orange. Charles's daughter Lucy would marry James Butler's brother Walter's stepson Richard Butler of Galmoy.

James may have lived on the lands of his brother Edward, or leased lands in the area around Enniscorthy. Nothing is known of any descendants.

3. John Butler

The third son of Pierce Butler, named John in the petition by Katherine fitzHenry alias Butler. Nothing is known about this son, John, and no records of a John Butler have been found at this time, in this area of Co. Wexford.

(I will have to see Lord Dunboyne’s records for any further information.) By tradition, the third son of gentry families was destined for the church, and at that time, men entering the clergy were sent to the Continent for their studies, and after Cromwell’s invasion, all members of the clergy stayed on the Continent, or fled there to escape persecution. Catholic families in Wexford were particularly noted, by Wexford historians, for their contribution to the Catholic Church over the centuries in terms of the number of priests, nuns and brothers coming from these long established families. Whether John Butler made up one of their number is not yet known, but it is quite feasible to assume he did so.

However, he may also have remained on the Continent and joined either the French or Spanish armies.

4. Walter Butler of Munphin Co. Wexford

Fourth son Walter Butler will be discussed in detail in the following chapter. He played a significant part in the history of County Wexford and consequently there are numerous records of his activities. His son, stepson and granddaughter also made their mark which will be enumerated.

Link back to Introduction
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-co-wexford-ch1-richard-1stviscount-mountgarrett.html

Links to all chapters on Pierce Butler of Kayer (c.1600-1652) on this blog:

Pierce Butler of Kayer Part I- early life and marriage
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-4-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part II- role in the Catholic Confederation Rebellion

http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-5-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part III- Depositions against Pierce Butler after the Catholic Confederation Rebellion
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-6-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part IV- Land ownership by the Butlers of Co Wexford in the 1641 Civil Survey
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-7-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part V- Pierce and the Cromwellian confiscations
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-8-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part VI- sons of Pierce Butler of Kayer
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-9-sons-of-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer's youngest son Walter Butler of Munphin
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-10-walter-butler-of-munphin-pt1.html

Links to all of the chapters in this blog:

Pierce Butler of Kayer Co. Wexford (the elder) c.1540-1599
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch2-pierce-butler.html
Edward Butler of Kayer Co. Wexford, 1577-1628
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-3-edward-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer and Moneyhore (the younger), c.1600-1652, Part I
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-4-pierce-butler.html

[1] Calendar of State Papers Relating to Ireland, volume 22 (1625-1670)- P. ¾ Endd. S.P. Ireland, 346, 57

[2] Philip Hore (ed), History of the Town and County of Wexford, Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C., London, 1900-1911- 6 volumes- (Compiled principally from the State Papers, The Public Records, and MSS. of the late Herbert F. Hore, Esq., of Pole Hore, in that County) Reprint 1978,Vol 6 p.502

[3] John P. Prendergast, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, Mellifont Press Dublin, 3^rd ed-1920 (1^st ed.- Longmans London 1870), Appendix p367, No. 94.

[4] P. Hore, History…, op.cit., Vol 6 p508 (Hore’s ref: C.P.B. A 10, 242)

[5] Theobald Blake Butler (TBB), Genealogy of the Butlers,-Volume 8, Viscount Mountgarrett and Poolestown, Bart, Chapter- Butler, Viscount Mountgarrett & Colaterals Ormond Deeds and Letters (no page numbers);filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah (LDS) FHL British Film [873840]

Ormond MSS Vol 2 p124

[6] R. C. Simington, The Transplantation to Connacht 1654-58, Irish UniversityPress for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1970, pp 78 and 82

[7] P. Hore, History…, op.cit., Vol 6, p.591

[8] CSPI, Chas II, 1660-1662, p.263 and p.179 (SP Dom. Signet Office IV. 480-482

[9] MS. Carte 33 fol 395- 11 May 1664, op.cit

[10] Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) 8^th Report, Ormond, p.508

[11] Irish Genealogist, Vol. 4, issue 4, pp.275-302- 1971, The Dispossessed Landowners of Ireland 1664, copied from Prendergast MSS Vol. iv at Kings Inns Library Dublin (Originals in Carte MSS Vol. 44, 1660-70 in Bodlein Library, Oxford), The Irish Genealogist Research Society. The significance of the number (600) after the name was not explained but appears to indicate the number of acres allotted.

[12] Theobald Blake Butler, Genealogy of the Butlers, Vol. 8: Mountgarrett -Chapter- Butler of Munfin… Barony of Scarawalsh (no page numbers);filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah (LDS) FHL British Film [873840]. Blake Butler states that Edward was restored to some of the properties by April 1666 although no official record of such has yet been found. Edward is not listed in the Books of Survey and Distribution.

[13] HMC 8^th Report p.508; John P. Prendergast, Further Notes in the History of Sir Jerome Alexander, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 2 (1873), pp. 117-141, Royal Historical Society, Stable URL: www.jstor.org/stable/3678004, Accessed 16/02/2012; Carte Papers, Vol. xlix. p.302, Marquis of Ormonde; Books of the Commissioners of Parliament of the Affairs of Ireland, A. 17, p.78

[14] The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society, Vol IV 1862-63, pub. Dublin 1864, p74

[15] Calendar of State Papers Relating to Ireland, Volume (1625-1670), p.560-562 (MEMSO website); Notably John D’Alton Esq., Illustrations, Historical & Genealogical: King James’s Irish Army List (1689), Dublin, 1855 , pp5-7 gives the date as 1661; T. Blake Butler also refers to this petition and dates it in April 1666 and gives ref. Cal SPI Chas II 1669-70. p360

[16] Butler Testamentary Records (BTR) No. 70: Edward Butler of Monyhoare (Wexford), 21 Dec 1676. The Butler Society http://www.butler-soc.org

[17] Butler Testamentary Records (BTR) No. 70, Ferns Wills, Edward Butler of Monyhoare (Wexford) dated 21^st Dec 1676.

[18] Philip H. Bagenal, Vicissitudes of an Anglo-Irish Family 1530-1800, London 1925, pp. 82, 116 and 105-107

[19] John P. Prendergast, Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, op.cit, p. 185 & 120

[20] John Burke Esq, A Genealogical History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland , London ,1838, Vol 4, Chapter: Alterations & Additions, page xxi

[21] P. Hore, History…., op.cit., Vol 6, pp497-500: read the deposition against Philip Hore who had been staying with the Cheevers.

[22] P. Hore, History…, op.cit., Vol 5. P266

[23] Butler Testamentary Records, BTR No. 70, The Butler Society.

[24] Baronetcies of Ireland Extinct and Dormant (Ancestry.com)- Colclough of Tintern; and, Burkes LG I 1904 p99; Betham CHAOS 23693, folio 101

[25] http://members.fortunecity.com/chtii/colclough/tomas.htm -Colclough Family History; (TBB) Burkes LGI 1904 p100

[26] Lord Dunboyne, Paddy’s Pedigrees, Butler Society website www.butler-soc.org members page, Pedigree No 24; also, TBB- TCD MSS F 3. 23. P177

[27] P. Hore, History…, op.cit, Vol 6, p504

[28] R. C. Simington, Transplantation to Connaught 1654-58, op.cit, pp27 & 42

[29] P. Hore, History…, op.cit, Vol 6, p526

[30] Lord Dunboyne’s Pedigrees No. 24- The Butler Society

Saturday, 10 November 2012

Butlers of Co. Wexford- Ch. 9: Sons of Pierce Butler of Kayer