Kilkenny Castle was for more than five hundred years the principal seat of the head of the BUTLER family..
This site is a work in progress.
I have research many hours and have tried to be very careful with my facts, but as with all things written after the fact mistakes are made.
For all of us whose lineage traces back long in this country, there are not one, but many stories of the reasons for the coming of our ancestors. . The stories are not the same. For some it was religion, for others escape from a debtor's prison, or a chance to have what a younger son could not have…for some it was as simple as an empty stomach. But almost all the stories have two common denominators: Pain brought them, and hope beckoned them.
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I said all that because this material has been copied from many sources, many are listed, however much of the information was gathered, here a little, there a little, from hundreds of places, MANY WHEN I WAS JUST STARTING, BEFORE I KNEW I KNEW I MUST KEEP MY SORCES. It was then too late making it impossible for me to list them all. Take what you wish but prove for yourself what you may fine here!
These pages contain some of the royal persons and noble families from which we descend. It might be said that if we were to get a nose bleed we would lose all our royal or noble blood.
When doing our genealogy research, I did not intentionally look for 'royal' connections. I came upon ours doing what we all do...going back to the previous generation, one after the other, in a particular line.. It's said there are millions of descendants around the world of Edward III of England. Remember too, that just because I found our royal links, We won't get invited for tea at the palace!
Royals and nobility of the past are fairly well documented, some more so than others.
Sources for this kind of search are many; from encyclopedias like Brittanica to the Official website of the British Monarchy or Genuki, Kings & Queens of England and Scotland as well as Burke's Peerage.
I have had fun looking into our family's past at Knights, Barons, Dukes and Earls with their Kings, Queens and assorted others, Doctors, Lawyers and Indian Chiefs!
My name is Linda Butler-Fisher, I am the daughter of Lonnie Jesseman BUTLER who was born 03 Dec 1897, in the Indian Territory Choctaw Nation. He died on 10 May 1973 in Sapulpa, Creek Co. OK. Lonnie was the son of Jack BUTLER and Sarah/Sallie FARNSWORTH. Lonnie and my mother Iva Horn were divorced a month before I was born and I was raised and LOVED by my mother and her family. Lonnie was not a part of my life. I remember seeing him only two times in my life. About four years ago I was working on my DAR papers and needed Lonnie BUTLER’s information. From his social security application I learned the names of his father and mother and the genealogist part of me was hooked. The following pages are the ancestors of my father Lonnie Jesseman BUTLER
LinFisher@cox.net
