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Nancy (Ann) DWYER (1810 - 1895)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Patrick BUTLER (1847 - )
Margaret BUTLER (1848 - )
John 'Jack' BUTLER (1855 - 1935)
Nancy (Ann) DWYER (1810 - 1895)

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John BUTLER (1810 - 1884)





























b. abt 1810 at Co Tipperary, Ireland
m. 05 Apr 1846 John BUTLER (1810 - 1884) at Yass, New South Wales, Australia
d. 1895 at Ginninderra, ACT, Australia aged 85
Near Relatives of Nancy (Ann) DWYER (1810 - 1895)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Self Nancy (Ann) DWYER abt 1810 Co Tipperary, Ireland 1895 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 85

Husband John BUTLER 1810 Co Tipperary, Ireland 1884 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 74

Son Patrick BUTLER 1847 Yarralumla, ACT Australia
Daughter Margaret BUTLER 1848 Yarralumla, ACT Australia
Son John 'Jack' BUTLER 07 Mar 1855 Yarralumla, ACT Australia 15 Apr 1935 Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia 80

Daughter in Law Euphemia (Phoebe) GILLESPIE 1850 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 12 Dec 1926 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 76

Grandson John Albert BUTLER 1882 abt Apr 1927 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 45

Events in Nancy (Ann) DWYER (1810 - 1895)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
abt 1810 Nancy (Ann) DWYER was born Co Tipperary, Ireland 80
05 Apr 1846 36 Married John BUTLER (aged 36) Yass, New South Wales, Australia 80
1847 37 Birth of son Patrick BUTLER Yarralumla, ACT Australia 80
1848 38 Birth of daughter Margaret BUTLER Yarralumla, ACT Australia 80
07 Mar 1855 45 Birth of son John 'Jack' BUTLER Yarralumla, ACT Australia 80
1884 74 Death of husband John BUTLER (aged 74) Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 80
1895 85 Nancy (Ann) DWYER died Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 80
Source References:
80. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Hall Museum, Title: Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre, Locn: https://museum.hall.act.au/
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2355/nancy-ann-butler.html (Name, Notes)
- Notes: Nancy (Ann) Butler

Born: 1816; Died: 1895; Married: Dwyer

Related Places
Malton
Malton was the homestead of John Butler (Senior), his wife Phoebe (nee Gillespie) and their...

Ann, like her husband, was from Tipperary, but unlike him, she arrived in Sydney as a free settler - reportedly in 1841. Her application in 1846 for permission to marry a convict gives her age as 30, implying she was born in 1816 (her obituary suggests 1810). She and John appear to have had at least four children -

Patrick (1847)
Margaret (1848)
Maria (
John ('Jack') (1855)

Ann Butler was said to have been a woman of 'robust condition', known for her hospitality. Hefferan records a personal communication from Lyall Gillespie, that Ann smoked a clay pipe. However she was feeble for several years before her death on Friday 6 September 1895. She died at 'Malton' the residence of her son John and his wife Phoebe (nee Gillespie).

Mrs Ann Butler, relict of the late Mr John Butler departed to 'that bourne from whence no traveller returns' at the ripe old age of 85. The deceased lady who was a native of Tipperary, Ireland, arrived in the colony in 1841 and had resided in the district over half a century; she had been ailing for some months and quietly passed away at 12.15 on the above date, at the She possessed the national trait of her country, hospitality, and was a general favourite. The deceased leaves two sons, Mr [Patrick] Butler and Mr [John] Butler. The remains were interred in the RC Cemetery in Queanbeyan on Sunday. [Queanbeyan Age 11.9.1895]

She was buried at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Queanbeyan on 9 September 1895. The procession comprised 'a large cortege of mourners who desired to pay their last tribute to the good old woman whom most of them had known and esteemed since childhood'. She was described as 'an old resident of Ginninderra' where she had lived for over fifty years.

Heffernan observed: The building of Malton was also a substantial achievement for John Butler, who was a farm servant from tipperary before 1836, lost many years as a convict and was around 49 years old when he began to build the family home. The raising of a family while shifting from Palmerville to Yarralumla and then to the small dwelling at Malton is a great tribute to Nancy Dwyer (Ann Butler) who was no doubt appropriately eulogised as a woman of 'robust condition'.
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2354/john-butler-senior.html (Marriage)
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2354/john-butler-senior.html (Birth)
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2354/john-butler-senior.html (Death)

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