John W. Butler

John W. Possible (WILLIAM) Butler was married to Margaret Elizbeth Buckley in 1841 in the Catholic Church of the Annunication in Bansha, South Tipperary, Ireland.  John W. Butler may have been born in County Clare as many of the Butler desendents in  the Butler Tree have the middle name of St. Clare or Clare.  John W. and Margaret had five girls all baptised in the church at Bansha.  DNA results show that Margaret Elizebath Buckley was from the area around the village of Ballylanders in Limerick County wich is about 20 miles or so from the village of Bansha.  The youngest daughter Bridget was born in 1851 and apparently died in Ireland, as the family came to the USA in 1853 and 1854 and she was not with the rest of the family.  John W. came a year before the rest of the family and the four living daughters, his mother Mary Butler (B 1795), and his wife Margaret Buckley Butler entered the USA in 1854 and they settled in the area around Dunkirk, New York.  He worked for the railroad and lived in Evans Township on the shore of Lake Erie.  There is a good possibility that John W. had a older brother, a James Butler, who lived nearby in New York with his family.John W.. was transferred in 1860 with the railroad to Ohio where he retired and bought a small farm near Waukon, Iowa where is oldest daughter, Johanna Agnes Butler Baxter, lived with her husband Charlie Baxter and her children.  John W. and Margaret had two sons, James Joseph Butler, John Butler, and one daughter Elizabeth (Bessie) Butler born in the USA.  John W. and Margaret are buried near their farm in Union Prairie, Iowa across the road from the Irish Catholic Church.  Picture of John W. Butler, but no picture of Margaret Elizabeth Buckley Butler.  Any possible DNA connections please contact me through email at   stclareusa@hotmail.com