Individual Details

On Mary Ann's birth certificate, her mother's name is written as 'Made'. This spelling was probably based on the pronunciation of the name by the family. Surnames like Meade, Regan, Whelan, etc. were often pronounced by Irish people at that time as Made, Ragan, Whalan, etc. There are no sponsors recorded on Mary Ann's baptism record.

According to the 1861 census, Mary Ann was an embroideress. The 1881 census has a Mary Ann Butler, unmarried, aged 37 and Westminster-born, lodging at 705 Wandsworth Road, Clapham. This Mary Ann is a "gold embroidress" and so could be our Mary Ann above, daughter of George Butler and Margaret Meade. We know that only one of Mary Ann's brother Robert's sisters survived him - he died in November 1902 - and I think this sister could have been Mary Ann.

Birth	8 Feb 1844	1 Francis Court, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London
Christen	13 Feb 1844	the Sardinian Church (later the Church of St. Anselm and St. Cecilia), Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, London
Death	Aft Prob 1 Nov 1902

Father	George James BUTLER (1795 - 1870)
Mother	Margaret Lucy MEADE (1802 - 1868)
Sibling	Elizabeth (Eliza) Mary BUTLER (1828 - 1864)
Sibling	James Bernard John Edward BUTLER (1830 - 1892)
Sibling	Susan BUTLER (1831 - 1850)
Sibling	George Patrick BUTLER (1834 - 1911)
Sibling	Robert BUTLER (1836 - 1902)
Sibling	William Isaac BUTLER (1838 - 1888)
Sibling	Margaret BUTLER (1840 - 1889)
Sibling	Thomas Aloysius BUTLER (1840 - 1885)