Individual Details
Susan BUTLER
(Abt 30 Dec 1831 - Aft 1850)
Susan's baptismal sponsors were James Butler and Susan Butler (perhaps the same people who were witnesses to Susan's parents' marriage four years earlier).
According to the 1851 census Susan, aged 19, was working as a servant. Unfortunately we have been unable to find any documented trace of Susan after this point. At the funeral service of her brother Robert, who died in 1902, it was mentioned that he was survived by one of his two sisters. Robert actually had four sisters, Eliza, Susan, Margaret and Mary Ann. We know that Eliza had died in 1864, 38 years earlier, and therefore the speaker may not have been aware of her existence. It is likely Margaret had died in 1889, 13 years earlier, and it appears Mary Ann was still living in 1881. It is a pure hunch but it seems to me that the two sisters referred to in the sermon were most probably Margaret and Mary Ann, with Mary Ann being the sister surviving Robert, Susan - like Eliza - having died a very long time beforehand.
According to the 1851 census Susan, aged 19, was working as a servant. Unfortunately we have been unable to find any documented trace of Susan after this point. At the funeral service of her brother Robert, who died in 1902, it was mentioned that he was survived by one of his two sisters. Robert actually had four sisters, Eliza, Susan, Margaret and Mary Ann. We know that Eliza had died in 1864, 38 years earlier, and therefore the speaker may not have been aware of her existence. It is likely Margaret had died in 1889, 13 years earlier, and it appears Mary Ann was still living in 1881. It is a pure hunch but it seems to me that the two sisters referred to in the sermon were most probably Margaret and Mary Ann, with Mary Ann being the sister surviving Robert, Susan - like Eliza - having died a very long time beforehand.
Events
| Birth | Abt 30 Dec 1831 | Dublin | |||
| Christen | 2 Jan 1832 | St. Mary's Pro Cathedral, Dublin | |||
| Death | Aft 1850 |
Families
| 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 | 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) |
| Sibling | Mary Ann BUTLER (1844 - 1902) |