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Mary Butler

1810/11–66

Patient at Moor Park and Ilkley Wells hydropathic establishments. Visited the Darwins at Down. Sister of Richard Butler (1794–62), vicar of Trim, Ireland.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1879

Certificate of death, 12 January 1866, Cheltenham, General Register Office, England

Correspondence vol. 7, letters to Mary Butler, 20 February [1859] and 11 September [1859], and letter to John Murray, 14 November [1859]

Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. J. Aubertin, 3 March [1871]

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 28 April 2015)

Bibliography

Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

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