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Daughter of Captain James Butler of Ringhaddy, in Downshire, by Dame Margaret Maxwell, of Mullatinny, (now Elm Park) co. Armagh, relict of Sir Robert Maxwell, Bart. of Ballycastle, co, Derry.

This Dame Margaret Maxwell was the daughter and heiress of Henry Maxwell, the third son of Robert Maxwell, dean of Armagh (a younger son of the house of Calderwood, in Scotland) who, after building the house of Mullatinny, in 1626, was murdered in 1641, by Sir Phelim O'Neill, at College Hall, the seat of his elder brother, Dr. Robert Maxwell, afterwards Bishop of Kilmore, and founder of the Farnham family.

Captain James Butler, who was of the Ormonde branch of the Butlers, resided with the Lady Maxwell, his wife, at Mullatinny, and died there, having first bequeathed, by his will, made in 1713, his own estates to his eldest son, James Butler, Esq., by a former wife, and the estate of Ballycastle, co. Derry, which he enjoyed in right of Lady Maxwell, his wife, to whom it had been bequeathed by her first husband, Sir Robert Maxwell, to his daughter, Catherine, and after the death of her mother, by whom it was afterwards settled on the Rev. Samuel Close and his issue, on the marriage of that gentleman with Catherine Butler, her daughter; but they both died before her at Mullatinny, leaving, with four daughters, namely: I Margaret, married Captain Charles Wooly; II Mary, died unmarried; III Catherine, died unmarried; IV Elizabeth, married Peter Gervais, Esq., a son and successor.