This Theobold (Theobald) is the son of the first Norman "Butler" of Ireland, an office of service to the young Norman dynasty in England and Europe, expanding and strengthening its hold on territories since the 1066 invasion of England by William the Conqueror. It appears that either Hervey Walter (born abt 1150) or his son Theobald (born abt 1170) was the first FitzWalter to be given the title of Butler (Boteler, or Botiler/Botiller) for the King of England in Ireland. This line took the name Butler after this, though the name FitzWalter also continued in both Ireland and England. Dates vary considerably, and this presents some problems for the family of Theobold 2nd Butler. Sources indicate he had three wives. Some genealogies have only part of the information for his family, showing only the first wife, with Theobold as the son of Joan. Others have two wives, showing Rohese as the mother of the son Theobold who inherited the Butler responsibilities. Birth dates don't match between sources. Some dates for Theobold 3rd Butler would make Joan Du Marais his mother, while others have him later with Rohese as his mother. See details in the footnotes. I have finally followed credible, commented osurces indicating Theobald was the child of Joan Du Marais. It appears from the dates that Joan likely died in childbirth. One Ancestry World Tree, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2738450&id=I12934, reports the birth date of 1223, and specifically says Joan de Marreis is his mother. Provides details from Butler Family History. This osurce, however, also reports Theobald 3rd Butler was born in Norfolk, England, rather than Arklow, Ireland, as several other sources report. The following report from a World Family Tree genealogy shows the transition and early generations of Botelers I show in my genealogy. I note that this genealogy shows dates of birth and death from 12 to 40 years earlier than other sources I have seen. There are also differences in the wives' names, with the same wives' names assigned to husbands in different generations. FitzWalters Become Butlers Ireland 1150-1387 | WFT V4 #1274 Generation No. 1 1. Hervey Walter was born Abt. 1150 in of West Dereham, Norfolk, England, and died WFT Est. 1174-1241. He married Maud De Valoignes WFT Est. 1166-1174, daughter of Theobald De Valoignes. She was born Abt. 1150 in England, and died WFT Est. 1174-1244. Child of Hervey Walter and Maud De Valoignes is: 2. i. THEOBALD FITZ WALTER, b. Abt. 1170, England; d. Abt. 1206. Generation No. 2 2. Theobald Fitz Walter (Hervey) was born Abt. 1170 in England, and died Abt. 1206. He married Maud Vavasour WFT Est. 1186-1202, daughter of Robert Vavasour. She was born Abt. 1170, and died WFT Est. 1202-1264. Child of Theobald Walter and Maud Vavasour is: 3. i. THEOBALD BUTLER, (BOTILLER), b. Abt. 1200, England; d. 19 Jul 1230. Generation No. 3 3. Theobald Butler, (Botiller) (Theobald Fitz Walter, Hervey) was born Abt. 1200 in England, and died 19 Jul 1230. He married Joan Du Marais WFT Est. 1216-1228, daughter of Geoffrey Du Marais. She was born Abt. 1200 in England, and died Bef. 22 Feb 1246/47. Child of Theobald Butler and Joan Du Marais is: 4. i. THEOBALD BUTLER, (BOTILLER BOTELER), b. Abt. 1225, England; d. 26 Sep 1285, 1248?. Generation No. 4 4. Theobald Butler, (Botiller Boteler) (Theobald, Theobald Fitz Walter, Hervey) was born Abt. 1225 in England, and died 26 Sep 1285. He married Margery De Burgh WFT Est. 1244-1252, daughter of Richard De Burgh. She was born Abt. 1230 in England, and died Aft. 01 Mar 1252/53. Child of Theobald Butler and Margery De Burgh is: 5. i. EDMOND BUTLER, (BOTELER), b. Abt. 1240, England; d. 13 Sep 1321.
Theobold is also seen as Theobald. And as with the whole Boteler/Butler line the last name is spelled in various ways: DeBotiler, leBoteler, Botiller, etc. Arklow is the primary Butler castle. It is located in Wicklow County. Wicklow is one county in the Province of Leinster. Modern Leinster incorporates the ancient kingdoms of Meath (Midhe) and Leinster.
Became 1st Lord Dunboyne through his wife, who was heir to Dunboyne and Molyngar (Mullingar). He was active in the service of the Plantagenet Kings of England in the campaign to subdue the Irish. He died in battle in 1329 while commanding the English (Anglo-Irish) army at the battle of Mullingar, named after the nearby town in Westmeath County, in Leinster Province, Ireland.
I have seen no information of any children from the marriage of Mary A Bowman to Joshua B Pugh. Joshua died in October 1886 after their marriage in March 1886.
I had known of the name Boyd only in relations to the Scottish sept of Butt or Buid, related to the Stewarts. I had assumed this was the provenance of my Uncle Russell Boyd's ancestors. But in June 2008, I learned of a prominent Boyd line in Ireland, where they were the Lords Earl of Kilmarnock. This is probably still a branch of the Scottish Stewart Boyds, but still new a lineage possibility for me. Here is a link to information on one of those Boyd families in Ireland back to the 1600s. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lgboyd/chapter2.htm Rhonda and Russ never had any children. Two children of Rhonda's siblings were named after them. The first son of Orville Lee Jenkins was Orville Boyd, and the only daughter of Arthur Carthel (Bud) Jenkins was LaRhonda. They lived in Amarillo, Texas, for years. From my earliest childhood till Rhonda's death in 1963, this is where they were. Our family visited them at times in Amarillo. Amarillo, in Potter County, was about a 5-hour drive west of our home in Quanah, Hardeman County. We would also see them in family gatherings at the home of Rhonda's father and mother, my grandparents, Joe and Jennie Jenkins, in Chickasha, Oklahoma. When Rhonda was sick with cancer, she was being treated in Dallas, Texas, where she died in 1963. Russ buried her in Chillicothe, Missouri, his former home area. Chillicothe is presumed as Russ' place of death, though this has not been objectively confirmed. Social Security death index gives no place of death. I have not been able to find a registry for cemeteries in the Chillicothe area. [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 6, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: 1 Feb 2007, Internal Ref. #1.111.6.27189.90] Individual: Boyd, Russell Social Security #: 486-10-3283; Issued in: Missouri Birth date: 12 Jun 1906 Death date: 11/00/1966 [No place of residence at time of death given] 1910 Federal Census, Jasper County, Missouri, 19 April, Joplin Ward 6, D 49, page 5A, Hse/Fam #90 Boyd, Gaston Head M W 38 M MO TN TN Engineer, Water Works Boyd, Russel Son M W 5 S MO MO OH 1920 Federal Census, Jasper County, Missouri, 6-7 January, Joplin Ward 17 (Galena Township), District 58, page 7A, 2102 Picher Ave, Hse#164, Fam #165 Boyd, G Z Head M W 48 MO TN MO Water Works Engineer Boyd, Laura Wife FW 43 OH OH OH Water Works Engineer Boyd, Russell Son M W 15 MO MO OH
Lucinda Pink Brewer is recorded with her family in Muddy Fork Township (Wilton Post Office) in Pike County Arkansas, in the 1860 census. 1860 Federal Census, Pike County, Arkansas, 24 July, Muddy Fork Township, PO Wilton, page 43, Hse/Fam #279 John Brewer 46 M $422 Real Estate $160 Personal Farmer TN S F Brewer 32 F NC M A T Brewer 12 F AR W A Brewer 10 M AR Lucinda Brewer 7 F AR Louisa Brewer 4 F AR H L Brewer 10 months M AR 1900 Federal Census, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, 25 June, Burnett Township, District 194, page 15B, Hse/Fam #278 Lovin, Benjamin F Head W M May 1850 50 MS MS MS Lovin, Lucinda P Wife W F Jan 1852 47 AR MS MS Lovin, Mattie A Dau W F Nov 1884 15 Ind Terr MS MS Lovin, Anna L Dau W F Aug 1886 15 Ind Terr MS MS Lovin, Benjamin F Son W M Aug 1891 9 Ind Terr MS AR Lovin, Minnie M Dau W F Mar 1894 6 Ind Terr MS AR Note that Lucinda's parents are reported born in Mississippi. But we saw in the 1860 census that they are reported as father born in Tennessee and mother born in North Carolina. We find the report in 1920 for Lucinda also matches the 1860 report. In 1910 we are told they were both born in Arkansas. 1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 15 April, Wall Township, District 245, page 1A, Hse/Fam #10 King, Dewitt W Head M W 28 Married 2 yrs TX TN TN Farmer King, Annie L Wife F W 22 Married 2 yrs OK MS AR King, Ruby V Dau F W 15 OK TX OK Lovin, Benjamin F Father-in-Law M W 62 Married 35 yrs MS MS MS Lovin, Lucinda P Mother-in-Law F W 58 Married 35 yrs AR AR AR Lovin, Minnie M Dau W F 16 Single OK MS AR Farm Laborer Ben and Pink are living with their daughter Annie and her husband. In 1920, Pink is a widow living in the household of her daughter Allie S Blalock. Ben died in 1913 in Jim Wells County, Texas. We find that Pink and the Blalocks are now living in central Oklahoma, in the community of Rush Springs, in Grady County, a little south of Chickasha. 1920 Federal Census, Grady County, Oklahoma, 31 January, Rush Springs (Township 3), District 186, page 6B, Hse #100, Family #101 Blalock, Sylvester J Head Rents M W 44 TX LA MS Farmer Blalock, Allie S [Lovin] Wife F W 40 TX TN AR [b abt 1879] Blalock, Edna G Dau F W 18 OK TX TX [b abt 1902] Blalock, Floria L Dau F W 14 OK TX TX [b abt 1906] Blalock, Vonnie Dau F W 11 OK TX TX [b abt 1909] Blalock, Jewel E Dau F W 5yrs 4mos OK TX TX [b abt Aug 1914] Lovin, Pinkie L Mother-in-Law F W 68 Widow AR TN NC [b abt 1852] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linda Dudley has the following notes in her genealogy of the Lovins: ID: I24115 Name: Lucinda "Pink" BREWER Sex: F Birth: 26 JAN 1852 in Pike County, Arkansas to Texas Death: 10 AUG 1932 in Age: 80 - Weleetka, Okfuskee Co., Oklahoma [It appears Weleetka is the place of burial, but death actually occurred in Pharaoh. -- OBJ] As for the Native American aspect of the Lovin family, we have no evidence that Benjamin Franklin Lovin B. F. or his family were Native American. It is possible that Isabella Wigley was but we have found no evidence in Mississippi records. Our research has been on Lucinda Pink Brewer, B. F.'s 2nd wife, who we are 99% certain was Indian. We have no actual evidence, only circumstantial evidence (her facial features, the fact that her father migrated to Pike County, Arkansas from Tennessee at the same time many Cherokee Indians were doing so, and the fact that her children referred to the family as 'Black Dutch' which is a 19th century euphemism for Native Americans and persons of black ancestry). Other than these circumstantial clues, we have not yet found hard evidence. -- Linda Dudley, cited by Peggy Conley, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2899172&id=I24115 Photo of Ben and Lucinda: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/h/e/Linda-A-Dudley/PHOTO/0003photo.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Cherry comments in a discussion list on the Brewer family: We have reason to believe that she is either full or part Native American. She had a sister named Lieu (or Lou) and possibly a brother named Oscar. "Pink" Brewer married Benjamin Franklin Lovin and had children named: Allie, Mattie, Anna, Minnie, Ida, Ben Lovin Jr. B. F. Lovin was a minister and they lived at different times in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. -- http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CAG.2ACIB/2367 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the 1910 census we find that Stella has had 4 children, but only two of them are still living. They have been married only 8 years by then. This means Stella had a child about every 2 years, but two of them died in this 8-year period. 1910 Federal Census, Nash, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 2 May, District 107, Page 14A, Hse/Fam #107 Jackson, Sam Head M W 36 OK TX GA Farmer Jackson, Stella Wife F W 26 TN TN AL Jackson, Alvin Son M W 6 OK OK TN Jackson, William Son M W 11mos OK OK TN Some notes on a picture shared by Linda Martin Hanks is somewhat helpful here. In October 2007, Linda shared with Green family researcher Cindy Beam some letters and this picture from Betty Jackson Hess, a daughter of James Toliver and Elizabeth Tate Jackson. These documents were written about 1985. Cindy shared with me and another cousin Butch Mixon the basic transcriptions she made of these documents. We three worked on the analysis and interpretation of these valuable family notes form Betty. Betty says that Sam and Stella had lost a little boy and that he is buried in the Curtis Cemetery in Weatherford (Parker county), Texas. This was written on the back of a picture of Sam and the three boys, dated probably about 1912, from comments by Betty. This could refer to one of the two children reported as lost in the 1910 census, or one that was born after the two surviving boys, Alvin and William. William was born in 1909, and only the two boys are in the 1910 census, so if there was another child, he might have been born in Texas in the next year or so before Stella died. There are two Jackson infants in the Curtis Cemetery, but both are listed only as "Infant Jackson." Neither has the names of parents. One died in 1907, the other in 1908. One of these would seem to be the child Betty refers to, which would mean Sam and Stella were in Parker County, Texas around 1907-8, had a child there, but lost him at birth or shortly after. We know Stella died before some time in 1912, from the note by Betty Hess on the picture of Sam and the boys. Betty says explicitly that Stella had died before that picture was taken. The picture was taken after Stella had died, before Sam and the two boys went back to Oklahoma. She says this was when she was about 12 years old. Betty was born in 1900, so that would mean the picture was taken about 1912. It appears that after the 1910 census, Sam and the family went to Parker County, either to visit or to live. It is not known whether Stella died in Oklahoma, or in Texas. It is possible she died in Oklahoma, and Sam and the boys were just visiting his family in Weatherford. We know that shortly afterward Sam and the boys moved to Riverside, California, where they are recorded in the 1920 and 1930 censuses. This means we lack clear information on 1. Stella's two children who died before the 1910 census, 2. the name and definite date for the infant lost while in Texas, either on a visit or a short move there, and 3. the date of death of Stella.
The children of Nancy's parents are difficult to work out. Different family sources have different information. Some have two daughters named Nancy, one born in 1768 and another in 1789, which would be this one. Some information indicates that this second Nancy's name was Mary Nancy. However, one source has this Nancy and a sibling Mary with separate birth information and different husbands. Too many details are missing to be certain. A genealogy of Descendants of William Bridges reports three separate sisters, with some information but not all the facts we would like. Nancy Bridges b 1768 is shown as the first child of James Bridges and Rebecca Hamrick, while Nancy Bridges born 1789 is the 6th child. This James Bridges is reported as the son of William Bridges, born about 1726 in Prince William County, Virginia. This James is thought to be the 5th son of William. The Hamrick family data pages, however, reports the wife of this James Bridges to be Elizabeth Hamrick, which appears to be a different person, rather than the same Rebecca with a different or additional name. The Bridges genealogy does indicate some uncertainty as to whether the name of James' wife was Rebecca Hamrick. The William Bridges genealogy reports that Nancy Bridges born in 1768 married Price Hamrick. The Bridges genealogy reports that the second Nancy born 1789 married Benjamin Hughes. Another source indicates she was Ben's second wife.The Hamrick information does not have a separate Nancy born 1789, but appears to show this birth date on another entry for Nancy who married Price Hamrick. The death date in both cases is 1830, the date given in the Bridges genealogy for the first Nancy born 1768. The Bridges genealogy reports the third sister to be named Mary and married to William McSwain. This matches earlier information I had for Mary Nancy Bridges married to William McSwain. The Bridges genealogy has separate birth and death dates for their second Nancy and their Mary: Nancy born in 1789 and died 1875 and Mary born in 1892. This source has no death date for Mary. If this is based on firm information, this indicates that earlier information giving the name of William McSwain's wife Mary Nancy should be modified to Mary. I have not found full information on all these people. Unfortunately, too many posted sources do not tell how they arrived at what they post. Thus I have not been able to definitely determine which source is reliable. One of their sisters Salena W (also known as Frances or Frankie) Bridges married another McSwain named Thomas. This matches William's brother. Both were sons of William David McSwain and Judith Moore.