BUTLER GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


My BUTLER family is closely intertwined with the WORTH, MACY and SWAIN families of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.

Many thanks to Sonya Tilley and David L. Ray who both descend from the Swains of McNairy County, Tennessee, just as I do, for their assistance in finding out about the early Swains and the connection to the WORTH and BUTLER families. Both Sonya and David have Swain and related information on the Rootsweb Worldconnect Pages at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com. I suspect they got a lot of their information from Jeffrey D. Kemp who also descends from the Swains of McNairy County, Tennessee, and has worked on tracing the Swains and Macys in the Carolinas and back to New England.

As a side note, I have also seen reference to the BUTLER family in medieval times. There was a Butler family that intermarried with the famous CLAIBORNE family of Claiborne Hall in England who were ancestors of the famous William Claiborne who was at Jamestown, Virginia about the time of its founding. This BUTLER family back in England intermarried with many noble families, and I believe it has a tie in to English royalty. The name came from a Butler, also called Le Butler, who really was a butler to the Royal family back in about the 1100s A.D.

Here is my BUTLER lineage as far as I can determine:

  1. Thomas BUTLER
  2. Mary BUTLER, b. 1693 Tisbury, Dukes, MA, d. 8 Aug. 1756 Nantucket Island, Nantucket Co., MA; md. 24 Oct. 1717 Nantucket Island, Nantucket Co., MA to William WORTH, b. 27 Nov. 1694 Nantucket Island, Nantucket Co., MA, d. 16 Oct. 1780 Nantucket Island, Nantucket Co., MA
  3. Hepzibah WORTH, b. 9 September 1726 Nantucket Island, Nantucket Co., MA, d. 27 October 1797 New Garden, Guilford Co., NC ; md. 11 August 1750 Nantucket Island, Nantucket Co., MA to Jethro MACY, b. 15 February 1727/28 Nantucket Island, Nantucket Co., MA, d. 1 September 1776 New Garden, Guilford Co., NC
  4. Jedidah MACY, b. 23 November 1759 Nantucket Island, Nantucket Co., MA, d. ca. 1791 Guilford Co., NC; md. 29 November 1780 at New Garden Monthly Meeting, Guilford Co., NC to Joseph SWAIN, generation, b. 5 September 1756 Nantucket Island, Nantucket Co., MA, d. May 1829 Guilford Co., NC (*Note that Jedidah MACY and Joseph SWAIN were 2nd cousins, once removed, through the MACY line)
  5. William W. SWAIN, Sr., b. 8 Oct. 1781 Guilford Co., SC, d. ca. 1871 McNairy Co., TN; md. ca. 1799 in Guilford Co., NC to Rebecca WILLIAMSON, b. Aug. 1782 Guilford Co., NC, d. ca. 1861 McNairy Co., TN
  6. William W. SWAIN, b. 17 May 1800 Guilford Co., NC, d. 21 Oct. 1857 McNairy Co., TN; md. ca. 1821 to Rachel ANDERSON, b. 6 Feb. 1802 TN, d. 30 June 1876 in McNairy Co., TN
  7. Allen Perry SWAIN, b. 22 Feb. 1822 TN, d. aft. 1860 McNairy Co., TN; md. ca. 1845 McNairy Co., TN to Harriett Ann SEWELL, b. 22 Jan. 1829 McNairy Co., TN, d. ca. 1860 McNairy Co., TN
  8. Sarah Elizabeth SWAIN, b. 12 Oct. 1846 McNairy Co., TN, d. 12 May 1934 McNairy Co., TN; md. 17 Sept. 1867 McNairy Co., TN to William Henry PYRON, b. 8 Jan. 1846 McNairy Co., TN, d. 20 Sept. 1909 McNairy Co., TN (both buried at Mars Hill Cemetery, McNairy Co., TN)
  9. Docia Bell PYRON, b. 5 Oct. 1872 McNairy Co., TN, d. 1 Sept. 1944 Lyford, TX (buried at Combes, TX); md. 28 Oct. 1894 McNairy Co., TN to James David HARRIS, b. 9 Jan. 1871 McNairy Co., TN, d. 22 Sept. 1938 Marlow, OK (buried at Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, OK)
  10. William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, CO; md. 12 Dec. 1915 Parker Co., TX to Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 Nov. 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, CO *These are my grandparents.



One other Swain researcher besides those mentioned in the introductory paragraphs and which also would include some MACY genealogy, or at least descendants of MACYs and the WORTHs and BUTLERs is:

Reginald Swain's Family Tree Maker Page maintained by Reginald V "Reggie" Swain. (He lists descendants of Richard Swain, Sr., b. 1595, d. 1682 Nantucket Island, MA).



ROOTSWEB BUTLER MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the BUTLER surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Butler Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any BUTLER name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.


An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the BUTLER family. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/butler

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the BUTLER lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.



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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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