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Ellen Butler of Dunboyne

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Ellen Butler of Dunboyne was the recorded wife of the fifth Viscount Roche.

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✓ ELLEN, da. of JAMES BUTLER, of DUNBOYNE, co. Meath (the Dunboyne Butlers, collateral kin of our Ormond line, note-only above); CP's sole recorded wife of David 5th Viscount (I99149) and so the presumed mother of Jane (our line), stated at that grade. Source: Cokayne, Complete Peerage (1st edn), 'Fermoy' pp.326-29, photographed and read 6 Aug 2026 (CP notes the pre-1461 pedigree 'extremely obscure'; contested rungs note-only, not hardened). ||CP AUDIT 26 Oct 2026|| ✓ CP V 'Fermoy' p.293: 'Ellen, da. of James Butler, of Dunboyne, co. Meath, by Joan, da. of James Butler, of Dunboyne'. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd edn vol. V (1926), 'Fermoy' pp.292-294, read 26 Oct 2026 (archive.org djvu text). ||26 Oct 2026|| Parents wired: James Butler of Dunboyne (d. 15 Jan 1538) and Joan da. of Piers 8th Earl of Ormond (CP IV 'Dunboyne' p.516; Lodge) - RING to I99710 x I99711; her brother Edmund was cr. Baron Dunboyne 1541. CP V's 'Joan, da. of James Butler, of Dunboyne' noted as a slip. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd edn vol. IV (1916), 'Dunboyne' p.516, read 26 Oct 2026.

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