I need to do some extra review now that I have a new set of ancestors for my wife’s Butler Line. I had previously thought that the immigrant ancestor Edward Butler was the son of Michael Butler and Margaret Croke. This has turned out to be extremely unlikely. A more likely candidate now is Edward, son of Henry Butler and Anne Russel. This man was actually born Adam but went by Edward.
Gedmatch
I had an early match between my late father-in-law Richard Butler and a Murphy descendant from New Brunswick. I can now map his DNA to Richard’s profile at DNAPainter. I have the match’s name as Nathan on my chart:
By the chart, Nathan is Richard’s third cousin twice removed. Here are some expected shared DNA amounts for that relationship:
Here is the match at Gedmatch:
Here is Richard’s DNA Painter map currently:
He shows Kerivan, Rooney and an unknown match. I’ll add in Nathan which represents Henry Butler or Anne Russell’s DNA:
When I do that, I see that I already have Nathan, but listed as an unknown branch. Now that I know that Branch I can make the necessary changes.
Note that there is no light blue bar for the X Chromosome as men do not receive on from their father – only their mother.
Virginia and Butler DNA Matches
I have the same unknown Butler in VIrginia’s DNA Painter profile:
We now know the common Butler ancestral couple to be Henry Butler from Wexford and his wife Anne Russel.
Virginia is Lorraine’s sister and the Henry Butler DNA on Chromosome 4 is shared with James from FTDNA. Fortunately, I made that note on my chart. Also, I was fortunate to find her old FTDNA code in an old address book of mine.
Here is Lorraine’s DNA Painter Profile for comparison:
I should note that the birth years for George Butler and Henry Butler are guesses.
Summary and Conclusions
- I didn’t find any new DNA matches but I was able to sort out some old ones
- Previously I was searching for the wrong Edward Butler. This lead me in the wrong direction for DNA matches
- I now appear to have the right Edward Butler. Previously, I had to fill in ‘unknown Butler Ancestor’ in DNA Painter. Now that I know that the common ancestor is Henry (born Adam) Butler, I am able to fill in the unknown DNA matches using DNA Painter.