Eleanor Butler

1739 - 1829  (90 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Eleanor Butler
  Birth	11 May 1739
  Gender	Female
  Death	2 Jun 1829
  Burial	St Collen, Llangollen
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  1. Eleanor Butler,   b. 11 May 1739   d. 2 Jun 1829  (Age 90 years) ▻ Sarah Ponsonby + 2. Earl John Butler,   b. 10 Dec 1740   d. 25 Dec 1795  (Age 55 years) ▻ Frances Susan Elizabeth Wandesford,  m. 14 Feb 1769 + 3. Susanna Butler   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Thomas Kavanagh,  m. 24 Nov 1755
  Person ID	I449347	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also One of the Ladies of Llangollen at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2016

  
  

  Father	Earl Walter Butler,   b. 10 Jun 1703   d. 2 Jun 1783 (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Ellen Morres   d. Jan 1794
  Marriage	19 Dec 1732
  Family ID	F178014	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Ponsonby,   b. 1755   d. 9 Dec 1831 (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F178163	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 May 2003

  
  

• Notes

  In 1778 Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby eloped to set up a new life together in Plas Newydd in Llangollen Vale. The move met with strong opposition from their respective families but their new Gothic residence soon became a magnet for writers and intellectuals. Wordsworth, Madame de Genlis, Edmund Burke and Anna Seward all visited, and the ‘Ladies of Llangollen’ (as Butler and Ponsonby soon became known) established a vigorous correspondence network. The papers of the Ladies of Llangollen held at the National Library of Wales are a vital source to study this important partnership and the literary circle that they created. Known as the Hamwood Papers, formerly in the possession of the Hamilton family of Hamwood, Dunboyne, co Meath, they include: Papers and Correspondence of Elinor Goddard including an account of attempts by Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby to escape from their homes in Ireland, and accounts of visits to the Ladies of Llangollen