frances_butler

Hervey Morres and Frances Butler

Hervey Morres of Castle Morres, county Kilkenny married (as his third wife) Frances Butler, elder daughter of the Hon. Colonel Piers Butler. The Morres had been a Catholic family, but Hervey Morres secured his and his family’s future by not only converting to Protestantism but joining Cromwell’s Puritan, anti-Catholic army. He was well rewarded for doing so: in 1684 he was granted property, presumably confiscated from its previous owners, which was renamed Castle Morres. Further, he lived to a ripe old age, dying aged 99

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