1st wife of Richard Butler

Richard Butler married:

(1) By about 1636 _____ _____, who died about 1640.

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From http://www.ryanwadleigh.com/butler.html#richard

Richard may have been married first to a woman whose name is not known. Their marriage may have been during the late 1620's or early 1630's, most likely while they were both still living in England.
Researchers have claimed over the years that several of Richard's children (Mary, Thomas, Hannah or even Nathaniel) were children by his first marriage. I have no reason to believe this, nor is there any proof that he was married to anyone before Elizabeth. I have placed all of Richard's children with his wife Elizabeth (see reasoning below).
Apparently the basis of this claim about his first marriage is that he "came to Hartford mourning the death of a wife and infant" 1. My interpretation of this is that if in fact he was previously married, that his wife and any child (or children) that they had together both died while living in England.
Richard was married to Elizabeth (surname probably Bigelow) in about 1635, perhaps in England or in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...