THE
LYNCH FAMILY
Of County
Cavan Ireland
The Lynch Family begins here OR
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LYNCH
SITE MAP
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Note: Seefin home of
our Ancestors is just to the left of Baileborough
1st
Generation of our Lynch Family
1790's Peter
Lynch
My 4xGreat
Grandfather
Peter Lynch was born in the 1790’s - parents not
known. He is believed to have married Ann (unknown surname).
Peter was located in the Tithe Applotment books (Tithe was a
tax
on all agricultural land originally a tenth of the produce)
for
the townland of Seefin, Parish of Knockbride, County Cavan in 1827. He
was a tenant farmer on 4acres of land paying 3/- rent.
Peter and Ann had at least a family of six. Edward, Michael, Bernard,
Peter, Mary and Patt.
2nd
Generation
1815 Edward Lynch
My 3xGreat grandparents
Edward Lynch was born in the early 1800’s,
the son of Peter and Ann Lynch, of Seefin, in the parish of
Knockbride in the Barony of Clankee, County Cavan, Ireland.
No marriage was located for Edward Lynch
in the Knockbride parish registers, but from entries in these registers
for the baptisms of his children it was found his wife was Mary
Cusack born about 1815, the daughter of Patrick Cusack her mother’s
name is unknown.
Link:
Cusack Family
Edward Lynch was a tenement farmer in Seefin
according to the Griffith's Valuation. This was a census of
land occupiers and owners in Ireland conducted from 1848 and moving
through the country until 1864. It recorded the name of the occupier,
the immediate lessors, usually the landlord, as well as the valuation of
their holdings and houses.
Edward is listed as renting a house
and 8acres 3roods 6perches of land from landlord Joseph Dixon, paying
£4.5.0 rent. Next door was Anne Lynch, possibly Edwards mother. Mary
Cusack’s father Patrick Cusack was also listed paying rent to Joseph
Dixon for a house and 20acres 2roods 37perches a yearly sum of £7.10.0
Griffiths Valuation Lynch &
Cusack
During the years
1845-1851 the Lynch and Cusack families would have been affected in some
way by the ‘Great Potato Famine’, a blight that wiped out the
potato crops several years in a row throughout most of Ireland.
Did Edward and Mary Lynch survive the
famine years? If they did survive those harrowing years then they would
both have been in their late forties when they were faced with saying
goodbye to their eldest son Patrick and their pregnant daughter in-law
Margaret nee Maguire. Patrick and Margaret had made the decision to
immigrate to Australia in the months following their marriage in
November 1861. Imagine the sadness of these parents saying goodbye to
their loved ones and wondering if they would ever see them again. Their
thoughts would have been running wild wondering what would face their
son and his family when they arrived in this little known place called
Australia. It is possible others of their children also emigrated.
Nothing more is known of Edward and Mary
Lynch’s lives and no burial information has been located in Knockbride
parish registers. What is known is that, without this couple we wouldn’t
be here today.
3rd
Generation
PETER JOHN JOSEPH LYNCH, born
1835 Seefin County Cavan. (Information
of Peter JJ Lynch contributed by Jonni Lynch whose husband is descended
from Peter, they live in Kentucky USA)
Peter John Joseph Lynch is the eldest of Edward and Mary Lynch’s family.
He emigrated to Canada where he married his 1st wife Ellen Walsh.
They then emigrated to Cincinnati USA in or before 1870 where Peter's
elder brother James Lynch had emigrated a few years earlier. Ellen Lynch
died of consumption in 1870 leaving Peter with three children, Edward,
Agnes Rose and Mary. Four months after loosing his wife his young
daughter Mary died of diphtheria. Mother and daughter are both buried in
a plot at St Joseph's New Cemetery.
Peter then married a second time to
Bridget _____who died in 1884. She was listed on the city
directory as a neighbour living close by to him, in downtown Cincinnati,
he needed a mother for his small children. Bridget then died and is
buried near Ellen Walsh Lynch and Mary Lynch in an unmarked grave.
At the age of 50 years he married his
much younger 3rd wife Margaret Galligan (b.abt 1856 also from
County Cavan) in Cincinnati in 1885, the daughter of
John Galligan and
Catherine Smith (or Smyth).
Margaret had emigrated to America in 1880. When they married Peter's
children were 17 and 18 and he by then a well known poultry peddler.
Peter and Margaret had two children
of their own, Peter Joseph, Jr. and Mary.
Peter John Joseph Lynch
died in 1899 at the age of 64 and left Margaret with their two teenagers
Peter Joseph Jr. and Mary and his older children Edward and Agnes Rose,
and now a thriving poultry business called 'Lynch’s Chicken Emporium'
Family of Peter John
Joseph Lynch:
1. Peter Joseph Lynch Jnr:
Married Mary Murphy
and had 10 children: 8 boys (all of whom served in WWII, including
the 2 priests) and 2 girls. All the children lived to adulthood with
only a son James dying during the war. The baby of the family, Paul
Aloysius Lynch (Jonni Lynch's husband’s grandfather) passed away last
October 2010 and was the last of the generation born to Peter, Jr. and
Mary.
2. Mary Lynch
3. Edward Lynch
4. Agnes Rose Lynch married Mr Nevin
PATRICK LYNCH,
one of the eldest of Edward and Mary Lynch’s family was born at Seefin and
baptised on the 17th May 1836 at the Knockbride Catholic
Parish Church. His sponsors were Michael Lynch and Rose (her surname
illegible). He married Margaret Maguire also from County
Cavan Ireland. They emigrated to Australia in 1862.
They had three children Link
for detailed information on this family.
1. Edward Lynch
2. John Lynch
3. Margaret Ann Lynch
JAMES LYNCH,
baptised at Knockbride Parish Church on the 27th
December 1836, sponsors Peter Lynch and Rose Cusack. It is believed he
was the first of three Lynch sibling to emigrate to Cincinnati USA. He
was established there before 1867 when his brother Peter arrived
with his bride from Canada.
EDWARD LYNCH born Seefin died
Seefin
MARY LYNCH born Seefin (query
as to if she is a sibling or cousin or niece?) She married a doctor in
Chicago USA.
BRIDGET LYNCH,
born at Seefin, baptised at Knockbride Parish Church on the 11th
January 1837, her sponsors Bernard Lynch and Ann Clarke. Unmarried. Died
at Seefin in 1908 aged 71.
Bridget visited Cincinnati, at some point
between 1870 and 1889 (her brother Peter’s death).
MICHAEL LYNCH,
born at Seefin, baptised at Knockbride
Parish Church on the 17th January 1842, sponsors Michael
Cusack and Mary Lynch.
ANNE LYNCH,
born Seefin, the youngest of Edward and Mary’s family, was baptised at
the Knockbride Catholic Parish Church on the 18th January
1844, sponsors Patt Lynch and Ally Patterson.
CATHERINE 'Kate' LYNCH, born
Seefin April 1851 believed probably youngest child of Edward &
Mary Lynch. She married in Cincinnati in 1870/1 to a fireman Patrick
Carlin. and had several children one becoming a Sister of
Mercy in Cincinnati. Katherine and Patrick both emigrated to Cincinnati
USA about 1870 where her brothers James and Peter had already emigrated.
Kate's house still stands on
Symmes Street, 2 streets over from brother Peter John Joseph’s house,
which is also still standing on the corner of May and Wayne
Streets. Kate died in 1837 at the age of 86.
Links
Patrick & Margaret Lynch & Family (My Great
Grandparents)
Lynch Site Map Index
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