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THE LYNCH FAMILY  

Of County Cavan Ireland

 

The Lynch Family begins here OR you can choose a generation of interest from the

LYNCH SITE MAP / INDEX

 

 

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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