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Lynch

 

Family

 

The Lynch Family has many famous sons and daughters - Signatories to the US declaration of independence, Rebel leader in the Irish Civil war, Chilean navy hero, Australian who led the Gold miners rebellion at Eureka Stockade, in Cuba Che Guevara's mother was a Lynch .. and many more.

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Below is some detail on our own branch of the Lynch's:

Family Tree

For more discussion on the tree prior to Andrew Lynch (~1200) see this other page

Circa 300 BC

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Here is the Baptism Record of Matthew (or Matthaeus,

I cann't tell, can you?)  from 1778 in Kilcock

Parish Register.                                                                        ->                                                                                  

For the 120 years or more before this time, the Penal laws were in effect in Ireland and so Roman Catholic records are very scarce.

Rubbing of the Burial monument for Peter Lynch (Lince) of Lynch Castle Knock/Summerhill, Meath - who died in 1554. It reads in Latin -  "Pray for the soul of Peter Lynch (Petri Lince) AD 1554" 

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This monument still stands in the center of present day Summerhill (although the lettering is very hard to see with the naked eye)

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Also below is the Coat of arms of Petri Lince from some ruins of the rest of his cross

For Detail on some of the different Lynches, you can navigate the members of the family added on wiki tree.

 

I suggest start with this chap:  Gerald Lynch (born 1591)

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