Lynch Katie (daughter of William Lynch, Glasha & Ellen O’Shea, Ballinagoul, Glin) Mike Connolly found when looking at the Glin Parish records and at the 1901 census survey it appears that there were two Katie Lynch’s in the family. The first Katie being born March 21st 1883. Her sponsors being – John Connolly & Maria Connolly. She must have died as a child but I can’t see any birth recording for this Katie under the BMD’s from 1864. Lynch Katie born March 18th 1888, Mary Lynch present at the birth, baptised March 27th, at the Immaculate Conception Church, Glin. (13 yrs old in 1901) Emigrated to the U.S on the Oceanic from Queenstown, accompanied by her sister Bridget Lynch who was known to the Wright family as ‘Auntie’ arriving in New York on September 28th, 1910. Married on April 28th, 1918 to her 2nd cousin Thomas Joseph Lynch, son of James Lynch, Glasha. (James was my great-grandfather) After marriage lived at 228 W 4th St. Manhattan. In 1930 living at 1803 Mahan Ave Bronx. and in 1941 living at 344E 176th St. Bronx. Katie died May 10th 1942 (mother’s day) at Fordham Hsp, Bronx from pulmonary tuberculosis. Tom and Katie had the following two children:
i.Thomas Lynch was born March 28th 1919. He got married circa 1940 but sadly his wife died from cancer approximately eight months into the marriage. She was pregnant at the time of her death. I don’t know her name. In 1941 he enlisted as a private in the US Military. Tom re-married in the early 1950’s to Frances T. Tucker, born May 9th 1919 and died October 1975. There was no issue from this marriage. Tom died October 28th 1990.
ii. Ellen Lynch was born on February 7th 1922, died July 2nd 2003 at St. Raphael’s Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut. On May 28th 1941 at St. Margaret Mary’s Rectory, 125 E. 177th St, Bronx she married Jack Allen Wright born July 5th 1918, Dwight, Illinois. Ellen and Jack had three children:
1.‘Living’ Wright.
‘Living’Wright born March ????, Bronx, New York, worked as an Operating Room Nurse, is now retired and living in Charleston, South Carolina. She remained single in life.
2.‘Living’ Wright.
‘Living’Wright was born march ????, Bronx, New York and is now a retired electrician living in Durango, Colorado., married Waller from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. family of 1 ‘Living’
3.Diane Wright.
Diane Wright….born September 25th 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut. Married to Vella, two children – Living
Diane speaks of her ancestors…..”On this St. Patrick’s Day 2023, I wish to honor my Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors. My mother’s parents came to New York from County Limerick separately in 1911 and 1913 during a wave of Irish immigration. They were second cousins, sharing the same great-grandparents, but married in New York and had their two children, my mother being one, there. Unfortunately they were ill with TB much of their lives and both died in 1942 so I never knew them. They were fervently Irish and although came from an Ireland still under British rule they entered their home country on the US censuses as the Irish Free State. Dad also had Irish ancestors, but they were from north of the border and were Scots-Irish. His ancestor Alexander Stewart II came to America in 1716 and his son Alexander Stewart III (my 5 x great grandfather) is a recognized Revolutionary War Patriot by the DAR, having stored arms in his home in Fairfield, CT. Two very different stories from two different eras. Slainte!”
Jack Wright was still alive when I wrote the following…..Jack is still alive today living in the U.S. In fact, it was only yesterday; February 7th 2008 that Jack rang my mother at her home in Glasha. I had the privilege of meeting Jack and Ellen back in the summer of 1994 while they were on one of their many visits to the land of their ancestors. (George Langan & Diane Wright)
Diane Ellen Wright
September 25, 1954 – August 18, 2023.
Taken from her Facebook page
Beloved wife of Paul and loving mother to Jarrah and Jade, plus her four dear cats: Nimbus, Mystic, Otis & Pepper. Diane dedicated herself to helping her family live out their dreams, to assisting students learn English and to people learning more about their family history or travellers hoping to journey to the United States. An active and keen volunteer at the Desert Botanical Gardens and at Phoenix International Sky Harbor airport, she was a lover of classical music, an active quilter, and in years gone by, a cross-stitcher and knitter.
A loyal and trusting companion and friend to all who knew her, Diane passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her family and cats. Words cannot express how much Diane shall be missed.
‘Wright Jack, New York….Photo to George Langan from Diane Wright….Jack was married to Ellen Lynch, my mother’s 1st cousin. Photo of Jack Wright 2003. Says his daughter Diane....”Although Father’s Day is over now I wanted to post a photo of Dad. Here he is doing one of his favourite things–poking through a flea market looking for bargains”.
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Left – Jack Wright, Ellen Wright, Lil Lynch and my mother Delia Langan. Photo 1980’s at Glasha.
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