Lynch William (1) 1860 -1910.
(son of George Lynch 1)
(8)William Lynch (1) was baptised July 7th 1860 his sponsors being Patrick Lynch and Maria (Mary) Higgins. Patrick Lynch being his uncle, brother of George. Maria Higgins being the sister of Con Higgins, Glasha. William applied to work in the Civil Service as a Prison Warder at Kilmainham Jail in Dublin in the early 1880’s. On Oct 6th 1890, William married Elizabeth (Lizzie) O’Connor at Baldoyle RC Church.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Patrick O’Connor and the niece of Elizabeth O’Connor who in 1846 married a man by the name of Flewett who was the deputy Governor of Kilmainham Jail. The Flewett’s came from Chester, England and memorials to that family can be found at the Anglican Cathedral there. The witnesses for the marriage of William Lynch and Lizzie O’Connor were Daniel McCartan and Mary Jane Flewil. Dan McCartan who came from Co. Down was a solicitor and was married to a Cussen girl from Newcastle West, Co. Limerick. Whether she was a relative of the Solicitor Cussen’s in N.C.W. I do not know. When William died the said Dan McCartan was an executor to his will and for a brief time was part of the firm. At the time of their marriage they were both living in Howth, Co. Dublin. Lizzie’s family were builders who built in and around Howth where Lizzie acquired some property. Following their marriage, they moved into Mount Pleasant on Thormanby Rd, a house with land around it. William studied law, qualified as a solicitor in September 1894 and took up rooms at Lr. Ormond Quay, Dublin 1. Each Christmas Lizzy would send a tin of biscuits down to Glasha and and in return a turkey would be delivered to the O’Connor home in Howth. William’s grandson Bryan Lynch reminds me that gifts were also passed to a Mrs. Wallace in Glin parish. The only Wallace that I know of with a Lynch connection is Johanna Wallace, wife of David Kelly, Ballygoughlin. The Lynch’s and Kelly’s were very close friends so close that David Kelly’s son Ambrose (Amby) was my grandfathers’ best man (George Lynch) on his wedding day. It was a practise back then that many wife’s carried on using their maiden names following their marriages and so could be the case with Johanna Wallace.
When my mother was in the Meath Hospital in 1923 with her leg complaint, she remembers Lizzy calling in to visit her. Says mother, ‘’she always wore a hat and a veil over her face’’. My mother has no memory of William and Lizzy coming to Glasha; how could she as William died in the year 1910, however, she has a vivid recollection of William’s son Marcus Lynch coming to visit on several occasions. Patsy Connolly, the harness-maker from Glenagragra was often known to pass the following remark ‘’tamaill an dire, and there was Marcus’’. Patsy’s home was the local gathering house so to speak back in those days. My aunt Joan O’Connor remembers how she along with her uncle Paddy Barrett paid a visit to Marcus Lynch a solicitor at Ormonde Quay back in 1948.
1901 census for William Lynch, Howth, Co. Dublin as follows :
William, age 40, birthplace Co. Limerick, head of family.
Lizzie, age 34, birthplace Howth, wife.
Marcus, age 9, son.
George, age 7, son.
John Lynch, age 30. Relation to head of family not given.
Emma Brady, Queens County, (Co.Laois) servent.
1911 census for same family as follows :
Lizzie, age 44, head of family.
Marcus, age 19, son.
George, age 17, son.
Nora, age 9, daughter, scholar.
Mary Meehan, age 31, bookkeeper.(niece of Lizzie)
Mary Jane Gibney, female servant. This must be the Mary Jane Flewil, one of the witnesses at William’s wedding.
William died suddenly from appendicitis in 1910 at the age of 50. Elizabeth died in 1946 aged 77yrs.
Family of William Lynch and Lizzie O’Connor, four, as follows;
(1) Marcus Lynch 1890-1959.
(2) George Lynch.b1894.
(3) Nora Lynch 1900-1916.
(4) William Lynch (2) b1907
(1) Marcus Lynch 1890-1959 (son of William (1) took over the family practice when he qualified in 1914. He married Mary McLaughin R.I.P. 1988, year of marriage, September 1935. Frances was from Derry. Marcus died of cancer in September 1959 at the age of 69yrs. They had the following family –
(i) Gregory Lynch b1936. It would appear that Gregory Lynch remained single in life.
(ii) John Marcus Lynch b1938 who in 1970 married Helen McElligott.
Family from John Marcus Lynch and Helen McElligott, three as follows ;
Private Lynch b19.. who Married Private McMahon and had the following family – Private male McMahon, Private female McMahon Private female McMahon and Private male McMahon.
Private Lynch b19.. who married Private O’Malley and had the following family – Private & Private O’Malley.
Private Lynch b19.. who married Private Freeman and had the following family – Private Lynch b20.. and Private born 20..
(iii) Bryan Francis Lynch b19– who in 19– married Louise Kissane.
Family from Bryan Lynch and Louise Kissane, two, as follows –
(1) Private Lynch. b19– who in 20– married Private Connolly and had a daughter Private Lynch b20–.
(2)Private Lynch born 19–.
Louise Kissane’s parental ancestors came from Leitrim East, Newtownsandes (Moyvane), Co. Kerry. Her grandfather John Kissane moved to Co. Tipperary in the early 1900’s. He acquired quite a large farm of land not far from Tipperary town. Her father John Kissane was a pharmacist there and was president of the Irish pharmacy’s association. It was he in fact that was responsible for the unification of both the north and south pharmacies. Her granduncles in Leitrim East were of a family of 15 siblings, one of whom was Annie, who apparently did the majority of the work, not alone within the house but also around the farm. Their mothers’ name was Walshe. There were at least two priests among the fifteen, a Fr. Maurice Kissane and a Fr. Eddie Kissane both of whom emigrated to Syracuse, New York and were very close friends of a Mary Windle over there. (Mary Windle’s sister Kathy was married to my uncle James Lynch, Leitrim Middle, son of George Lynch, Glasha). In 1956 Fr. Maurice and Fr. Eddie made a special donation of funds towards the altar in Moyvane Church. They were attached to St. Michael’s Rectory, Onondaga Hill, Syracuse, New York. Fr. Eddie was ordained in 1919 and went to his eternal reward in 1973.
Michael Kissane remained in the home place and married a Scanlon girl from Coolnacoonagh, Tarbert. This Scanlon girl was the sister of Michael, Mary, Katie and Brigid Scanlon who, on August 15th 1893 were tragically drowned in the River Shannon when a fishing boat that they had hired for a pleasure trip that day to Co Clare, sank on the return journey from Moyne Quay. In total seventeen people lost their lives on that fateful evening. The owner of the boat, Maurice Murphy and his son Paddy were among the seventeen that perished. (For more on the disaster see Ballyguiltenane Rural Journal 1981 p50 and B.R.J. 1992 p129 articles submitted by Tom O’Connor and Tom O’Donovan.)
Louise Kissane’s mother was Tess Reidy from Castleisland. They had a publichouse/grocery shop in the town, the rear of which stood facing towards the local river. Michael O’Sullivan is the current owner of the Kissane farm in Moyvane. Michael’s grandmother was another member of the Scanlon family, either a sister or a 1st cousin. The last of the Kissane’s, John Kissane, died tragically circa 1974/5.
(2) George Lynch (son of William Lynch was born in 1894, qualified as a solicitor in 1916 and set up practice in Carrick-on-shannon, Co. Leitrim. George married Frances O’Neill from Mullingar circa 1916 and in the early 1920’s became State Solicitor for Sligo/Leitrim. George and Frances had a family of 6 as follows –
(i) Brendan Lynch.
(ii) Declan Marcus Lynch.
(iii) George Lynch.
(iv) William Basil Lynch.
(v) Gerald Lynch.
(vi) Hilary Lynch.
(i) Brendan Lynch 1918-2007 married Mary Leech. Brendan who was a state solicitor lived with his family in Carrick-on-shannon, Co Leitrim. My grandfather George Lynch along with his sons Mick & Dan, paid a visit on Brendan in 1969. Dan was home on holiday from Chicago.
(ii) Declan Marcus Lynch was married to Ruth ? and had 6 children.
(iii) George Lynch emigrated to the US and joined the priesthood there. He was ordained in 1954, Fr. Ibar George Lynch and administered in Seattle until his death in 2007. (the vocation seemed to follow along the generations)
(iv) William Basil Lynch R.I.P. 2006 married Bernice Shortall and had 5 children.
(v) Gerard Lynch b1937 married Judith Shiels 1968/9 and had 2 children.
(vi) Hilary Lynch married David Baker and had 2 children.
(3) Nora Lynch. (daughter of William Lynch (1) was born 1900 and died of TB at the age of 16 in 1916.
(4) William Lynch (2) (son of William Lynch (1) born 1907 died aged 1yr in 1908.