Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NamePierce LYNCH362, 8G Grandfather
Web Notes notes for Pierce LYNCH
Of ancient Austian descent. Family was banished from their inheritance and forced to seek refuge on O’Shaughnessy’s estate at Rafiladown, where by his skill in farming, Pierce has amassed enormous wealth and can now [as of 1689] live as comfortably in his mansion at Rafiladown as if he dwelt in one of the fine old dwellings of Spanish architecture which his ancestors possessed in Galway.
The family of Lynch, one of the most celebrated in Galway annals, is said to have originally come from Linz, in Austria, of which town one of them was governor during a siege. As a reward for his services, he received permission to take a lynx as a crest. The family came to Ireland in the 13th century, and flourished there till the middle of the 17th. In 1484 Pierce Lynch was made first mayor under the new charter of Richard III, while his son Stephen was appointed first warden by Innocent VIII, and during a period of a hundred and sixty-nine years, 84 members of this family were mayors; altogether the Lynches were great people in Galway.
The family of Lynch, one of the most celebrated in Galway annals, is said to have originally come from Linz, in Austria, of which town one of them was governor during a siege. As a reward for his services, he received permission to take a lynx as a crest. The family came to Ireland in the 13th century, and flourished there till the middle of the 17th. In 1484 Pierce Lynch was made first mayor under the new charter of Richard III, while his son Stephen was appointed first warden by Innocent VIII, and during a period of a hundred and sixty-nine years, 84 members of this family were mayors; altogether the Lynches were great people in Galway.