My ancestors, Thomas Lynch (b. 1792) and Mary King (b. 1791) and their baby daughter Bridget Lynch emigrated to America from Doonaha around 1820. I will be visting Doonaha in May 2017 and would love to connect with anyone who is related tothese Lynches and/or Kings. Thomas's father's name was possibly Michael Lynch. The Lynch'slandlord in Griffith's Valuation was Nicholas Westby......Deb Moore, Michigan
Deb:
Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!
Doonaha is in Moyarta civil parish. I will alert the parish liaison about your message.
Roger McDonnell
Hi Deb
Doonaha East and Doonaha West are two townlands in Moyarta civil parish, a very quiet parish with its own IrelandXO page at
http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland/clare/moyarta/background
and its own message board at
http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland/clare/moyarta/message-board
I am the IrelandXO parish liaison person for Moyarta.
I will post this reply to both your queries at
https://www.facebook.com/IrelandFamilyHistory/posts/829564253848387
and
http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/message-board/lynch-and-king-doonah…
You might also like to try IGP's County Clare Ireland Genealogy Group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/countyclare/
and/or the Clare Past Forum at
http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=1
There are almost no surviving records from before 1820 for Moyarta parish, so we may learn more from you than you will learn from us.
There is an 1829 Lynch grave in the local Kilcrona Graveyard, but it doesn't give a townland address:
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/kilc…
As you say, a Michael Lynch was still a tenant of Nicholas Westby in Doonaha West in 1855, recorded in Griffith's Valuation.
However, at least one Lynch family continued to live in Doonaha West up to the 1911 census:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Clare/Moyarta/Doonaha_…
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Clare/Moyarta/Doonaha_…
Another Lynch family returned from America to inherit a pub in Doonaha. You can read the story at
http://bellairs.org/IrelandStory/IrelandStory008.html#toc18
Have you considered submitting a sample of your DNA to one of the big DNA companies to see if you share autosomal DNA with any West Clare residents? There is a very active Clare Roots DNA project with 464 members, many still living in Clare, at
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/clare-roots-society/about/backgrou…
There are three Lynch members, one with known roots in Moveen West townland in Moyarta parish, and two more (siblings) who have learned from their DNA results that their Lynch ancestor, hitherto known only to be from "Ireland", almost certainly also came from Moveen West.
Or do you have any male cousin still bearing the Lynch surname who has submitted or might submit a DNA sample for Y-DNA analysis?
I liked your own website at
http://thestoriesofyourlife.com/
Greetings, Paddy! Many thanks for your quick and thorough response to my post. I greatly appreciate it and am excited to connect with someone in Clare. Since my ancestors Tom and Mary Lynch emigrated 200 years ago, I know it's going to be tough! But even if I cannot absolutely identify anyone who is my relation, I looking forward to experiencing Doonaha, which looks like a lovely place. (For some reason, when I hit the "return" key, I am taken to the beginning of this message. Thus, it's a long, run-on paragraph. I will number for some clarity.) In response to some of the points you offer: 1) I have applied for membership to both the Facebook IGP's Co. Clare Ireland Genealogy Group and the Clare Forum. Good tip! 2) I am hopeful about the Patrick Lynch buried with his daughters in the Kilcrony Graveyard. The Tithe Applotment Books of 1827 have only one Lynch living in Doonaha, Patt. He was gone by Griffith's in 1855, when only a Michael Lynch was living in Doonaha. Perhaps Patt was my Thomas's father and Michael was his brother who remained in Ireland. The two young daughters the memorial was erected for—Ellen and Bridget— would then be Thomas and Michael's sisters. Thomas named two of his daughters Ellen and Bridget. 3) Is Lynch's Pub still in existence? 4) Sadly, Thomas had two sons in America, but both died young, "without issue," as they say. I have done the standard Ancestry.com DNA test, which shows me to be 35% Irish, 29% Western European, 21% Scandinavian, 6% Iberian Peninsula, 2% British, then dribbles. After reading Ancestry.com's literature about shifting populations and trade, along with my own research, I believe the Scandinavian and Iberian could be influences that came to Ireland. Too bad I can't get a Y-DNA test. 5) The church the Lynches and other people from Doonaha would have attended in 1800 was St. Criodan's in Doonaha? Or Holy Ghost/Spirit in Carrigaholt? 6) That's enough for now! I will be in touch again. Best regards, Deb Moore
Hi Deb
If the message editor on this website doesn't work properly on your device, you can always compose your reply in your favourite editor and then copy and paste it into the website editor. That's what I am doing!
To answer your various points:
3) If I remember correctly Lynch's pub became known as The O'Curry Arms, called after the famous historian from Doonaha, Eugene O'Curry. It is no longer functioning as a pub, but the name is still over the window. See
https://goo.gl/maps/dwGyiBt62h22
I see that a descendant of the Lynches has commented on one of your Facebook queries at
https://www.facebook.com/CarrigaholtCoClare/posts/1310093165700497
so she'll be better able to fill you in on this.
4) The next thing to do with your AncestryDNA results is to copy your data to GEDmatch.com and post your kit number here. You will find instructions on the GEDmatch website or at
http://pwaldron.info/newdna.html#AncestryToGEDmatch
Then we will be able to compare your DNA directly with that of several descendants of Lynches from other parts of Moyarta parish.
5) As you can read at
http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland/clare/moyarta/background
There are two churches in the parish, at Carrigaholt (Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1832-1833, while Fr. Malachy Duggan (1780-1849) was parish priest) and Doonaha (Church of the Holy Spirit, built in 1808). I'm not sure how you got the dedications moved around!
Paddy
Hi Paddy,
Once again, thanks for your reply! I am typing in Pages and will copy and paste into the Ireland Reaching Out site.
3) I will follow up with the Lynch descendant.
4) I have followed your instructions and downloaded my DNA results to GEDmatch.com. I now have a message that says: “Kits marked with ** have been tokenized, but have not completed batch processing. They are available for one-to-one comparisons, but not one-to-many comparisons.” I’m not sure where to post my kit number. It’s A147087. Can you do that for me?
Then, should I also try to download a GEDCOM file somewhere with my ancestors' names? If so, where?
5) Thanks for the clarification re churches!
Deb
Paddy, I successfully posted my GEDCOM file to GEDmatch.com, too. Hooray! I will play around with it soon and see if I can learn anything. Will other people know to compare their results to mine? .........Deb
One more question, Paddy: Does my Ancestry.com DNA (autosomal) test cover the mtDNA, too? Mary King of Doonaha was my mother's mother's mother's mother's mother. Thanks, Deb
Paddy,
Since my last note to you, I have done quite a bit of exploring on the GEDmatch.com site. I think I understand it pretty well, but not perfectly. For instance, it says to be a match you and the other person have to have at least a 700 SNP match, but I see nowhere that that info is listed.
Interestingly, my #1 match “on GEDCOMs linked to my DNA kit” is Catherine Waldron/Catherine Amery Brown. When I clicked on her GEDCOM, however, I could not access her family tree.
I have 1 and 2 matching segments of DNA to two other people, but neither seems to have a GEDCOM. I would email them if I knew we had the 700+SNPs, but, as mentioned, I cannot find that piece of information.
Many thanks, Deb
PS. My DNA kit # is A147087. I did not see how to compare it to other Lynches from Clare........Deb
Deb, I have sent you an e-mail which I hope will answer all your questions about GEDmatch.com
Yes, I did, Paddy. I just replied again to you directly through email.....Deb
Hi Deb,
Thanks for reaching out. I am in search of family members Herbert King born early 19th century in Ireland and his wife Mary who's last name was Lynch, born 1827. They had a daughter named Helen King (my ggma) and a son named Francis. I have completed a DNA test. Thanks!
Brooks Bradbury
brooks.bradbury@gmail.com
Hi Brooks
You might like to read my advice on how to get the most out of your DNA results at
http://pwaldron.info/DNA/nextstep.html
Not everybody seeing this will think of using the User LookUp to find that the e-mail address that you give is linked to GEDmatch kit A987779.
Hi Brooks,
(For Paddy's FYI, I emailed my response to your post directly, but am now posting my response here.) Brooks, I just checked the GEDMatch kit number Paddy posted for you and learned that you and I and you and my brother are not DNA matches. Sorry that the only King I know is Mary King, wife of my 3rd great grandfather, Thomas Lynch of Doonaha. They married c. 1820 and emigrated to America by 1824.
Good luck in your search.....Deb More