Edward LYNCH & Catherine LAVERY - Boconnell, Co. Armagh

Hello :)

I am looking for the families of my great-great-grandmother: 

She is Hannah Jane Lynch - father Edward Lynch & mother Catherine Lavery of Boconnell, Co. Armagh.

I do not have a marriage date for Edward & Catherine, and am unsure if they were married in Armagh.

Hannah was born b.1831.  RC Church baptism record Jan 1832 Beauconnell, Shankhill, Co. Armagh shows father Edwd Lynch and mother Cath Lavery.  Sponsors are Bern Lorghran and Ellen Smyth.

I am told Hannah worked in a flax mill in Lurgan (Irish Looms?) and I am told she was some sort of supervisor.

Hannah married George Byrne in Nov 1853, and the Shankhill RC Church record shows witnesses W Byrne and Ellen McCann.  

George & Hannah emigrated to Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 1854.   They had children Mary in 1854, Andrew in 1856, and Edward in 1858.  George was killed in a horse accident in April 1860, leaving the pregnant widow to birth son George in Oct 1860.  Hannah married the former convict William Watts in Victoria in 1863, and they had Catherine in 1864 and James in 1866.

Hannah became a midwife, and is still remembered and respected in her local community, with a huge park named after her.  She died in 1921.

 

Edward Lynch  I have in Griffiths 1864 as a tenant of Lord Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Oneilland East, Lurgan Union, Seagoe Parish, Boconnell.  There is a RC church burial record in August 1892 with the address Silverwood, Shankill Parish, but no other information.  I have the civil death record showing him as 90 years old, a butcher, and a widower.  The informant is Charles McCann, grandson.  I have his will from PRONI.

Catherine Lavery There is a RC church burial record in Dec 1877 with the address Boconnell, Shankill Parish, but no other information.  I have the civil death record showing her as a 70 years old farmer's wife.  The informant is Agnes Lynch, her daughter.

Their children from the RC Church Baptism registers:

• Ann b.1829.  Sponsors John Lynch & Sarah Lavery.  Ann m. a Mr Doyle.  She is left a bequest of 2 shillings & sixpence in her father's will.
• Hannah b.1831 as above.  She is left a bequest of 2 shillings & sixpence in her father's will.
• Mary b.1833.  Sponsors Charles Lynch & Sarah Lavery.  Mary emigrated to Aust with Hannah & George, and m. Danny Ross in Aust in 1859.  She d.1881, before her father.
• James b.1835.  Sponsors Bernard Loughlin & Sarah Loughrin.  He is left a bequest of 2 shillings & sixpence in his father's will.
• Catherine b.1837.  Sponsors Roger Byrne & Jane Murtagh.  Catherine is 'head of the house' 'farmer' and 'landholder' in the 1901 Census, on the Boconnell farm with her sister Susan.  She is an executor of her father's will in 1904, and one of the 3 main beneficiaries.  
• Margaret b.1839. Sponsor Sarah Lavery.  Mgt m. Bernard McCann & they had children Charles, Ellen, Felix & Catherine.  She is left a bequest of 2 shillings & sixpence in her father's will.
• Agnes b.1841.  Sponsor Sarah Lynch.  She is one of the 3 main beneficiaries of her father's will.  
• Susan b.1844. Sponsors John Loughran & Ellen Loughran.  Susan is 'housekeeper' in the 1901 Census, on the Boconnell farm with her sister Catherine.  She is one of the 3 main beneficiaries of her father's will. 
• Susanna b.1845. Sponsor Eliz. Healey.  She is not mentioned in her father's will.

 

Any help with the Lynch or Lavery families, or their associated branches would really be appreciated.  

Thanks - Beck