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Subject: Re: [IRL-MAYO] FORKIN & LYNCH
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:45:10 +0000

Have you tried look at other Forkin/Forkan spellings in the Griffith's? Also, Bernard and Brian/Bryan are the same name. There was a big concentration of Forkan's in Killedan and Kilconduff Parish and they are still there.

Nancy

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> I'd like to thank everyone who contacted me on and off the list for the warm
> welcome!!! I'm very happy to be here!
>
> Sadly, I don't have a lot of info on my FORKINS and LYNCHS. Here's what I do
> know:
>
> Margaret FORKIN (various spellings) was born abt. 1830ish - parents unknown
> as yet. She married Bernard LYNCH abt. 1860ish and had at least two children:
> an unknown son and my great grandfather, Martin, b. 1863.
>
> Bernard and Martin came to NYC in the early 1880s. Naturally, I'm assuming
> that Margaret died in Ireland. I haven't searched any death registrations yet.
>
> When asked where in Ireland they came from, the LYNCHS have always said the
> Mayo/Galway area. (Though they told the enumerator for the 1930 US Census that
> they were from Northern Ireland. Have no idea where that came from.) I've
> been unable to locate a Bernard LYNCH in Griffiths for any county, so I figure
> that he worked as a laborer, as he did once he landed over here.
>
> FORKIN is almost exclusively a Mayo name. Since Martin LYNCH was the second
> son, I assumed that he was named for Margaret FORKIN'S father. (The naming
> pattern has held pretty constant in the LYNCH line all the way down.) I did
> find a Martin FORKIN in Kilmovee. I've so far been unable to prove or disprove
> that he's mine.
>
> The LYNCHS tell me that Martin LYNCH spoke constantly about Mayo and how
> beautiful it was. Up until the time he died (1930s), he had a photo of the Mayo
> countryside ripped from a magazine and hung on the wall of his bedroom. The
> family also tells me he spoke highly of Galway. So I'm not sure if the LYNCHS
> resided in a border area, or possibly stayed in Galway prior to emigration.
>
> I hope to eventually break through this brickwall!
>
> Take care,
> Tracy
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