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Lynch Ancestral Home
Roads, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, Ireland
Lynch Ancestral Home
Roads, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, Ireland
My 2x grandmother Mary Sullivan Lynch lived here (259 Yantic Street, Norwich, Connecticut) in 1898. She was an immigrant from Cahersiveen, Kerry, Ireland, arriving in 1884.
John Woods, my 9x gr-grandfather lived here in Wayland, Massachusetts in 1640. His house is long gone. He was a founder of the towns of Sudbury and Marlborough. John was an immigrant from Sudbury, Middlesex, England arriving around 1638.
Castle Garden was the immigration point of NYC from 1855 - 1892 - preceding Ellis Island. It was here that a number of my immigrant ancestors first set foot in the USA from Ireland. James O’Dea arrived in 1863 and the Lynches arrived in 1884.
This is where my gr-grandparents Clinton and Alberta Colburn lived in 1890 (32 Perkin St., Providence, Rhode Island). They were immigrants from the rural town of River Philip, Nova Scotia - arriving in 1888.
In 1915, my gr-grandmather, Theresa O’Day Lynch lived here (46 Warren Street, Providence, Rhode Island) with her family. The house is gone. Theresa was born in lower Manhattan and was the daughter of Irish immigrants.
Here lie the remains of the Charlestown, Massachusetts tavern of Robert Long, my 10x great-grandfather. He was an immigrant who arrived in 1635 from St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. His tavern, The Three Cranes stayed in the family for few a few generations before being destroyed by fire as part of the nearby Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775.
This is where my great-grandparents, Daniel and Catherine McMahon O’Connor lived in 1908 (190 Crescent Avenue, Chelsea, Massachusetts). The house is now gone. Both were immigrants from Cork City in Ireland, he arrived in 1892 and she in 1900.
In 1942 a number of Lynches - a great uncle and two aunts, lived in this house on Sachem Street, in Norwich, Connecticut. These Lynches were all immigrants, coming in 1884 from rural, seaside, Cahersiveen in Southwestern Ireland.
What is now Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester, Massachusetts was once owned by a 9x great-grandfather of mine, named John Rowe. He was an immigrant from Lamerton, Devonshire, England. John didn’t like living away from the town and gave up the place soon after due to loneliness.
My 2x great-grandparents were married in this New York City church (St. James the Apostle Church) in 1866. Both were Irish immigrants and at the time this was a very busy place. Now the old church is closed and sits empty on James Street in Lower Manhattan.
This was the home of my great-grandparents Daniel and Ellen Ivers O’Keefe in 1940: 99 Doyle Avenue, in the Mt.Hope Neighborhood, of Providence, Rhode Island. The two were from tiny rural Churchtown South in East Cork, Ireland and came to America with two sons in 1906.
Camp Street
Mount Hope Neighborhood, Providence, Rhode Island
Doyle Avenue
Providence, Rhode Island
Reed Street
New London, Connecticut
Norwich, Connecticut
John Lynch, finisher
Louis Street
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Solo Exhibition - Spring 2022