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Charles A. Lynskey:
Charles A. Lynskey:
From: <jlynskey@netcomuk.co.uk>
To: <info@lynskey.com>
Subject: Lynskey Family Tree
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 6:51 PM

Dear Charles
Thank you so much for your email. We visited Mayo last year and are having a Lynskey family holiday there again in May. I have some photographs of family graves!! (that's what the family research obsession does to you doesn't it) If I can persuade one of my teenagers to scan them I'll send copies. I'm afraid I haven't got much in the way of hard information about the Lynskey's in Ireland but my sister-in-law, Kay Rose, is working hard on it. I'll give you the information I have and forward your email address to her. Our cousin Anna Lynskey is also very interested (particularly in the proposed Lynskey get-together in 2002).

I married John Lynskey in 1971 in Norfolk, England and we have three sons, Michael, Sean and Joseph. Michael has a son, Callum, born 1998. John's father, Pat, was born on the Mullet (Belmullet) probably at Ardmore Point in 1921. He was the eldest of nine (the others being in descending order Andrew,Martin,Kate,Margaret,Norah,Michael,Sean and Anthony). Pat, Norah and Michael are now dead. Andy and Martin live in Norfolk, England.Kate, Margaret and Tony live in County Meath and Sean lives in Monaghan. Their father was John Lynskey also from Ardmore Point and their mother Margaret(nee Diamond). Her mother was Margaret Togher (she had a brother Michael Diamond who now lives in County Meath next door to John's uncle Tony). His father was Andrew Lynskey and we think he was married to a Togher.
We will try to send you more detailed information than this ( a proper tree with dates etc) when I've worked out how to do it.

Best wishes
Janet and John Lynskey

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Charles A. Lynskey:
To: Charles Lynskey <info@lynskey.com>
From: marie lynskey <ml@clara.net>
Subject: Meanings.jpg
Date: 21 July 1999 22:26

Hello Chuck,

Here is the missing jpeg 'Meanings.jpg'.

I found your chart very easy to follow when printed out. It more difficult on screen as you have to scroll about to find out who's related to who but it's easy to follow once you understand the layout. I'm not sure exactly what version of Excel I was using but it was probably a fairly recent one.

My main interest now is to find out more about Philip Lynskey, born presumably around 1820 at Ardmore, Mayo. This place is in a really remote corner of Mayo, on a small promontory jutting out along the coast and the family could have been settled there farming for centuries. I wrote to some near relatives still living in the area and had some interesting
correspondence which gave me a lot of the information on the chart. One of my great aunts actually visited them many years ago and I have a photograph of her with about 12 Irish Lynskey relatives! My mum and I often talk about
going over to see them ourselves but we've both got so many ties and obligations at home that I don't know when we'll ever manage to. I'd also like to follow up the TOHER (TOGHER) connections for Andrew Lynskey, born 1847 and his sister.

I've been trying to get hold of the Irish telephone directories to photocopy the Lynskey entries for Mayo and Galway but I was wrong about our local libraries keeping copies, I must have seen them somewhere else. It was probably in the British library in London which I visit occassionally for research. If I get the chance to go there again I'll send you copies of anything of use I find.

I don't think I've got anything else which would be of use to you at the moment but I'll be in touch again when anything crops up. I'll set up a link to your site and will watch it with interest!

Best wishes,

Marie

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Charles A. Lynskey:
From: Henry@tagteacher.net
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:36:48 -0000

Dear Charles my Grandfather was John Lynskey born 11 May 1889 at Ardmore Point,Binghamstown,he married Margaret Diamond daughter of Michael Diamond and Margaret Togher ,in 1919.His parents were Andrew Lynskey and Catherine Togher.John had nine chikdren Patrick,Andrew Martin( my father),Kate ,Maggie,Nora,Michael,Sean and Tony.I havent received my family history report yet but they have written to say it will contain 1901census returns and details of land owned by the Lynskey in the mid 1850s. Hope to hear from you soon,Anna Christine Lynskey.