When Marketta Isabelle Lynch was born on 5 July 1919, in Colver, Cambria Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Peter Lynch, was 38 and her mother, Mary E Williams, was 35. She married Percy nedrow in 1938, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Turtle Creek, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Versailles, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. She died on 10 April 1958, in Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Natrona Heights, Harrison Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Liam, Kieran, Dermot, Donovan, Brigid, Caitlin, Siobhan, Aileen, Colm, Conley, Conor.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Loingsigh ‘descendant of Loingseach’, a personal name meaning ‘mariner’ (from long ‘ship’). This is now a common surname in Ireland but of different local origins, for example chieftain families in counties Antrim and Tipperary, while in Ulster and Connacht there were families called Ó Loingseacháin who later shortened their name to Ó Loingsigh and also Anglicized it as Lynch.
Irish (Anglo-Norman): from de Línse, a Gaelicized form of the Norman French name de Lench, deriving from one of the manors named Lench in Worcestershire. The placename derives from Old English hlenc ‘hill-side’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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