When John Perry Lynch was born on 5 April 1819, in Harrison, Virginia, United States, his father, Hiram Lynch, was 28 and his mother, Nancy Ann Somerville, was 27. He married Zipporah Faris on 11 May 1843, in Harrison, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Ten Mile District, Harrison, West Virginia, United States in 1880. He died on 18 April 1897, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Maken, Harrison, West Virginia, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
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’.
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