Brief Life History of Jeremiah J
When Hon Jeremiah J Lynch was born on 9 January 1871, in Kilcatherine, Castletown, County Cork, Ireland, his father, John "Jack" Lynch, was 21 and his mother, Johanna O'Sullivan, was 22. He married Margaret Kelly on 10 February 1904, in Walkerville, Silver Bow, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He registered for military service in 1898. He died on 28 September 1961, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States.
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- Jermiah J Lynch, "United States 1950 Census"
- Jeremiah J Lynch, "Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004"
- Jeremiah J. Lynch, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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1872 · The First National Park
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1881
Historical Boundaries 1881: Silver Bow, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Silver Bow, Montana, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
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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