My husband's grandmother was a Kyne and both her parents came to the US from Clonbur. We visited your lovely community in 1988 and were helped by the mistress of Ballykyne BB and the local priest in locating his great grandparents in the parish register.Their names were Patrick and Briget Moran Kyne. Their first child Thomas was born there. Subssequent children were born in Pittsburgh, PA. We had a lovely time at Burke's Pub one evening, even learned to do the Irish two step. While we were perusing the parish book, who should come into the pub but noneother than one of Hollywood's most famous Irishman's son, Tim Kelly, son of now deceased actor, dancer, director, Gene Kelly. His mother's maiden name was Coyne. You are so right about Clonbur having so many Kynes. It must be difficult to keep everyone straight since most of the given names are the same, too. We would very much like to learn more about Patrick Kyne's ancestors and also Bridget Moran's. They were in the birth's register for their son Tom, b. 20 Dec. 1863. Unfortunately all of my husband's relatives who might have had some family records are now all deceased. When Patrick died young, at 36, Bridget married again and no one seems to have kept good track of the Kyne children after that other than knowing a few of their married names,deaths, etc. If you are interested, I have some letters that were sent to us after our first visit to Ireland. I pinched a page out of a phone book and when we got home, I wrote to a Kyne family in Dungarvan and was sent the most amazing documents telling how it is believed that the Kyne name became such from the French name of Chaign, French Huguenots, no less. I believe the story as other letter refer to a ring that came out of that journey and although we don't know the connection between our Kynes and the Dungarvan Kynes who were originally from Clonbur, I wouldn't mind sharing these papers with you. In turn, maybe you could when doing your own history, perhaps be on the lookout for Patrick and Briget Kyne, b. about 1830's 40's. How nice to have found you! Do you know Annette Kyne? We met her and her mother while there. She was about to go off to Trinity College about that time.Isn't the Internet great!
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prjones@strato.net. We live in Sebring, FL