There is a list of passengers on ships which sailed from Ireland taking immigrants to
America on the
Irish ancestry web site and although there aren't any
Lynds there are some
Lynns. It's late now so I'll find the web site address tomorrow and let you know. See my previous message on the board for origin of the name to
England. I have also found a
Lynd in an
Irish flax growers register of early 18th century.I'm looking into some
Lynd history from 1275 when a Richard
Lynd went to Ireland with the 2nd Viking invasion of Ireland (the earliest and possibly the only known record of a
Lynd going to Ireland)and his elder brother stayed here in Worcestershire
England and got a Knighthood becoming Sir William atte Causal.They still have the original records in the Worcestershire records office in
Worcester,
England (which is where purely by chance I now live) as there was a legal dispute between the two brothers over some land at
Kings Norton (now a suburb of
Birmingham)
England. I am going to look at these records but they may take some deciphering as they could be in
Latin or old French... I'll let you know. These
Lynds also spelled
Lynde (these two names were pretty arbritarily used and seem interchangable although both names refer to the same family) originally came from
Normandy France with William the
Conqueror and this is the ONLY known record of anyone with the name Lynd/
Lynde arriving in
England. They were first given land in
Surrey,
England ( recorded in the
Surrey Pipe rolls with the name William
Lynd) 1080 ish and their decendants were Willliam (the elder brother) and Richard (1275).
My own granfather was born in Belfast his name was Hugh and his elder brother was John (known as Jack)who was also born in Belfast 1860-ish although they moved to Londonderry when they were children. My paternal granfather Hugh later moved to Chester,
Cheshire England where he died in 1969.
Regards
Sue
Jones ( born
Lynd )