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Lynns of Londonderry, Donegal,
and Tyrone
A Chronology of the Scottish Lynns Who Settled Northwest Ulster
in
the First Plantation, through the End of the Seventeenth Century
© 2011
Loretta
Lynn
Layman
Lynneage
@
h-o-l.com
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PREMISE
As records will show, the first Lynns found in
northwest Ulster were Scottish settlers. At the same time, the
first Scottish Lynns found in surviving Ulster records
are those who settled in the northwest. While
muster rolls dated in the 1630s and earlier include
Lynns in Donegal and Tyrone, no Lynns, Linns, etc. are
found in any other muster rolls of the period, although
muster rolls survive for each of the Ulster counties.
Weighty evidence
exists for the Lynns of Londonderry, Donegal, and Tyrone having come from younger
sons of the Lynns of that Ilk in Ayrshire, Scotland, as discussed in
the 500-page book entitled "Lynneage - The Lynns, Linns, and
Linds of Scotland and Ulster". For information, write
to Loretta at Lynneage @
h-o-l.com.
In the meantime, the following chronological summary (with sources)
should be of interest.
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CHRONOLOGY : LYNNS OF LONDONDERRY,
DONEGAL, AND TYRONE 1606 -
1672
Most prominent among the
Lynns who settled in northwest Ulster was William Lynn or Lynne,
gentleman, of Londonderry.
He was first sheriff of Londonderry
and agent for the Earl of Abercorn for the Earl’s Dunnalong
estate; and he himself held several properties lying within a few
miles of each other but running in a line through the counties of
Londonderry, Donegal, and Tyrone where those counties converge.
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1609
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William Lynn leased from the bishop of Derry one qr. of
herenaugh of land of Carrickcall in Moville Parish, Donegal.*
Patent
Rolls of James I: Inquisition at Lifford (1609), transcribed
at:
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-Inquistion_at_Lifford.html
*Originally
written "Carrigcooley,
Movilly Parish" - see
http://www.logainm.ie/
for Irish place name searches/translations.
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1610 |
William Lynne
was paid 40£
for a "house with a backside and divers tenements" in Londonderry.
An Historical Account of the
Plantation of Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth
Century, 1608-1620, Rev. George
Hill, Belfast (1877)
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1611 |
William Lynne was present at an
inquisition in Strabane, Count Tyrone.
The
Parishes of Leckpatrick and Dunnalong -
Their Place in History,
William J. Roulston (2000),
ch. 3,
transcribed at:
http://www.breadyancestry.com/index.php?id=34
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1613 |
William Lyne was
appointed along with Robert Griffith as one of the two “first and present
sheriffs” of the city and county of Londonderry.
An Historical Account,
Ibid.
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1614 |
William Lynne of Londonderrry leased
Cloghogle [written Cloghogall], a property of 60 acres in County Tyrone lying
between Strabane and Dunnalong.
The
Parishes of Leckpatrick and Dunnalong,
Ibid., ch. 3,
transcribed at:
http://www.breadyancestry.com/index.php?id=34
Note:
The precinct of Strabane had been allotted to Scottish
undertakers, including Sir James Hamilton, Earl of
Abercorn, and Hamilton’s brother-in-law Sir Thomas Boyd,
Knight, Sixth Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire [An
Historical
Account,
Ibid.].
Notably, the Lynns of that Ilk in Ayrshire had several
dealings with the Boyds of Kilmarnock spanning the period
1532-1642, and their line in Ayrshire became extinct within
sixty years of the appearance of the first Scottish Lynns in the
Ulster plantation.
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1616 |
William Lynne of Derry City, a
Scottish settler in County Londonderry, was
granted denizenship.
The Scots in Ulster, Their Denization
and Naturalisation, Rev.
David Stewart, D.D., Edinburgh (1955)
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[1616
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Hugh Lyne was a merchant in
Irvine, Ayrshire described as occupying and
possessing a tenement owned by "Thomas Boyd,
sometime provost of Irvine, but now dwelling within
the kingdom of Ireland ..."
http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue:
Ref. ## GD1/693/1, GD1/693/13, GD1/693/15, and GD3/1/1/27/3]
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1617
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John Lynn and David Lynn also
were Scots settlers in Dunnalong, County Tyrone and
were granted denizenship.
The
Parishes of Leckpatrick and Dunnalong,
Ibid.
The Scots
in Ulster, Ibid.
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1618 |
William Lynn held Donegal lands
of Carrowreogh and Largybrack [written "Caroreagh"
and "Laurgaurack" in Pynnar's 1619 survey of the
Ulster plantation].
An
Historical Account,
Ibid.
The
Parishes of Leckpatrick and Dunnalong,
Ibid.
Statistical Survey of the County of Donegal, with Observations
on the Means of Improvement; Drawn Up in the Year 1801,
James McParlan, M.D., Dublin (1802)
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1622 |
William Lynne, gentleman, was
agent to the Earl of Abercorn in the manor of
Dunnalong in Strabane, as well as a freeholder with
a stone house therein. As agent, he conducted a survey
this year and
presented a certificate of the then present state of settlement
in Dunnalong.
The
Parishes of Leckpatrick and Dunnalong,
Ibid.
The
Ulster Plantation in the Manor of Dunnalong, 1610-70, Dr.
William J. Roulston in
Tyrone: History and Society, Edit.
Charles Dillon, Henry Jefferies, Willie Nolan,
Dublin: Geography Publications (2000)
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1622 |
John Lynne was also listed on
William's certificate as a freeholder
in Dunnalong. David Lynn does not appear on
the certificate, which may mean that he either: (1)
had died or moved away prior to William's survey, or
(2) was a mere undertenant or cottager in Dunnalong,
men in those two groups not being specifically named
nor even counted but only estimated at "a greate
number".
The
Parishes of Leckpatrick and Dunnalong,
Ibid.
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1625 |
William Lynne, gentleman in
Londonderry, died, his prerogative will
being recorded this year. Prerogative wills
were those of persons who held land in more than one
county.
Index
to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810,
Sir Arthur Vicars, F.S.A., Ulster King of Arms,
Dublin (1897)
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1628 |
Widow Lynn was a householder in
Londonderry.
Rent
Roll for Londonderry taken 15th May 1628,
transcribed at:
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-Rent_Roll_of_Derry.html
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1629 |
Margaret Lynne, widow of William
Lynne of Londonderry, was deceased, her will being
recorded this year.
Indexes
to Irish Wills,
Vol. V. Derry and Raphoe, Edit. Gertrude Thrift, Baltimore, MD
(1920)
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1630 |
William Lyne was listed on the
Muster Roll for County Donegal as being in the
Barony of Raphoe.
The
Muster Roll of ca. 1630: Co. Donegal,
The Donegal Annual, Donegal
County Historical (1972)
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1630 |
James Lynne was listed on the
Muster Roll for County Tyrone as being in Strabane
and possessing a sword.
1630 Muster Roll of Strabane Barony,
transcribed at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cotyroneireland/muster/muster-roll-strabane-1630.htm
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1635 |
William Lynn was named as a
nephew and heir in an inquisition concerning lands
of Largybrack [written "Largavracke"], Donegal belonging to the late William
Lynne of Londonderry.
An Historical Account,
Ibid.
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1641 |
Ensign David Lynne, John Lynn,
two William Lynns, and Major Nicholas Lynne were
members of the Laggan Army, which was organized
chiefly from the Ulster counties of
Londonderry, Donegal, Tyrone, and Fermanagh to
defend settlers against Irish forces.
The
Laggan Army in Ireland, 1640-1685 -
The Landed Interests, Political Ideologies and
Military Campaigns of the North-West Ulster Settlers,
Kevin McKenny, Dublin (2005).
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1643 |
Elizabeth Lynn, daughter of
Andrew Lynn, was baptized in the Parish of
Templemore, County Londonderry.
Register
of Derry Cathedral (S. Columb’s) Parish of
Templemore, Londonderry, 1642-1703,
Parish Register Society of Dublin, Exeter, London (1910)
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1654 |
David Lyne and William Lyne were
named in the civil survey of County Donegal as Scots
Protestant proprietors of Bunintyne, Largybrack
[written "Largebreake" in the original survey], and
Carrowreagh. As noted above, Largybrack and
Carrowreagh were first held by William Lynne,
gentleman, of Londonderry.
The
Civil Survey 1654, County Donegal, Barony of Kilmacrenan,
transcribed at:
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-CivilSurvey1654.html
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1658 |
Hugh Lyn was a merchant in
Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland named in a precept as the
deceased uncle of Susilie Oqueyne [O'Quinn?], his
heir, in Brendrewis, spouse of Lachlan McGolrik, in
County Donegal, Ireland. [Brendrewis has not
been identified.]
http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue:
Ref. #
GD3/1/1/27/3
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1658 |
Henry Lyn was a merchant in
Temple Patrick, Donegal, whose wife was Marion
Broune in Irvine, Ayrshire - all as described in a
sasine registered in Ayrshire which also names Hew
Lin or Lyne, merchant in Irvine, and Susillie
Oqueyne in Donegal.
Index
to Secretary’s Register of Sasines for the Sheriffdom of Ayr and
Bailliaries of Kyle, Carrick, and Cunningham, Vol. 2: 1635-1660,
Scotland Record Office, Edinburgh (1935)
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1662 |
William Lynn, Gent[leman] in
Cloghogle [written "Cloghogall"], was listed in the Donagheady Parish poll
book.
Database
of the Bready and District Ulster-Scots Development Association
appearing at:
http://www.breadyancestry.com/index.php?leckpatrick&page=7&prevStartQuery=60&tx_breadyleckpatrickpollbook_pi1[DATA][surname]=
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1662 |
David Lynne, yoeman in Cloghogle, and wife were listed in the Donagheady
Parish poll book.
Database
of the Bready and District Ulster-Scots Development Association
appearing at:
http://www.breadyancestry.com/index.php?leckpatrick&page=8&prevStartQuery=70&tx_breadyleckpatrickpollbook_pi1[DATA][surname]=
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1663 |
David Lynn of Largybrack was
listed in the Donegal hearth money rolls.
Donegal
Hearth Money Rolls of 1663,
transcribed at:
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ShowFreePage.php?id=227
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1664 |
William Lynn of Cloghogle was
listed in the hearth money rolls for Donagheady
Parish.
http://www.breadyancestry.com/index.php?leckpatrick&page=15&prevStartQuery=140
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1665 |
William Lyn was the only son and
heir of the deceased Margaret Muir in the parish of
Raphro [Raphoe], in the county of Donnygall
[Donegal] in Ireland and, as such, disposed of a
tenement on the east side of the high street of the
burgh of Irvine, Ayrshire.
http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue:
Ref. # GD1/693/13
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1666 |
William Lyne in Raphoe [written
"Raphro"],
heir to his mother [blank] Muire, was named in an
instrument of cognition and sasine in favour of
Thomas Reid in Aghadowey [written "Auchindowy"], County
Londonderry, for a property on the east side of the
high street of the burgh of Irvine.
http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue:
Ref. # GD1/693/15
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1666 |
William Linn in Cloghogle
[written "Cloghole"] was listed in the hearth money
rolls for Donagheady Parish, County Tyrone.
http://www.breadyancestry.com/index.php?leckpatrick&page=14&prevStartQuery=130
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1667 |
Henry Lyn, merchant in Temple
Patrick, County Donegal, was named in a sasine
registered in Ayrshire along with (1) Marion Broune
in Irvine, spouse of Henry Lyn, merchant, and (2)
Hew Lyn [younger], merchant in Irvine.
Index to
Secretary’s Register of Sasines for the Sheriffdom
of Ayr and Bailliaries of Kyle, Carrick, and
Cunningham,
Vol. 2: 1635-1660, Scotland Record Office, Edinburgh
(1935)
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1667 |
William Lynn was a Presbyterian
in Donagheady Parish, County Tyrone who was excommunicated
by the Anglican Bishop of Derry.
The
Parishes of Leckpatrick and Dunnalong,
Ibid.
Donagheady Presbyterian Churches and Parish,
Rev.
John
Rutherford, B.A., Belfast (1953)
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1672 |
William Lynne, gentleman in
Cloghogle [written "Cloghagall"], County Tyrone, was deceased,
his prerogative will being recorded this year.
Index
to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland,
Ibid.
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CONCLUSION
It is clear from the foregoing records that
a family of Scottish Lynns was firmly established in
Londonderry, Donegal, and Tyrone in the seventeenth century and
held several properties there.
The first, William Lynne, gentleman
of Londonderry, apparently died without issue as at least two of
his properties passed to a nephew of the same name.
By inference, one may assume that
David Lynn and John Lynn, both of whom appeared at virtually the
same time as the elder William - and at least one of whom lived on the very estate which he managed for the Earl of Abercorn -
were in fact related to William.
Further, since David Lyne and the younger William jointly held two of
the elder William's properties in 1654, David likely was
either (1) brother of the elder William and another uncle of the
younger, or (2) a cousin of the younger.
It may be that John Lynn, who is
not found following the death of the elder William, was the
father of the younger William and that John's death is what left the
younger heir to the elder.
It is highly probable that this
family issued from cadets - i.e., younger sons - of the Lynns of that Ilk in
Ayrshire, Scotland, who had a long history of association with
the family into which the Earl of Abercorn married. For a
discussion of their Ayrshire history, see
Lynn of that Ilk.
Loretta ~ 2011
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