The Lynch Family Crest

The Lynches of Galway, Ireland, are descended, it is stated, from Sir Hugo de Lynch (1066), and, later, from Andrew de Lynch, to whom Henry II. Gave large possessions in Ireland. Tradition says that the bravery of one of the early ancestors of the family, present at the siege of Linz, Austria, determined the arms and motto of the Lynches of Galway. At all events, their influence over affairs of that city was preponderant during the XV., XVI., and XVII. centuries. From Dominick Lynch, surnamed Dominick ""Double,"" who obtained in 1484 the Charter of Galway, a succession of Lynches, all of the same stock, occupied the Mayoralty. In a period of one hundred and sixty-nine years, eighty-four members of that same family presided over the municipal affairs of Galway. Dominick Lynch, the colonist, a descendant of this long line of prominent citizens, had previously settled at Brussels, in the Catholic Netherlands, whence he reached New York in 1783, already in possession of a very large fortun

Family

Lynch

Motto

Semper fidelis.Ever faithful.

Blazon

A Lynx, Passant, Coward.

Source

America Hereldica