Cavan families of Lynch, Fitzsimmons, Boyle and McGovern all turn up with my McEntee in America.

The surname Lynch turns up in my McEntee in America, as well as in the Enniskeen parish records in County Cavan. My grandmother (Ellen, 1874-1942) had older sisters: Anne, and her twin, Margaret were born about 1856-60, I don't have the exact date. Margaret married Michael Boyle - not the subject.

Anne married a James Lynch and they resided for a time at Martins Ferry, Ohio, and then moved to Philadelphia. They had three children: Peter Andrew Lynch, a graduate of the Wharton School of the U.of Pa., who died in the 1919 flu epidemic, and two daughters, Mary Josephine, and Anne Lynch. The girls "clerked" their way to become lawyers. One could do that in Pennsylvania up till 1970. They did that in teens or the 1920s.

The girls were old maids. Anne lived into her 90s, and died fairly destitute in the Drueding Infirmary (run by German nuns) in north Philadelphia about 1980-82. As a cousin, Anne was close with my Dad in the 1950s and 60s. Let me return to the deceased son, Peter Andrew Lynch (d. 1919). You may have both a remote Lynch and a McEntee connection here.

Peter married Emily, daughter of Winfield Scott Swallow. They had a boy before Peter died. Peter Lynch's son was named Robert Scott Lynch. The name was changed when his mother remarried a man named ______ Gledhill, in Philadelphia, PA. The boy, styled Robert Scott Lynch-Gledhill was an avaitor in WWII and worked in a printing house after the war. I spoke to him on the phone once in the 1970s, when I was working in Philadelphia. We were to go to lunch, but we never did get together for that lunch. Robert Scott Lynch-Gledhill had at least one child, R. Scott Gledhill. R. Scott Gledhill was a young lawyer working in a bank trust department (Fidelity Bank, as I recall). He wrote an article on trust office operations in a Philadelphia Bar magazine in about 1975-9. His photo was with the article.

That young fellow must have left Philadelphia. I tried to look up both he and his father, about 15 years ago. I suspect the father is deceased. The son (R. Scott Gledhill) would probably be in his late 40s or 50s, now. That is my Lynch-McEntee connection.

The father (Robert Scott Lynch-Gledhill) knew who I was when we spoke thirty years ago. I don't know if he had told his son about the Lynch connection. The boy may not know of his Lynch heritage. I had planned to inquire about that at the lunch which I failed to have with the father. I thought I should mention that to you. Stay in touch. Good luck.