Controversy about Lynne pedigree, Kerry Evening Post, 1893
- Sources yet to be consulted:
- Fuller's earlier letters in this correspondence.
There is a controversy
about the pedigree of
Martha Lynne
(who married Blennerhassett)
in the letters page of the
Kerry Evening Post in Jan-Apr 1893.
The controversy is
between
genealogists
James Franklin Fuller (born 1835)
and
Mary Agnes Hickson (born 1825).
Essentially, Fuller and Foster and Green and Lynne are right.
Hickson and Black Jack are wrong.
However,
Fuller's initial statement of the descent is wrong.
And perhaps because of this, the debate is never resolved.
Lynne in "Black Jack's Book" (c.1737)
Lynne pedigree from
"Black Jack's Book" (c.1737).
Transcript from
pp.64-65 of
[Hickson, 1872].
Lynne pedigree by Green (1877)
Extract from
[Green, 1877], showing line from Lynne to Blennerhassett.
See full size
top and
bottom.
Kerry Evening Post, 1893
Page 80 of the
"Nash Newspaper Cuttings Collection for Co.Kerry", vol.2.
Some of the letters are also in pp.102-104 of vol.4.
Fuller's initial statement of the descent is wrong.
Black Jack's version is also wrong.
Page 81.
Page 82.
Page 83.
Page 84.
Page 85.
Fuller is right. Hickson is wrong.
Essentially, Fuller and Foster and Green and Lynne are right. Hickson and Black Jack are wrong.
-
The first thing to note is that John Lynne
is writing about his aunt,
and writing in 1682.
Black Jack
is writing about his grandmother,
and could be writing as late as 1737.
So John Lynne's testimony is obviously more trustworthy.
-
In fact, Hickson fails to notice that
Black Jack's tree (which is only a rough sketch) actually fits quite cleanly into
John Lynne's (much more detailed) genealogy,
with only a couple of corrections to Christian names needed.
The exchange of letters is fascinating because
Hickson is clearly wrong,
but because Fuller makes a mess of his initial statement of the descent,
he is never able to convince her.
- The boy who was age 13 in 5th James I was Martha Lynne's brother
not her father, as is obvious when you work out the estimated dates and ages.
Much time is wasted on this "Martha as a daughter of Lynne and Kirkham" error.
- William, born 1597,
is not "invented", but even if he was
he couldn't be invented to serve as Martha's father!
More time is wasted on this.
