Justo Pastor Lynch (1755–1830), an Argentine landowner, was born in Buenos Aires on the family "''estancia''", a ranch by the River de la Plata. He was the eldest surviving son of
Patrick Lynch of Lydican Castle in
Claregalway
Baile Chláir or Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe (anglicized Claregalway) is a Gaeltacht village about 10 km north of Galway city in County Galway, Ireland. Claregalway was founded on the banks of the River Clare, hence the derivation of its ...
Ireland, and
Rosa de Galaya de la Camera. At times his name was recorded as Pastorin or
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Lynch in reference to the large pastoral land owned by his family dedicated to horses and livestock.
Descendants
Justo's fortune was one of the largest in the region, properties, and business he received from his family, in addition, he married the Spanish heiress
Ana Bernardo Roo (d.1836), who doubled the extent and value of his properties; consequently, his sons enjoyed a wealthy life like no other Irish immigrants in the region.
His eldest son Patricio (Patrick) Lynch, born 1789, set up a shipping company. He owned the frigate, ''
Heroína'', which was involved in a claim of possession of the Falkland Islands in 1820. Patricio Lynch is the great great grandfather of
Che Guevara.
Another son
Estanislao Lynch Estanislao José Antonio Lynch y Roo, was a Argentine naval officer and wealthy Argentine, the brother of the famous landowner of the "Rio de la Plata" captain Patricio Lynch and the grandson of an Irish immigrant, Patrick Lynch. Estanislao was t ...
, born 1793, fought in the Argentine independence war with the grade of colonel. On 2 January 1817 the Buenos Aires city council appointed Estanislao as the mayor of
Barracas.
References
* Coghlan, Eduardo A., Los Irlandeses en la Argentina: Su Actuación y Descendencia (Buenos Aires, 1987), p. 626.
* Buenos Aires City Council, Archivo General de la Nación, Series IV, Vol. VII, Sections LXXIV to LXXIX, 1816 and 1817 (Buenos Aires, 1930).
* Dictionary of Irish Latin American Biography, by Gonzalo Cané
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People from Buenos Aires
Irish expatriates in Argentina
1830 deaths
1755 births