Patrick Lynch (Argentina) - Descendants

Descendants

Lynch's descendants through various branches of the family include the following:

  • Patricio (Patrick) Lynch, (grandson), who set up a shipping company. He fitted the frigate "Heroina", commanded by the North American captain David Jewett to supply the government of Luis Vernet, the Argentine Governor of the Malouine (Malvinas) Islands in 1829. Patricio Lynch married Maria Isabel de Zavaleta y Riglos, a descendant of the Conquistador Domingo Martínez de Irala through the Spanish aristocrat Riquelme de Guzman, who was forced by Irala to marry Ursula, one of his mestizo daughters. . Patricio and Maria are the great-great-grandparents of Che Guevara, (see below).
  • Estanislao Lynch, (grandson) a former officer in the Argentine Army of the Andes, brother of Patricio, above
  • Benito Lynch (grandson) who fought at Trafalgar
  • Patricio Lynch, (great-grandson), a rear-admiral in the Chilean navy, who served in China in the HMS Calliope, son of Estanislao, above
  • Francisco Lynch, (great-grandson), Argentine soldier who participated in the War of Independence and the civil wars of his country, and the Cisplatine War. Great-grandfather of Che Guevara.
  • Benito Lynch, (great-great-great-grandson), Argentine novelist and short-story writer of gaucho literature
  • Nicolas Barrios Lynch, educator and researcher, founder of the Argentina Rural Libraries movement
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares, (great-great-great great-grandson), Argentine writer
  • Ernesto Guevara Lynch, (great-great-great-grandson) father of Che Guevara
  • Che Guevara, (great-great-great-great-grandson), Argentine revolutionary

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