Justo Pastor Lynch 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

Patrick Lynch (Argentina)

Patrick Lynch, born 1715, was an Irish emigrant who became a significant landowner in Rio de la Plata, which is now part of Argentina. He was born in Galway and was the second son of Patrick Lynch of Lydican Castle and Agnes Blake...

 of Lydican Castle in Claregalway

Claregalway

Claregalway is a village situated about 10 km from the city of Galway in County Galway, Ireland. Claregalway was founded on the banks of the River Clare, hence the derivation of its name: Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe meaning "town on the Clare, in Galway"...

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Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

, and Rosa de Galaya de la Camera. At times his name was recorded as Pastorin or Pastorino Lynch in reference to the large landowned by his family dedicated to horses.

Descendants

Justo's fortune was one of the largest of 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, Heroina

Heroina

The Heroína was a privately owned frigate that was operated as a privateer under a license issued by the United Provinces of the River Plate . It was under the command of American-born Colonel David Jewett and has become linked with the Argentine claim to sovereignty of the Falkland Islands...

, which was involved in a claim of possession of the Falkland Islands in 1820. Patricio Lynch is the great great grandfather of Che Guevara

Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...

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Another son Estanislao Lynch

Estanislao Lynch

Estanislao José Antonio Lynch y Roo, was an Argentine Officer, the brother of the famous landowner of the "Rio de la Plata" captain Patricio Lynch and the grandson of an Irish immigrant, also Patrick Lynch...

, 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 major of Barracas

Barracas

Barracas is a barrio, or district, in the southeast part of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located between the railroad of Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano and the Riachuelo River, and the streets Regimiento de Patricios, Defensa, Caseros, Vélez Sársfield, Amancio Alcorta, Lafayette,...

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