Name/Title
Card, InspirationalEntry/Object ID
2017.024.0010Scope and Content
This is a religous card commemerating the first Communion and confirmation of Lizzie Lynch in Benicia in 1897 and 1898. It is signed by Father Alphonse Riley O.P. Rector.
Lizzie Lynch was the daughter of Jere(?) Lynch per the 1900 census. They lived on F street in Benicia. His father was an Irish drayman who immigrated in 1886. The rest of his family immigrated in 1890. His wife was Mary (1863), Mollie(1885), Humphrey(1886), Lizzie(1887), John (1891), Nellie(1892), Nora (1894), James(1899). In 1900 his sister-in-law Hannah Sweeney (1875) lived with them.
Later census records show Michael Lynch (1868) who immigrated in 1898 and lived with the children. In 1910 census the parents are not shown.Collection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection
