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Lucy Flynn and Pat BrothersLucy Flynn's great grandfather, Martin Flynn was a man that James Herbert Dower met in his travels and brought back to Conche. Martin Flynn was a mining engineer who knew minerals when he saw them. He puttered about the country looking for mines.
According to Evelyn Saxton Connor he found one, a copper mine in Green Bay, Newfoundland and a very good gold mine on the MacGrath property in St. Julian's, Newfoundland. Unfortunately the gold mine was never mined due to England's colonial restrictions of the time. Neither was Flynn awarded any renumeration or credit for discovering the copper mine in Green Bay, even though it resulted great wealth for the British.
Martin Flynn was half Irish and half French. His people had gone to the United States from France about the time that Lafayette went to America to help in the Revolution. Martin's French relatives were descendents of Irish who went into France at the time of the siege of Limerick, Ireland.
Ironically, Martin went on to marry James Herbert Dower's daughter Mary. Many of their descendents still reside in Conche today.
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Lucy and Pad Brothers.1900
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