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Flinter surname

Seanachai · 2021-09-24 16:48:42

Does anybody have any information on the origins of the Flinter surname and it's introduction to Ireland?

24-09-2021 5:48pm

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Does anybody have any information on the origins of the Flinter surname and it's introduction to Ireland?

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MacLysaght says (p.111)
Though one of the name appears as an official in Carlingford in 1499, Flinters did not settle permanently in Ireland until the seventeenth century; they have been since continuously in Cos Kildare and Wicklow.
Grenham's surname page seems to concur.

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