Origins of the surname Kinch

[RedMystic]

Good morning to all the RootsChatters.

I've done a search on RootsChat to see if there was anyone researching the Kinch surname. There isn't much. (It's always a possibility that I'm doing the search incorrectly.)

I'm curious about the Kinch family and origin of the name before it came to Canada in the early 1800s. I've found the doc in the attached link that outlines the family after it came to Canada. My great grandfather Kinch & his children are included in this.

http://www.islandregister.com/kinch.html

I also have come across a July 1980 informal family document that indicates:

The Kinch name is of Gaelic origin being the Manx form of MacAonghuis originating in the Isle of Man. It may be of longer standing in Ireland, but the first Irish mention of it is to a soldier in the arm of 1644. Subsequent references are mostly to people in Counties of Wexford and Wicklow.

So, should I be starting with resources in Wexford & Wicklow to track the name? Also, what could be meant by the reference to Manx origins and the Isle of Man?

Thanks in advance for any direction that can be provided or insight shared.

[stanmapstone]

According to "The Oxford Names Companion" McInch, McKinch, McHinch are some of the variations of the name McGuinness, (Irish) which is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic MagAonghuis, a patronymic from the given name Aonghus.

Stan

[trish1120]

One Donold Kynyshe was recorded in "The Manx Notebook" in 1601. On June 17th 1654, John Kinch and Alce Sandifor were married at St. Michan's, Dublin;
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Kinch

[stanmapstone]

This is the distribution of Kinch in the 1881 Census. England Wales & Scotland
Stan

[trish1120]

Re WILLIAM Kinch 1801 supposedly the Son of Lawrence;

Willm KINCH, Christening, 07 June 1801, Inch by Gorey, Wexford, Ireland
Parents JOHN Kinch and JANE
(Source IGI Extracted)

[RedMystic]

TX very much for your help Trish & Stanmapstone.

Stanmapstone, does your 1881 post of the distribution of those with the Kinch surname mean that most of the Kinches were gone from Ireland by 1881? Notes from the 1980 family document indicate that Kinch, found mainly in Wexford & Wicklow, were not numerous. (I'm guessing that my Kinches came to Canada between 1830 & 1850; potato famine perhaps?)

Trish, I appreciated the Isle of Man link. The same 1980 family doc I referenced indicates that the Kinches were military officer of commissioned rank, and that this is apparently proved out by heraldry that depicts a profile of a lion holding a buckle in its front paw. (I know nothing about heraldry.)

[stanmapstone]

TX very much for your help Trish & Stanmapstone.

Stanmapstone, does your 1881 post of the distribution of those with the Kinch surname mean that most of the Kinches were gone from Ireland by 1881?

Ireland is not included.

Stan

[RedMystic]

TX for the follow-up Stanmapstone.   

[trish1120]

I just wondered what you made of the info I posted.
It looks to me that WILLIAM Kinch was not a Child of Lawrence and his first Wife (if indeed she existed at all)
It may be that William was a younger Brother or Cousin of Lawrence.
Also if Lawrence was born c 1786 she would only be 15/16 when John was born.

Trish