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PYNE
In Ireland families of the name have been located mainly in Co. Cork with a few in Co. Clare and some other Munster counties. It has been in this country continuously for four centuries, at least since Robert Pyne was the Earl of Ormond's attorney in 1599. In modern times some of them are found among the Catholic farming and trading community, but for the most part they have been of the Protestant gentry class. Henry Pyne was one of the commissioners appointed to survey the property in Co. Tipperary to be allotted to Royalist officers after the Restoration; Henry Pyne was a Poll-Money Commissioner for Co. Cork in 1660 and 1661 and in the next generation Chief Justice Sir Richard Pyne was a prominent figure in the administration. 20 Pyne wills, nearly all in counties Cork and Clare, are recorded, but the originals of these were for the most part lost in the destruction of the Public Record Office in 1922.