Complex sentence: The Gernoun family had strong links to that county and gave their name to Gernonstown: several members of the family held the office of High Sheriff of Louth between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Split into simpler sentences: The Gernoun family had strong links to that county and gave their name to Gernonstown. Several members of the Gernoun family held the office of High Sheriff of Louth between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.