Complex sentence: He was born at Newtown, County Offaly, the son of William Smith (died 1747) and his wife Hester Lynch of Galway: the Smith family had come to Ireland from Yorkshire in the seventeenth century, and acquired substantial property in the Irish Midlands.
Split into simpler sentences: He was born at Newtown, County Offaly, the son of William Smith (died 1747) and his wife Hester Lynch of Galway. The Smith family had come to Ireland from Yorkshire in the seventeenth century, and acquired substantial property in the Irish Midlands.