Family/Spouse: Annie BICKET. Annie was born on 22 Jul 1876 in Birregurra, Victoria, Australia; died on 18 Jul 1964 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia; was buried in Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Agnes May LYONS was born on 1 Sep 1911; died on 2 Sep 1998.
2. Dorothy Jean LYONS was born on 17 Dec 1912; and died.

William married Mary Agnes THOMSON in 1873. Mary was born on 9 Feb 1854 in Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom; died on 30 Apr 1940 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia; was buried in Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From History of Charles Dixon - One of the early English settlers, Sackville, New Brunswick, Compiled by James D. Dixon, a grandson, Sackville, N.B., 1891:
 David Lyons was a shipmaster and also a mechanic. He followed coasting a number of years and then sailed on foreign voyages. They resided at Sackville, and their children were named Rufus Dixon, Annie M., David, William Henry, and Mary Ann, two of whom, 4 Annie M. and 4 David, died in childhood. Capt. David Lyons died at Benin, on the coast of Africa, of fever, on the 22nd of October, 1865, aged 57 years.

David married Jane Bamford DIXON in 1830. Jane (daughter of Edward DIXON and Mary SMITH) was born in 1808 in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick; died on 1 Jan 1881 in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jane B. Dixon, daughter of Edward Dixon, married in 1830, David Lyons, a ship builder and master mariner. He died of fever at Benin, on the coast of Africa in 1865, age 57 years. Their son, Rufus D., was also a master mariner. After a successful career he died at Iquique, in 1873. William H., son of Captain Rufus, in command of ocean liners, married and made his home in England. Mary Ann, youngest daughter of Captain David, was a first class and most successful teacher. She died in 1867, age 46 years. (Source: History of Sackville, New Brunswick, by Dr. William Cochran Miller, 1846-1939).

From History of Charles Dixon – One of the early English settlers, Sackville, New Brunswick, Compiled by James D. Dixon, a grandson, Sackville, N.B., 1891:
 3. Jane Bamford, second daughter of Edward and Mary Smith Dixon, married David Lyons in January 1830. David Lyons was a shipmaster and also a mechanic. He followed coasting a number of years and then sailed on foreign voyages. They resided at Sackville, and their children were named Rufus Dixon, Annie M., David, William Henry, and Mary Ann, two of whom, Annie M. and David, died in childhood. Capt. David Lyons died at Benin, on the coast of Africa, of fever, on the 22d of October, 1865, aged 57 years, and Mrs. Jane B. Lyons died at Sackville January 1st, 1881, aged 72 years.
 4. Rufus D., eldest son of Capt. David and Jane B. Dixon Lyons, was also a shipmaster and excelled in his profession. He married Miss Emily Miles, of London, England, in 1855. They had one daughter named Emily. Mrs. Lyons died in 1865, aged 32 years. Capt. R. D. Lyons married for a second wife Miss Janet Thomson, of Liverpool, in 1870. They had two children named Rufus and Henry. Capt. Lyons died at Iquique in the year 1873. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Lyons removed with her family to Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, where she died in September, 1885. Her son Rufus died in childhood.
 5. Emily, only daughter of Capt. Rufus D. and Emily Miles Lyons, married Herbert Jackson, a farmer, of Victoria, Australia, and they have three children.
 5. Henry, youngest son of Capt. Rufus and Janet Thomson Lyons, is not married.
 4. William Henry, youngest son of Captain David and Jane B. Dixon Lyons, is also a shipmaster standing high in his profession, and has for many years been in command of large steamships plying between European and South American ports. He married Miss Mary Thomson, of Liverpool, in 1873. Their home is in England. They have children named Jane, Henry, William Rufus, Richard Sackville, Mary Edith, George Herbert, Ernest Thomson and Howard Maitland, one of whom (Richard Sackville) died in infancy.
 4. Mary Ann, youngest daughter of Captain David and Jane B. Dixon Lyons, was never married. She acquired an education and obtained a first-class Teachers’ license and taught school twenty years at Sackville. She was a successful teacher and an earnest and zealous Christian worker. She was stricken down with paralysis while engaged in conducting a “Band of Hope” meeting in August, 1885. She lingered until 1887, when she died at the age of 46 years.
 The account of the family of Jane B. Dixon and her husband David Lyons here closes.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1851, Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick

Thomas married Ann SKINNER on 5 Oct 1802 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Ann (daughter of Charles SKINNER and Sarah OSBORN) was born on 9 Mar 1786 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 19 Oct 1815 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Mary SMITH. Mary was born in 1780 in Falmouth, Hants, Nova Scotia; died in 1854 in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]