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John LYONS

Male Abt 1821 - Yes, date unknown


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  John LYONS was born about 1821 (son of Robert Jones LYONS and Elizabeth SKINNER); and died.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Robert Jones LYONS was born on 24 Mar 1790 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia (son of David LYONS and Elizabeth RATCHFORD); died on 15 Jan 1867 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.

    Robert married Elizabeth SKINNER on 7 Oct 1813 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Elizabeth (daughter of Charles SKINNER and Sarah OSBORN) was born on 11 Nov 1789 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 14 Mar 1860 in Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth SKINNER was born on 11 Nov 1789 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia (daughter of Charles SKINNER and Sarah OSBORN); died on 14 Mar 1860 in Nova Scotia.
    Children:
    1. George H. LYONS was born on 5 Jul 1814 in Nova Scotia; died on 11 Jul 1849 in Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    2. Benjamin LYONS was born about 1815 in Waterville, Kings, Nova Scotia; and died.
    3. Harriet Newell LYONS was born about 1817; and died.
    4. 1. John LYONS was born about 1821; and died.
    5. Robert Jones LYONS was born in 1824 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 29 Mar 1886 in Waterville, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    6. Elizabeth LYONS was born on 9 Jan 1829 in Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 25 Nov 1904 in Prospect, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    7. Noble J. LYONS was born about 1833 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; and died.
    8. Mary Janes LYONS was born in 1834; died on 3 Feb 1926.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  David LYONS was born in 1759 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died in May 1812 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.

    David married Elizabeth RATCHFORD. Elizabeth was born in 1762 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 16 Mar 1843 in Lower, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Elizabeth RATCHFORD was born in 1762 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 16 Mar 1843 in Lower, Nova Scotia.
    Children:
    1. 2. Robert Jones LYONS was born on 24 Mar 1790 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 15 Jan 1867 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    2. Thomas Ratchford LYONS was born on 6 Mar 1780; died in 1859 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Westcock Cemetery, Westmorland, New Brunswick.

  3. 6.  Charles SKINNER was born on 3 Jan 1747/1748 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut; died before 1837 in Nova Scotia.

    Notes:

    “Sarah and Charles Skinner went to Maugerville, N.B. just before the Loyalists, and it is assumed they might have gotten a good price for their land and moved to Bass River, N.S., where Charles was a school teacher. They stayed there about five years before moving to Kings County. The school records in Bass River were burned in a fire.” (Source: Isabel Palmeter) This would suggest that the family came to Cornwallis Township just prior to the influx of Loyalists.

    Charles Skinner was a grantee at Cornwallis township, that he was born 3 Jan 1748 in Colchester, Connecticut, son of Aaron Skinner. He married 24 Nov 1774 at Passamaquoddy, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Osborn, perhaps from Martha’s Vinyard. She lists 15 children, including my Ann Skinner, who married 1802 Thomas Lyons. (Source: Esther Clark Wright in “Planters and Pioneers”)

    The Skinners first came to Passamaquoddy, Campobello or Indian Island (all in Passamaquoddy Bay in Charlotte, New Brunswick), where Charles might have taught school from 1774 to 1778. They moved to St. John and Maugerville in 1778 where he taught school until 1780. The arrival of the Loyalists may have provided financial incentive to sell their lands profitably. They moved to Five Islands, Cumberland, N.S. (but I think then all part of Cornwallis Township) where the family lived for the first five years, before they settled in 1785 at Little Pereau, near Blomidon, in the Cornwallis area of present day Kings County. (Source: Rev. Davison in his book “Alice of Grand-Pré”)

    Charles Skinner was a school teacher by profession, and one reference said he was a “refined gentleman”.

    The father of Samuel Skinner (i.e., Charles Skinner) came from New England to the Maritimes just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. (Source: The book “Biographical Review… Province of New Brunswick” published in Boston in 1900 page 97)

    “Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.” (Source: The Christian Messenger an early Baptist magazine).

    Charles married Sarah OSBORN on 24 Nov 1774 in Passamaquoddy, Nova Scotia. Sarah was born on 22 Jul 1760 in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jul 1848 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Sarah OSBORN was born on 22 Jul 1760 in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jul 1848 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.

    Notes:

    From notes of A. Joanne (Irving) Hunt, Litchfield, NH:
    From The Christian Messenger (an early Baptist magazine): “Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.”

    Children:
    1. Charles SKINNER was born on 9 Oct 1775 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died about 1803.
    2. Alfred SKINNER was born on 20 Jun 1778 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 2 Jul 1858 in Coldbrook, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    3. Eunice SKINNER was born on 31 Jan 1780 in Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia; died on 25 Jan 1839 in Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia.
    4. Rebecca SKINNER was born on 22 Dec 1781 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 5 Apr 1857 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Canard Cemetery, Upper Canard, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    5. Lavinia SKINNER was born on 27 Jan 1784 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 9 May 1874 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
    6. Ann SKINNER was born on 9 Mar 1786 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 19 Oct 1815 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    7. Mary SKINNER was born on 29 Dec 1787 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    8. 3. Elizabeth SKINNER was born on 11 Nov 1789 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 14 Mar 1860 in Nova Scotia.
    9. William SKINNER was born on 13 Dec 1791 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 11 Jul 1870 in Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    10. Sarah SKINNER was born on 30 Dec 1793 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died about 1855.
    11. Abigail SKINNER was born on 15 Apr 1796 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 18 Feb 1868 in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Chipman Corner Cemetery, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    12. David SKINNER was born on 6 Feb 1798 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 20 Dec 1868 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Baptist Cemetery, Billtown, Kings, Nova Scotia.
    13. Rev. Joseph Churchill SKINNER was born on 16 Feb 1800 in Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia; died on 23 Mar 1860 in Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick; was buried in First Baptist Cemetery, McDonald Corner, Queens, New Brunswick.
    14. Samuel SKINNER was born on 16 Mar 1802 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 21 Jan 1888 in Saint John, New Brunswick; was buried in Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick.
    15. Benjamin SKINNER was born on 22 Dec 1803 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; and died.