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Mary Garioch Walker (Lyon) Butcher (1845 - 1922)

Mary Garioch Walker Butcher formerly Lyon aka Duncan, Duggan
Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdommap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1867 (to before 4 May 1875) in Victoria, Australiamap
Wife of — married 1875 in Victoria, Australiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 77 in Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australiamap
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Biography

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This profile is part of the Butcher Name Study.
This profile is part of the Duncan Name Study.

Mary Garioch Walker Lyon was born on June 12, 1845 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, daughter of David Murray Lyon (1819–1904) and Elspeth Cooper (1821–1858).[1]

A newspaper notice was published in the Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Saturday 5 January 1867, Page 3, OMEO, as follows ... Mr. Phipps, the Registrar of Marriages, has a notice posted on the courthouse door to the effect that on Friday next he intends to unite one Allan Duncan and a young lady named Mary Lyons, so if any person wishes to object to the arrangement he may as well speak out, or there will be no chance after the day mentioned.

Mary married Allan Duncan (a.k.a. Charles Duggan) in 1867.[2] Their children were:

Mary Lyon and her first husband, Allan Duncan's marriage soon soured.

Mary (29) then married Stephen Butcher (23) (born about 1851 in England) in 1875 in Victoria.[3] Their children were:

On 4 May 1875, a pregnant Mary Lyon Duncan married again in the Wesleyan Church at Swifts Creek, Omeo.

On her marriage certificate she says she has one child, none dead and is a widow as of July 1867. She also says she is twenty-four when in fact she is one month shy of her thirtieth birthday!

Erasing two children, an on-foot marriage and shaving years off her age, was all done in one fell swoop of her signing the marriage register.

A conclusion can be drawn that her new husband, forty-five year old Stephen Butcher, a bachelor and miner, became complicit in Mary lying about being widowed in order for the second marriage to occur. Saying she had only one son instead of three gave credence to the early widowhood and put distance between her and Allen junior. Putting her age down by nearly six years may be pure vanity or trying to make herself more attractive to her second ‘husband’!

It may be assumed that Mary Lyon Duncan’s second marriage may have been bigamous and both parties to the marriage knew it. Divorce was virtually unheard of in those days. No evidence of a death for Allen junior has been found but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence of course. If Allen junior really was dead by 1875 when Mary’s second ‘marriage’ took place, there would have been less need for Mary to tell so many lies on her marriage certificate.

Mary died on November 9, 1922 in Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, aged 77.[4]

Sources

  1. Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950.
    Name: Mary Garioch Walker Lyon
    Gender: Female
    Christening Date: 12 Jun 1845
    Christening Place: SAINT NICHOLAS, ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND
    Father's Name: David Murray Lyon
    Mother's Name: Elspet Cooper
    Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11168-9
    System Origin: Scotland-ODM
    GS Film number: 0991200, 0991204
    Citing this Record:
    "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBQ4-VZG : 2 January 2015), Mary Garioch Walker Lyon, 12 Jun 1845; citing SAINT NICHOLAS, ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 991,200, 991,204.
  2. Registry of BDM, Victoria. Marriage Certificate.
    Record information
    Event marriages
    Registration number 1114 / 1867
    Family name LYON
    Given name(s) Mary
    Personal detail
    Spouse's family name DUNCAN
    Spouse's given name(s) Allan
    https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/
  3. Registry of BDM, Victoria. Marriage Certificate.
    Record information
    Event marriages
    Registration number 1614 / 1875
    Family name DUNCAN
    Given name(s) Mary
    Personal detail
    Spouse's family name BUTCHER
    Spouse's given name(s) Steven
    https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/
  4. Registry of BDM, Victoria. Death Certificate.
    Record information
    Event deaths
    Registration number 11677 / 1922
    Family name BUTCHER
    Given name(s) Mary
    Place of event BAIRNSDALE, Australia
    Personal detail
    Mother's name Elsie
    Mother's family name at birth UNKNOWN
    Father's Name LYON David Murray
    https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/

See also:

  • Mary LYON's parents: David Murray LYON (1819-1903) and Elspet COOPER ( -1858)

Mary LYON's siblings: Janet Murray LYON (1842-1919), Margaret Murray LYON (1847- ), David Murray LYON (1850-1873), Ann Cooper LYON (1852- ), unnamed LYON (1854- ) and Elspeth Cooper LYON (1855- )

  • Mary Garioch Walker LYON, (1) daughter of David Murray LYON (1819-1903) and Elspet COOPER ( -1858), was christened on 12 June 1845 in Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland. She married Charles DUGGAN. She later married Stephen BUTCHER.
  • Charles DUGGAN and Mary Garioch Walker LYON had the following children:

Frederick Michael DUGGAN 1870 - 1962
George Charles DUGGAN 1872 - 1950
David Alexander DUGGAN 1868 -





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