Richard Lyon Jr.
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Richard Lyon Jr. (abt. 1625 - 1678)

Richard Lyon Jr.
Born about in Glen Lyon, Perth, Scotlandmap [uncertain]
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Brother of
Husband of — married 1653 in Connecticutmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 53 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colonymap
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Biography

Richard Lyon Jr. was born in 1625 in either Glen Lyon, Perth, Scotland or Middlesex, England. He was the son of Richard Lyon Sr. and Margaret Hopwood. Richard married Margaret Winthrop and they had nine children:

  1. Moses Lyon
  2. Richard Lyon III
  3. Hester Lyon (latter Grumman)
  4. Elizabeth Lyon (later Marshall)
  5. William Lyon
  6. Hannah Lyon (later Jennings)
  7. Samuel Lyon Sr.
  8. Joseph Lyon
  9. Abigail Lyon (later Smith)

Name

Richard Lyon

Birth

BET 1624 AND 1625 Middlesex, England[1]

Death

17 OCT 1678 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA[2][3]

Richar Lyon "of Fairfield" wrote his will 12 April 1678[4] and his inventory was taken on 17 October 1678.[4]

On March 10 1723/24, William Odell who married Abigail Smith, one of the granddaughters of Richard Lyon through Abigail's mother, informed the Fairfield court that there was commonage land that had belonged to Richard Lyon and had not been distributed. It was to be distributed equally between the nine children of Richard. Six of the children were deceased at the time, Moses, William, Joseph, Esther, Elizabeth, and Abigail. The surviving children, Richard, Samuel, and Hannah would each get an equal share. The heirs of the deceased children would get the deceased share. Moses left no heirs. William's heirs are Nathaniel's (deceased) children, William and Benjamin Lyon. Joseph's heirs are Joseph and David Lyon (deceased). Esther's heirs were Joseph Perry, Mary Downes, and Samuel Gruman. Elizabeth's heirs were Benjamin Banks, Joseph Banks, and Elizabeth Davis. And Abigail's heir Abigail Smith was the wife of William Odell.[5]

Sources

  1. Family Search Ancestral File
  2. New England Historic Genealogical Society
  3. Family Search Ancestral File
  4. 4.0 4.1 Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007627300_00144). Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line], Probate Records, Vol 1-5, 1648-1750 image 144-145. Fairfield, Vol 3 1676-1690, Page 41-44, Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Free Ancestry.com image
  5. “Probate Records, v. 6-8, 1717-1750”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-T2CS  : 27 April 2021), FHL microfilm 007627301, image 495, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 8, 1725-1740, Page 34.
Richard arrived in Fairfield, Connecticut, 1649, from England; became a "Freeman" in 1664; details of his will are documented here, dated 12 April 1678, then probated, 17 Oct 1678
Documentation of his children, Moses, Richard, Jr, William, Samuel, Joseph, Hester, Betty, Hannah, Abigail. Also, mention of brother Henry and Thomas (page 39)




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Margaret Joanna Winthrop, Daughter of Henry Winthrop and wife Elizabeth Fones was born in Groton, England in 9th of May 1630 as her father left for England a few months before her birth and died there when she was two Months old, he never saw his child. She grew up in Watertown, Mass. and Greenwich, Conn. and married about 1647 "Thomas Lyon" of Stamford, Conn.. They had on surviving child Mary. (This comes from Alabama, U.S. Files Expanded, 1702-1981 for Martha Johanna Winthrop, p. 126 Hobbies - The Magazine for Collectors "At the Sign of the Crest" by Hazel Kraft Eilers, Dated: April 1961 (Found at the bottom of page in the Right Hand Column.)
posted by Cathi (Clements) Gross
Addendum to above comment: After reading about the DNA evidence as it relates to Thomas, Henry and Richard Lyon (under Thomas' entry), I will not connect them as siblings, as the DNA evidence seems to eliminate that supposition.
posted by Robert Munger
Richard is my 8th GGF, through his son Samuel. According to sources including the Lyon Memorial, Families of Connecticut and New Jersey," by Sidney Elizabeth Lyon, he was one of three brothers (Thomas, Henry and Richard) in Cromwell's Army who fled England shortly after the end of the Second English Civil War, after being present at the regicide of Charles I, who'd been convicted of treason.

I will connect his brother Thomas (Lyon-79) Notably, Thomas married Martha Johanna Winthrop, granddaughter of Massachusetts Governor John Withrop.

posted by Robert Munger

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