Bridget (Healy) Lyons (1840 - 1919)

Born 1840 in County Clare, Ireland

Wife of James Lyons — married 22 Jul 1862 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Descendants

Died 8 Mar 1919 at about age 79 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Bridget (Healy) Lyons was born in Ireland.

Bridget (Healy) Lyons migrated from Ireland to Australia.

Birth

Bridget Healy was born in County Clare Ireland in 1840. She was the daughter of Laurence Healy and Honora Brody 1796–1890 ^{[citation needed]}

Australian Arrival

17 August 1855- Bridget Healy arrived in Australia aged 15 on the vessel "Maria Hay'. She travelled with Mary Healy (aged 18), Jane Healy (aged 16), and Anna (14) from County Clare in Ireland. They were assisted passengers, and Bridget appears to be 'bonded" to a person at Lake Muddy. Next to the youngest childs name it says "gone with parents'. They had departed from Southampton, England. Note: unable to see parents name on the manifest - so parents must have travelled out before the children.

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Marriage

Bridget Healy married James Lyons in Victoria in 1862. ^[2]

Death

Bridget Lyons died at Geelong in Victoria in 1919. Parents listed on the death index as Laurence Healy and Norah Broady.^[3]

Funeral Announcement: LYONS.— The friends of the late Mrs Bridget Lyons, relict of the late James Lyons, are respectfully invited to follow her remains, to their last resting-place, Ballarat New Cemetery. The funeral will leave the residence of her son-in-law, Mr James Trembath, the City of London Hotel, corner of Drummond and Mair streets, to-morrow (Friday) morning, at 11 o’clock.^[4]

Burial Bridget is buried at Geelong Cemetery. ^[5]

Personal recollection of events witnessed by Peter Lyons as remembered 30 Jun 2020.

Sources

1. ↑ Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923; Series: VPRS 14; Series Title: Register of Assisted Immigrants from the United Kindom (refer to microform copy, VPRS 3502); weblink to Ancestry Image: [1]
2. ↑ Victoria BDM Marriages: 2725 /1862
3. ↑ Victoria BDM Deaths; 1965 / 1919
4. ↑ Family Notices (1906, March 1). The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), p. 5. Retrieved January 23, 2021, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209228427
5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 23 January 2021), memorial page for Bridget Healey Lyons (1840–8 Mar 1919), Find A Grave: Memorial #164468394, citing Geelong Eastern Cemetery, Geelong, Greater Geelong City, Victoria, Australia ; Maintained by Ron M (contributor 48458376) .