Born in Scots Bay Rd,Nova Scotia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Benjamin Legge
and Anne A. (Corkum) Legge
Sister of
John Harding Legge, Mary Elshea (Legge) Millet, Dora Delilah (Legge) Corbin, Thomas Leander Legge, Ella A. (Legge) Maxwell, Floyd Lemert Legge, Emma Celestia Legge, Effie Laurentine (Legge) Whitten, Bertha Everette (Legge) Lyons, Benjamin Wyman Legge and Cora Elvira (Legge) Lyons
Wife of
Roy Ernest Lyons Sr.
— married
18 Apr 1923 in Kentville, Nova Scotia
Mother of
[private son (1920s - unknown)]
Died
at about age 92
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Aug 2008
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Biography
Pearl was born November 25, 1891 on Scott's Bay Road, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.
In the 1901 and 1991 Canadian censuses she is living at home on Scots Bay Road.
As a teenager she moved in with her sister Effie and her husband Edward D. Whitten in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Pearl graduated from Fitchburg High School. Later she moved back to Nova Scotia to take care of her father in his old age.
Pearl married Roy Lyons, and they lived on Scott's Bay Road. They had one son, Roy Jr., who is still living on Scots Bay Road in July, 2016.
Sources
- "Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMG3-ZLH : 8 December 2014), Roy Ernest Lyons and Pearl Blanche Legge, 1923, Marriage; citing p. 451, volume 34, , Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Pearl by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Pearl:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Pearl by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Pearl:
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~12.50%
Ted (Whitten) Whittenkraus
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M811699 [compare]
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~12.50%
Glenn Legge :
23andMe
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~6.25%
Chris Whitten :
23andMe, yourDNAportal CHR61965ed9
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A820770 [compare], Ancestry member ciwhitten
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #330041
+
Living DNA
-
~6.25%
~6.25%
Amy (Sousa) Dickens :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member marshed214
-
~1.56%
Wilfred Hatch :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Betsy (Leggee) Byrne :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A367815 [compare], Ancestry member Betsybyrnemecom
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~1.56%
Heidi (Collins) Krannig :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Wanda Millett :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Denise Rhynold :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch XS9247618 [compare], yourDNAportal DEN90c9f5b2, Ancestry member denise_rhynold
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