William was born in 1810. He is the son of Jeremiah Lyons and Elizabeth MacDonald.
6 pages: see also MC1/Stillman , 2 pages: before family came to NB, the surname was spelled as “ Lyon ”: Jeremiah’s brother Reuben Lyons , a Loyalist, also settled in NB: see also MC80/1027 William R. MacKinnon Jr.’s Over the portage: early history of the Upper Miramichi (revised), page 80, and the index: see also MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages , pages 220-221: see MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New Brunswick , page 170.
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