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Edmund LYONS[27][28]		Elizabeth Washer ASHLEY[27][28]
	Married 16 Feb. 1852, St. Mary's Church, Redcliffe, Bristol, Eng
bap. 20 Nov. 1831[22], Yatton, Somerset, Eng d. 16 Feb. 1903[20], Geelong, Victoria Father:Francis LYONS Mother:Mary (PROBARTS/PERKINS?)		bap. 7 Jun. 1833[23], Wrington, Somerset, Eng d. 8 Jan. 1904[20], Geelong, Victoria Father:James ASHLEY Mother:Ann WASHER

  Notes:
Edmund Lyons grew up in a small town, 13 miles outside of Bristol, called Yatton , in Somerset, Eng. He was the fourth , of six boys born to Francis Lyons and Mary (Probart?).
In both the 1841 & 1851 census's Edmund appears living in the home of his parents. When he was 19, Edmund's occupation is listed as 'butcher', a profession he pursued his whole life.
In 1852 he married , by license, Elizabeth Washer Ashley, the eighteen year old daughter of James Ashley and Ann Washer, at St. Mary's Church, Redcliffe, Bristol. The witnesses were James Ashley (Elizabeth's father )and Anne Pearce.
Elizabeth grew up in the town of Wrington, Somerset, Eng. She was the fourth child, of ten children. In the 1851 census, Elizabeth is listed as a "shoe binder", still living in her parents home. When she married in early 1852, no occupation was written in. There is some evidence in a letter by Albert E. Lyons (grandson of Edmund & Elizabeth) that Elizabeth's family felt she had married beneath her station and that she was from that point on ostracised by her moneyed younger brother Ruscombe, who also encouraged the rest of the family to do the same!
Five months after their marriage , on the 7.7.1852 ,Edmund and Elizabeth boarded the 'Sir Edward Parry' and migrated to Australia. They travelled with two of Edmund's brothers; Henry James, his wife Mary Easterbrook and their one year old daughter Mary Jane; and Alfred (Alfred was single and travelled in a different part of the ship to the couples). They all came to Australia thanks to a government assistance scheme, that was in operation at the time.The ship arrived in Geelong , on the 23.10.1852.
Edmund was the only one of the three brothers to have employment awaiting him. He and his wife were employed by a Mr. Valentine , of Ballarat , for a period of six months , at 300 pound p.a
It is rumoured that after his contract with Mr. Valentine ended, Edmund opened up a butchers shop on the goldfields, before moving to Indented Head , on the Bellarine Peninsula, sometime around 1854.
It was here that Edmund and his wife settled. Opening up the first butchers shop and slaughter house in the area. In subsquent years, two of Edmund's sons followed their father into the butcher business, while a third son became a stock dealer. There is a photo from the mid 1880's picturing both boys out the front of the "Lyon's & Sons Family Butcher's"
Edmund also opened one of Geelong's first butchers shops , on the corner of Maude and Bellarine Streets. This shop later became "Lyons & Sons, Wholesale & Family Buchers" and then after Edmund's death, his sons renamed it "Lyons Bros. Wholesale & Family Butcher's". There is still a shop on this site today, though it is no longer a butcher's shop.
Around 1858 , Edmund and Elizabeth returned to Somerset , for a short while, having one child there , Mary Sophia , who was born in Cleeves , Somerset. But by May 1861 they were back on the Bellarine Pennisula.
Edmund owned a 200 acre farm at Murradoc , on which he raised dairy cattle, pigs and bred horses. This farm was known as 'Cadbury Farm' (possibly named after Cadbury Castle in Somerset , rumoured to be the famous 'Camelot' of King Arthur).
Edmund and Elizabeth had 12 children in total and lived out the rest of their lives in the Geelong area.
 

1. FRANCIS JAMES LYONS, b. 1854_[20], Indented Head, Victoria - d. 21 Feb. 1855_[20], Indented Head, Victoria
   
   
2. THOMAS FRANCIS LYONS(cattle/stock dealer), b. 24 Oct 1855_[20], Indented Head, Victoria - d. 11 Oct 1922_[20], Essendon, Victoria - m. 1895_[20], Victoria to Annette Jane MIDDLETON (1871-1916)
   Children:
   • Annette Pearl LYONS, b. 1895_[20], Ellerslie, Victoria - d. 2 May 1962, Essendon, Victoria (Annette had an illegitamate child called Pearl, b. 1917, F.lton, Victoria ) - m. 1923_[20], Victoria to Jack Cyril MANSFIELD
     
   • Thomas Francis Crescent LYONS, b. 1897_[20], Ellerslie, Victoria - d. 14 Mar 1967_[20], Hiedelberg, Victoria
     
   • Muriel Hope LYONS, b. 1899_[20], Essendon, Victoria - d. 22 Jun 1967_[20], Beau., Victoria - m. 1922_[20], Victoria to George STEPHENS(?-before 1957)
     
   • Ashley "Mannie" Middleton LYONS, b. 29 Nov 1903_[20], Essendon, Victoria - d. 25 Feb 1960_[20], Fitzroy, Victoria - m. 1929_[20], Victoria to Paula Agnes WELLS (1906-2002)
     
   
   
3. JAMES EDMOND LYONS b. 4 Jun. 1857_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 13 Oct 1919_[20], Drysdale, Victoria - m. 1878_[20], Victoria to Elizabeth Ann REYNOLDS (1858-1907)
   Children:
   • Ernest John LYONS (a gardener), b. 26 Aug 1879_[20],Bellarine, Victoria - d. 19 Aug 1959, Geelong, Victoria - m. 1908_[20], Victoria to Flossie Louisa SEARL (1885-1943)
     Children:
     • Eric James LYONS, b. 4 Jun 1909_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 29 Jan 2007, Geelong, Victoria - m. 1933_[20] to Eliza May WALLACE (?-1992)
     • Freda Annie Louise LYONS, b. 20 Jan 1911_[20], Drysdale, Victoria - d. 24 Aug 1999, Victoria - m. 1937_[20] to Albert Kelvin FRASER
     • Allan Ernest LYONS, b. 1913_[20], Drysdale, Victoria - d. 30 Nov 1998, Victoria - m. 1936_[20] to Jessie Maria BRAY (1915-2002)
     • Una Marj LYONS, b. 1914_[20], Drysdale, Victoria - d. 13 Aug 1932_[20], Belmont, Victoria
        
   • Phillipson May LYONS, b. 2 Jan. 1882_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 20 Aug 1974_[20], Geelong, Victoria - m. 1906_[20], Victoria to Norton Charles Hubert IRWIN (1889-1946)
     Children:
     • Alfred Norton James IRWIN, b. 2 Oct 1908_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 26 May 1987, Victoria - m. ? to Jean Lillian RANKIN (1917-1978)
     • Gladys Annie IRWIN, b. 1911_[20], Drysdale, Victoria - d. 1919_[20], Victoria
     • Mavis Esther IRWIN, b. 1920_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 12 Jan 1995, Victoria - m. 1941_[20] to Alfred Edward BRACKMAN (1914-1980)
        
   • Esther "Essie" Sophia LYONS, b. 1 Apr. 1885_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 2 Oct 1915_[20], Drysdale, Victoria
     
   • Mabel Hepzebah LYONS, b. 25 Nov. 1885_[20],Bellarine, Victoria - d. 1 Aug. 1919_[20],Geelong, Victoria - m. 1915_[20], Victoria to Arthur Edward HILLMAN (brother of Emily Hillman, who married Alfred, 1884-1962)
     Children:
     • Stillborn LYONS, b. 24 Jul 1916_[20] - d. 24 Jul 1916_[20], Victoria
     • Annie Esther HILLMAN, b. 2 May 1918_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 22 Jun 2002, Victoria - m. 1941_[20] to Sydney Robert DEAN (1912-1996)
        
   • James Edmond Sydney LYONS (onion grower, at Beeac), b. 13 Aug. 1889_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 20 Apr. 1957_[20], Ballarat, Victoria - m. 1911, Victoria Aust to Annie Lucy MISSFIELDT (widow of Albert Victor CLARKE when she married James)(1885-1921)
     Children:
     • Edgar Francis Bernard LYONS, b. 21 May 1914 - d. 1969 Ballarat, Victoria m. 1940 to Doris Edith WHEILDON
     • Mona Jessie LYONS, b. 1919 - d.?
     • James Ernest LYONS, b. 1920 - d. ?
        
   • Alfred Thomas Stanley LYONS (agricultural worker/manager), b. 26 May 1895_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 26 Feb. 1968, Geelong, Victoria - m. 1921_[20], Victoria to Emily Ethel HILLMAN (sister of Arthur Hillman, who married Mabel, 1889-1969)
     Children:
     • Edward LYONS, b. 6 Apr 1925, Drysdale - d. 24 Jun 2002, Geelong, Victoria
     • Alma Joyce LYONS, b. ? - d. 29 Nov 1927_[20], Drysdale, Victoria
        
   • Cecil LYONS, b. 19 Sep. 1897_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 25 Apr. 1918, France (WWI)
     
   • Garnet Victor LYONS (master painter), b. 23 Jun. 1902_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 10 Mar 1942_[20], Geelong West, Victoria - m. 7 Nov 1925_[20], Victoria to Lily Mooney CARNELL (1901-1994)
      
4. MARY SOPHIA LYONS, b. 6 Apr 1859, Cleeves, Somerset, Eng - d. 2 Sep. 1937_[20], Sorrento, Victoria - m.15 Apr. 1880_[20], Drysdale, Victoria to George HIBBERT (1856-1919)
   Children:
   • Frank Ernest HIBBERT, b. 12 Feb. 1881_[20], Drysdale, Victoria - d. 11 Jul 1963_[20], Port., Victoria - m. 1906, Vic to Dorothea May JOHNSON (1886-1954)
     Children:
     • Annie Sophia HIBBERT, b. 3 Oct 1906_[20], Point Nepean, Victoria - d. 17 Aug 1989, Victoria - m. 1938_[20] to Leslie SKINNER (1907-1994)
       Children:
       • Kenneth Leslie SKINNER, b. abt 1939 - d. 1967_[20], Fitzroy, Victoria
          
   • Lillian May HIBBERT, b. 13 Feb 1909_[20], Pt. Nepean, Victoria - d. 29 Jul 1940_[20], Fitzroy, Victoria - m. 15 Jun 1940_[20], Victoria to George Robert DYSON (1900-1960)
      
   • Leopold George HIBBERT, b. 5 Sep 1910_[20], Point Nepean, Victoria - d. 13 Jul 1992, Victoria - m. 1935 to Freda STYANTS
   • Olive Beryl HIBBERT, b. 2 Mar 1913_[20], Point Nepean, Victoria - d. 1942_[20], Carlton, Victoria - m. 1930_[20], Victoria to Thomas Raymond HODGSON (1906-1958)
   • Alma Frances HIBBERT, b. 4 Aug 1919_[20], Sorrento, Victoria - d. 10 Nov 2012, Melbourne, Victoria - m. 1946 to Robert BOYD
   • Norma Cecily HIBBERT, b. 9 Nov 1922 - d. 25 Jul 1975_[20], Rose., Victoria - m. 1940_[20], Victoria to William Sutherland MCGRATH (1917-1978)
      
5. Lawrance "Larry" Ashley HIBBERT (hairdresser/barber), b. 28 Dec. 1883_[20], Drysdale, Victoria - d. 12 Mar. 1933_[20], North Williamstown, Victoria - 1st m. 28 Apr 1909_[20], Brunswick, Vic to Marie Violet PLOOG (1882-1922)
   Children:
   • August Lawrence HIBBERT, b. 19 Feb 1911_[20], Point Nepean, Victoria - d. 20 Sep 1981, Collie, W.A. - m. 1936_[20] to Eileen DILLON (1914-1984)
   • Maurice Albert HIBBERT, b. 8 Jun 1914_[20], Point Nepean, Victoria - d. 7 Feb 2005, Victoria - m. 14 Jan 1939_[20] to Eileen Veronica CAULFIELD (1915-1964)
   • Kathleen Lorraine HIBBERT, b. 10 Sep 1918_[20], Sunbury, Victoria - d. Mar 2000, Victoria
      
   and Lawrence 2nd m. 19 Mar. 1924_[20], Sorrento, Victoria to Grace Ellen CLARKE (1894-1981)
   


6. Margaret "Maggie" Sophia HIBBERT, b. 5 Feb 1886_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 1968_[20], Footscray, Victoria - 1st m. 1915_[20], Victoria to Robert George KNOX (killed in action, 5th Aug 1916, WW1) and 2nd m. 1920_[20], Victoria to George Stalker ROWLAND (1888-1951)
    
7. Children:
   • Stewart J. ROWLAND, b. 1929 - d. 11 Mar 1937 - Notes by Betty Wilson; '..Maggie and George's third child Stewart was a Down's Syndrome child. I remember him well, a sad little soul in his own world, but a kiddie who reacted to love and attention. However his strength took over, and aunty Maggie could not control him, and after much heart searching , the little lad was sent to Kew Homes who looked after such little special people. From memory he only lasted a matter months, and showed signs of missing his family. He always responded to aunty Maggie and uncle George when they visited. Aunty Maggie cried when she told my Mum of how the last time they visited him, he was in a straight jacket as his strength was such, he was a danger to himself and his attendants. The poor Little pet was only 7 or 8 years old. Stewart died at Kew, 11 Mar 1937, age 8 years. He is buried in the footscray Cemetery, in what was to be the family grave. It was sometime in the 1980's when I searched out the grave site. I found it in the old Footscray Cemetery, which is situated alongside of Geelong Road. The grave also contains the remains of his parents George and Maggie Rowland.'
      
8. Albert George HIBBERT, b. 14 Jul. 1889_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 21 Jul 1916, France (WWI) - m. 1911_[20], Vic to Mary Chapman
    
9. Known as 'Bert'. Bert enlisted in the army on the 12 July 1915 , ranked private (No. 706). He enlisted in Melbourne and embarked from there on board the "HMAT WANDILLA' on the 8th of November 1915 , bound for the Middle East. Bert disembarked at Suez , Eygpt on the 7th of December 1915. He attained the rank of Lance Corporal on the 1st of Jan 1916. From the 25th of June 1916, Bert served with the 31st Australian Infantry Battalion in France. He was killed in action on the 21st of July 1916 and is commemorated at the Villers Bretonneux Memorial , France. He was post- humously given the 1914/15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal
   Notes by Betty Wilson; ' My mother stood in awe of her brother Bert. He was a very bad stutterer, and would clench his lower jaw and grimace when trying to speak. He helped his father in the cordial factory when he left school , aged 13 years. I have forgotten if my mother told me that for a while he worked for the Sorrento Council, or if it was a community effort, but he took part in the scheme of planting Yarram grass on the Back Beach cliffs at Sorrento. As a young girl I would often take walks with my mother , and without fail she would always point out the Yarram grass to me and say" Poor Bert helped plant this". After his death, his widow sold the house and moved back to Melbourne, and made no further contact with the Hibbert' family. My mother said she never quite took to the Hibbert family' Betty further noted that for some reason , possibly because Bert's wife was a Catholic, his mother Sophia wasn't exactly thrilled about this marriage
    
10. Hilda Elizabeth HIBBERT, b. 6 Sep. 1891_[20], Nepean, Victoria - d. 30 Jun. 1974_[20], Rosebud, Victoria (had one illegitmate child and never married)
    
11. Samuel Cecil HIBBERT (horse tram driver), b. 24 Feb. 1893_[20], Point Nepean, Victoria - d. 5 Oct 1917, Belgium (WWI)
    
12. Eileen May HIBBERT, b. 9 Aug. 1894_[20], Point Nepean, Victoria - d. 18 Feb. 1978_[20], Shoreham, Victoria - m. 1918_[20], Victoria to Samuel Phillingham (1887-1975)
    
13. James Edmund HIBBERT, b. 19 Jul. 1898_[20], Point Nepean, Victoria - d. 1976_[20], Alexander, Victoria - m. 24 Feb 1920_[20], Victoria to Jean ROSE (1898-1972)
    Children:
    • George Edmund HIBBERT, b. 1 Dec 1920_[20], C.Hill, Victoria - d. 20 Dec 2005, Victoria
    • Isabella Margaret HIBBERT, b. 26 Jan 1923, Carlton, Victoria - d. Mar 2010, Qld - m. 1945 to Robert Irvine HICKEY (1923-2007)
    • Cecil Frazer HIBBERT, b. abt 1928 - d. Aug 1968_[20], Hast., Victoria
    • Kenneth William HIBBERT, b. 14 Oct 1938 - d. 26 Jun 1979_[20], Melbourne, Victoria
       
14. FREDERICK WILLIAM LYONS m. to Maria Ireland/Hyland MORAN
     
15. GEORGE HENRY LYONS (stock dealer), b. 27 Apr. 1863_[20], Indented Head, Victoria - d. 27 Nov. 1902_[20], Victoria - m. 29 Apr. 1886_[20], Geelong, Victoria to Martha BEST (1863-1907)
    Children:
    • Lillian Emily LYONS, b. 22 May 1887_[20], Geelong, Victoria
      
    • Alice Maud LYONS, b. Nov 1888_[20], Newtown, Geelong, Victoria - d. 8 Feb 1889_[20], Geelong, Victoria
      
    • Everet Rupert LYONS, b. 20 Apr 1890_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 1979_[20], Macl., Victoria - 1st m. 1916_[20], Victoria to Edith Agnes HOWITT (1893-1922) and 2nd m. 1925_[20], Victoria to Ethel May YALLOP
      
    • Myrtle Murial LYONS, b. 1892_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 14 Apr. 1946_[20], East Brunswick, Victoria - m. 1917_[20], Victoria to Joseph John ARKLE (1889-1966)
      Children:
      • Bernard Victor ARKLE, b. 1 Nov 1918_[20], Brunswick, Victoria - d. 24 Oct 1950_[20], Ararat, Victoria
      • Gwen Myrtle ARKLE, b. abt. 1921 - d. May 1925_[20], C.Hill., Victoria
      • Jack ARKLE, b. ? - d. 1926_[20], Melbourne West, Victoria
         
    • Evelyn Elizabeth LYONS, b. 1893_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 1894_[20], Geelong, Victoria
       
16. ANNIE ELIZABETH LYONS, b. 10 Sep. 1864_[20], Indented Head, Victoria - d. 20 Feb. 1942_[20], Bentleigh, Victoria - m. 1891_[20], Victoria to Lawrence TAIT (Reverend) (1861-1925)
    Children:
    • Robert Edmund TAIT, b. 1892_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 4 Nov. 1918 (WWI)
      
    • Annie TAIT, b. 1893_[20], Wandilong, Victoria - d. 5 Oct. 1970_[20], McKi., Victoria (spinster)
      
    • Catherine Elsie TAIT, b. 1894_[20], Wandilong, Victoria - d. 8 Feb 1900_[20], Yarram, Victoria
      
    • Lawrence TAIT, b. 18 Aug 1897_[20], Kerang, Victoria - d. 8 Oct 1918, at sea off Sierra Leon (died of influenza on his way to WWI)
      
    • Frank Victor TAIT, b. 1901_[20], Yarram, Victoria - d. 31 May 1965?, Sth Aust. - m. ? to Ila Beatrice ?
      
    
    
    
17. ALBERT EDWARD LYONS (railway signalman), b. 24 May 1866_[20], Indented Head, Victoria - d. 19 Jul 1954_[20], Richmond, Victoria - m. 1891_[20], Victoria to Louisa Fanny DRIVER (1863-1916)
    Children:
    • Edith Louisa LYONS, b. 2 Dec 1891_[20], Williamstown, Victoria - d. 12 Aug 1976_[20], Fair., Victoria - m. 1923_[20], Victoria to Frederick Upton MATHIESON
      
    • Albert Edward LYONS, b. 7 Mar 1893_[20], Williamstown, Victoria - d. 23 May 1977, Tasmania - m. 2 Sep 1913, to Helen May HOCKING (?-1988)
      Children:
      • Edith May LYONS, b. 30 Sep 1920_[20], Victoria - d. 28 May 1995, Tasmania
      • David Ashley LYONS, b. 24 Mar 1932 - d. 10 Feb 1995, Launceston, Tasmania
         
    • Arthur Ashley LYONS (Reverend), b. 11 Sep 1895_[20], Williamstown, Victoria - d. Sep 1967_[20], Mithchem, Victoria - m. 31 Mar 1923_[20]Ballarat, Victoria to Alma Annie TROMPY (1895-1975)
      Children:
      • Margaret Ashley LYONS, b. 19 Sep 1924 - d. 26 May 2008, Victoria - m. 10 Aug 1946 to Roderick William LAPTHORNE (1917-1998)
      • Wilfred Elliott LYONS, b. 8 Mar 1926, Mooroopna, Victoria - d. 29 Mar 1998, Victoria
         
    • Constance Evelyn LYONS, b. 1898_[20], Williamstown, Victoria - d. Jun 1983_[20], Richmond, Victoria - m. 14 May 1921_[20]Flemington, Victoria to Frederick John VARY (1898-1973)
      Children:
      • Valerie Constance VARY, b. 2 Aug 1929, Essendon, Victoria - d. 14 Mar 1999, Mount Waverley, Victoria m. 1954 to Graham Hunter MARTIN (1925-2009)
         
    • George Hamilton LYONS, b. 1900_[20], Williamstown, Victoria - d. 26 Jul 1968_[20], Ascot Vale, Victoria - m. 1924_[20], Victoria to Edith HARE (1899-2001)
      
    
    
    
18. ALFRED CHARLES LYONS_[28] (butcher), b. 16 May 1868_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 13 May 1951_[20], East Geelong, Victoria - m. 9 Nov. 1892_[20], Newtown, Geelong, Victoria to Harriet Ann CHANT (1864-1938)
    Children:
    • Alfred Stanley LYONS, b. 20 Aug 1893_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 13 Sep. 1964_[20], East Geelong, Victoria - m. 22 Dec. 1917_[20], Victoria to Freda Olive Estelle ATKINS (1894-1976)
      Children:
      • Gladys Muriel LYONS, b. 7 Nov 1918_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 24 Feb 2014, Geelong, Victoria - m. 9 Aug 1945 to Leslie William VINCENT (1917-2014)
      • Freda Myra LYONS, b. 31 Dec 1924, Geelong, Victoria - d. 15 Jun 2012, Geelong, Victoria - m. 29 Jun 1946 to Ronald Victor MOODY (1923-1999)
         
    • Leslie Garfield LYONS (solicitor), b. 26 Aug. 1896_[20], Victoria - d. Sep 1973_[20], Malvern, Victoria - m. 11 Oct 1924_[20], Brighton, Victoria to Alice Mary TUXEN (1900-1986)
      
    • Harold Hopetown LYONS, b. 1900_[20], Victoria - d. 9 Jan. 1927_[20], Geelong, Victoria - m. 1923_[20], Geelong, Victoria to Emma Amelia HALL (she possibly died in 1979, at Geelong, under the surname Casey, her 2nd husband may have been Herbert Thomas CASEY)
      Children:
      • Raymond Leslie LYONS, b. 18 May 1924, Geelong, Victoria - d. 20 Sep 2006, Geelong, Victoria - 1st m. 6 May 1950 to Elizabeth Edna BANT (1926-1953) and 2nd m. 28 Feb 1970 to Hazel Margaret STRONG (1927-1999)
         
    
    
    
19. EVALINA EMMA LYONS_[28], b. 27 Feb. 1870_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 17 Jul. 1949, Belmont, Victoria (spinster)
    
    
20. ARTHUR ASHLEY LYONS_[28] (butcher), b. 4 Aug. 1872_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 11 Jun. 1952_[20], Geelong, Victoria - m. 1899_[20], Victoria to Jean (Janet Anastasia) OATERSON (1876-1942)
    Children:
    • Elsie May LYONS, b. 1899_[20], Geelong, Victoria Aust - d. Mar 1912_[20], Bellarine, Victoria
    • Laura Evelyn LYONS, b. 1900_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. Sep 1988, Geelong, Vic - m. 1930_[20], Victoria to Leo Roy BARFOOT (1899-1961)
    • Millicent May LYONS, b. 1906_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 29 Sep 1918_[20], Geelong, Victoria
    • Arthur Clifford LYONS, b. 1909_[20], Geelong, Victoria - d. 10 Dec 1935_[20], Geelong, Victoria
       
    
    
21. LAURA LAVINIA LYONS_[28], b. 5 Aug 1874_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 2 May 1959_[20], Essendon, Victoria (spinster)
    
    
22. LOUIS ASHLEY LYONS, b. 9 Jan. 1876_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 2 Mar 1876_[20], Drysdale, Victoria
    
    
23. LOUIS ERNEST LYONS, b. 6 Nov. 1877_[20], Bellarine, Victoria - d. 6 Nov. 1878_[20], Bellarine, Victoria
     

Newspaper Articles!

• Thursday Jan 13th, 1887: 
  "..ARMSTRONG, HOWE and Co., have received instructions from Mr. E. Lyons, to sell v. auction, at Mack's Hotel, Geelong at 2.00pm sharp, on the above date-
  His well known Cadbury Farm, containing about 200 acres splendid agricultural and grazing land, situated about 2 miles from Drysdale township, on the commmencement of the Bellarine Hills; to be sold in two lots.
  Lot 1- containing 80 acres, being part ofportion 5, block No. 2, Parish of Bellarine
  Lot 2- containing 120 acres, being part of portion 6, Parish of Bellarine
  The above blocks which adjoin each other, are well fenced, permanently watered, there is a substantial W.B. house, containing 5 rooms, stable, sheds, stockyard, etc., upon the 120 acres,
  Also,
  Sixteen half acre allotments, being allotments 3, section 1. Allotments 8,9,10,11,12,13,24,25, and 26, section VIII, and allotments 4, 5, 9, 10, 16, and 17, section IX.
  Township of Bellarine, situated between the Railway and the Main Street of Drysdale township, to be sold in separate lots.
  Titles - Perfect;
  For terms, apply the auctioneers."
   
• Geelong, Saturday, Febuary 22, 1902;
  Marriages:
  " LYONS - ASHLEY (Golden Wedding). - On Febuary 16th, 1852, at St. Mary's Redcliffe Church, Bristol, by Rev. George Campbell (Curate). Edmund Lyons, son of Francis Lyons, of Yatton, Somersetshire, to Eliza - both Washer - Ashley, daughter of James Ashley, Wrington, Somersetshire. Present address:- Bellerine Street, Geelong.
  A very pleasing gathering took place in the Fire Brigade Hall last Monday night, the occasion being the celebration of the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Lyons, of Bellerine Street. A sumptuous dinner was provided by the children of the aged pair. The chairman of the happy gathering (Rev. S. J. Hoban) proposed a toast to the health of "The bride and bridegroom," after which the whole company joined in singing, "For they are jolly good fellows." The most pleasing feature of the proceedings was the complete surprise expressed by the venerable couple when Mr. T. F. Lyons (the eldest son), in a most filial and felicitous speech, presented them with a purse of sovereigns on behalf of the family. The gift was appropriately acknowledged by Mr. Lyons, sen., and after a number of games had been indulged in an exceedingly unique and happy gathering was brought to a close."

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