A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
NameThomas Lyon 
810
810BurialLyon-Rawson Cemetery, Greenwich, Fairfield Co, Connecticut11
FatherRichard Lane Lyon Sr (1590-1679)
MotherMargaret Hopwood (1590-)
Spouses
BurialLyon-Rawson Cemetery, Greenwich, Fairfield Co, Connecticut11
FatherHenry Winthrop (1607-1630)
MotherElizabeth “Bessie” Fones (1610-1673)
MarriageJun 1647
ChildrenMary Winthrop “Marie” (1649-1713)
Birth20 Sep 1635, Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Colony, BCA
Death2 May 1696, Byram Neck, Greenwich, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Colony, BCA Age: 60
BurialLyon-Rawson Cemetery, Greenwich, Fairfield Co, Connecticut
FatherSimon Hoyt (~1593-1657)
MotherSusanna (Bates) (-1673)
Notes for Thomas Lyon
Wife: Mary Hoyt (1630, Windsor, Hartford Co., CT - 1696, Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT)
"The tradition in this family runs that Thomas Lyon and John Banks came together from Yorkshire, England, about the year 1640, to the spot where they settled on the east bank of Byram River, which they reached by boat from Stamford. Saving the date, which is many years too early, the legend may be correct. Thomas Lyon was a land-holder in Stamford in 1650 and 1652."
Source: "History of Rye, New York: Chronicle of a Border Town, Westchester County, New York, Including Harrison and White Plains till 1788"; by Charles W. Baird, 1871, p. 422.
Burial location referenced in "Byram, Connecticut: An Historic Resources Inventory"; by Renee Kahn Associates, 1978, p. 3.
As a soldier in Cromwell's Army, he was one of three who witnessed the execution of King Charles I when he was on guard before the Banqueting House at Whitehall, England. He fled immediately afterwards to America. He is earmarked as a "veteran" for his service in that army.11
"The tradition in this family runs that Thomas Lyon and John Banks came together from Yorkshire, England, about the year 1640, to the spot where they settled on the east bank of Byram River, which they reached by boat from Stamford. Saving the date, which is many years too early, the legend may be correct. Thomas Lyon was a land-holder in Stamford in 1650 and 1652."
Source: "History of Rye, New York: Chronicle of a Border Town, Westchester County, New York, Including Harrison and White Plains till 1788"; by Charles W. Baird, 1871, p. 422.
Burial location referenced in "Byram, Connecticut: An Historic Resources Inventory"; by Renee Kahn Associates, 1978, p. 3.
As a soldier in Cromwell's Army, he was one of three who witnessed the execution of King Charles I when he was on guard before the Banqueting House at Whitehall, England. He fled immediately afterwards to America. He is earmarked as a "veteran" for his service in that army.11