Re: Philip Lyster,Ireland to Quebec, Canada
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Re: Philip Lyster,Ireland to Quebec, Canada
2/18/01
Philip Lyster b. 1730, Mountmellick, Queens County, Ireland, 1765 granted lease on 40 acres in Cloncannon for his and his sons lifetime-------Philip Lyster,b 1755 of Corbally, Ireland, buried 6-1-1838. Abbeyleix Protestant Cemetery, Abbeyleix, Ireland; Married 1791 to Mary Hamilton, b 1771, buried 1-19-1856, Abbeyleix Protestant Cemetery, Abbeyleix, Ireland, oldest son Philip Lyster b. 1792, Corbally, Ireland, d. 12-29-1851, buried in Melbourne, Quebec, Canada; Married 1818 to Mary Sixsmith, b. Corbally, Ireland, d. 3-11-1867,buried in Melbourne, Quebec, Canada(she worked in the Lyster home as a maid) Married couple first moved to Clonaslee, then Durham, Canada.Emigrated with Mary and 3 children in 1831 as a Remittance man.-------William Hamilton Lyster(their first child born in Canada) b. 9-22-1833, Durham, Quebec, Canada, d. 8-2-1914, buried in Lyndonville cemetery, Lyndonville, Vermont, US ( he was a Baptist minister); Married 1861 to Cynthia Preston Carty, b. 8-22-1838, Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada, d. 6-28-1918, buried in Lyndonville cemetery, Lyndonville, Vermont, US-------They had 3 sons Hadden, Morten, and Benton(all named after Baptist ministers)---------Benton Randall Lyster(youngest son) b.8-21-1872, Danville, Quebec, Canada, d. 12-11-1923, New Rochelle, NY, US, buried, Lyndonville cemetery, Lyndonville, Vermont, US ( He was a chemist and inventor); Married 10-8-1902, in Lyndonville, Vermont to Gertrude Marian Knight b. 5-22-1877, Rock Island, Quebec, Canada, d. 11-29-1943, buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, Connecticut, US Gertrude remarried to Ernest A Drown)-------Their only son, Philip Benton Lyster, b. 4-3-1912, Whitefield, New Hampshire, d. 8-11-1993, buried in Oaklawn cemetery, Fairfield, CT(He was an attorney); Married 12-3-1941 at First Congregational Church of Meriden to Amy Foster Carter b. 7-26-1913, Meriden CT d. 4-6-2011 in Guilford, CT, buried 4-16-2011 in Oaklawn cemetery, Fairfield, CT-------(they had two sons Robert and Benton) Benton Randall Lyster II b. 2-28-1948, Fairfield, CT(Businessman); Married 12-2-1972, First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA,to Dianne McKinnon b. 12-4-1950, Edison, Georgia, ---------(They had two children) Amy Katherine Lyster b. 7-11-1978, Miami, Florida (attorney) and Benton Randall Lyster III b. 10-12-1981, d. 5-1-2010 in Bozeman, MT, buried in Oaklawn cemetery, Fairfield, CT