Robert Nelson Lyman

Brief Life History of Robert Nelson

When Robert Nelson Lyman was born in May 1842, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert Fleming Lyman, was 31 and his mother, Lucy Kennedy, was 30. He married Lucretia Ward on 1 March 1863, in Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 30 June 1872, in Bosanquet, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 30, and was buried in Ward Cemetery, Lambton Shores, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Robert Nelson Lyman
1842–1872
Lucretia Ward
1848–1931
Marriage: 1 March 1863
Emerson Lyman
1864–
Lucretia Lura Lyman
1868–1897

Sources (9)

  • Nelson Lyman, "Canada Census, 1871"
  • Nelson Lyman, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
  • Nelson Lyman, "Canada, Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"

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1867 · Ontario Founded

On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.

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Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land (see Layman ).

Swedish: habitational name, formed with man ‘man’, for someone from any of several places whose name is beginning with Ly- (e.g. Lyhundra, Lydinge, and Lynäs).

Americanized form of German Leimann (see Leiman ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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