Mary Lyall
Wife of William Jeffrey, of Foulden, Berwickshire, who as the family accounts have it followed her husband to Canada about 1820 with their children and settled at Cobourg and then near Keene. She died in 1857, aged 83, and is commemorated on the monument of her daughter Catharine and Adam Hall at Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough. Probably the mother of Mary (Jeffrey) Short and great-grandmother of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood.
Life
- 1774Born4 May 1774, Chirnside, Berwickshire, Scotland
Find a Grave's date, which fits her age on the monument, 83, at her death in May 1857. WikiTree has 4 May 1773 at Chirnside (the place from there), FamilySearch 1774. WikiTree and FamilySearch call her "Mary Edna," which her monument does not.
compiledprobableSources
- Find a Grave memorials of the Jeffrey family: William Jeffrey and Mary Lyall, their children, and Andrew Jeffrey of Chirnside
- Monument of Mary Lyall, wife of William Jeffrey, and Isabella Hall, Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, Ontario
- WikiTree profiles for the Ellingwood line's ancestors (Woodbury, Cheever, Pattullo, Short, Jeffrey, Elliott, Adams, Deyoe, Rice, Warren, Holdershaw)
- FamilySearch Family Tree: the Short, Jeffrey, Lyall, Pattullo and Robson ancestry
- 1857Died6 May 1857, Peterborough, Canada West
Find a Grave's date; WikiTree, from Ward Skinner's compilation, has 26 May 1857. The face of the monument in the photographs gives her age, 83, but no date.
compiledprobableSources
- Find a Grave memorials of the Jeffrey family: William Jeffrey and Mary Lyall, their children, and Andrew Jeffrey of Chirnside
- WikiTree profiles for the Ellingwood line's ancestors (Woodbury, Cheever, Pattullo, Short, Jeffrey, Elliott, Adams, Deyoe, Rice, Warren, Holdershaw)
- Monument of Mary Lyall, wife of William Jeffrey, and Isabella Hall, Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, Ontario
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Family
- Parents
- Spouse
- William Jeffrey
"Mary Lyall wife of William Jeffrey," on her monument at Peterborough. FamilySearch and Find a Grave have them married about 1799 in Berwickshire; no record has been found.
Pedigree
Notes
Great-grandmother of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood, as the family accounts have it. Her marble obelisk at Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, reads “Sacred to the memory of Mary Lyall, wife of William Jeffrey, aged 83 years” (record). Below her on the same face is “Isabella Hall, dau. of Adam & Catharine Hall, died June 16 1922, aged 85 years,” her granddaughter. The obelisk is very probably the Halls’ family monument: another face reads “In memoriam of Adam Hall, died Oct. 4, 1881, aged 77 years; also Catharine Jeffrey, wife of the above, died Feb. 26, 1882, aged 75 years.” She very probably spent her widowhood with her daughter’s family at Peterborough; Find a Grave notes that there is no evidence her husband is buried there.
Her children, as Find a Grave and Skinner’s compilation give them: Andrew (1800-1863), born at Foulden, mayor of Cobourg; Isabella (1801-1885), Mrs. George Gillespie of Keene; Jean (1803-1887), Mrs. Grigg; Catharine (1806-1882), who married Adam Hall in 1832 and had at least eight children; and Mary (1809-1883), Mrs. John Short (source). These are John Graham’s “five children, one boy and four girls.” Find a Grave adds a second son, William (1802-1879), of King Township, whom family researchers doubt.
Family tradition, in Ward Skinner’s Descendants of William Jeffrey, has her following her husband to Canada with their five children, settling first at Cobourg, where the Lyalls came too, and then near Keene (source).
Research: research/ellingwood/Short_Pattullo_Comparison.md.
Open questions
- Her baptism at Chirnside, and her parents. The FamilySearch and WikiTree trees give them as Joseph Lyal (d. 1799) and Jean Simpson, married at Bunkle and Preston in 1763; no record seen; not linked.
- Her death record (6 or 26 May 1857), and the other faces of the monument.
- Whether William (1802-1879) was her son, against Graham’s “one boy.”