Sarah (Sally) LYONS : Short Biography

With all the info I have I have her date of birth between 1836-1840.

All I have on her is that she came to Australia from Kings County (Offaly) in 1855.And was employed on arrival by a Mr J Hamilton to work as a Domestic Servant at Ozenkadnook, Victoria, Australia.

On the shipping record it has her as being 19. Also travelling on this ship were 2 other single girls a Mary Lyons and Bridget Lyons, and a single male Andrew Lyons 23. Also there was a family travelling on this ship being William and Fanny and 3 children. I questioned whether they are her family.

Then the following year 1856 she married Francis Hamilton (the brother of her employer), Francis was listed on Marriage Cert as being 21 (believe this is incorrect though, believe he was much younger), and Sarah was listed as being 20. Said on the Marriage Cert. mother was Mary Hogan and father William Lyons. Witnesses to the wedding were a Mary Lyons and Andrew Lyons (which I am assuming are her brother and sister), so this leads me to believe that the family travelling on the ship William and Fanny and 3 kids weren't related.

Further along in 1859 it appears that Andrew and Bridget both married respectively but were now using the name LEHANE as there surname, to ensure that they tie in the family I then discovered even though Bridget got married using LEHANE as her surname at marriage to a Richard James HEALE, when she had 3 children in Victoria she has her maiden name listed as LYONS. So definitely tying her back to LYONS, and then on Bridget's death record it has her mother as Fanny HOAGAN and father William LEHANE? So this would then tie Bridget and Andrew into the family that had traveled to Australia as a family. I do not know why the family has travelled under the name LYONS to Australia. Because the only birth records or at least baptismal records I seem to be able to find are listing there surnames as LEHANE with father William LEHANE and mother Fanny HOGAN.

This doesn't settle my hunger for why did Sarah list on her marriage cert that her mother was a Mary HOGAN. because Fanny is not another name for Mary as far as I can find. I cannot find any record on a William and Mary HOGAN marrying except one marriage in 1820. Would this be too early for them to be Sarah's parents? I am looking for a marriage cert for Willian and Fanny though to see if they are possibly one ad the same.

Sarah died in Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia in Jun 1925. On Victoria Death records it has age as 85, that is why I am confused with her birth date.