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Robert Lyle

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Antrim, Ireland
Death: 1745 (43-44)
United States
Immediate Family:

Son of James Lyle and Margaret Lyle
Husband of Sarah Lyle and Anne Jane Lyle
Father of Samuel Lyle; Sarah Donald; Mary Craig; Martha Lyle; Daniel Lyle and 1 other
Brother of Elizabeth Beggs; Matthew Lyle; John Lyle, I; Daniel Lyle; Jenny Ogilvie and 2 others

Managed by: James Lyle
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About Robert Lyle

ROBERT LYLE, married in Ireland, ANN JANE LOCKE, a daughter of Thomas Locke who d. 1753, aged 73, and his wife, Sarah Baxter; a granddaughter of David Baxter, married to Sarah Alexander, all of Ballyvallagh, Ireland, and buried in Raloo, Ireland. Robert Lyle was a linen lapper at Larne bleach-green, one who takes charge of the linen and sees it packed up. He lived on a farm his wife owned in Toreagh. For a time he lived at a place called "Pullendoes," owned by his wife's father and situated about a mile from the home of the Blairs in Ballyvaullagh. Fannie Locke, a sister of Ann Jane Locke, lived with them. The Locke's have a Scotch ancestry. The name is an abbreviation of Lockhart.

When in Ireland, the Rev John Wesley was entertained by Robert Lyle and preached to the people in one of his fields. The children of Robert Lyle were: David, Samuel, Sarah, Mary, Daniel (who died young and is buried beside his parents in Raloo), and Martha (she married 1737, John Armstrong, Farmer, Raloo).

Source: Lyle Family, by Oscar K Lyle, Printed by Lecouver Press Company, NY in 1912, page 11

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Robert Lyle's Timeline

1701
1701
Antrim, Ireland
1711
1711
Ireland
1725
1725
Larne, Antrim, Ireland
1738
1738
1740
1740
Ireland
1743
1743
1745
1745
Age 44
United States
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