Wade. The Lyons family tracks back to Scotland and through them down to the royal family of Britain - the Queen Mum was a Lyons. There were three brothers who thought better of staying in England at the time they beheaded the king, Charles I or II, and came to the colonies in the 1630s or 1640s. A series of volumes have been written about the Lyons families - one volume covers CT and NJ (one of the brothers moved down as a founder of Elizabeth NJ); one covers NY; and one covers MA. I descend from the one who moved to NJ - I checked my copy of the CT/NJ volume and found no reference to Spencer or Binks. You might try to look at the other volumes at a nearby library or get them through interlibrary loan and see if your people turn up there - my volume goes past the mid 1800s so you may be able to find them. Your folks might have migrated to PA from MA or NY if they come from these folks. I know that I have several lines who migrated from NJ into PA and on to OH. And of course this all presumes that your Lyons family is tied into these three brothers and did not immigrate at a later date. But it might be worth some further research. Happy hunting! Joan Bretz ----- Original Message ----- From: "wade binks" <jiniallogist@yahoo.com> To: <PALANCAS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 7:21 PM Subject: [PALANCAS] LYONS in Pennsylvania > Hi, > > I'm researching some ancestors with sur name of Lyons. My direct > ancestor is Sarah Lyons born about 1840 in Pennsylvania. She married John > Binks. Her father and mother may have been James Lyons and Elizabeth > Spencer but I'm not sure. I would like to confirm this and thought I'd > see if anyone had some more information for me. Thank you. > > Wade Binks > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== PALANCAS Mailing List ==== > List Owner can be reached for help with the list at > PALANCAS-Admin@rootsweb.com > >