Evangeline Jane Lyons 1920-2009
Known as Vangie
1920. Evangeline Lyons was born on 11/6/1920 at 187 Antrim Road to James Lyons, dentist, and Catherine Arnold Myles. Informant Isobel C McDowell of 22 Landscape Terrace
Vangie aged ~9 - courtesy of Myles Ancestry tree
1941.Evangeline Jane Lyons, 20, married Albert Wolfe Rainsbury, 25, Army Chaplain, living Royal Norfolk Regiment, on 4/2/1941 in BallyWillan Church, county Antrim. His father Albert Patrick Rainsbury, merchant, hers James Lyons, dentist . Her address Seabank Hotel, Portrush . Witnesses Arnold A Lyons, her elder brother , and Edna S Rainsbury, one of his sisters
Evangeline & Bertie on their wedding day
Vangie and Albert had 4 sons: Paul Rainsbury 1942, born at Ardmain Nursing home, Newry, Ireland on 5/6/1942; Stephen M W Rainsbury, born Partick 1947; Richard Myles Rainsbury 1949, born Partick, Scotland & Mark J Rainsbury 1956, born Islington.