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ZoomInfo Web Profile: Evelyn Margaret (261 words) |
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 | The real ovation of the lot was received by Miss Pennsylvania, Evelyn Margaret Ay, understandable because of her standing in the contest and the host of Philadelphians in the audience. |
 | The tension broke when the master of ceremonies announced the semi-finalists, who included five of the six preliminary trophy winners. |
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Family History, Part One (5747 words) |
 | Margaret's parents are not known to us but it is virtually certain that she was a member of one or another of the various branches of the large, wealthy, armigerous Pye family of Herefordshire. |
 | Wilhelmina and her older sister Evelyn were the only children of William and Lucy Byrd to survive childhood. |
 | Legend has it that Byrd brought the girls back to Virginia in order to break off a romance between Evelyn and a Catholic gentleman, and that Evelyn remained broken-hearted, and unmarried, the remainder of her life, which ended in 1737 at the age of thirty. |