Birth: About 1875 East Harling, Norfolk, UK
Father: William Adams 1826-1881/91
Mother: Sarah Ann Sayer c1830-a1901
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1893 Leeds, Yorkshire, UK, UK
Husband: Harry Jackson c1875-a1901
Death: After 1901
Unknown
I cannot find any registration for her birth.
In the 1881 census as Lilian Mary (May on the original) Adams aged 6, born in East Harling, Norfolk, and living with her parents (William and Sarah Ann) and sister (Thirza) at the Market Place, East Harling, Norfolk.
Her father must have died 1881-1891.
In the 1891 census as Lilian M Adams aged 16, born in East Harling, Norfolk, a domestic servant (nurse) and living with her widowed mother (Sarah A Adams) in four rooms at 3 Cliff Road, Woodhouse, Leeds, Yorkshire.
Marriage of Lilian (Lillian) May Adams (two entries in FreeBMD but only one for Lillian on the original typed copy) and Harry Jackson in FreeBMD in April-June 1893 in Leeds (9b 857).
In the 1901 census as Lilian M Jackson aged 25, born in East Harling, Norfolk, and living with her husband (Harry), widowed mother (Sarah A Adams), a visitor (Albert E Farnhill aged 11 and born in Sheffield, Yorkshire), and a boarder (Frances E Parkins aged 34, born in Clerkenwell, London, single and a drapery assistant) at 46 Sandmere Road, Brixton, Lambeth, London. Another family was living in four rooms at the same address.
Note the ages given for her mother in the censuses are very inconsistent from 1830 in the 1861 census to 1846 in the 1901 census.
East Harling is about 10 miles east of Thetford on the B1111.
Lilian May Adams was my second cousin twice removed.
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