Birth: 22 October 1889 Gateshead, Durham, UK
Father: Thomas Thirlaway 1858-1939
Mother: Margaret Leck 1855-1912
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: October-December 1957 Gateshead, Durham, UK
None known
Birth of Lily Thirlaway in FreeBMD in October-December 1889 in Gateshead (10A 854)
In the 1891 census as Lillie Thirlway (sic) aged 1, born in Gateshead, Durham, and living with her parents (Thomas and Margaret), sister (Annie J), uncle (John J Thirlaway), and two cousins (John J and Sarah Ann Thirlaway) in three rooms at 43 Shipcote Terrace, Gateshead, Durham.
Her brother was born in Gateshead on 17 October 1894.
In the 1901 census as Lily Thirlaway aged 11, born in Gateshead, Durham, and living with her parents (Thomas and Margaret), brother (John Willie), sister (Marie), grandmother (Ann), and John James and Sarah Ann (cousins) in four rooms at 217 Eastbourne Avenue, Gateshead, Durham. Another family lived in three rooms at the same address.
In the 1911 census as Lily Thirlaway aged 21, born in Gateshead, Durham, single, no stated employment, and living with her parents (Thomas and Margaret), brother (John Willie), and sister (Annie Jane) in four rooms at 217 Eastbourne Avenue, Gateshead, Durham.
Her mother died in Gateshead in January-March 1912.
In the 1921 census as Lily Thirlaway born in Gateshead, Durham in 1889 and living with Thomas Thirlaway (father?) and Annie Thirlaway (sister?) in Gateshead, Durham.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Lily Thirlaway born 22 October 1889, single and living with Thomas Thirlaway (widowed father?) at 215 East Bourne Avenue, Gateshead, Durham.
Her father died in October-December 1939 in Gateshead.
Death of Lily Thirlaway in FreeBMD in October-December 1957 aged 68 in Gateshead (1A 828).
There are five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Lily Thirlaway.
Lily Thirlaway was the neice of John James Thirlow, husband of Alice Johnston, first cousin of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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