Birth: 29 September 1896 Shoreham, Sussex, UK
Father: Joseph Young 1868-1956
Mother: Louisa Pettitt 1871-1942
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: July-September 1917 Steyning, Sussex, UK
Husband: George James Blackman 1896-1983
Death: July 1985 Gravesend, Kent, UK
George James N Blackman 1919-1996
Daisy Lydia M Blackman [Williamson] 1922-2004
Nora L O Blackman [Lucas] 1928-a1963
Birth of Lydia May Young in FreeBMD in October-December 1896 in Steyning (2b 282) which included Shoreham.
In the 1901 census as Lydia M Young aged 5, born in Shoreham, Sussex, and living with her parents (John J and Lomia), two brothers (Erenst W and Joseph), and two sisters (Elizabeth and Kate) in four rooms at 17 Middle Street, New Shoreham, Sussex.
In the 1911 census as Lydia Young aged 14, born in Shoreham, Sussex and living with Sophia Safe (aged 41, born in Liverpool, Lancashire, married for 17 years with two children, both living, but not with her husband, a boarding house keeper) and her daughter (Doris aged 11 and born in Wimbledon, Surrey) in 8 rooms at Hesperus, The Beach, Shoreham By Sea, Sussex.
Marriage of Lydia M Young and George J Blackman in FreeBMD in July-September 1917 in Steyning (2b 649).
Her three children were born in Steyning.
Her husband died in Worthing in 1983.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Lydia May Blackman, born 29 September 1896, in Gravesend (16 803) in July 1985.Lydia May Young was the second cousin once removed of Ellen, wife of Thomas Paine, my eighth cousin three times removed.
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