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Old 31-10-14, 20:44
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Default Lillian Grace Eleanor Searle

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Called herself Lillian Grace Eleanor Searle.
Date and place of birth
1875 Sussex - per 1911 census. The only confirmed sighting!
1883 - per age at death
Names of parents
Oliver Searle, farmer
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any - and any divorces
1) Alfred George Talbot 1905 Holborn
2) George Henry Mason 1916 Camberwell
Occupation(s) - if any
No occupation in 1911
Military service - if any
None
Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on, if applicable.
1911 - 28 Molesworth Street Lewisham, South London
1946 - Church Road Bexleheath, Kent
Date, place and cause of death
25 September 1946 Bexleyheath, Kent
Date and place of burial / cremation.
Probably buried in Bexleyheath Cemetery
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Administration 28 April 1947 to George Henry Mason
Memorial inscription - if any
Not known

We are awaiting the 1921 census with baited breath.

We think that Lillian is actually Emily E Searle born Heyshott, Sussex, aged 11 months on the 1881 census, daughter of Oliver, a limeburner and Mary Ann. (the parish registers were stolen, so we don't know what she was baptised as)
This family is stil at Heyshott Street in 1891, with 6 younger siblings. Several were born in Graffham, so the family presumably moved out and back again.
By 1901 the family has moved to Bepton, with another 5 younger children. Emily is no longer there.

Reasoning for this is a photo of Oliver Searle junior in sailor's uniform - ties up with his records on Find My Past - addressed on the back to "Lily" This is on the assumption, of course, that she was his sister, rather than his girlfriend!
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