Originally posted by vera2013
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Thank you for looking!
They had 12 children and all had survived by 1911!
I wonder if Lily and John are using middle names?
I wonder If Lily was abandoned, orphaned, in workhouse and didn't know her name or her parents names, or chose a new name to forget - my great-grandmother gave herself completely different first names and last name in those circumstances, seeing nine out of eleven siblings dying before going to the workhouse, when her first husband came home from WWI and she witnessed his agonising death of lungs rotting away from the use of mustard gas, she changed her names again.
Unless you knew the story, you would never be able to find her in the records
Other relatives that have changed their names have by historical luck left behind addresses to cross-references on various documents
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