Lillian Eddowes

1910-11-26 Mrs Cross funeral

Lillian was born in March 1882 in Birkenhead.¹ 

• Birth Notes

  Births Mar 1882   (>99%)
  EDDOWES  Lilian    Birkenhead  8a 483
  
  Cheshire Birth indexes for the years: 1881
  EDDOWES    Lilian     Birkenhead, Wirral    BIR/127/43

Lillian's father was William Eddowes and her mother was Elizabeth Shortridge.  Her paternal grandparents were John Eddowes and Mary Whitefield. She had two brothers and four sisters, named William, John, Agnes, Jessie, Esther and Jennet.  She was the youngest of the seven children.  She died at the age of 28 on November 17th, 1910 in Birkenhead.¹ 

• Death Notes

  Deaths Dec 1910   (95%)
  Cross  Lilian  29  Birkenhead  8a 277
  

• General Notes

  In 1901, Lillian was living with Richard and Esther at the Bird in Hand, Birkenhead.
  
  Each of Lillians children alive in 1911 were left £20 in trust, in the will of here mother Elizabeth Eddowes in 1911.
  
  In Nov 1910, Lillian Eddowes, aged 29 died, killed after a house fire at her home at 4 Wood Street, Birkenhead.  The fire was on the 17th Nov, and Lillian died at Birkenhead Burough Hospital two days later.
  
  Lillian and John Francis's four children were sent to St. Vincent's, a Poor Law School in Fulwood, Preston, and were subsequently split up. How sad!

Details of Lillian's family with John Francis Cross