When Richard Lilly was born about 1785, in Kent, England, his father, John Lilly, was 26 and his mother, Mary Revel, was 27. He married Elizabeth Dray on 30 September 1810, in Brabourne, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Brabourne, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Wye, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1871. He died on 18 December 1842, at the age of 58, and was buried in Brabourne, Kent, England, United Kingdom.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Lylie, probably from the name of the flower, Middle English lilie, lelie ‘lily’.
English: habitational name from Lelley in East Yorkshire or Lilley in Hertfordshire. The Yorkshire placename probably derives from Old English lǣl ‘twig, brushwood’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English līn ‘flax’ + lēah.
Irish: Anglicized shortened form of Allely .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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