When Albert Lilly was born about 1876, in Virginia City, Storey, Nevada, United States, his father, Thomas Lilly, was 34 and his mother, Sarah A. Jones, was 30.
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 .
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