Brief Life History of Lily
When Lily Grice was born on 27 January 1892, in St Helens, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Peter Grice, was 44 and her mother, Anne Quirk, was 40. She married Hugh Roy on 13 September 1913, in St Helens, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died about 1957, in St Helens, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 66.
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- Lily Grice in household of Peter Grice, "England and Wales Census, 1901"
- Lily Grice, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Grice, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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World Events (8)
1901 · East Lancashire Royal Engineers
The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
Name Meaning
English (Midlands): from Middle English grice, grise ‘pig’ (Old Norse gríss), probably a nickname or a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd.
English: nickname for a gray-haired man, from Middle English grice, gris ‘gray’ (Old French gris, apparently of ancient Germanic origin, and probably a distant cognate of Gray 1).
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Greis .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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