Brief Life History of Lily
When Lily Henshaw was born on 21 January 1883, in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Reuben Henshaw, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Jenkinson, was 30. She married Albert Kemp on 20 September 1909, in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. She died on 6 July 1957, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Beaverdale Memorial Park, Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Lilly Henshaw in household of Reuben Henshaw, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Lily Henshaw, "England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918"
- Lilly Henshaw in household of Reubin Henshaw, "England and Wales Census, 1901"
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1886
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1893
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
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Name Meaning
English (Lancashire):
habitational name from Henshaw in Prestbury (Cheshire), from Old English henn ‘hen’ + sceaga ‘copse, small wood’.
habitational name from Henshaw (Northumberland), possibly from the Old Norse personal name Hethinn (genitive Hethinns) + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’. See Hensell , of which Henshaw is sometimes a variant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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