When Mary Lilly was born on 17 May 1832, in Bunkle and Preston, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, David Lillie, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Fraser, was 32. She married Addison Kimball on 20 July 1885, in Orwell, Addison, Vermont, United States. She lived in Preston, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1832 and Sudbury, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1860. She died on 27 May 1915, in Orwell, Addison, Vermont, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Orwell, Addison, Vermont, United States.
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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