Lilian Gill
Birth date
11/08/1913
Death date
1990
Biography
Image - 1994.105
Ivy Lilian Codd, known as Lilian or Lily, was born at her family home at 190 Millfields Road, Hackney. She was one of 5 children to parents Olive Grace and Frederick William Codd, a printing machine packer. She likely attended Millfields Road School with her sister Eva.
In 1925/1926 the family moved to 60 Fletching Road, Clapton, where they lived for at least a decade before Lilian, her parents and sisters moved between 1935-1939 to ‘Olivedene’ 112 Aragon Road, Morden.
In 1939 she was working as a dress machinist (see 2000.43 for a nightdress made by Lilian). Around 1940 she got engaged to William ‘Billy’ Gill, a furniture upholsterer who had enlisted in the army prior to the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-1945).
The two were married in 1941. Billy was wounded and died in Burma in February 1945. According to her niece, Lilian took the wedding presents that had been gifted to the couple and locked them away in a cupboard unused. These were later donated to Hackney Museum in 1994.
Lilian continued to live in Morden with her family, working for ‘London Carriers’ in Croydon. In 1971 she went on a P&O cruise aboard the SS Orcades, probably for Australia.
At some point between 1968-1972 Lilian and her sister moved to the village of Minard in Argyll, Scotland. In 1980 she appeared to have had a long hospital stay in Oban, Scotland. Lilian died in 1990 in Ealing, London.
Ivy Lilian Codd, known as Lilian or Lily, was born at her family home at 190 Millfields Road, Hackney. She was one of 5 children to parents Olive Grace and Frederick William Codd, a printing machine packer. She likely attended Millfields Road School with her sister Eva.
In 1925/1926 the family moved to 60 Fletching Road, Clapton, where they lived for at least a decade before Lilian, her parents and sisters moved between 1935-1939 to ‘Olivedene’ 112 Aragon Road, Morden.
In 1939 she was working as a dress machinist (see 2000.43 for a nightdress made by Lilian). Around 1940 she got engaged to William ‘Billy’ Gill, a furniture upholsterer who had enlisted in the army prior to the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-1945).
The two were married in 1941. Billy was wounded and died in Burma in February 1945. According to her niece, Lilian took the wedding presents that had been gifted to the couple and locked them away in a cupboard unused. These were later donated to Hackney Museum in 1994.
Lilian continued to live in Morden with her family, working for ‘London Carriers’ in Croydon. In 1971 she went on a P&O cruise aboard the SS Orcades, probably for Australia.
At some point between 1968-1972 Lilian and her sister moved to the village of Minard in Argyll, Scotland. In 1980 she appeared to have had a long hospital stay in Oban, Scotland. Lilian died in 1990 in Ealing, London.