Person:Lillian Allen (10)

Lillian Allen was born on 30th January 1872 at Plymouth in Devon, daughter of Mary Ann Harry. Lillian's father appears to have been a Royal Navy seaman named John Burridge Allen; he and Mary Ann married a couple of years later and when Lillian was baptised he was named as her father. Lillian appears in the 1881 census living with her mother and siblings at 10 John Street in Plymouth.

By 1891 Lillian had left home, and was working as an undernurse in the house of an admiral's widow at St Michael Terrace in Devonport.

Lillian's mother died in 1895, and her father died just three years later in 1898.

Also in 1898 Lillian married a haulage contractor named William Henry Thomas Doddridge. He was a widower with a young son from his first marriage. Lillian and William appear to have gone on to have another nine children together between 1898 and 1912. The 1901 census finds the family living at Elburton in the parish of Plymstock. About 1905 they moved back into Plymouth, where the 1911 census finds them living at 35 Albert Road.

William died in 1927. Lillian survived him by 34 years. She died in 1961, aged 89.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   b. Lillian HARRY, March Quarter 1872, Plymouth Registration District, Vol. 5b, page 308

2. ↑ Baptisms register, in Church of England. Parish Registers of Christ Church. (Plymouth: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office).

   BAPTISMS Solemnized in the Parish of CHRIST CHURCH, PLYMOUTH, in the County of DEVON, in the year 1879
   When born: Jany. 30 1872 No.2,384
   When baptized: March 13, 1879
   Child's Christian Name: Lillian
   Parents' Name Christian: John Burridge & Mary Ann
   Surname: Allen
   Abode: 11 John St. Plymouth
   Quality, Trade, or Profession: Seaman R.N
   By whom the Ceremony was performed: W. Hayden Phillips

   Lillian was baptised on the same day as her two siblings

3. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 2194; Folio 7; Page 19, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: 10 John Street, Plymouth (Charles), Devon
   Mary A. Allen, wife, married, female, 27 [1853/4], Sailor's Wife, b. Portsmouth, Hampshire
   Lilian Allen, daughter, female, 9 [1871/2], Scholar, b. Plymouth, Devon
   John B. Allen, son, male, 6 [1874/5], Scholar, b. Plymouth, Devon
   Amelia M. Allen, daughter, female, 2 [1878/9], b. Plymouth, Devon

4. ↑ England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG12; Piece 1744; Folio 5; Page 3, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: 4 St Michael Terrace, Devonport, Devon
   [one of four servants in household of Mary Helpman "widow of Admiral R.N.":]
   Lilian Allen, servant, single, female, 19 [1871/2], Undernurse, employed, b. Plymouth, Devon

5. ↑ England. England. 1901 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG13; Piece 2085; Folio 37; Page 18, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address: Cottage adj 9 Diblo? [Could be "Ditto", referring to the previous address, which was the Volunteer Inn, but elsewhere this enumerator wrote "Do" for ditto.], Elburton, Plymstock, Devon
   Five or more rooms occupied
   William Doddridge, head, married, male, 32 [1868/9], Haulage Contractor, own account, b. Plymstock, Devon
   Lilian Doddridge, wife, married, female, 29 [1871/2], b. Plymouth, Devon
   William Doddridge, son, single, male, 7 [1893/4], b. Plmstock, Devon
   Arthur Doddridge, son, single, male, 2 [1898/9], b. Plymstock, Devon
   Reginald Doddridge, son, single, male, 1 [1899/1900], b. Plymstock, Devon
   Sydney Doddridge, brother, single, male, 16 [1884/5], Haulage Contractors Labourer, worker, b. Plymstock, Devon
   Eva Doddridge, sister, single, female, 13 [1887/8], b. Plymstock, Devon
   Andrew Skelly, boarder, single, male, 21 [1879/80], General Labourer, worker, b. Brixton, Devon

6. ↑ England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), (formerly the UK General Register Office.))
   Class RG14; Piece 12995; Schedule 57, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: 35 Albert Road, Plymouth, Devon
   6 rooms occupied
   William Doddridge, head, male, 42 [1868/9], married 19 years, 9 children born alive, 9 children still living, Market Gardener, own account, b. Plymstock, Devon
   Lilian Doddridge, wife, female, 39 [1871/2], married, b. Plymouth, Devon
   William Doddridge, son, male, 18 [1892/3], single, Market Gardener, worker, b. Plymstock, Devon
   Arthur Doddridge, son, male, 12 [1898/9], b. Plymstock, Devon
   Reggie Doddridge, son, male, 11 [1899/1900], b. Plymstock, Devon
   Lenoard [sic] Doddridge, son, male, 10 [1900/1], b. Plymstock, Devon
   Winnie Doddridge, daughter, female, 8 [1902/3], b. Plymstock, Devon
   Phyllis Doddridge, daughter, female, 6 [1904/5], b. Plymstock, Devon
   Donald Doddridge, son male, 5 [1905/6], b. Plymouth, Devon
   Ernest Doddridge, son, male, 3 [1907/8], b. Plymouth, Devon
   Lilian Doddridge, daughter, female, 1 [1909/10], b. Plymouth, Devon
   Celia Doddridge, sister, female, 20 [1890/1], single, Domestic Servant, worker, b. Plymstock, Devon
   John Best, boarder, male, 40 [1870/1], single, Shoe maker, own account, working at home, b. St Austell, Cornwall

7. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Lillian DODDRIDGE, June Quarter 1961, Plympton Registration District, Volume 7a, page 701, aged 89 [1871/2]