Descendants of William Lillicrap
This tree, submitted by a user, caused us considerable concern. John Lillicrap was shown as born in 1814, married to Amelia Couch and father of 13 children born between 1847 and 1884. Amelia was shown as born in 1837. She would have been only ten when John's first daughter was born and Thomas would have been 70 when his last child was born. Those two ages were impossible and unlikely.
Jersey church records show John and Amelia Couch as parents of the children born between 1861 and 1884. Jersey census returns show the family from 1861 onwards. John and Amelia are shown as husband and wife. John's birth year is shown as 1826 in 1861, 1816 in 1871 and 1814 in 1881. By 1891 he has clearly died, because Amelia, who is shown throughout as born in 1837, is head of the household.
We now know that John was born in 1825 rather than 1814, making him a more believable 59 when his last child was born, and that he was married and had six children before coming to Jersey. The 1861 Jersey census return for John's household shows four of his first six children (perhaps two died in infancy) and the youngest, Matilda, is shown as being born in Alderney. The others are shown as born in Jersey, but there is no parish record of their births in the island.
There are a number of online trees showing the family, and one links to an English census record for 1841, which shows John as a farmer's son, born in 1816, with six younger siblings. However, this cannot be his family. The tree as submitted, and others, show John's father as Thomas, but we now know from his marriage certificates that his father was William, a journeyman.
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- 1 William Lillicrap ( -1832) (Eggbuckland, Devon) [1] m Mary Ann Treverton
- 2 John Lillicrap (1826- ) (Devon) [2] m 1 (1847, St B) Elizabeth Mary Huelin daughter of Philip [3]
- 3 Elizabeth Lillicrap (1847- )
- 3 William John Lillicrap (1849- )
- 3 John Joseph Lillicrap (1851- ) [4] m (1877, All Saints) Johanna Manning, daughter of Daniel
- 3 Mary Ann Jane Lillicrap (1853- )
- 3 Thomas Lillicrap (1854- )
- 3 Matilda Lillicrap (1858- ) (Alderney)
- 2nd wife of John Lillicrap (1861, St H) Amelia Couch (1837- ) (Villedieu-les-Poeles, Normandy, France) daughter of William
- 3 Amelia Jane Lillicrap (1861- ) (St H)
- 3 Charles Edward Joseph Lillicrap (1863- ) (St H) [5] m (1887, St H) Fanny Priddy (1867- ) daughter of George [6]
- 4 Dorothy Bessie Lillicrap (1890-1918) (St H) m Albert James Fackrell
- 3 Henry William Taylor Lillicrap (1865- ) (St H) [7] m 1 (1888, St H) Mary Elizabeth Le Lievre (1867- ) (Liverpool) [8] daughter of David [9]
- 4 Clarence Henry John Lillicrap (1889- ) (St H)
- 2nd wife of Henry William Taylor Lillicrap (1893, St H) Emma Zoe l'Hermite (1873- ) [10] daughter of Francois
- 4 Eileen Frances Emily Lillicrap (1894- )
- 4 Ethel Mary Lillicrap (1899- ) m (1927, St H) William Charles Lock, son of James
- 3 Joseph Lillicrap (1867- ) (St H) [11] m (1889, St H) Mary Ann Snellings (1860- ) [12] daughter of John
- 3 Amelia Jane Lillicrap (1869- ) (St H)
- 3 George Nelson Lillicrap (1872- ) [13] m (1904, St H) Elsie Adelaide Fentum (1878- ) [14]
- 3 Alfred Francis Lillicrap (1874- ) (St H)
- 3 Edwin Lillicrap (1877- ) (not in St Helier register) m Maud Louise Le Branchu (1894- ) (St S)
- 4 Bernard Lillicrap (1917-1992) m Gwendoline Mary Jones (1908-2002)
- 4 Amelia Maud Lillicrap (1919-1997) m John Christopher O'Shea
- 4 Mavis Edna Lillicrap (1923-2006)
- 3 William Arthur Lillicrap (1884- ) (St H)
- 2 John Lillicrap (1826- ) (Devon) [2] m 1 (1847, St B) Elizabeth Mary Huelin daughter of Philip [3]
