Lilian Florence Noble was born on 1 August 1910 in Ripley, Derbyshire, the fourth of the seven children of James Daniel Noble (1883-1917) and Martha Noble née Kitchin (b.1883).
Her six siblings were: Margaret Martha Noble (b.1904); James Benjamin Noble (1906-1981); Rose Nellie Noble (1908-1971); Alfred John Noble (b.1912); George William Noble (1914-1985) and Dora Noble (b.1916).
On 2 April 1911, when her father completed his census return form, she was shown as aged 8 months and living in a five roomed property at 6 Midland Row, Nuttall Park, Ripley, Derbyshire, with her parents and three siblings: Margaret Martha Noble; James Benjamin Noble and Rose Nellie Noble. Her father described himself as a horse-hair dresser for making horse-hair cloth.
Her father was killed in action on 22 August 1917 whilst serving as a Lance Serjeant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers and when on 19 June 1921 her mother completed her census return form, she was shown as aged 10 years, 10 months and in part time education. She was living in two rooms at 27 Holts Place, London, N1, with her mother, five of her siblings: Margaret Martha Noble - recorded as Dolly Noble who was employed making whipped cream walnuts by Lipton's Ltd at City Road, London; James Benjamin Noble - a horse hair dresser employed by W & C Nightingale (Downs, Quilts & Horsehair) at Old Street, London; Rose Nellie Noble; George William Noble and Dora Noble who were all in part time education, together with a half sister Elsie Doris Noble (b.1919).
On 20 August 1933 she married Frederick George Davis (1906-1940) in All Hallows Church, Church Lane, Tottenham, where in the marriage register she is shown as aged 23 years and a spinster, residing at 33 Risley Avenue, Tottenham, the daughter of James Nobel, a deceased soldier, whilst her husband is described as aged 27 years, a bachelor and a porter, living at 46 Risley Avenue, Tottenham, the son of Frederick Ernest Davis, a carman.
Electoral registers from 1935 show her and her husband listed at 75 Barnet Grove, Bethnal Green. On 29 September 1939 when the England and Wales Register was compiled, both she and her husband were shown still at this address. She was described as a canteen counter hand.
Both she and her husband died when a bomb was dropped on the Columbia Market air raid shelter on the night of 7th/8th September 1940 and her death was registered, aged 29 years, in the 3rd quarter of 1940 in the Bethnal Green Registration District, London. It is unknown where her body was .
She is shown as 'DAVIS Lilian 29' on the Columbia Market air raid shelter memorial in the Rose Garden, Old Market Square, Ravenscroft Park, London, E2.
She is also commemorated on the , on the and in that is kept just outside the entrance to St George's Chapel at the west end of Westminster Abbey.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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