Women in Beckett Street Cemetery

Lily BROOK

Died/Age:: 18/11/1914, 37 Years.
Maiden Name:: HOBSON

Grave Section:: Unconsecrated
Grave No.:: 19255
Inscription:: In Affectionate Remembrance of / MARTHA ANN, / The Beloved Daughter og / GEORGE and ELIZA HOBSON, / Who Died September 5th 1875, / Aged 3 yewars and 10 months. / Safe in the arms of Jesus, / Safe on his gentle breast / There by His love o'ershaded / Sweetly her soul doth rest / Also LEONARD HOBSON, Son of / the Above, Who Died August 14th / 1880, / Aged 8 months. / Also LILY BROOK the beoved Daughter of the Above / GEORGE and ELIZA HOBSON, / Died Nov. 18th 1914, Aged 37 years. / and was interred at Mount Royal / Cemetery, Montreal. / Also ELIZA, / Beloved Wife of the Above GEORGE HOBSON. / Died March 29th 1923, Aged 77 years. / Also the Above GEORGE HOBSNO, / Who Died Sep. 14th 1926, Aged 83 Years. / J. LEACH.

Notes:: People buried in grave number 19255:-

Martha Ann Hobson, (daughter of George and Eliza), died 25 September 1875, age 3 years 10 months

Leonard Hobson, (son of George and Eliza), died 14 August 1880, 8 months old

Lily Brook (nee Hobson) (daughter of George and Eliza) died 18 November 1914, 37 years, interred at Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal

Eliza Hobson, (wife of George Hobson) died 1923, 77 years

George Hobson (husband of Eliza Hobson) died 1926, 83 years

Lily Hobson was born in Leeds in 1877 and baptised on 28 October 1877 at All Saints Church, Leeds, her parents were George and Eliza Hobson. George was a Grocer at this time, he later became a Publican. In 1881 the family lived on South Accommodation Road, Leeds.

Lily married a Mr Brook but no marriage certificate can be found. It is possible they married in Canada as she sailed to Quebec. Passenger Lists shows she departed from Liverpool, arriving in Quebec on 11 November 1910. Lily Hobson was 32 at the time, but some of the information is illegible on the Passenger Lists.

The family are found on most Census’. On the 1911 Census it says George and Eliza Hobson had been married 44 years, there were 8 children born in this marriage, 5 are still living.