Biographical notes

After their marriage in Shoreditch in 1860, the 1861 Census shows them living with Charles Tillcock (John's child by Sarah Webster), at Great Hadham, Hertfordshire. John Tillcock (48), Head, marr, Victualer, Herts St Margarets; Lydia Tillcock (41) Wife, marr, Herts High Cross; Charles Tillcock (19), Son, unmarr, Herts Widford.

In the 1871 Census the family has moved back to Shoreditch (where they were married), living at 31 Finsbury Market with William Tillcock (John's child by Sarah Webster). John Tillcock (62), Head, marr, Greengrocer, Stanstead Hertfordshire; Lydia Tillcock (51), Wife, marr, Stanstead Hertfordshire; William Tillcock (33), son unmarr, Greengrocer, Widford Hertfordshire; Emma Skiggs (12), Niece [to Lydia], High Cross Hertfordshire.

The 1881 Census shows the family still living at Finsbury Market, Shoreditch but at 26. John Tillcock (78), Head, marr, Greengrocer, Herts Stanstead; Lydia Tillcock (62), Wife marr, Herts High Cross; William Tillcock (43), Son, unmarr, Greengrocer, Herts Widford.

John Tillcock died in the first quarter of 1886 but Lydia is recorded in the 1891 Census still living at 26 Finsbury Market with her stepson William. Lydia Tillcock (75), Mother [presumably to William], Widow, living on her own means, Hertfordshire Widford High Cross; William Tillcock (53), Son, unmarr, Greengrocer, Hertfordshire Widford High Cross.

William died in 1894 and Lydia died in the first quarter of 1899.