Lilias Margaret Pomfrey was the daughter of Edmund Pomfrey and Mary Timbers. By 1871 the family had moved to 91 London Road in Kirkley, near Lowestoft. In 1881 she was living at 2 County Villas in Lowestoft. In 1891 she was working as a dressmaker and boarding with the furrier's firm of Charlotte Felstead at 19 Castle Meadow, Norwich. She married Thomas William Purdy (1871) in 1896. In 1911 she was living in the High Street, Little Walsingham. She died in Walsingham in 1919, aged 51.

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• 1. 1881 Census. W Arnold Road, 2 County Villa, Lowestoft. Lilias. Daughter. Age 13. Born Holt. • 2. Birth Registers. Pomfrey, Lilias Margaret. Sep. 1867. 4b. 63. Erpingham. • 3. 1901 Census. High Street, Little Walsingham. Lilias Purdy. Wife. Age 32. Born Holt. • 4. Marriage Registers. Lilias Margaret Pomfrey. Dec. 1896. 4b. 820. Walsingham. [Thomas William Purdy]. • 5. 1871 Census. 91 London Road, Kirkley. Lillias [sic] Pomfrey. Daughter. Scholar. Born Holt. • 6. 1891 Census. 19 Castle Meadow, Norwich St. Andrews. Lilias M. Pomfret sic]. Boarder. Age 21. Dressmaker. Born Holt. • 7. 1911 Census. High Street, Little Walsingham. Lilias Margaret Purdy. Wife. Married 14 years. Age 42. Born Holt.