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11 February 2025

David March © 2014

Lillie Lily Coleman was born in November 1900 in Manchester, Lancashire, England to Thomas “William” G Coleman (1873-1910 & Mary Ellen Egerton (b 1872). Lillie had one sister, Annie (b 1899). In 1901, William was a letterpress printer running his own business. The family emigrated to Canada in 1903, leaving Liverpool about 10 June aboard SS ‘Lake Manitoba’ bound for Montreal where they arrived on 20 June. They travelled on to Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 1906 lived in Ashburn St.

They didn’t stay in Winnipeg but moved to Saskatoon. In 1908 they lived on w s Ave C and William worked as a compositor for ‘The Capital’. The next year they were at 987 Ave C (possibly the same house) and William was employed as a compositor on ‘The Phoenix’. William died on 20 October 1910 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon.

Mary and the two girls stayed on in Ave C, Saskatoon for a few years, but in 1919 they were living in apartment 110 in Cahill Block No 3 on Ave A South. In 1921 Mary was a housekeeper for J Gilles a barrister. Annie worked as a stenographer for the Home Insurance Co in Saskatoon but by 1921 she was living in Winnipeg again, at 716 Furby St and working as a bookkeeper in a solicitor’s office.

Lillie worked as a clerk for Government Phones in Saskatoon, living with her mother and sister until 1921.

No further trace has been found.

The family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title 3rd Ave Coleman Tree.

 LILLIE COLEMAN