Living
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Frank Dalrymple Lilly 1381 Mother: Ida Isabel Anderson 23Frederick Roberts Lilly
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 2 Aug 1860 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 6236 Christening: 30 Sep 1860 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 6236 Death: After 14 Dec 1876 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 1381 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Robert Roberts Wakeham Lilly J. P. , Q. C. 6232 Mother: Eliza Dalrymple Williams 6232Hon. George Lilly JP
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 4 Nov 1774 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States of America 1381 Christening: Death: 10 Sep 1846 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 71) 1381 Burial: Cause of Death:Events
• Occupation: Clerk for merchant Nathaniel Philips, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: A lawyer, official and judge, though with no formal legal training, After 1808, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. According to notes on thBar of Newfoundland by Augustus G. Lilly, although George Lilly is noted as being the first person called to the bar in Newfoundland on 3 April 1826 and that he had been practicing since 1808.
• Membership: Inducted as a member of the Newfoundland Lodge, Freemasons, 20 Nov 1810, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. George Lilly
in the England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921
England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921
Name:George Lilly
Gender:Male
Initiation Date:20 Nov 1810
First Payment Year on Register:1819
Year Range:1813-1836
Profession:Merchant
Lodge Location:Newfoundland
Folio Number:170
A Lodge Number:226A
B Lodge Number:159B. • Occupation: Merchant, 20 Nov 1810, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Military: Helped raise a militia unit in which he had rank of Captain, 1812, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Appointed to Newfoundland Bar by Supreme Court, 3 Apr 1826, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Appointment of Justices of the Peace in the Northern District, 1843, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Supreme Court Justice, Cir 1845, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Lilly, George (1772?-1846) - he appears as #2 on the Roll of the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador and was called to the Bar on 3 Apr. 1826. A Supreme Court justice, he took depositions in Ferryland in October 1845 in the dismissal case of Renews Stipendiary Constable Michael Jackman.
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Ann Roberts 1381 Marriage: 28 Jan 1800 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 1381 Children: 1. Robert Roberts Wakeham Lilly J. P. , Q. C.
Notes
General:
020419 from Wikipedia:
George Lilly
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to search
George Lilly (1770s – September 10, 1846) was a lawyer, official and judge in Newfoundland.[1]
He was born in the Thirteen Colonies, possibly in Boston, and came to Newfoundland with his father at the start of the American Revolution. He worked for St. John's merchant Nathaniel Philips as a clerk. Later, Lilly was employed as a notary public and auctioneer. In 1800, he married Mary Ann Roberts. He helped raise a militia unit during the War of 1812 and served himself as a captain. In 1820, he was enrolled as a barrister although he had no formal legal training. In 1834, Lilly was named acting assistant judge for the Supreme Court of Newfoundland.[1]
Kielley v. Carson
In 1838, he granted a writ of habeas corpus to the solicitor for Edward Kielley, who was being held for an alleged breach of the House of Assembly's parliamentary privilege. Lilly declared the warrant, that had been issued by William Carson, void and set Kielley free. Lilly himself was subsequently arrested by the sergeant-at-arms of the assembly. After two days, he was released following the proroguing of the assembly by Governor Sir Henry Prescott. Following his release, he ruled that the assembly did not necessarily have the same privileges as members of the British House of Commons but that members of the house could pursue justice through the laws of the land like any other citizen. In December 1838, he held a dissenting opinion when the Newfoundland Supreme Court ruled in favour of the assembly in the case Kielley v. Carson. This decision was overturned by the judicial committee of the British Privy Council in January 1843, whose arguments were consistent with those put forward earlier by Lilly.[1]
Lilly finished his career mainly as a judge for the northern circuit court. He died in St. John's in 1845.[1]
References
O'Flaherty, Patrick (1988). "Lilly, George". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. VII (1836– 1850) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
020419 from Dictionary of Canadian Biography:
LILLY, GEORGE, auctioneer, notary, militia officer, lawyer, office holder, and judge; b. in the early 1770s in the Thirteen Colonies, possibly in Boston; m. 25 Jan. 1800 Mary Ann Roberts in St John's, and they had at least seven children; d. 10 Sept. 1846 in St John's.
George Lilly was probably the son of loyalist William Lilly, a Harbour Grace magistrate. By his own account he came to Newfoundland "at a very early period of my life with my Father who left America in consequence of the revolution." He apprenticed as a clerk with the St John's merchant Nathaniel Philips, and by 1810– 11 had established himself as a notary public and auctioneer. During the War of 1812 he helped to raise and equip a militia, serving himself as adjutant and captain. In Newfoundland's economic crisis of 1815– 19, Lilly's services as auctioneer and conveyancer were much in demand; but his premises were destroyed in the St John's fire of 21 Nov. 1817, and he subsequently endured financial losses when rents fell on property he had acquired on long-term lease from the government. It appears that he was not successful in business.
Gradually Lilly focused his attention on the practice of law. He had no professional education in that area, but in the absence of properly trained lawyers, early judges in Newfoundland permitted unqualified attorneys to plead before the courts. In 1826 Lilly was formally enrolled as a barrister. He would be remembered by reformers as attorney for the plaintiffs in the suits by Philip Butler and James Lundrigan* in the Supreme Court in 1820 against David Buchan and John Leigh*, the surrogate judges who had ordered the two fishermen whipped. In both cases, the jurors found for the defendants. Lilly in the 1820s was not averse to being associated with the cause of reform. His name appears, for example, among the early signatures on the petition to the king provoked by the Butler– Lundrigan incidents, and he also supported later calls for the granting of a legislature. In the 1832 election for the first house of assembly, however, he endorsed fellow lawyer William Bickford Row*, an indication that Lilly saw himself as allied with establishment interests. When Governor Sir Thomas John Cochrane* in 1834 named Lilly as acting clerk of the House of Assembly, reformer William Carson opposed the appointment. In 1835 Lilly signed a public address supporting one of the reformers' most prominent opponents, Chief Justice Henry John Boulton*.
Cochrane appointed Lilly acting assistant judge in the Supreme Court in September 1834. He would serve in this capacity until 1845 when, on the death of Edward Brabazon Brenton, he was at last given a permanent appointment. Lilly advanced his claims for an assistant judgeship on a number of occasions after 1834, but his capacities were not highly regarded, and he was not as well connected as other aspirants. He was, Governor Henry Prescott* noted, "the only Barrister to whom the half salary allotted to an acting officer was an inducement to accept it."
It was while he was acting as assistant judge that Lilly played an important part in a confrontation that helped to undermine representative government in Newfoundland, and he showed considerable courage and, perhaps, intelligence in the affair. On 9 Aug. 1838 he was applied to for a writ of habeas corpus by Bryan Robinson*, solicitor for Edward Kielley*, a respected surgeon being held in custody on a warrant issued by William Carson in his capacity as speaker of the assembly. Kielley had allegedly committed a breach of the assembly's privileges. Lilly granted the writ, returnable on the following morning, and was in chambers on 10 August when Kielley was duly brought before him. After listening to Robinson's arguments, and without then considering whether the assembly had the right to commit for contempt, Lilly decided that the warrant was void. He later stated as his reason that it did not "disclose a sufficient ground of commitment."
On the following day, the sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, Thomas Beck, accompanied by five or six of the house's "Doorkeepers and Messengers" as assistants, entered the judges' chambers and tried to arrest Lilly, acting on another warrant of the speaker. Lilly told Beck that he did not recognize either his authority or that of the assembly. If the arrest were to proceed, he added, "it must be by force." Beck and his assistants thereupon seized him, "some by the collar, others by the arms and some pushed me from behind, and so dragged and forced me with great violence" downstairs to the speaker's room – the House of Assembly being in the same building. There he was incarcerated. Soon afterwards, accompanied by a "great crowd of men and boys," who had presumably gathered to witness that extraordinary phenomenon, the arrest of a judge, he was taken to Beck's home where he was held for two days. On 13 August he was released as a consequence of the prorogation of the legislature by Governor Prescott.
On the same day he was discharged, Lilly delivered his judgement on the imprisonment of Kielley. In a cogent and lengthy argument, he denied Carson's claim that the assembly possessed analogous powers to those of the House of Commons. Moreover the power claimed in this instance was unnecessary. While members of the house were "particularly entitled, to protection in the due performance of their functions," the laws of the land were "equally open to them as to every other lawfully constituted body." Lilly's arguments were presented again as a dissenting opinion in December 1838 when, in Kielley v. Carson, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the assembly; but in January 1843, the judicial committee of the Privy Council in London in effect sided with Lilly and rejected the claims of the house. How far Lilly himself was responsible for the learned judgement he presented is not clear. Success has many fathers, and subsequently both Robinson and Edward Mortimer Archibald*, chief clerk and registrar of the Supreme Court, took credit for the arguments. Archibald said he "prepared the judgment" in its entirety, and Prescott seemed to confirm this in an official dispatch to London.
Lilly's career afterwards as judge was pursued chiefly in the humbler duties of the northern circuit. They involved, according to his own statement in 1845, experiencing the "dangers incident to a sea voyage at a stormy part of the year, . . . from the Effects of which I have been no slight sufferer." He said he had tried some 2,000 cases, not one of which had been appealed. In 1845 Governor Sir John Harvey* remarked of his career as a circuit judge that Lilly's "mild and conciliating manners, have rendered him a great favourite with the Inhabitants of the Out Harbours."
Patrick O'Flaherty
Cathedral of St John the Baptist (Anglican) (St John's), Reg. of baptisms, marriages, and burials (mfm. at PANL). Law Soc. of Nfld. (St John's), Barristers' roll. MHA, George Lilly name file; William Lilly name file. PANL, GN 2/1/A, 20– 22, 34, 39; GN 2/2, January– April 1835: 273; July– December 1838: 179– 236; GN 5/2/A/1, 8– 9 Nov. 1820. PRO, CO 194/64– 126; CO 199/20– 42 (copies at PANL). Supreme Court of Nfld. (St John's), Solicitors' roll. Nfld., House of Assembly, Journal, 1834– 35. Newfoundlander, 16 Aug. 1838. Newfoundland Mercantile Journal, 1816– 19, esp. 11 Dec. 1816, 16 Jan. 1818. Newfoundland Patriot, 1838. Public Ledger, 1838. Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 25 Nov. 1817, 16 June 1835. E. J. Archibald, Life and letters of Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald . . . (Toronto, 1924). Prowse, Hist. of Nfld. (1895).
General Bibliography
© 1988– 2019 University of Toronto/Université Laval
6237
George Richard Lilly
Sex: MAKA: George Lilly 6238
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1945 - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 6238 Christening: Death: 11 Jan 2019 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 74) 6238 Burial: 2019 - Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 6238 Cause of Death: Cancer 6238Events
• Occupation: Research Scientist with Dept of Fisheries and Oceans, Bef 2010, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Parents
Father: Living Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. Living Children: 1. Living 2. Living
Notes
General:
020419 from InMemoriam:
George Richard Lilly
Passed on: January 11th, 2019
Passed away from complications of cancer on Friday, January 11, 2019, George Lilly, age 73. Loving husband of Daphne (nee Hudson); father of Matthew (Heather) and Erica (Philippe); and grandfather to Nathaniel and Claire. Leaving behind brothers: Robert (Jane Ann), Noel (Anne) and Stephen (Colleen); Uncle Hal (Anne); Aunt Gertie Soper; sisters-in-law: Glenna (Russ) and Elizabeth (Ralph); brothers-in-law: Tolson (Mary) and David (Tina); as well as many other relatives and friends. A retired DFO research scientist, George was highly respected in his field. He loved the natural world, a passion he shared with his family. Hiking, fishing and rowing his rodney were favorite activities, much of this done in his second home of Trinity, TB, where he will be interred this summer. Visitation will be held at Barrett's Funeral Home, 328 Hamilton Avenue, on January 15, 2019 from 4:30-6 pm, followed by a short celebration of his life at Barrett's Funeral Chapel. A reception will follow in Barrett's Reception Lounge. No flowers by request. Donations in George's memory may be made to St. Paul's Anglican Church, Trinity, TB. To view the online memorial guest book or leave a message of condolence, please visit www.barretts.ca.
George Richard Lilly
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 21 Aug 1848 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 1381 Christening: Death: 15 Nov 1919 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 71) 2729 Burial: After 15 Nov 1919 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 2729 Cause of Death:Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1849, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 020419:
At this time I do not know when he was really born, only that it was not on 30 Sept 1854 as paul Kirby had it because the births and baptisms recorded at the Congregational Church on NGB website for that year do not show him then but rather one of his siblings.• Alt. Birth: 30 Sep 1854, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Ässorter", Post Office; Res. Rennie's Mill Rd., Between 1864 and 1865, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. LILLY
. George R., assorter, Post Office, Rennie's Mill Rd
.• Occupation: Storekeeper, 200 New Gower St., Between 1864 and 1865, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. LEMESSURIER
. George, storekeeper, 200 New Gower
. George, wharfinger, 179 Water
It is my feeling that these are both the same person as there was only one George Le Messurier alive at the time in St. John's of an age to have qualified for these positions.• Occupation: Sub-Collector of HM Customs, 13 Jul 1882, St. George's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Court: Power of Attorney for Rosa Le Messurier and her husband George R. Lilly, 13 Oct 1883, Sandy Point, St. George's Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Party)
• Alt. Death: Cir 1919, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Parents
Father: Robert Roberts Wakeham Lilly J. P. , Q. C. 6232 Mother: Eliza Dalrymple Williams 6232
Spouses and Children
1. *Rosa Le Messurier 213 Marriage: 17 Oct 1877 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 141,6164Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Rev. A.C.F. Wood, M. A., Minister of St. Thomas's, 17 Oct 1877, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Witnesses: Henry C. Le Messurier, C. J. Le Messurier, Robt. ? Lilly, ? ? Le Messurier, Helena ? Lilly, ?? Speaker of the House of Assembly, others illegible, 17 Oct 1877, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes
180806:Children: 1. Charles Arthur Lilly 2. Harold Lemessurier Lilly
BDM reports that the wedding announcement appeared on 23 Oct 1877 in: 1) Gazette (Royal Newfoundland Gazette) 1807- 2) Harbor Grace Standard ( also known as Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser) 1859-1936 3) Morning Chronicle 1865-1881
Bride was the eldest daughter of Henry Le Messurier, merchant, of St. John's. Groom was the eldest son Robert R.W. Lilly, J.P., St. John's.
Notes
General:
Clive LeMessurier indicates there were 8 children
Gerard Arthur Lilly
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 24 Apr 1867 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 6239 Christening: 24 Apr 1867 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 6239 Death: 24 Apr 1867 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 1381 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Robert Roberts Wakeham Lilly J. P. , Q. C. 6232 Mother: Eliza Dalrymple Williams 6232
Notes
General:
020419:
Not sure why he was baptised at St. Thomas. All their other children with the possible exception of George Richard, whose birth information eludes me, were baptised at the Congreational Church or the Methodist Chapel in lieu thereof. 6239
Living
Sex: F
Parents
Father: William Harold Lilly 14 Mother: Gertrude Erica Edwards 14Living
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Living Mother: Florence Steed 10Living
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Frank Dalrymple Lilly 1381 Mother: Ida Isabel Anderson 23Living
Sex: M
Spouses and Children
1. *Florence Steed 10 Marriage: Children: 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living 4. Living 5. Living 6. Living
Home | Table of Contents | Surnames | Name List
This website was created 9 Apr 2026 with Legacy 10.0, a division of MyHeritage.com; content copyrighted and maintained by cjmorry@ncf.ca