Tillie Rubin (1899 - 1990)

Tillie Rubin is the wife of  Lewis Marcus Lyons, the brother of Brenda Margaret Lyons, known as Peggy, who was the wife of my maternal great uncle, Simon Bernard Levin. Lyons family tree HERE

Parents: Solomon Rubin (1870 - 1954) and Jeanette Slutsky (1871 - 1950)

Tombstone for Jeanette and Solomon Rubin, both buried in Broadgreen Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Born: 7 September 1899, in Dublin, Ireland

Birth record for Tillie Rubin

Hebrew name: Tana daughter of Shlomo

Married: Lewis Marcus Lyons in (July to September) 1924 in Liverpool, England. They had no children

Census details

1901

The Rubin family are living at 62 Wavertree Road, Liverpool, England. The father, Solomon Rubin, is 30 and a tailor and clothier; the mother Jeanette is 29. The children are Louis age 3 and Tillie age 1. Living with them is Bridget Thompson, a domestic servant age 14

1911
The Rubin family are still living at 62 Wavertree Road, Liverpool, England. The father, Solomon Rubin, is 40 and dealing in clothing from home; the mother Jeanette is 38. The children are Louis age 13, Tillie age 11 and Simon age 8. Living with them is Bridget Thompson, a housemaid servant age 23 and Mendal Rubin, a pedlar age 30. The house has 6 rooms

1939

Lewis and Tillie are living at 'Beech Lodge" Allerton Road, Liverpool, England. Lewis is the managing director of a wireless and electrical company. Also living on the property are the Peters family, undertaking domestic and gardening duties

Electoral register extract

An electoral register from 1935

Tillie, her husband Lewis and his sisters Brenda (Peggy) and Gladys are all living at 8 York Avenue, Liverpool, England

Tillie and her sister Gladys are living at 233 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool, England in 1968

Travel

Lewis and Tillie travelled from Southampton to New York on 10 June 1946 aboard the "Argentina", arriving on 18 June 1946

Death

26 August 1990 in Cardiff, Wales at 90 years of age. Buried in the Broadgreen Cemetery, Liverpool, England, plot no L-02-005

Liverpool Jewish Burial Record for Tillie Lyons

Tombstone inscription: Tillie Lyons ... beloved wife who passed away 26th August 1990. Remembered with love by all her family and friends

Probate

Tillie Lyons Probate dated 12 October 1990. She was living at Castleton Nursing Home, Newport Road, Cardiff, Wales. The value of her estate was not exceeding £115,000

Residences

In 1901 Tillie and her family are living at 62 Wavertree Rd, Liverpool, England. The property appears to no longer exist

From 1923 till the 1930s Lewis and Tillie were living at 8 York Avenue, Liverpool, England

In 1939 Lewis and Tillie were living at 'Beech Lodge', Allerton Road, Liverpool, England. Beech Lodge was the home of tobacco manufacturer Thomas H. Cope (1866-1913) in 1891 and engineer's cashier Robert Dickinson (1841-1917) in 1911. It was demolished c.1970

Lewis and Tillie then lived at 233 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool, England until she moved into a nursing home in Cardiff, Wales sometime before her death in 1990