Miss Lily Robertson
(1851 - ? )
5 April 1862

Volume 6, page 167, sitting number 7537.

[Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Miss Lily Robertson,' the following two entries are her younger sisters, Annie and Henrietta.]

Lily's real name was Elizabeth and she was the daughter of the Scottish industrialist, mining engineer and prolific railway builder Henry Robertson (1816-1888), who twice served as the MP (Liberal) for Shrewsbury (1862-1865 and 1874-1885). Her mother was Elizabeth Robertson née Dean, daughter of solicitor William Dean. 

Born in Shrewsbury, she was 9 at the time of the 1861 census.

Her marriage was announced in the Dundee Evening Telegraph on 3 May 1883: 'At Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, on the 28th April, [...] Lieut.-Colonel George Henry Wilson, late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Henry Robertson, Esq., M.P., of Palé, Corwen, and 13 Lancaster Gate.'