Researching Lily Gower
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3143 people with the Gower surname? In that year Gower was ranked number 1301 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Lily means "Form of LILLIAN. lily" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Lily Gower on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Lily Gower and the Gower Family History
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Explore Parish Records for Lily Gower at Find My Past.
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| Did you know that there are currently 4167 people with the Gower surname in the UK? Gower is now ranked number 1396 for popularity in the UK. |
Gower Family Tree Databases
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Gower Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Gower surname in the USA? Gower is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Gower Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Lily Gower. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Lily Gower
Lily Gower
Lily Gower, birth name Lilias Mary Gower (5 October 1877 — 29 July 1959) was a Welsh croquet player, a four-time winner of the Women's Championship. She was one of the three women who have won the Open Championship, winning in 1905.
She had won her very first public tournament at Budleigh Salterton, in 1898 and won the Ladies Championship for the next three years. In 1901, she started entering tournaments with men and in that year she won the Open Gold Medal, with a controversy. In semi-final her opponent (a man) accused her of "spooning". This sparkled heated discussions as to whether this was a gentlemanly way to do.
During her peak she was also three times Open Gold Medalist (contestants being both men and women) and even Men's Gold Medalist. The latter case was a result of confusion in rules: after "Open" and "Women's" were renamed into "Men's" and "Women's", the inadequately modified rules contained a loophole which allowed women to enter the "Men's Gold" contest.
In 1906 she married Reginald CJ Beaton, who was also a leading croquet player.
As an administrator she served on the Council of the Croquet Association between 1939 and 1954.
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