Daily AncestorLyd.
Lyd. in old records is an abbreviation of the first name Lydia.
Lyd. is a clerk's shortening of Lydia, listed among the standard abbreviations of English given names. It appears in church registers, wills and census name columns.
Indexes may keep Lyd. as written, so a search for Lydia can miss it. Try the short form and check the sex column on census pages.
As seen in a recordName and occupation columns of the 1870 census
Lyd. Crandle, 44, Keeping house
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