Lily or Lilian Ward c 1888 (General)
Re the weather in the Lane End Coleford area that December 1888, this MAY have been relevant.
FLOODS IN MONMOUTHSHIRE.
Monmouth and the districts adjacent to the Wye;, Monnow, and Trotby have been visited by a heavy flood, the consequence of the continuous downpour of rain on Thursday aud Friday. The Wye rose very rapidly, and a large area is under water. In the lower part of Monmouth the streets were inundated on Friday afternoon.
South Wales Daily News, 31st December 1888
https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3670170/3670173
Monmouth was a damp place to live in Victorian times, see
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1568771?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents