Hij is getrouwd met Agnes COOPER.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 20 januari 1613/14 te St Mary, Henlow, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.Bronnen 7, 8, 12
Edward Tilley and wife Agnes (called Ann by Bradford) came on the Mayflower. They died the first winter, and had no known children. Edward's brother John Tilley also came on the Mayflower with his wife Joan, also 2 children who were their cousins, Henry Samson and Humility Cooper.
SOURCE: The American Genealogist, 52:198-208, "English Ancestry of Seven Mayflower Passengers: Tilley, Sampson, and Cooper", by Robert Leigh Ward
Edward and Ann Tilley came aboard the Mayflower without any children of their own, but in company with two young relatives of Ann’s - her sixteen-year-old nephew Henry Samson and her one-year-old niece Humility Cooper. Both children had apparently been given over to the Tilleys in Leiden, but the reason those two children were with them has never been fully explained.
Per William Bradford’s later recollection of this family: “Edward Tillie, and Ann, his wife; and *2* children that were their cossens, Henery Samson and Humility Coper.”
Why Humility was in the custody of the Edward Tilleys is unknown - possibly her mother was deceased, and if she was an orphan, Ann Tilley, being childless, may have assumed custody in place of the child’s mother.
SOURCE: Wikipedia
Edward Tilley was born in 1588 in Henlow, co. Bedford, England, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Tilley. He married Agnes Cooper on 20 June 1614 in Henlow. Shortly after their marriage they moved to Leiden, Holland, where he is recorded in a notary record dated 25 April 1618. They came on the Mayflower along with their niece and nephew Humility Cooper and Henry Samson. Edward signed the "Mayflower Compact" and participated in the early explorations on Cape Cod where he was once appointed to provide "advice and council" to Myles Standish. By the time of the third exploration at Cape Cod, Edward Tilley had developed a cold. He would later die the first winter at Plymouth.
SOURCE: http://mayflowerhistory.com/tilley-edward/
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Agnes COOPER |
Edmund son of Robert TILLY