Family tree Cromer/Russell/Buck/Pratt » Edward Tilley (< 1588-1621)

Personal data Edward Tilley 

• He was born before May 27, 1588 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England.
• He was baptized on May 27, 1588 in Henlow, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
• Profession: Mayflower Passenger.
• (MARR) on June 20, 1614 in England: Spouse: Agnes Tilley (born Cooper), "Mayflower" Passenger.
• He died in the year 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America.
• He is buried in the year 1621 in Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten.
• A child of Robert Tilley and Elizabeth ELBOURNE

Household of Edward Tilley

Notes about Edward Tilley

Arrived in America aboard the Mayflower. Edward was a signer of the Mayflower Compact.rth America on the Mayflower but died shortly after arrival.ur sisters (Rose, Agnes, Elizabeth, and Alice) and three brothers (George, William, and Edward or Edmund). Research done by Robert Ward Leigh, using probate records, show that Tilley's paternal grandparents were William and Agnes Tylle, his great-grandparents were Thomas and Margaret Tylle, and great-great-grandparents were Henry and Johann Tilly, all of Henlow.John married Joan Hurst Rogers, the daughter of William and Rose Hurst and the widow of Thomas Rogers of Henlow. Joan had had one daughter from her previous marriage. John and Joan had five children between 1597 and 1607. At least one child died young. Research by George Ernest Bowman shows that John was not the Jan Tellij that married Prijntgen Van den Velde in Leyden.hn and Joan embarked on the Mayflower along with their teenage daughter Elizabeth and John's brother Edward Tilley and his wife Ann or Agnes (Cooper) Tilley. Edward and Ann brought along Ann's relatives Henry Sampson and Humility Cooper. They left behind their older children, who were married by this time. They arrived at what would become Plymouth in November. John and brother Edward signed were amongst the men who signed the Mayflower Compact.brother Edward, and sister-in-law Ann. William Bradford reported, "...Edward Tillie, and his wife both dyed soon after their arrivall; and the girle Humility their cousen, was sent for unto Ento England, and dyed ther But the youth Henery Sampson, is still liveing, and is maried, & hath .7. children. John Tilley and his wife both dyed, a litle after they came ashore..." This left daughter Elizabeth the only surviving member of the Tilley family in America. The orphan was taken in by John Carver but he died in spring and his wife died in spring. Elizabeth later married John Howland, Carver's former servant, and left a numerous posterity.e, England Mary Hawkins 1 Nov 1632 at St Paul’s Church, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. hn Howland presumably in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, died 21/31 Dec 1687 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, will written 17 Dec 1686 and proved 10 Jan 1687/8. s Tilley had a daughter, Joan Rogers, from her first marriage. She was christened 26 May 1594 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England and married Edward Hawkins 27 Jun 1620 at St. Paul’s Church, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England.ay Saints). 1908. pgs. 65-67.“Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland’s Will”, Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 3, No. 1, Jan 1901, pgs. 54-57.Mayflower”, The Mayflower Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 4, Nov 1999.rt Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995 (entry on John Howland).

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