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- [S46] Find A Grave, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), 1621 Find A Grave John Tilley.
John Tilley
Birth 15 Dec 1571
Bedfordshire, England
Death 11 Jan 1621 (aged 49)
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Coles Hill Burial Ground
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Memorial ID 16539001
John Tilley was a passenger on the Mayflower. He died in the first winter.
John Tilley married Joan Hurst Sept 20, 1596 in England. Joan Hurst was the daughter of William and Rose Hurst. Joan had been married firstly to a Mr. Curtis and had a daughter, Joan, who was a step-daughter of John Tilley. John and Joan Tilley had four children: John, Rose, Robert, and Elizabeth. John's children, John, Rose, Robert, and his step-daughter, Joan, stayed in England; the girls being married and the boys engaged in apprenticeships. It was not until a descendant of one of the children left in England applied for membership in Society of Mayflower Descendants based on his ancestor, John Tilley, that the information that Elizabeth was not an only child was known on this side of the Atlantic.
Bio by: Roderick Winston Graham
Family Members
Parents
Robert Tilley 1540–1613
Elizabeth Ellenbourne Tilley 1544–1614
Spouse
Joan Hurst Tilley 1568–1621 (m. 1596)
Siblings
Rose Tilley Goods 1574–1621
Edward Tilley 1588–1621
Children
Rose Tilley 1597–1601
John Tilley 1599–1636
Robert Tilley 1604–1639
Elizabeth Tilley Howland 1607–1687
Gravesite Details The surname Tilley is also spelled Tilly on several genealogical and historical sites.
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