Name:                     John TILLEY^1,2,3

Sex:                         Male

Father:                    Robert TILLEY (abt 1540 - Feb 1612/13)

Mother:                  Elizabeth ( - )

 

Individual Facts

Baptism                  19 Dec 1571                                           Henlow, Bedford, England

Death                     bet 1621-1621                                        Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA

 

Marriages/Children

1. Joan HURST

Marriage                20 Sep 1596                                           Henlow, Bedford, England

Children                 Rose TILLEY ( - "young")

                                John TILLEY (1599 - Oct 1636)

                                Rose TILLEY ( - )

                                Robert TILLEY ( - )

                                Elizabeth TILLEY (bef 30 Aug 1607 - 21 Feb 1687/88) married John HOWLAND

 

Notes (Individual)

General: "MAYFLOWER PASSENGER" --  Signed Mayflower Compact.  "A 1620 Mayflower passenger, John Tilley arrived at Plymouth with his wife Joan (Hurst), his daughter Elizabeth Tilley, and his brother Edward Tilley....  John and his wife left children in Bedfordshire who could conceivably have left descendants, though none living today is yet known." (Ply. Col., p. 362)

"--- silk worker, of London" (Saints..., p. 439)

John and his wife Joan died the first winter at Plymouth.  (Gen. Sum.)

 

 

Sources

1.  Stratton, Eugene Aubrey.  Book:  Plymouth Colony; Its History & People 1620-1691.  Salt Lake City, UT; Ancestry Publishing, 1986.  p. 362.

2.  Willison, George F..  Book:  Saints and Strangers; Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers & Their Families, with Their Friends & Foes.  Orleans, MA; Parnassus Imprints, Inc., 1945.  p. 439.

3.  Caleb Johnson, CalebJ@aol.com.  Genealogical Summary, John Tilley, from the internet (Mayflower Home Page).  Mayflower Home Page, 11/96.

 

Prepared by:

O. Keith Wheeler

Mad River, CA 95552

(707) 574-6595

 

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