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| John Tilley | see FAMILY TREE (Brooke) see FAMILY TREE (White) |
Baptized: 19 Dec 1571 Henlow, Bedfordshire, England
Married: 20 Sep 1596 Henlow, Bedfordshire, England
Died: 11 Jan 1621 Plymouth, MA
FATHER
Robert Tilley
MOTHER
Elizabeth Ellborne
WIFE
CHILDREN
1. Rose Tilley
bapt. 20 Oct 1597 Henlow
d. 28 Feb 1601
2. John Tilley
bapt. 26 Aug 1599
3. Rose Tilley
bapt. 28 Feb 1602
4. Robert Tilley
bapt. 25 Nov 1604
m. 1 Nov 1632 Mary Hawkins Bedford St. Paul, Bedfordshire, England
d. 8 Nov 1639 Bedford St Paul, Bedfordshire, England
5. Elizabeth Tilley
bapt. 30 Aug 1607
m. Abt. 1624 John
Howland
d. 21 Dec 1687 Swamsea, Bristol, MA
John Tilley
by Susan Brooke
Mar 2023
John Tilley was baptized on 19 Dec 1574 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. (1)
His father was listed as "Robert Tillye." He married the widow Joan Hurst,
widow of Thomas Rogers, on 20 Sep 1596. (2) She had at least one daughter, Joan
Rogers, from her previous marriage to Thomas Rogers. (3) John Tilley and
Joan Hurst had five children baptized in Henlow between 1597 and 1607.
Their son Robert was apprenticed in Henlow as a tailor in Oct. 1617. (4)
His step-daughter, Joan Rogers, married in Henlow on 27 Jun 1620. (3)
John Tilley had a younger brother, Edward Tilley, who was also on the
Mayflower. Edward was in Leiden as early as 1616 and took in an apprentice
in Leiden in 1618. (5) Possibly John Tilley joined his brother in Leiden around
this time. (6) John Tilley and his wife and daughter, Elizabeth and Edward
Tilley and his Ann and her niece and nephew were all on the Mayflower together
in 1620. John and Edward Tilley both signed the Mayflower Compact. They
arrived at Cape Cod in Nov 1620 and that first winter was brutal. John and
his wife and Edward and his wife all died. (7) John's daughter, Elizabeth
aged 13, Edward's wife's niece and nephew, Humility Comfort aged 1 and Henry
Sampson, aged 16, survived.
Sources
(1) Henlow Parish Register& Bishop's Transcripts; Baptisms:1574, Dec. 19; John, s. Robert Tillye
(2) Henlow Parish Register & Bishop's Transcripts; Marriages: Tilley; 1596, Sep. 20; Jn Tyly & Joan Rogers
(3) Joan Rogers was
baptized
in Henlow on 26 May 1594, father Thomas Rogers.
Joan
Rogers
married Edward Hawkins on 27 June 1620 in Saint Paul, Bedford, Bedfordshire,
England
Robert Tilley, a half brother of Joan Rogers, married Mary Hawkins on 1 Nov 1632 in Saint Paul, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
Edward Hawkins and Mary Hawkins may have been siblings
(4) Forster, Joy. The Lost Children of Bedfordshire's Pilgrim Fathers: The Tilley family of the Mayflower. The Mayflower Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 4, Nov 1999.
"I therefore visited Bedford Record Office and checked their printed index to the apprentice records. There to my delight was the record for Robert Tilley the son of John Tilley of Henlow being apprenticed to a Bedford tailor named John Jones for the term of eight years in October 1617. So the reason Robert did not travel to America with his parents was that he was already serving an apprenticeship in Bedford."
(5)
Edward Tilley, wkipedia
"On 25 Apr 1618 Edward Tilley (saijwercker geboortich uijt Engelant - sailworker/silkworker?
native of England) took on Robert Hagges (also a native of England) as an
apprentice for five years according to Dutch records. Robert was over 21 and
witnesses Jonathan Brewster, Robert Cooper and Thomas Blossom translated for
Tilley and Hagges, who did not speak or understand Dutch very well."
"John Tilley was documented as a member of the Leiden Separatist congregation as well as his brother Edward. Edward's ward Henry Samson may also have been a member."
(7) Mayflower, First Sickness and Cole's Hill Burying Ground
.