John TILLEY

Notes:

Came on Mayflower with wife Joan and daughter Elizabeth.


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John Tilley was born in 1571 in Henlow, Bedford, England, and married the widowed Joan (Hurst) Rogers on 20 September 1596 in Henlow. He, his wife Joan, and his youngest daughter Elizabeth all came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620.

John and his wife both died the first winter at Plymouth, orphaning the 13-year old Elizabeth Tilley in the New World. Elizabeth would later marry to Mayflower passenger John Howland.

From: The Great Migration Begins:
ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland
MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
BIRTH: Baptized Henlow, Bedfordshire, 19 December 1571, son of Robert and Elizabeth (_____) Tilley [ TAG 52:203].
DEATH: Plymouth 1620 in the first general sickness [ Bradford 446].
MARRIAGE: Henlow 20 September 1596 Joan (Hurst) Rogers. She had married (1) Thomas Rogers.
CHILDREN:
i ROSE, bp. Henlow 23 October 1597; no further record.

ii JOHN, bp. Henlow 26 August 1599; no further record.

iii ROSE, bp. Henlow 28 February 1601/2; no further record.

iv ROBERT, bp. Henlow 25 November 1604; no further record.

v ELIZABETH, bp. Henlow 30 August 1607; m. about 1625 JOHN HOWLAND .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Tilley was the elder brother of EDWARD TILLEY , who also died in the first sickness.


COMMENTS: "John Tilley and his wife, and Elizabeth their daughter" were passengers on the Mayflower [ Bradford 442]. "John Tilley and his wife both died a little after they came ashore. And their daughter Elizabeth married with John Howland and hath issue as is before noted" [ Bradford 446].
John Tilley joined the expedition of 6 December 1620 along the coast with nine others, under the leadership of Miles Standish [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 149].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In addition to the items noted in the sketch of EDWARD TILLEY , Robert Leigh Ward in 1985 published some additional biographical information on John Tilley [ TAG 60:171-73].

" JOHN, Plymouth, [[vol. 4, p. 303]] perhaps br. of Edward, came with w. and one ch. Elizabeth in the Mayflower, 1620, and all (it was believ. by Shurtleff in Geneal. Reg. I. 52) d. next winter. But his d. Elizabeth wh. m. John Howland outliv. all her fellow passeng. exc. three wh. were younger. "

John married Joan HURST 20 Sep 1596, Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. Joan was born 23 Mar 1568, Henlow, Bedfordshire, England; died 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married:
"She had married (1) Thomas Rogers."

1. Elizabeth TILLEY was born 1607, Henlow, Bedfordshire, England; died 21 Dec 1687, Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts.