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Notes for John Tilley and Joan Hurst

The Great Migration reports [1]:

John Tilley
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].


Footnotes:

[1] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1822, [AmericanAncestors].