John Tilley

1571 - 1621  (~ 49 years)

• Name	John Tilley
  Birth	15 Dec 1571	Bedfordshire, England
  Christening	19 Dec 1571	Bedfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  FSID	L71L-S22
  Death	Between Jan and Mar 1621	Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Burial	1621	Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Person ID	I10324	footsteps
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Robert Tilley,   b. May 1540, Bedfordshire, England d. 1613, Bedfordshire, England (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1570	Bedfordshire, England
  Family ID	F19173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan Hurst,   b. Bef 13 Mar 1568, Bedfordshire, England d. Between Jan and Mar 1621, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 52 years)
  Marriage	20 Sep 1596	Bedfordshire, England
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Tilley,   b. Bef 30 Aug 1607, Bedfordshire, England d. 21 Dec 1687, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States (Age > 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5892	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  DEATH: Sometime the first winter at Plymouth, likely between January and March 1621. Surprisingly little is known about John Tilley. He was born in 1571 at Henlow, co. Bedford, England, and his brother Edward Tilley and wife Agnes (along with their neice and nephew Humility Cooper and Henry Samson) also came on the Mayflower. Brother Edward is known to have lived in Leiden, but there is no record of John Tilley there (though it is certainly possible he was present there and just didn't get named in any record). John and Joan Tilley came on the Mayflower with their youngest child, Elizabeth, then about thirteen years old. Both John Tilley and wife Joan died the first winter at Plymouth, but their daughter Elizabeth survived and later married fellow Mayflower passenger John Howland.

  
  

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