Elizabeth Tilley

Bef 1607 - 1687  (> 80 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Tilley  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Bef 30 Aug 1607	Bedfordshire, England   [2]
  Christening	30 Aug 1607	Bedfordshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	30 Aug 1607	Bedfordshire, England   [1]
  FSID	LZ8B-H42
  _DNA	mtDNA HAPLOGROUP: H1a1
  Burial	1687	Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
  Death	21 Dec 1687	Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States   [2]
  Person ID	I22220	footsteps | Bangs, Bunker, DonCampbell
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	John Tilley,   b. 15 Dec 1571, Bedfordshire, England d. Between Jan and Mar 1621, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 49 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Joan Hurst,   b. Bef 13 Mar 1568, Bedfordshire, England d. Between Jan and Mar 1621, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 52 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	20 Sep 1596	Bedfordshire, England
  Family ID	F5892	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Howland,   b. Abt 1599, Huntingdonshire, England d. 23 Feb 1673, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1623	Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Children	+ 1. Desire Howland,   b. Abt 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States d. 13 Oct 1683, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F6999	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  mtDNA HAPLOGROUP: H1a1 Elizabeth Tilley came on the Mayflower, at the age of about thirteen, with her parents John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley. Her parents, and her aunt and uncle Edward and Agnes Tilley, all died the first winter, leaving her orphaned in the New World. She soon married, about 1624 or 1625, to fellow Mayflower passenger John Howland, who had come as a manservant, or apprentice, to Governor John Carver who died in April 1621. John and Elizabeth Howland raised a large family with ten children, all of whom lived to adulthood and married. As a result, they likely have more descendants living today than any other Mayflower passengers. Some of their descendants include Franklin D. Roosevelt; both President Bush's; actors Alec and Stephen Baldwin, Humphrey Bogart, Christopher Lloyd; Mormon church founder Joseph Smith; poet Ralph Waldo Emerson; and Doctor Benjamin Spock.

  
  

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• Sources

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