Tilley Family History
Tilley Name Meaning
variant spelling of Tilly.habitational
name from Tilley in Shropshire, named from Old English telga
‘branch’, ‘bough’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.occupational name for a husbandman, Middle English tilie
(Old English tilia, a primary derivative of tilian ‘to
till or cultivate’).from the medieval female personal name
Tilly, a pet form of Till.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Tilley
Name Distribution of Tilley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tilley families
 100 - 198  34 - 99 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Tilley families
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309 - 616 104 - 308 |
1 - 103 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tilley families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tilley census records
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Tilley Family Origin
Tilley Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Tilley
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Tilley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Tilley census records
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