Tilly Family History
Tilly Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from
any of various places in northern France called Tilly (Tiliacum
in medieval records). Examples in Eure and Calvados are so called from
a Gallo-Roman personal name Tilius (perhaps from Latin
tilia ‘lime tree’) + the locative suffix -acum; one in
Seine-et-Oise gets its name from the personal name Attilius +
-acum.Irish: variant of Tully.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Tilly
Name Distribution of Tilly Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tilly families
 28 - 53  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Tilly families
|
102 - 201 35 - 101 |
1 - 34 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tilly families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tilly census records
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Tilly Family Origin
Tilly Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Tilly
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Tilly Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Tilly census records
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Tilly Civil War Service Records
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