TILLEY: Rooted in History, Mayflower Immigrant Ancestors

11th Great Grandparents

Mack-Smith Branches

John Tilley

John Tilley was born circa 1671 and Christened 19 Dec 1571. He was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Tilley of Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. 

John married 20 Sep 1656 to Joan Hurst in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. 

John and Joan immigrated on the Mayflower with daughter, Elizabeth. John's younger brother Edward his wife Ann were also on the Mayflower and they brought with them two cousins, who later returned to England. Both John and Edward Tilley signed the Mayflower Compact.

Anderson, Robert Charles, 1944-, and New England Historic Genealogical Society. The Great Migration Begins Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol 3, P-W. Boston: New England Historical Society. Page 1822.  

Mackenzie, George Norbury, 1861-1919, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades. Colonial Families of the United States of America: In Which is Given the History, Genealogy And Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled In the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. Vol V. New York: The Gafton Press, 1907.

John died on 10 Apr 1621 at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America after serving the first winter. John died three months after Joan, leaving Elizabeth an orphan.

 

Joan Hurst

Born circa 1658, it is recorded that  she was Christened on 13 Mar 1658 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. Her father was William Hurst. 

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5GY-T2Z: 19 Mar 2020), Joan Hurst, 1569.  

Joan Hurst married John Tilley in 1696. She had been married to a Thomas Rogers previously. 

Joan died on 11 Jan 1621 (less than a month after arriving in the New World) at Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America.

Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918. The Pioneers of Massachusetts: a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches and Other Contemporaneous Documents. Boston: C.H. Pope, 1900. Page 445.

First hand records of Plymouth Colony was documented by William Bradford, 1590-1657, Of Plymouth Plantation, pages 408, 412.

 

Children of John Tilley and Joan Hurst

Rose (1597-1601)

John (1599-1636)

Rose 1602-1601-Unk)

Robert (1604-1639)

Elizabeth Tilley (1607-1687) ~ m. John Howland * See Howland

Descendants of John and Joan Tilley

Elizabeth Tilley ~ m. John Howland

John Howland Jr ~ m. Mary Lee

Hannah Howland ~ m. Jonathan Crocker

Hannah Crocker ~ m. Shubael Fuller (grandson of  Samuel Fuller, Mayflower passenger)

Lydia Fuller ~ m. Daniel Gates Jr

Lydia Matilda Gates ~ m. Soloman Mack 

Lucy Mack ~ m. Joseph Smith Sr

Hyrum Smith ~ m. Mary Fielding

Joseph Fielding Smith ~ m. Edna Lambson (4th living wife)

Edna Melissa Smith ~ m. John Fife Bowman

John Hyrum Bowman ~ m. Rosetta Ellen Jackson

• Did not list parents for privacy reasons