TILLEY
with roots in Somerset, England
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Marion [Andrews] Tilley
Marion was born on 21 May 1909 in 8 Brunswick Street, Bristol, to Margaret (Scorey [Rowlands]) and David Rowland Andrews. Marion’s father, a furniture salesman, was born on 24 January 1869 in Eglwys-Fach, Cardigan, Wales, the son of James Andrews, a coal merchant, and Elizabeth Evans. James was the son of John (b.1829) and Mary Andrews.
David and Margaret (b.29 May 1872) married at Bristol Register Office on 6 February 1908. David’s first wife, Jane Ellen Roberts, who he married in Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, Wales in 1893, died in Bristol in 1906.
Marion (also known as Anne) married Edward James (Jim) Tilley on 12 February 1938 at Bristol Register Office and they had two sons, Robert James and Nicholas Edward. She died at the age of 84 on 1 July 1993 at the Stuart House Care Home in Weston-super-Mare, a year after her husband. Marion was cremated and buried with her husband at St Andrew’s Church graveyard, Loxton, Somerset.
The birth certificate of Marion Andrews reveals spelling errors notably her father’s middle name which should be Rowland and her mother’s former surname which was Scorey, not Scory.
The 1911 census shows Marion living at 19 Hepburn Road, Bristol, as a two year old with her mother, Margaret, and father, David Rowland Andrews, as well as her siblings, Ernest Llewellyn, Lillian, John, Robert (Bob*) and Elizabeth. Her father was a furnishing salesman from Cardigan in Wales, while Margaret came from Newborough on the Isle of Anglesea, Wales.
Marion (left) with her half-sister Bess (Elizabeth). In the 1911 census the relationship of Bess to David Rowland Andrews is “daughter out of wedlock”.
Marion with her eldest son Robert at his grandfather Ted Tilley's orchard.
Marion at her retirement flat in Weston-super-Mare.
Marion Andrews and Edward James Tilley were married on 12 February 1938 at the register office in Bristol.
Marion Tilley on holiday.
Marion’s youngest child, Nicholas Edward, was born on 1 November 1946. He died in the spring of 1963 after an accident on his motorbike.
Marion Tilley at Weymouth 1950.
Marion Tilley with her husband Jim and youngest son Nicky on the beach front.
Marion Tilley with her eldest grandson Simon in Durban, South Africa.
Marion Tilley’s ashes are buried with her husband, Jim, at St Andrew’s Church, Loxton, in Somerset.
Marion’s father David Rowland Andrews
ANDREWS family tree
John Andrews
b. 1807
d. 1866
married
Mary Evans
b. 1809
d. 1872
James Andrews
b. 1841
d. 1919
married
Elizabeth Evans
b. 1837
d. 1889
David Rowland Andrews
b. 24 Jan 1869
d. 12 Nov 1957
married 6 Feb 1908
Margaret Scorey
b. 29 May 1872
d. Oct 1950
Lilian
(b. 3 Apr 1898
d.)
Mary Violet
(b. 1899
d.)
Robert (Bob)*
(b. 1911
d.)
Marion Andrews
b. 21 May 1909
d. 1 July 1993
married 12 Feb 1938
Edward James
b. 28 Feb 1910
d. 16 Oct 1992
Robert James
b. 12 June 1938
d. 5 Mar 2015
married 15 Dec 1959
Isobel Letty
Anyan
(See Watchorn and
Anyan family tree)
b. 29 Sept 1940
Nicholas Edward
b. 1 Nov 1946
d. 4 May 1963
Luke Edward
b. May 1964
Justin Jonathan
b. Aug 1967
Imogen Anya
b. Sept 1969
Memories
“I suspected, but I wasn’t sure of this, that my mother was a single mother, bringing up the girl that the family led me to believe was my cousin. Jacqueline was a very beautiful young thing but had huge emotional problems, understandable because my mother gave her away to her sister Bessie to bring up (my interpretation was that my father’s family, very conservative and traditional, pressed my father not to pursue the relationship with my mother unless Jacqueline was given away). It really was a family tragedy and I always shied away from trying to get to the bottom of the story.”
“Marion’s favourite brother, Bob* (b.1911), was a dog-racing bookie and also owned a dog (Roberta's Pride, named after his daughter). Now, that guy could tie a bow tie — he liked to dress the part and sported a wide, red and white polka dot one.” — Robert James Tilley (1938 - 2015)
Until recently, Jackie (pictured) was a mystery to the family. Her half brother, Robert James Tilley, grew up believing her to be his cousin and only as his mother lay on her deathbed did the true story behind Jackie emerge. She was born Jacqueline Margaret Dorothy Andrews on 7 February 1936 at 214A Cambridge Road, in Hackney, London. Her mother, Marion, was a costumier’s saleswoman living at 172 Amhurst Road, Hackney. When Marion later met her future husband, Jim, it gave her a dilemma as she had a child out of wedlock. At the age of two, Jackie went to live with one of Marion's sisters, Elizabeth (Bessie). We believe Jackie worked in theatre but have little to go on. She moved from a home in Weston-super-Mare to The White Lodge, Braydon, Wiltshire in 2002 under the Court of Protection where she died a spinster on 17 October 2012. Jackie was cremated at Kingsdown Crematorium in Swindon on 9 November 2012. She was 76 years old and her ashes were scattered within the Trees of Remembrance area on 13 November of that year.