TILLEY
with roots in Somerset, England
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Thomas Tilley
Thomas Tilley was christened on 7 January 1810, the fourth of ten children of Jane [Webber] and William Tilley (1775-1869).
He married the first of his four wives, Sarah Duckett, at the parish church of Mark, Somerset, on 10 June 1845. Sarah was the daughter of farmers Sarah [Fear] and William Duckett from Mark in Somerset.
They had two children — their son Thomas was born in 1849 while their daughter, Sarah, who was born in 1847, only lived for six days, and was buried at St Andrew's Church, Compton Bishop.
Sarah died aged 38 on 2 December 1858 in Cross and is buried at St Andrew's Church, Compton Bishop. Thomas married Sarah Parker on 30 January 1861 and she is the Sarah on the 1861 census — she died in the same year on 25 September. He then married Ann Wride (born 1825) at Puxton on 19 February 1862. She died aged 48 on 11 May 1873 and is buried in Weston Cemetery.
Thomas married a fourth time by licence at St John's Church, Weston-super-Mare, on 28 October 1876 to Amelia Hulbert (born 1830). She was a spinster, the daughter of Charles Hulbert, a labourer. Her brother Thomas was a clergyman of the Church of England.
Thomas, who died at the age of 84 on 3 December 1893 at his home Addington House, is buried with his second wife, Sarah, at Milton Road Cemetery, Weston-super-Mare.
Amelia died aged 63, four days after Thomas, on 7 December 1893 and their deaths were registered at the same time.
Thomas Tilley married the first of his four wives, Sarah Duckett, at the parish church of Mark on 10 June 1845.
St Saviour's Church in Puxton
where Thomas Tilley married
Ann Wride on 19 February 1862.
Thomas Tilley and Amelia Hulbert were
married at St John's Church, Weston-super-Mare, on 28 October 1876.
Thomas Tilley's second wife, Sarah, left her money to her husband and brother when she died in 1861.
Addington House where Thomas Tilley lived in Weston-super-Mare.
The register book shows Thomas Tilley was Christened on 7 January 1810,
but there are no details of his birth date.
Thomas and Sarah were married on 10 June 1845.
Licence for Thomas Tilley and Sarah Duckett.
In the census of 1841 Thomas Tilley was living with his parents, William and Jane, as well as his brothers, John and Charles.
The census of 1851 shows Thomas Tilley was a farmer of 128 acres in
Compton Bishop with two female dairy servants and two farm servants.
His son, Thomas, was two, at the time.
On 30 January 1861, Thomas married Sarah Parker, a spinster from Churchill.
50-year-old Thomas was farming 140 acres according to the 1861 census. He's married to his second wife, Sarah Parker, and he had three labourers and one boy.
Thomas married for a third time to Ann Wride at Puxton on 19 February 1862. She died on 11 May 1873 aged 48 and was buried at Weston Cemetery.
The census of 1871 reveals Thomas living in Weston-super-Mare as a retired farmer with his third wife Ann.
His fourth marriage was to Amelia Hulbert on 28 October 1876 at St John's Church, Weston super-Mare by licence.
In the 1881 census, Thomas was a retired farmer living at Addington House,
Weston-super-Mare, with his fourth wife Amelia. Her brother Thomas, who was a visitor to their home, was a clergyman and is also shown.
Thomas and Amelia are still living at Addington House in
Weston-super-Mare in the 1891 census with a cook and a housemaid.
The death certificate of Thomas Tilley shows that he died of influenza and pneumonia on 3 December 1893.
The probate of Thomas Tilley.
In his will, Thomas Tilley left a hundred pounds to the parish church of St John's at Weston-super-Mare. This money was to be distributed yearly at Christmas to provide bread and meat to the poor of the parish as reported in The Western Daily Press of 24 December 1904.