Edward Tilley

Bef 1588 - 1621  (> 32 years)

• Name	Edward Tilley
  Birth	Bef 27 May 1588  [1]
  Baptism	27 May 1588	Henlow, Bedfordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1621	Plymouth Colony   [1]
  Person ID	I43454	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Robert Tilley,   b. Abt 1540, Henlow, Bedfordshire, England d. Bef 21 Feb 1613 (Age < 73 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth   d. Bef 27 Mar 1614
  Marriage	Abt 1570  [2, 3]
  Family ID	F5299	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes Cooper,   b. Bef 7 Nov 1585   d. 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony (Age > 35 years)
  Marriage	20 Jun 1614	Henlow, Bedfordshire, England   [1]
  Family ID	F24981	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He and his wife Agnes arrived on the Mayflower with two children that William Bradford called their "cousins", Henry Sampson and Humility Cooper. (In fact, in modern terms, they were Agnes's nephew and neice.) Edward and Agnes died in the first winter, leaving no children. Humility was sent back to England where she died some time later, but Henry Sampson stayed in Plymouth and had children.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S762] Robert Leigh Ward, "English Ancestry of Seven Mayflower Passengers: Tilley, Sampson and Cooper." The American Genealogist 52:198, 1976. [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982.