TILLEY
with roots in Somerset, England
family
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A LIVING HISTORY
The aim of this website is to organise, preserve and share our family history, as well as to be a direct link to missing information about our family roots in Somerset, England.
One of the main reasons this website exists is to document for our living relatives and other readers the stories, photos and events of our ancestors' lives.
It can be used as a tool to "cousin hunt" – that is to find new relatives who can help fill out our family tree, add new ancestor stories and to assist in identifying those old photos with all the unknown people in them.
Please enjoy this website and revisit, and more importantly contribute when you have the opportunity as it will evolve over the years with, hopefully, input from far and wide, whether from the Tilley side of the family, or the Anyan, Watchorn, Look, Boley etc.
Think you're related? Or do you have any interesting photos / information to share? Please CONTACT
FAMILY
TREE
Click on the Poppy to read our tribute to Jack (below) who served during World War I and was killed at Arras in 1918.
Also Captain Philip Lewis Tilley who died in Burma, as well as Michael William Tilley in Liège, Belgium
The family coat of arms is an Argent, a wyvern with wings endorsed sable. The wyvern was considered the guardian and spirit of all knowledge. The crest has the head of a battle axe endorsed from the wreath. Our motto is NIL TEMERE, which means Nothing Rashly. The crest was reputedly awarded to the Tilley family who followed William to England in the Norman Conquest.
Family tree research is nothing new as this letter to Charles Tilley from 1882 shows. The writer is R. Hammett Tilley, an American, who published Genealogy of the Tilley Family in 1872.
THE AMERICAN
CONNECTION