Tilghman Family History
Tilghman Name Meaning
Possibly an altered spelling of German Tilchmann, an
occupational name for someone who raised or tended trees, from Middle
Low German telge ‘branch’, ‘young tree’, ‘seedling’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Tilghman
Name Distribution of Tilghman Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tilghman families
 3 - 2  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tilghman census records
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Tilghman Family Origin
Tilghman Emigration Information (US)
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Tilghman Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Tilghman census records
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Military Service by Tilghman
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