Tilly Family History
Tilly Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from
any of various places in northern France called Tilly (Tiliacum
in medieval records). Examples in Eure and Calvados are so called from
a Gallo-Roman personal name Tilius (perhaps from Latin
tilia ‘lime tree’) + the locative suffix -acum; one in
Seine-et-Oise gets its name from the personal name Attilius +
-acum.Irish: variant of Tully.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Tilly
Name Distribution of Tilly Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tilly families
 102 - 201  35 - 101 |
 1 - 34  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tilly families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tilly census records
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Tilly Family Origin
Tilly Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Tilly Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Tilly census records
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Military Service by Tilly
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