Tilbury Family History
- Tilbury Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Tilbury, a port on the Thames in Essex, which is named from the Old English byname Tila (from til ‘capable’) + Old English burh ‘fortress’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 139,470 Historical Documents with Tilbury on Ancestry
- 40,356 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 44,574 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,734 Military Records
- 3,048 Immigration Records
- 48,758 Member Trees
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Number of Tilbury families
 147 - 292  50 - 146 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tilbury families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tilbury census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Tilbury census records
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