• A 1620 Mayflower passenger, John Tilley arrived at Plymouth with his wife Joan (Hurst), his daughter Elizabeth Tilley, and his brother Edward Tilley. A most valuable discovery by Robert Leigh Ward, English Ancestry of Seven Mayflower Passengers, The American Genealogist, 52:198, gives the Tilley origins in Henlow, Bedfordshire, and shows that John and Edward were the sons of Robert and Elizabeth (______) Tilley. John and his wife left children in Bedfordshire who could conceivably have left descendants, though none living today is yet known. This article, plus Ward's subsequent articles, Henry Sampson's Paternal Grandfather, TAG 56:141; Further Traces of John Tilley of the Mayflower, TAG 60:171; and The Baronial Ancestry of Henry Sampson, Humility Cooper, and Ann (Cooper) Tilley, The Genealogist, 6:166, show much interrelationship among the Tilleys, Coopers, Sampsons, and Hursts. There were Hursts, also, living in Leiden, and Bang's Pilgrims, p. 16, shows that a John Masterson, a Separatist who remained at Leiden, also came from Henlow, Bedfordshire.20

• John Tillie, and his wife; and Eelizabeth their doughter881

• The Gorhams were descended from four of the pilgrims on the Mayflower, namely: John Tilley and his wife, Bridget Van De Velde [sic].4918

• John Tilley is not the Jan Tellij who married Prijntgen van der Velde in Holland. John Tilley married Joan (Hurst) Rogers in Henlow, Bedford, England, and it was Joan that came on the Mayflower with him. Jan Tellij was a Dutchman with no connection to the Pilgrims. [TG 6:166-186; MD 10:66-67]2592