Fourteenth Generation

8892. Robert TILLEY (*) was born in April 1540 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. He died on 31 December 1612 at the age of 72 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. Elizabeth ELBOURNE (*) and Robert TILLEY (*) were married about 1565 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England.

8893. Elizabeth ELBOURNE (*) was born in 1544 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. She died on 27 March 1614 at the age of 70 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England.

Children were:

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John TILLEY Sr. (*) (~).

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Edward TILLEY was christened on 27 May 1588 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. (Edward was a 10th great-granduncle of Gary Griggs.) He emigrated in 1620 from England, United Kingdom. on the Mayflower. He was the 15th of the 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact.

While on the Mayflower, a group decuded to explore Cape Cod: "The risks of such a venture were considerable. So far, they had seen no local inhabitants, but for all they knew, huge numbers of hostile Natives might be waiting just a few miles down the Cape. 'The willingness of the persons was liked,' (Governor William) Bradford wrote, 'but the thing itself, in regard of the danger, was rather permitted than approved.' Perhaps with an eye to reining in some of his military officer's obvious impatience for action, (John) Carver provided (Captain Miles) Standish with 'cautions, directions and instructions.' Standish's party comprised sixteen men, including Bradford, Stephen Hopkins (whose experience in Virginia migtht help them if they should encounter any Indians), and Edward Tilley. Each of them was equipped with a musket, sword, and corselet, a light form of body armor that included a breastplate."

. He died about 1621 in Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died shortly after arrival in America.