Media: hardcover, 272 pages, 
Author: N. Roberts
Year: 1994

316 illustrations, 5100 family tree names

OVERVIEW

The direct line of Tilly ancestry goes back to William Tilly, bom 1690 at Ringwood, Hampshire, a Southern County of England.

Our focal point of interest centres on two of his great grandsons, referred to as Reverend Thomas b.1780 at Ringwood, and his brother George Senior b.1785. These were the parents of the Australian migrants.

Reverend Thomas’ youngest son Henry Lindsey b.1828 and family migrated to SA in 1874 but moved to WA later. His granddaughter Harriette Blake, daughter of Sarah Veale Tilly, migrated to SA in 1863 with her father and stepmother.

George Senior saw his eldest son George Jnr b.1809, with wife and family, his youngest son Edward b. 1824, daughter Ann b. 1816, with husband John Ellis and six children, leave for South Australia in 1849 arriving on 11 January 1850 on the barque “Douglas”. His youngest daughter Elizabeth b.1828, with husband Captain Sweet and five children sailed for Queensland in 1863. In 1880, George Senior’s eldest daughter Mary b.1810, migrated at the age of 70 to join her daughter Fanny Cox in Queensland. Fanny and her husband Henry had arrived with the Sweet family in 1863.

The history follows the lives of the Australian migrants which begins with the members of George Tilly Snr’s family, who were the earliest Tilly arrivals in South Australia in 1850.