JOSEPH TILBURY OF LONDON
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| Euston Place, 1846 |
St. Pancras - Somers Town - St. Mary Stratford Bow
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Part of an attempt to trace the lines of London Tilbury families.
Please help - any detail welcome!
1841: lvg. St. John's, Middlesex (household)
John TILBURY age 44
Anna TILBURY age 43
John TILBURY age 18
Joseph TILBURY age 15
Matilda TILBURY age 10
James COOPER age 21
Emma COOPER age 20
Susannah COOPER age 1
Charles PARKER age 25
Caroline PARKER age 25
Charles PARKER age 2
Anna TILBURY d. 1Q 1847 (Marylebone 1/188)
The 1851 Census lists four Tilburys born and living in Westminster; and one more born in Ireland and living in Westminster. To date there are no obvious parish register entries online which correspond.
1851: lvg. Westminster St. John the Evangelist, Middlesex
John TILBURY b. c.1795 Ireland (Head)
John TILBURY b. c.1823 Westmr Marylebone, Middlesex (Son)
Joseph TILBURY b. c.1827 Westmr Marylebone, Middlesex (Son)
Matilda TILBURY b. c.1830 Westmr Marylebone, Middlesex (Daughter)
Emma TILBURY b. c.1849 Westmr Marylebone, Middlesex (Daughter-in-law)
A Joseph TILBURY
m. [?Mary Ann CASTLE] 4Q 1855 (Clerkenwell 1b/677)
In 1881 Joseph's widow Mary A. Tilbury gave her place of birth as Surrey.
1861: lvg. St. Pancras, Middlesex
Joseph TILBURY age 34 b. Marylebone, Middlesex (1826/7)
Maryann[Marianne] TILBURY age 30 b. Marylebone (1830/1)
Joseph TILBURY age 4 b. Pancras, Middlesex
Matilda TILBURY age 2 b. Pancras, Middlesex
Hannah E. TILBURY age 0 b. Pancras, Middlesex
1871: lvg. London
Jos. TILBURY b. c.1826 London
Mary A. TILBURY b. c.1831
Joseph TILBURY b. c.1857 St. Pancras
Matilda TILBURY b. c.1859 St. Pancras
Hannah TILBURY b. c.1861 St. Pancras
Charles TILBURY b. c.1863 St. Pancras
Jno. TILBURY b. c.1865 St. Pancras
father: Joseph TILBURY, mother: Mary Ann
Joseph TILBURY b. 4 January 1857
Chr. 9 January 1865 Old Church, St Pancras, London
Hannah Elizabeth TILBURY b. 16 August 1860
Chr. 13 September 1860 Old Church, St Pancras, London
Charles Henry TILBURY b. 22 April 1862
Chr. 22 May 1862 Old Church, St Pancras, London
John William TILBURY b. 14 December 1864
Chr. 9 January 1865 Old Church, St Pancras, London
John William TILBURY d. 1Q 1873 age 8 (Pancras 1b/67)
In 1881 Mary Ann was a widow; there is no evident death registration for husband Joseph. It might be that he had a first given name which did not appear elsewhere, or that his death was never registered.
1881: lvg. 36 Southampton St, London, Middlesex
Mary A. TILBURY, Head (Widow) age 43 b. Surrey (Charwoman)
Joseph TILBURY, Son (U) age 23 b. Somers Town, Middlesex (Toy Warehouse Porter)
Charles TILBURY, Son (U) age 18 b. Somers Town, Middlesex (Printers Labourer)
Joseph SARJENT, Lodger (U) age 32 b. Westminster, Middlesex (Cab Driver)
Somers Town is in an area surrounded by Marylebone, Regent's Park, Camden Town, Islington, Pancras, Bloomsbury, Finsbury, Clerkenwell, Holborn, Strand, St. Giles, Soho; Haggerston, Hoxton, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green were to the east of Finsbury. These were all places of baptism for 18th and 19th century Tilburys.
The whereabouts of Matilda and Hannah are not obvious after 1871; Matilda may have been a barmaid, although the age and place of birth are not exact; Hannah may have been 'Annie':
1881: lvg. 126 Deptford Lower Rd, Rotherhithe, Surrey
Matilda TILBURY (U) age 20 b. Shoreditch, Middlesex (Servant, Barmaid)
in the family of George PUMMELL, age 36 b. Kensington (Licensed Victualler)
1881: 136 Barnsbury Rd, London, Middlesex
Annie TILLBURY, Head (U) age 19 b. Middlesex (Out Of Employment)
Both Mary and Joseph seem invisible by 1891; perhaps Mary remarried; Joseph may have died:
Joseph TILBURY d. 4Q 1889 age 32 (Islington 1b/154)
Charles TILBURY
m. Emily [?COOPER 1Q 1890 (Kensington 1a/137)?]
1901: lvg. Stratford St Mary Bow, London
Charles TILBURY age 37 b. Ldn St Pancras (Foreman Parker) (Or 'Printer'?)
Emily TILBURY age 38 b. Stratford, Essex
[Chas TILBURY age 8 b. Ldn Hackney]
[Emily TILBURY age 5 b. Ldn Hackney]
[Dorothy TILBURY age 4 b. London Homerton]
[Florence TILBURY age 1 b. Ldn Hoxton]
1881: perhaps this Emily?
Emily COOPER age 18 b. Leytonstone, Essex (Domestic Servant)
lvg. High St Belmont Villa, Leyton Low, Essex; working for:
Walter MATTHEWS, Head age 48 b. Burford, Oxford (Assistant Supt GPO)
wife Isabella & family (11 persons)
Walter MATTHEWS
m. Isabella Patterson GREEN 14 May 1856 Old Church, St Pancras, London
Sources: Parish Register transcripts, IGI, Censuses, PRO records, FreeBMD,
'The Tilbury Magazine' website, other online resources, family historians - with thanks.
November 2005
The Somers Town Miracle
"The authenticity of the following extraordinary fact can be verified. Mr. H__, a middle-aged gentleman, long afflicted by various disorders, and especially by the gout, had so far recovered from a severe attach of the latter complaint, that he was enabled to stand, yet with so little advantage, that he could not walk more than fifty yards, and it took him nearly an hour to perform that distance. While thus subdued by suffering, and safely creeping in great difficulty, on a sunny day, along a level footpath by the side of a field near Somers Town, he was alarmed by loud cries, intermingled with the screams of many voices behind him. From his infirmity, he could only turn very slowly round, and then, to his astonishent, he saw, within a yard of his coat-tail, the horns of a mad bullock.
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From "The Every-day Book - Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements" 1826, by William Hone, related for 'April 16' (pages 473-4)