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Mr. Tilbary; Mrs. Tilbary
Of London; of Hertfordshire

Mr. Tilbury
1780s Donations to the relief of fellow-citizens

Mr. Tilberry of Holborn
1796 Witness as client of a Silversmith cheated by his Shopman; London

Edward Tilbary, Scarlet-Dyer of St. Mary Stratford Bow
1740s Bankruptcy; death at Cullum-street, London

Elizabeth Tilbury of St Giles in the Fields, London
1843: mistook meadow saffron for onion shoots

George Tilbury m. Eliza Pearce in Chelsea
1842 to the 20thC, St. George Hanover Sq., Kensington

James Tilbury, Butcher's Assistant
1885, Fire in Rosoman-street, Clerkenwell

John Tilbury of Tottenham
The Margaret Riley marriage

3 John Tilbury's of the Bank of England
Gaudin, Scott, Martin and Gritton marriages

John Tilbury m. Grace
Elizabeth Tilbury m. Richard Rayley

John Tilbury, Cab-driver in Westminster
1871, unusual death

John Tilbery in Haggerstone
1878, Witness to a shooting

Jonathan Tilbary, Tilbury, Thread Dyer
Old Street, St. Luke's, Finsbury

Joseph Tilbary, Tilbury
1727, 1734, Baker of Camomile street

Joseph Tilbury, Cab-driver in London
1857, Witness at a trial

Thomas Tilbury of Garlick Hill
Was this also Thomas of Philadelphia?

Thomas Tilbury, Trinity House Pilot of London
Died 1815, widow Ann petitioned Trinity House

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From Allegations for Marriage Licences: Registry of the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury
1687, April 12: Sarah Tilbury, of St. Mary at Hill, Lond., Serv' Maid, Spr, abt. 23, at own disp.; & Joseph FINNMORE, of St. Buttolph's, Algate, Lond., Victualler, Widr, abt. 28, at St Buttolph's aforesd.

From the Daily Post London, Monday, March 16, 1724
Merchant Taylors: ... Tilbury John ...

From The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889, together with the Register of Marriages in Gray's Inn Chapel, 1695-1754 by Joseph Foster, Gray's Inn (pub. 1889)
William Tillbury of St. Mary Axe m. Mary YOUNG of same, 10 April 1729

From the Daily Journal London, Tuesday, April 9, 1734
"A LIST of the Persons Polled for Mr. JOHN BOSWORTH, at the late Election of a CHAMBERLAIN for the City of LONDON. ... Musicians [voted 2nd day, Saturday 23rd March last] Tilbury Thomas, Islington" [See 'Joseph, Baker, 1734' for conditions of enfranchisement]

Mary Tilbry m. Edwd. GODIN 30 October 1736, Fleet Prison And Rules Of The Fleet, London

From The History and Topography of the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington by Samuel Lewis, 1842
"Churchwardens ...
1741 - John BATEMAN, Edmund COOPER, Thomas Tilbury
1742 - Edmund COOPER, Thomas Tilbury, James TERRETT
1743 - Thomas Tilbury, James TERRETT, Henry READ"

From the Daily Post London, Monday, March 1, 1742
"On Saturday Margaret PEIRCE was committed to Newgate by Col. De VEIL, for picking the Pocket of Thomas Tilbury, of 15s. as he was making Water at the Corner of a Street, and running away with it."

Marriages: 31st July 1749
Daniel POTTS of St. Andrews Holborn Husbmn & Bt., & Letisha Tilbarey of Do., Sp., [L.0, 6s. 5]

From The London Chronicle Saturday, March 5, to Tuesday, March 8, 1757
"The Magistrates of Westminster have issued Orders to the Peace Officers, to use their utmost Endeavours for detecting all Bakers and others, who shall presume, contrary to Act of Parliament, to mix Allum in their Bread, to make it look whiter than ordinary, it being prejudicial to Health; and also to discover bad Weights of Bread by the Statute: It is five Shillings Penalty."

From the Public Advertiser London, Friday, March 31, 1758
"Wednesday died at Islington, Mr. Thomas Tilbury, an antient Inhabitant there, and a considerable Dealer in Butter, by which he acquired a handsome Fortune."

From the Public Advertiser London, Wednesday, January 9, 1760
"To be SOLD - An Iron Crane compleat, as good as new, with which one Person with Ease may draw up 30 or 40 Hundred Weight. Enquire of Mr. Tilbury, Baker, in St. Mary Axe.
(From The Etymological Compendium by William Pulleyn, 1830: "St. Mary Axe - This street was originally called St. Mary's Street. It took its present appellation from a sign opposite to St. Andrew Undershaft, (church) of St. Mary at the Axe, being a representation of this female saint at the scaffold.")

Stationers' Company
[apprentice:] James Tilbury; [father:] John Tilbury (d.); [address:] Old Street; [trade:] Dy[er].;
[signed:] 3 August 1762; [cost:] NK; [yrs' duration:] 7.

British Clockmakers & Watchmakers: Apprenticeship No. 25/63
CARRINGTON James mas[ter], Citizen & Clockmaker, London, Mx.;
Robert Tilbury app[rentice]; [signed] 9 Apr. 1767, [duration] 7 years; [indenture] £31 10s. 0d.; [father] Thomas butcher of Clapham

From the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser London, Monday, October 2, 1769
"Reports from the Public Office for Bow-street relative to the commitment of offenders, and commission of highway and footpad robberies, during the course of last week. Committed: ... Susannah FILDERTEN, for stealing a watch, the property of Joseph Tilbury ..."

From the General Evening Post London, Tuesday, April 3, 1770
"DIED: Mr. Tilbury, cutler, in West-Smithfield."

From The Scots Magazine, vol. 47 by James Boswell; Marriages, 1785, June 10
"At St. James's church, Clerkenwell, Mr. Tilbury, aged 60, to Mrs. STAPLE; and what is most remarkable, this makes the bridegroom's fifth wife, and the bride's third husband. This new couple are both blind, the bridegroom plays the organ and the bride the violin; they live in Honeysuckle-court, Moorfields."
From Lockie's Topography of London, 1810
"Honeysuckle-Court, Moor-Lane, Moorfields, - the first on the L. about seven or eight doors from 87, Fore-street, it leads to Grub-street."

From Publications of the Harleian Society
1790, Sep. 9 [29?] George WYLLIE of the Parish of St Martin Outwich, batchelor, and Mary Tilbury of the Parish of St Ann, Westminster, spinster; by Licence. Samuel BISHOP, Curate of St Mary Abchurch.

From the Daily News London, Saturday, April 30, 1859
From Last Night's Gazette: INSOLVENT PETITIONERS - at Portugal-street
J. Tilbury, Middlesex-street, Somers-town, bricklayer

From The Penny Illustrated Paper & Illustrated Times London, Saturday, December 7, 1872
"Seventy-five pounds damages were, on Monday, recovered by a tradesman named Tilbury, in the Court of Exchequer, from the Metropolitan Railway Company, for injuries received in a collision at South Kensington station in August last year."

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