Hi Fred, Your Tilleys originally started out in BETTS COVE now long abandoned, but near Tilt Cove, Nippers Hr, Indian Burying Place/Bobbys Cove, Shoe Cove, Rogues Hr, and a few other very tiny communities in Notre Dame Bay West, often referred to as GREEN BAY. Frederick Scott Tilley was born May 14 1909 Tilt Cove and married Jan 27 1934 Sydney Mines United Church to Emmeline Day. Edward has the parents correct. Fred's mother was Jessie Elizabeth Mitchell the dau of Eli Mitchell and Eleanor Jane Mackey: she was born Dec 12 1888 Beaver Cove NDB - died July 23 1956 North Sydney NS age 67. After Fred died, she remarried to Frederick George Ludlow (b Jan 28 1884 Tilt Cove - died 1934) son of Abel Ludlow & Emeline Shave.
William Robert Tilley was born Aug 16 1884 Bobbys Cove, near Indian Burying Place NDB, the son of Henry JAMES Tilley & Susannah Giles. His father Henry JAMES was born Feb 25 1862 Snooks Arm, NDB and died March 27 1916 Sydney Mines NS, the son of John Tilley and Anne Foss. His mother Susanna GILES was born Nov 18 1861 Indian Burying Place NDB and died Feb 23 1918 Sydney Mines, the daughter of William Giles and Victoria Bowns.
Children of William Robert Tilley & Jessie Elizabeth Mitchell included: (1) Carrol John (male) born dec 20? 1907 Tilt Cove - died Dec 28 1907 Tilt Cove age given as 10 days. (2) Frederick Scott Tilley b May 14 1909 Tilt Cove (3) Florence Tilley b Feb 25 1912 Sydney Mines - died 1986, buried Brookside Cemetery who married Jesse Jackson and who resided in 1980s at Saint John NB. Jesse Jackson wrote me a letter many many years ago asking for help with the family tree after he saw an article I wrote, I think, in the Nfld Ancestor. Jessie also had other children after her marriage to F G Ludlow but from a family obituary, I am not sure which of the children were Tilleys and which were Ludlows, except that Jean was a Ludlow and so was Ralph. Jean Ludlow married William Buffett, a dau Pearl married Woodrow Nicholson, an Eve married Ted Spencer, a Ken resided at St Catherines ON, and there was a Ralph all mentioned in the obituary. Jessie and F G Ludlow also had Ross Ludlow born Sep 6 1960 Sydney Mines - died Oct 20 1930. Some of the children may have been from Ludlow previous marriage. Kenneth was born around 1928 and died Feb 13 2011 St Catherines.
Henry JAMES Tilley's parents, John Tilley and Anne Foss were married Sep 8 1857 so were likely born in the 1830s, but there are no surviving records from that time in Notre Dame Bay as the records of the Anglican Church at Twillingate were burnt twice, in the 1870s and again in the 1910s I have been told, not so sure about the second burning. We have no surviving death records for John Tilley and Anne Foss, but I firmly believe that John Tilley was the son of Thomas Tilley and wife Emma Unknown who were living at Betts Cove NDB in the 1836 Census (though her name not given, only male head of household given). I think that Anne Foss was the daughter of John Foss & Grace Unknown, from Herring Neck and Round Harbour. Also, it is likely that Emma, wife of Thomas Tilley, remarried in 1852 to Thomas Denny (modern day Dinney) and therefore she was born around 1806 and buried Dec 18 1881 Stocking Harbour, Green Bay NDB age 75 years. I don't think these Tilleys are related to any other Tilley groups in Newfoundland, more likely Thomas was from England. Other Tilleys also came to Green Bay and Tilt Cove including my own from Kelligrews, Conception Bay NL, and people sometimes get the 2 groups mixed up. You can contact me a
njillmarshall@aol.com for further information. Jill Marshall, St Johns NL.