Hopestill Tilden

Sources Added 4 Aug 2023 (Ken Shelley)

Name: Hopestill Tilden
Birth Date: 1588
Baptism Age: 0 — Baptism Date: 1 May 1588
Baptism Place: Tenterden, Kent
Relation: Son — Father: Thos Tilden
Ancestry.com: Kent, England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers, 1538-1874

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Name: Hopestill Tylden — Sex: Male
Spouse's Name: Carthored Graunte — Spouse's Sex: Female
Event Type: Marriage — Event Place: Sandwich, St Mary the Virgin, Kent
Event Date: 3 Aug 1613
Source: "England, Kent, Canterbury Parish Registers, 1538-1986," database with images, FamilySearch, (12 March 2020), Hopestill Tylden, 3 Aug 1613; from "Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry Parish Registers Browse, 1538-1913," database and images, citing http://www.findmypast.com : n.d; page 79, Citing Canterbury Cathedral Archives, England.
Same information (data only) with incomplete digitized name at FamilySearch without image.

Name: Jhon Tylden — Sex: Male — Event Type: Christening
Father's Name: Hopestill Tylden — Father's Sex: Male
Event Date: 30 Mar 1615 — Event Place (Original): St. Peter, Sandwich, Kent, England
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (4 February 2023).

Find A Grave Index
BIRTH: Apr 1588 – Tenterden, Ashford Borough, Kent, England
DEATH: 19 Nov 1661 (aged 73) – Sandwich, Dover District, Kent, England
BURIAL: Tenterden Cemetery: Tenterden, Kent, England

Mentioned in his father's Will:
Ancestry.com: Kent, England, Tyler Index to Wills, 1460-1882 with original image.
Name: Thomas Tylden — Probate Date: 1617 — Relationship: Testator — Last Residence: Wye
Others Mentioned - Relationship
Thomas Tylden — Head
James Thatcher [No relation.]
Joseph Tylden — Son [mentioned twice. There's not another son by the same name.]
Alice Tylden — Wife
Thomas Tylden — Son
Nathaniel Tylden — Son
Hopestill Tylden — Son

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Google Sites: Our Kentish Genealogy

Hopestill Tilden (May 1 1588 Tenterden - Dec 19, 1661 Sandwich) married Garthered Graunte August 3, 1613 in Sandwich -
The Will of Hopestill Tilden, one of the jurats of the Town and Port of Sandwich in the county of Kent, 19 Nov 1661. I give and bequeath unto and amongst the children sons and daughters of my brother Nathaniel Tilden late of Tenterdon in the said County, gent., 100 pounds to be equally divided between them, 50 pounds within twelve months after my decease and 50 pounds in two years.
To John Hughes, nephew of Deborah my now wife, 20 pounds.
To My former servant John Iggleden 10s. to buy him a Bible.
To my cousin Samuel Tilden 20s., to his daughter Ann Tilden 10 pounds at the age of one and twenty years, and to his daughter Elizabeth 20s. at that age.
To my two grandchildren Joseph Rumsey and Thomas Rumsey, sons of my daughter Sara by Thomas Rumsey, 5s. apiece.
To wife Deborah the use and benfit of the household stuff, one of my best chambers during her life, and an annuity of 20 pounds to be paid out of the profits of my lands and tenements in Sandwich or elsewhere in the County of Kent. If she stay not with with my executors for three months after my death then she shall have 5 pounds.
To the poor people of Sandwich. All the residue of my goods, chattels, and personal estate, and my messuage, lands and tenements in Sandwich in the Isle of Thanet or elsewhere in England,
I give to my grandchildren Robert Smith and John Smith, sons of my late daughter Sarah, deceased, Robert to have three fourths and John one fourth, and I make them joint executors of this my will.
Witnesses: William Picard and John Verrier. Proved 9 February 1661-2 by Robert Smith and John Smith, the executors named in the will. (Archdeaconry of Canterbury, Vol. 71, fo.194) (English Origins of New England Families, publised by NEGHS)
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His children: [Not mentioned in will above. (Ken Shelley, 4 Aug. 2023)]
John7 Tilden (c March 30, 1615 in St. Peter's, Sandwich). [This is the only primary sourced child of Hopestill. He apparently died before his father at an unknown place and date. (Ken Shelley, 4 Aug. 2023)]
Thomas Tilden (c April 6, 1617 in St. Peter's, Sandwich [<%E2%80%94No primary source proving him as a son of Hopestill.]
Saray Tilden (c July 25, 1620) married Mr. Smyth. [<%E2%80%94No primary source proving her as a daughter of Hopestill.]

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Hope-otill / Hope-Still Tildan of St. Mary in Sandwich, Kent gent.
Marriage Date: 9 Mar 1640
Marriage Place: St Margaret Moses, Little Friday Street, London, [Middlesex], England
Debora Hughs of Hackney, co. Midd. virgo (L)
Ancestry.com: London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812.
NOTE: As mentioned, this source indicates Hopestill was a gent. from Sandwich. This fact along with his unusual given name makes this second marriage immensely rational. Despite Deborah removing from Hackney, London to Sandwich, Kent—a distance of 82.7 miles / 131.48km—is borne out by Hopestill's posted Will.

NOTE: Deborah's surname showing in the marriage source may not be her maiden name. Finding sources proving parentage and whether she may've been was a widow to a Mr. Hughs is needed.

Name: Hopestill Tilden
Gender: Male
Birth Place: En
Birth Year: 1588
Spouse Name: Deborah Hughes
Ancestry.com: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
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Source: en.Wikipedia:—
"The church of St Margaret Moses was a parish church which stood on the east side of Friday Street in the Bread Street ward of the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666 and not rebuilt; instead the parish was united with that of St Mildred Bread Street.
"The church's name is thought to come from an early benefactor named Moses or Moyses. In 1105, Fitzwalter Robert Fitzwalter gave the patronage of the church to the Priory of St. Faith, which he had founded in Horsham St Faith in Norfolk. In the late 14th century, the Crown seized St Faith's on the pretext of it being an alien priory, and thus became the patron of the church. The church was repaired and improved in 1627 at the expense of the parishioners.
"In 1550, the incumbent was the Protestant martyr John Rogers.
"The church was not rebuilt following its destruction in the Great Fire of London in 1666; instead its parish was united with that of St Mildred, Bread Street. Part of the site was sold to the City for the widening of Pissing Alley, (later decorously renamed Little Friday Street), which ran between Friday Street and Bread Street, while the remainder was retained to serve as a graveyard for the parishioners."