William Tilke

  General Notes:

Death entered as Tilk in CRI, Tilke in Wiltshire Memorial Inscription Index.
Entry as Tilk in Kelly's WILTSHIRE directory - 1867 (copy on file)
Entry as Tilk in Post Office Directory of Hants, Wilts & Dorset - 1875 (copy on file)

  Noted events in his life were:

• Resided: Aged 15 - Coleford, 1841 census, Kilmersdon, Frome, Somerset England.

• Resided: Aged 25 - Son - Occupied on the Farm - Coleford Hamlet -, 1851 census, Coleford, Frome, Somerset England. Entered as Tilk on Ancestry 1851 census 26/10/05

• Occupation: Farmer, 1859, Kilmersdon, Frome, Somerset England. Source = Bristol Post Office Directory & Gazetteer - 1859 (copy on file)

• Resided: Aged 35 - Head - Farmer - Pitcott Farm -, 1861 census, Stratton On The Fosse or Shepton Mallet, Somerset England. Farm = 160 Acres, employing 2 men & 1 boy

• Resided, 1867, Bradford On Avon, Little Chalfield, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1867 (copy on file)

• Resided: Aged 45 - Head - Farmer - New House Farm -, 1871 census, Bradford On Avon, Little Chalfield, Wiltshire England. Farmer of 235 acres employing 4 men & 2 boys
Entered as Silke in Ancestry 1871 census

• Resided: Hobbs Farm -, 1875, Bradford On Avon, Little Chalfield, Wiltshire England. Source = Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire & Dorsetshire - 1875
(Copy on file)

William married Zipporah Anne Parsons, daughter of Frederick Parsons and Unknown, on 25 Mar 1852 in Bath, Somerset England. (Zipporah Anne Parsons was born about 1825 in Kilmersdon, Frome, Somerset England and died 1906 (2Q) in Lewisham, London, Kent England.)

  Marriage Notes:

St Michael with Paul (Broad Street) Ref. C7/1/488
Source = BathBMD