Theodore William Zebedee Parsons Tilke

  General Notes:

Marriage entered in CRI as Tilks
Death & Buried source = Wiltshire Memorial Inscription Index

  Noted events in his life were:

• Resided: Aged 7 - Son - Scholar - Pitcott Farm -, 1861 census, Stratton On The Fosse or Shepton Mallet, Somerset England.

• Resided: Aged 17 - Son - ? - New House Fam -, 1871 census, Bradford On Avon, Little Chalfield, Wiltshire England. Entered as Silke in Ancestry 1871 census

• Resided: Aged 27 - Head - Farmer - Hunts Hall Farm -, 1881 census, Bradford On Avon, Holt, Wiltshire England. Hunts Hall Farm = 31 acres, employing 1 labourer.

• Occupation: Mechanical Engineer & Iron Founder, 1889, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1889 (copy on file)

Also member of Local Board (Lowbourne)

• Resided: Aged 37 - Head - Ag. Engineer - Spa -, 1891 census, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Entered as Silke in Ancestry 1891 census

• Occupation: Tilke & Smith Iron Foundry, High Street & Bath Road, 1895, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1895 (copy on file)

1st to put steam roller on road
1st to build mobile crane

• Resided: Claremont Villa, Market Place, 1895, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1895 (copy on file)

• Occupation: Tilke & Smith - see notes below, 1898, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1898 (copy on file)

Tilke & Smith, engineers, iron founders, hot water fitters, cycle agents, manufacturers of hand-travelling & other machinery, Winding drums & every description of quarry machinery, High Street & Bath Road.

• Resided: Claremont Villa, Market Place, 1898, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1898 (copy on file)

• Occupation: Tilke & Smith made a Ltd Company, 1899, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = National Archives entry - see 224 notes

• Resided: Aged 48 - Head - Mechanical Engineer (employer) - Avon House, Bath Road -, 1901 census, Melksham, Wiltshire England.

• Occupation: Tilke & Smith - see notes below, 1903, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1903 (copy on file)

Tilke & Smith, mechanical, electrical & motor engineers, iron founders, hot water fitters, cycle agents & repaires, manufacturers of hand-travelling & other cranes, Winding drums & every description of quarry machinery, High Street & Bath Road.

Also Tilke & Smith, blacksmiths at Hullavington
Also Tilke & Smith, smiths & agricultural implement makers at Biddestone

• Resided: Claremont Villa, Market Place, 1903, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1903 (copy on file)

• Resided: Cottingham Villa, Place Road, 1907, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1907 (copy on file)

• Occupation: Mechanical Engineer, High Street, 1915, Melksham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1915 (copy on file)

• Resided: Audlee, Audley Road, 1915, Chippenham, Wiltshire England. Source = Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire - 1915 (copy on file)

Theodore married Jessie (Florrie) Page 1880 (1Q) in Bradford On Avon, Little Chalfield, Wiltshire England. (Jessie (Florrie) Page was born about 1861 in Birmingham, Warwickshire England, died 1947 (4Q) in Trowbridge, Wiltshire England and was buried on 6 Dec 1947 in Melksham, Wiltshire England.)