POSSIBLE FATHER
William Tilden was born about 1475 and probably the son of the Andrew Tilden
In "Roger Tylden of Maidstone's will (1502/1509), he names two other Tyldens:
- Andrew Tylden was a witness
- One of the beneficiaries: "To William Tylden my broder son a gowne cloth of violet of foure yerds."
The LDS family tree says he married Margaret Tuttesham
HOUSE IN MAIDSTONE
- 1496 real estate purchase CP 25/1/117A/346, number 204. Link: Image of document at AALT
- County: Kent.Place:Westminster.
- Date: Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 11 Henry VII [12 June 1496].
- Parties: William Tylden', querent (buyer), and Peter Chapell' the elder and Julian, his wife, deforciants (owners).Property:1 messuage and 1 garden in Maydeston'.
- Action: Plea of covenant.
- Agreement: Peter and Julian have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of William, as those which he has of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Julian to him and his heirs for ever.
- Warranty: Warranty.
- For this:William has given them 30 pounds sterling.Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)Persons:William Tilden, Peter Chappell, Julian Chappell; Places: Maidstone
LAND PURCAHSE IN ROCHESTER
- William Tylden "of Maidstone" was soon purchasing additional properties in Rochester:
- cited in a real estate transaction 15 March 1510 (p 318) - This indenture made the xv day of March the first yere of the renge of King Henry VHP , wittnesseth that where Thorn" Toby by his dede bering date of this indenture hath enfeoffed Mast Eo Hedester, Clerke, John Hardell, Thomas Moteyde, Thomas (P)lan.- kett, John Plomm, and Willm Tylden of . . . . tents, being in the Citie of Eochestyr, oon of theym called the White hert lying on the h'oppe, A lyttell tent next to same adjoyning, and a tent called the Greyhounde. To haue and to holde to the saide Mast Eo and his cofeoffes and to there heyrs in fee forev'.
- cited in a real estate transaction (p 31) 7 July 1512 - John Plomer of Maydeston, Thomas Planket of the same place, William Tylden of the same place, John Hardell of ffrende sbury Thomas Motterel, . . . . Inn called the Whyte hert, existing within the City of Bochester aforesaid Robert Croft . . . . Thomas Toby of Maydeston 3 year of the reign of Hen. VIII., after the Conquest of England.
- Future Rochester entries - Richard Tilden (assessed 1s) was one of the three men living with William Ffoster and his wife (assessed 3s 6d) , Eastgate Burrough, Rochester, when the September 1660 poll tax was assessed in Rochester.
WITNESSED THOMAS BLANKETTS WILL (1513):
THOMAS BLANKETT of Maidestone [Maidstone], 16 May 1513. (proved Proved 9 July 1513)
Witness: Sr. Thomas Hanson his gostly father, John Pierson, John Lee, John Cooke and Thomas Tobye.Last will: of my lands &e in Maidstone or elsewhere in Kent in the whiche Robert Fissher, Wm. Tilden, Richard Snepe, Richard Hely, William Wreke and Thomas Wreke are infeoffed. They shall suffre myn executors to have and ocupie all the landes and tenements in the parish of Maidstone with a fery called Redy Fery with all the landes &e whiche Walter Chamberleyn and William Grigge lately occupied in the Ile of Shapie during lyff of Johane my wyff to the performaunce of my will."
CHILDREN:
- William Tilden born about 1510.
- Richard Tilden
- Anne Tylden
- Katherine Tylden
- Thomas Tylden
- Katherine Tylden
- Henrie Tylden