DISCUSSION OF PARENTAGE
Two families have been put forward as home to the Richard Tylden who lived in Rainham.
I chose the second because William Tylden of Boxley held lands in his own parish and was influential in Bicknor, Stockbury and Bredgar - areas where the Rainham family later extended its' reach.
LANDS & OFFICES
In 1664, Richard Tilden was living in a manor house with 5 chimneys in Mere Bourough, Rainham. (Duncan Harrington, KENT HEART TAX ASSESSMENT LADY DAY 1664, p 274) My cousin John Cox said this is on the eastern outskirts of Rainham, on a road leading to Hartlip.
On 1 June 1671 Richard Tilden of Rainham, yeoman, bought Ansells garden on the east side of Boxley street, Boxley, for £30.
Richard Tilden, constable of the Western division of the Hundred of Milton, petitioned in Kent's Quarter Sessions in 1664, concerning officers in his hundred, and especially that Thomas Ellis be chosen for the borough of 'Lucyes.' (Kent City Council Q/SB/9/32)
From Jan 1 1666, Quarter Sessions: That inhabitants of Milton be assessed for £4 reimbursement of Richard Tilden and William White, constables. (also further 10s.) (Kent CC Q/SB/10/61)
Would have been in Rainham when Admiral De Ruyter led 60 Dutch ships of the line up the Medway in June 1667. They sank five English war ships, captured two more, and overran the English defences at Sheerness and Gillingham before leaving.
SECOND MARRIAGE
Tilden, Richard, of Rainham. widr., and Ellen Greenstreete of Bredgar, w. of- Simon Greenstreete. At Bredgar or Stockbury. May 25. 1668. - Canterbury Marriage Licenses, Vol 3
RAINHAM'S REGSITER
My cousin Deena McEwen transcribed parish entries of the following families from Rainham's parish register (BTs?) Richard is the only Tilden listed as a homeowner in Rainham's 1664 hearth tax.
Children: