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From: Ian Westergaard <>
Subject: Re: [nz] Name of Tilly
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:56:34 +1300
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There was also the Tilley kerosene lantern

Ian Westergaard
New Zealand


On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:29:13 +1300, "Jim" <> wrote:
> Rhoda
>
> I see you have got "Matilda". I was thinking last night when we had
> visitors - just my sister :-) - and remembered the following which shows
> that Tilly goes back a long way - not that I expect that this is who your
> Tilly is named after. I have been looking up the meaning of the Surname
> TILLEY which comes in my wife's family and found this as one of the
> possiblev derivations of the surname TILLY,TILLEY
>
> "The final source is as a metronymic, from the medieval female personal
> name
> Tilley or Tilie, diminutives of "Till", from the famous personal name
> Matilda, the wife of William, the Conqueror."
>
> Just another bit of useless knowledge!
>
> Jim Payne
> NEW ZEALAND
>
> Our personal web site is at: http://www.shampayne.org.nz
> Our Genealogy at: http://ourpedigrees.shampayne.org.nz/
> The 1929 Murchison Earthquake at: http://murchisonquake.shampayne.org.nz/

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