When George M. Tillman was born in 1818, in Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Willis Tilman, was 25 and his mother, Teresa Morris, was 26. He had at least 3 sons and 6 daughters with Martha Ann McCrary. He lived in Fluvanna, Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Samuel Miller District, Albemarle, Virginia, United States in 1870. He died on 26 August 1893, in Staunton, Augusta, Virginia, United States, at the age of 75.
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English: occupational name from Middle English tilman ‘farmer, husbandman, farm laborer, plowman’.
English: occupational name from Middle English tile ‘tile’ + man ‘man’, for a tile-maker or roofer. Compare Tyler .
English: from the Middle English female personal name Till + man ‘man’, an occupational or status name meaning ‘servant of Till’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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