When Rebecca Tilden was born in 1746, in Coventry, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joshua Tilden, was 31 and her mother, Rachel Chamberlain, was 18. She married Lemuel Hawley in 1765, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters.
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English (Sussex): habitational name from Tilden in Benenden, Great and Little Tilden in Marden, or Tilden in Headcorn (all Kent). The placenames may derive from Old English telga ‘shoot, twig’ + denn ‘pasture’ or denu ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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