When Howard Basil Tilton was born on 13 March 1910, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Arthur Francis Robert Layman Tilton, was 26 and his mother, Laura May Dwyer, was 27. He married Phyllis Aline Rix on 8 August 1934, in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in United States in 1949 and Spring Street Cemetery, Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. He died on 16 March 1982, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Waterside Cemetery, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
English (Berkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Tilton in Leicestershire, named with the Old English personal name Tila, Tilla + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
History: William Tilton came to Lynn, MA, in or before 1637. Many of his descendants were master mariners, living on Martha's Vineyard. James Tilton of DE (1745–1822) was a physician who became US surgeon general.
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