When Arthur William Tilley was born on 27 November 1883, in Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Charles Tilley, was 24 and his mother, Abigail Lee, was 20. He married Frances Ella Moorhouse on 25 December 1909, in Leicestershire, England. He lived in Glen Parva, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He died on 28 April 1974, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 90.
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The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
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English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Tilly-sur-Seulles (Calvados) or Tilly (Eure), France.
English: habitational name from Tyley in Wotton under Edge (Gloucestershire), Tiley in Minterne Magna (Dorset), or Tilley (Shropshire). The Gloucestershire and Dorset placenames derive from Old English tigel ‘tile’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. The Shropshire placename derives from an uncertain first element + Old English lēah.
English: occupational name from Middle English tilie ‘one who tills the land, a husbandman’. Compare Tiller .
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