Re: introduction
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Re: introduction
Cynthia Ricciardi 4/26/02
Cynthia: Glad you noticed my message. Pardon's grave-site is well worth visiting. And it is a Rhode Island Road Marker. It's a tight-traffick part of town since the streets are litle more than wagon width from the old days. I read somewhere that the Rhhode Island Historical Society has a list of most of the other Tillinghasts and a few others who are also interred in that Grave yard. Its about 40 feet frontage and some 100 feet deep going back from Benifit
street. While Pardon's Monument has a 'coat-of-arms' embelllished on it, I have never been able to verify if the Tillinghasts ever even had one. But just about all of the families who maried into the line had them. The most notable ancestor came through Pardon Sr.'s wife, Sarah Browne, whose line was traced back to King Edward I.
His 1st son by his 2nd marriage, Thomas de Brotherton, is the line Sarah descends from. The name, Tillinghast, becomes garbled and varried as you go back in time. I have forgotten the first guy's name but he came over just before William, the Conqueror did in 1066. The name sylable, Tilly,[Tilling] seems to be from some provence in France and the 'hast', as best I can determine is from a province or dominion in what used to be known as 'Saxony', in south-western Germany today. If you type in 'Powell' in the lower bottom search box you can read what I have had on the Tillinghast name and my other messages. My mother was a Tillinghast. [1903-1963]. I have a copy "of a copy" of Rose Tillinghast'a book. [But it's home in Alabama. I'm in New York at the present.] I gave a lot of info on this name to Todd Tillinghast. He's on the 'net'. Get in touch with him. Also, if you answer, I'll try to help in any way I can. Good Luck, cousin. Elton