What is Edward Tilley?
[[File:The Mayflower Compact 1620 cph.3g07155.jpg|thumb|''Signing the Mayflower Compact'']] '''Edward Tilley''' was a passenger on the ''[[Mayflower]]''. He was [[baptize]]d in [[Henlow]], [[Bedfordshire]], [[England]] on 27 May 1588. He was the son Robert and Elizabeth Tilley. Edward was a [[weaver]]. He married Ann (or Agnes) Cooper on 20 June 1614 in Henlow. They had no known children. The Tilleys went to [[Holland]] a few years after their marriage. In September 1620, they sailed for the [[New World]] on the ''Mayflower'' with two young relatives of Anne's, [[Henry Samson]] and [[Humility Cooper]]. As the ''Mayflower'' lay off [[Cape Cod]] in November 1620, Tilley and other passengers signed the [[Mayflower Compact]]. He and his wife died during the winter of 1620-1621. {{Mayflower articles |state=autocollapse}} [[Category:1580s births]] [[Category:1620s deaths]] [[Category:Mayflower passengers]] {{bio-stub}}