Lookup - TILLERY / TILLARY

[Barrie Green]

Hi, Interesting to read about your family connection to Tillery. I have done no more research on Tillery since '09 as I had all the information I needed plus the photo. (I do hope I sent the photo to Peter M Smith !!). Don't worry about not being 'landed gentry!!'. Good heavens, most our ancestors from Scotland who were those first settlers in New Zealand in the early and mid 1800's went out to get a job to survive! Our ancestors made the most of it, survived earthquakes for the first time (my ggf used it as a time line - things that happened before the big earthquake (?1880's) and things that happened after the big earthquake) etc. They had to build their own houses, find/grow their own food etc. To survive was in their blood. Good luck with your research. Faith Green