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This is a transcript of their headstone in Thopre Langton churchyard:
In Affectionate Remembrance of WILLIAM TILLEY Of Thorpe Langton
Who died April 17th 1889 Aged 82 years
Also of MARY His beloved wife Who died February 6th 1888 Aged 96 years
The Lord gave and the Lord hath Taken away. Holy be the name Of the Lord.
(The 1851 census has Mary born in Thorpe Langton)
Alan
Leicester / Northampton: Craxford, Claypole, Pridmore, Pollard, Tansley, Crane, Tilley
Derby: Naylor, Ball, Haywood
Buckinghamshire: Cook
London: Craxford, Lane Crauford
Tyneside: Nessworthy, Simpson
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"I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent.
You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule." - WS Gilbert (The Mikado)