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Thread #101755 Message #2056905
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
20-May-07 - 06:57 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Tillbury or Tilsburie?
Subject: RE: Origins: Tillbury or Tilsburie?
It has Tilbury there too Paul. Oxford Dictionary of Place Names has Tilaburg 731, Tiliberia 1086 (Domesday Book). Derivation stronhold of a man called Tila (though Tila could be a the name of a lost stream. Tila = the useful one).
The use of Tilsburie would accord with a genitive s Tilsburie = *Tila's burie equivalent to Tila-burg. A quick search for Tilsburie seems to find it always in the context of the title given above by Chico. See for example the article on Deloney: Deloney or Deloney - Misc Ballads, Notes. In the days before orthography was so regulated perhaps that's just how he thought it should be spelled!