Family Tree

Ellen M. Rose Mother - Ruth Irwin Ruth's Mother - Anne Jane Tilson, DOB 22 December 1869 in Ballyjamesduff, Cavan, Ireland DOD 17 July 1937 Anne Jane Tilson's Mother -- Susan Hawthorne Anne Jane Tilson's Father -- Humphrey Tilson, DOB 5 July 1878 in Claudia, Cavan, Ireland Susan Hawthorn arrived in the United Stated on November 28, 1905 from Glasgow, Scotland, UK at the Age of 28. She was single. This means that she met and married Humphrey Tilson in the U.S. The following was written about the Tilson-Hawthorne Families: The Hawthorne family was originally from France. They were Huguenots who fled to Scotland and then down into North Ireland. One branch went over to Australia. Humphrey Tilson came to the U.S. Later Susan followed with the baby, Susan, and the older children. She returned to Ireland and left the two older girls with their father to be placed in school. Instead, they were put into Service as maids for the Marshall-Field Family. Susan and Humphrey were divorced and he remarried and had two daughters. When David died, these two girls appeared at the Funeral Parlor. (ME: I don't know who David is.) (ME: The following are sisters of Susan Hawthorne -- Isabelle, Anne Jane (Jennie), Alicia, Margaret and Susan.) When Jennie married, Margaret lived with her. Later Isabelle came to the U.S. and later Alicia and Susan. All lived with Jennie. Then the four single girls left Jennie and set up housekeeping. Alicia Mmarried and Susan lived with her. When Isbelle married, Margaret stayed with her, for life. Olivia (daughter of ?) recalls seeing Grandfather Humphrey Tilson once in NYC when on a visit to Aunt Alicia with Aunt Margaret. She recalls seeing a red-haired man who came to visit. In Ireland Susan Hawthorne Tilson lived with a sister on a Farm.