The Tillery surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,156 people carried this name — #4,355 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 36,200 people counted. That is up 6% from 7,666 in 2000.

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In print

Tillery in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1940s.

32 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Tillery. The most, 7, date from the 1930s.

Articles, by state

Victoria 13
New South Wales 12
Tasmania 3
South Australia 2
Queensland 1
Western Australia 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Tillery.

Who carried it

People named Tillery,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Gary Tillery 1754– · biographer
  • Maria Catherine Furse 1837–
  • Bill W. Tillery 1938–2016 · physicist
  • Gary Tillery 1953–2020

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Tillery,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States362 records

362 records of the Tillery name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 247
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 96
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 12
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 2
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 1
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Jerry Thomas Tillery

    Born 1946; from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. U.S. Marine Corps, motor vehicle operator; killed in action 1968 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. Buried at Beverly National Cemetery, New Jersey.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Norman Tillery

    Born 1914 in North Carolina. Enlisted 1943 at New York City; laundry worker. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1989, buried at Calverton National Cemetery, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Mary Tillery

    Arrived at New York in 1867 aboard the Britannia from Glasgow, aged 24. From Scotland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 362 records for Tillery in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Germany2 records

2 records of the Tillery name in Germany Germany's First World War casualty lists, 1914–1919
  1. A page of the German First World War casualty lists, 18 April 1918
    Example: German casualty list, 1918
    Casualty list Willy Tillery

    From St. Maynus, Blumenthal. Reported wounded in the Prussian casualty list of 17 August 1916 (Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 20).

    Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (2026). Deutsche Verlustlisten des Ersten Weltkriegs – Datensammlung (Version 1.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18330751 (CC0)
  2. A page of the German First World War casualty lists, 18 April 1918
    Example: German casualty list, 1918
    Casualty list Hermann Tillery

    From Lesum, Blumenthal. Reported wounded in the Prussian casualty list of 6 September 1919.

    Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (2026). Deutsche Verlustlisten des Ersten Weltkriegs – Datensammlung (Version 1.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18330751 (CC0)

Counts: Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (2026). Deutsche Verlustlisten des Ersten Weltkriegs – Datensammlung (Version 1.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18330751 (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Deutsche Verlustlisten, Prussian list 1116, 18 April 1918 (scan via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0).

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