Family traced back 4 more generations (Richard, John, Robert, John) to John Tylden d. 1463 Crotehole, Benenden, Kent, England. As early as the middle of the fifteenth century Tylden and Skeets carried on the manufacture of woolens in Tenterden. The family are said to have come from Normandy, across the strait.
Thomas Tilden acquired lands in Sussex (possibly through his third wife, Alice.) It is notclear that he ever resided there. He was named eleventh Jurat in Queen Elizabeth's Charter for Tenterden, dated 1600. He removed to Wye where he held lands. His sonThomas lived in Wye also. The date of, and reasons for, his removal is not clear. Hisoldest son (third child) Nathaniel, our first American Ancestor, remained in Tenterden,became Jurat, then Mayor in 1622, an emigrated with his family to America, in 1634-5.(Tilden Family Our English Ancestors)
Between 1604 and 1614, Thomas Tilden moved from Tenterden and went, perhaps, to East Guilford, County Sussex, which is ot much beyond the border from Tenterden, as he possessed considerable real estate there according to his will. (Tilden Family Our English Ancestors)