Tilston to the Bruins of Stapleford. The Tilstons had a seat at Huxley. A chapel in Waverton church was built and appropriated to the Tilstons of Huxley in 1640. Dr. Tilston, who died in 1764, is supposed to have been the last male heir of the Cheshire Tilstons. (See Hanshalls Hist. of Cheshire.)

Thomas Tilson was a prominent diplomatist in the middle of the 18th century. He became a Baronet. (See Thomas Carlyle's His. of Frederick the Great.)

Sir W. Lushington Tilson, who took the name of Lushington Learsh, died about 1885, and the title is I think extinct. He was a clergyman.

In 1890 the township or manor of Tilston was the property of Lord John Tollemache, where his family reside at Pecforton Castle, not far from the famous Tilston Castle, the walls of which remain and can be seen southeast from the Tower on the Wall at Chester. There are about eighty tenements on the estate, the greater number are rented with land for farming.

The township or manor of Tilston, Cheshire, Eng., seems to have existed under another name in saxon times as far back as 449, and to the time it was subdued by William, the Conqueror, a Norman, who was made King, Dec. 25, 1066. Lancashire and Cheshire counties were the last to yield. Chester was the last of the cities to submit, and Hugh Lupas, William's nephew, was made Earl. The manor of Tilston, being given to a Norman Knight, named Eynion, who thus became Sir Eynion de'Tilston. From him came all the branches of the Tilston families. The position of Tilston on the borders of wild Wales proves that Sir Eynion was a capable man and the family must have been a brave clan not to have had their throats cut from the time of Eynion to that of Nicholas de'Tilston in the reign of Edward 1st, when Wales was finally subdued in 1283. County influence of families was in early times very considerable; one branch possessed the manor of Tilston Fearneal in Cheshire. The walls of Tilston Castle still exist where the head of the family resided. The decay of the family dates from the commonwealth, the time of Cromwell, 1650 to 1658, old Chester was again the last to yield. It is said that the round heads hanged the head of the family for his desperate resistence in the cause of the Stuarts. In Charles the 1st reign, who succeeded to the throne in 1649, but was compelled to leave the country until the death of Cromwell in 1658, when he returned to the throne, there was still a Nicholas de'Tilston at Tilston Castle, with diminished resources. Some of the branches of Tilson went to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire; they were prominent in the reign of Charles 1st.

Tilston in the werrell hundred of Broxton, and deanery of Malpas, lies about three miles west of Malpas, and twelve miles south of Chester. A moiety of the manor of Tilston being a parcel of the barony of Malpas, belonged about the year 1600, to the Breretons. In the