Every record behind this site

Ireland: the farm and the estate

National Library of Ireland, Longfield Map Collection

• MS 21 F. 15 (014) · “A map of lands at Clonmowley, Fordstown, Corballis, Cloncurry, Isaacstown, Cullentry, Moat, Coolderry … barony of Moyfenrath Lower and County of Meath. Scale 40 perches to an inch.” [between 1770 and 1840]. Robert Weily's farm. Catalogue record vtls000301817 (digitised; open the viewer from the record).
• MS 21 F. 15 (035) · The eastern sheet of the same estate (Rathmoylan, Kill, Cherryvalley, Castletown). Checked: no Cullentry. Catalogue record vtls000301839.

National Library of Ireland, Fowler and Rawdon of Rathmoylon Papers (collection vtls000255927)

• MS 43,577/1 · Lease of part of Cullintre by Rev. Robert Fowler, Bishop of Ossory, to William Wiely, 2 lives or 21 years, £178 1s 1d, 1 Jan 1835 (lease and counterpart). vtls000833616, vtls000833621, vtls000833687 (the three 1835 Wiely leases). Copies on order.
• Lease of part of Cullintre to John Wielly [Wiely], 2 lives, £44 3s 2d, 1 Feb 1835; and to John Wiely, 2 lives, £37, 30 Jun 1835. Same records.
• Lease of part of Cullentre to Ellen Weily, 2 lives or 15 years, £172 9s 8d, 28 Apr 1841. vtls000833743.
• MS 43,579/5 · Lease of part of Cullentry to Henry Purdon, 31 years, £73 8s 9½d, 26 Mar 1855, with probate of his will. vtls000833751.
• Lease of part of Cullentry to John Weilly [Wiely], 31 years, £105, 30 Oct 1861. vtls000833755.
• Rentals of the Rathmolyon estate, 1837–1848 (section IV) and 1849–1867; accounts 1831–1897. vtls000833978. Cullentree pages on order.
• MS Map 492 M · John Brownrigg, “A Survey of the Manor of Moylough in the Barony of Moyfenrath … the Estate of His Grace Robt. Fowler, Archbishop of Dublin, 1798”, bound volume, 34 pp. vtls000833945. Not yet seen.
• MS 43,574/4 · Lease of part of Cullindry by John Rawdon, Earl of Moira, to Joseph Charles, 21 May 1767. vtls000833390.
• MS 43,574/6 · Lease of “Cullendragh otherwise Cullentree” by the Earl of Moira to Thomas McClaughry, 2 Nov 1771, 2 membranes including a map. vtls000833392. (Catalogued as Cullendragh near Oldcastle; the estate map shows it is Cullentry, Rathmolyon.)
• Whole collection: Fowler and Rawdon of Rathmoylon Papers, 1710–1897. Finding-aid extract and call numbers: research files.

Tithe Applotment Books

• Parish of Rathmoylan, Co. Meath, 1825: Michl Weily, Wm Weily Senior (×2), Willm Weily Junior at Heghlane; Robt Weily at Castletown; Robt Wiely at Rathmolyon. Found in the online index by Chris, 5 Sep 2026. Images: FamilySearch, Ireland Tithe Applotment Books 1814–1855 (free login), or Ancestry collection 1270. The National Archives of Ireland's own tithe site has been offline since August 2026.

Griffith's Primary Valuation of Tenements

• County Meath, printed 1854: Wiley occupiers in Rathmolyon (Cullentry, Ballin, Isaacstown) and Rathcore (Ballynaskea). askaboutireland.ie search, Rathmolyon · tabulated rows, research files.

Placenames

• Cullentry / An Chuileanntraigh, townland, Rathmolyon civil parish, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath. logainm.ie.

Ireland: the parish register

National Library of Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers: Longwood (Killine), diocese of Meath, parish 0947

• Register vtls000635226 (microfilm 04179/04), 158 images: baptisms 29 Jan 1829 – 4 Mar 1878, marriages 15 Feb 1829 – 4 Mar 1878, burials 1829 – Feb 1855. In English. Read in full 5 Sep 2026. Parish page.
• Image 51 · 13 Jan 1839, Ellen, of Wm Wiley & Bid Belagh; sponsors Pat Down & Mary Hely.
• Image 60 · 25 Mar 1842, Mary, of William Weilly & Margaret Flynn; sponsor Elizabeth Flynn.
• Image 85 · 18 Sep 1853, John, of William Doran & Anne Nugent; sponsors James Flynn & Grace Weilly.
• Image 90 · Jan–Mar 1857: no William baptised; 7 Dec 1856, Mary Anne of John Flynne & Margt Flynne.
• Images 106, 108, 110, 113 · 1871–1876, John, Mary, Elizabeth and Hugh, of Michael Wiley & Anne Daly.
• Image 133 · 22 May 1854, John Flynn & Margaret Flynn alias Weilly; witnesses James Brady & Mary Kelly.
• Image 139 · 14 Feb 1876, John Brady & Grace Wiely; witnesses Patk Larkin & Mary A Flynne.
• Verified crops with letterform controls: research files. Full reading log: verdicts/longwood_sweep_20260905.md.
• Rathcore and Rathmolyon RC parish: no registers survive before 1878 (NLI parish list; Roots Ireland index begins 1878).

Ireland: civil registration

• Marriage, 4 Jul 1881, RC Chapel of Longwood: James Byrne × Grace Brady otherwise Weily. Superintendent Registrar's District Trim, registrar's district Innfield, entry 59; certified copy 22 Oct 1881. civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie (search marriages, Trim, 1881, Byrne). Image and transcription: research files.

Online family trees (secondary, unsourced at the Wiley node)

• WikiTree Wiley-3016, “Margaret Grace (Wiley) Byrne”, source given as “Joe Newman”; and the linked Byrne of Clonard profiles (James Byrne 1823–1886; children Thomas 1865, James 1869, Mary 1874, Rose Anne & Eleanor 1882, Catherine Marie 1884–1973 Chicago, John 1886).
• Ancestry: Thomas Kenny's tree (“M Wiley Brady Byrne”, b. 1843 Cullintry, Rathmolyon, d. 30 Jan 1886 Clonard). Read by Chris, 30 Aug 2026.

America

• Marriage, 31 Jan 1878, Sts Peter and Paul, Alton, Madison Co., Illinois: Gulielmus Wiley (ex Springfield, Parochia Sti Josephi), filius Gulielmi Wiley et Margaritae Flynn, cum Alice Aspinall. Diocese of Springfield in Illinois sacramental records. Page image · transcription, research files.
• US census 1880, Illinois, Sangamon Co., Springfield 5th Ward, ED 217, 22 Jun 1880: Wiley Wm 24 roll mill hand b. Ireland; Alice 19 b. England; Wm 1. Image.
• Baptisms, Springfield: Margaret Wiley, 18 Sep 1881, St Joseph's (sponsors John Kaviney & Mary Corbett); James Wiley, 28 Oct 1883, Church of the Immaculate Conception, later the cathedral (sponsors John & Margaret Lynch); Mary Ann Wiley, 13 Dec 1885, St James, Riverton. Transcriptions: Margaret, James, Mary Ann (research files).
• Directory of the City of East St Louis, 1889–90: “Wiley Wm, puddler r m, 625 Piggott alley.” archive.org.
• Death notice, Alice Wiley (née Aspinall), 14 Apr 1899, 723 Lami Street, St Louis, aged 37. St Louis newspaper clipping; transcription, research files.
• US census 1900, Missouri, City of St Louis, Ward 9, ED 132, sheet 11B, 8 Jun 1900, lines 55–58: Wylie William, lodger, b. Jan 1855, Ireland, immigrated 1857, 43 years in US, naturalised, day laborer; sons William Jr, James, Robert. Image.
• US census 1900, Illinois, St Clair Co., East St Louis Ward 2, ED 93, sheet 3B: Alice Wiley, 5, lodger in the Lawler household.
• Death certificate, Wm Wiley, 24 Jun 1913, St Louis, Missouri State Board of Health file 5817. Image. Missouri death certificates 1910–1969 are free at the Missouri State Archives.
• Death notice, William Wiley, 24 Jun 1913, St Louis: “Springfield, Chicago and Pittsburg papers please copy.” Transcription, research files.
• Death notice, William Wiley (Jr), 14 Apr 1934, 3423 Chippewa, St Louis: husband of Margaret (née Fritz), father of Grace Hoffert, brother of Margaret Schoppe, Alice Broeg, James and Robert J. Wiley; Iron Molders' Union No. 59. Same transcription file.
• Find a Grave: William Wiley (1913), Alice Wiley (1899), George H Wiley (1895), Sts Peter and Paul Cemetery, St Louis.
• Death certificate, Robert John Wiley Sr, 22 Feb 1964, St Louis; obituaries of Robert John Wiley Jr (1968, Charlotte NC) and William J. Wiley (1997, St Louis). Research files.
• Springfield Iron Company rolling mill: workers' group photograph “Rolling Mills about 1885” and a bird's-eye lithograph detail of the works. Family copies; original source not identified.

DNA

• Ancestry DNA match lists for Dad, Chris and relatives, exported August–September 2026; shared-match (“in common with”) matrices. Testers named by public display name only. Analyses: verdicts/meath_wiley_byrne_20260830.md, verdicts/segment_and_meath_review_20260905.md, verdicts/pedigree_upstream_of_dad_20260830.md (research files).
• Y-DNA: Chris, R-U152 > FT189406 > FTA44479 (YFull, from whole-genome sequencing).

Analysis files (the research repository)

• The estate map, read label by label
• The Longwood register, Griffith's, the landlord's papers
• The Meath case weighed link by link
• How the DNA led to Meath
• The National Library order
• RESEARCH.md, the case file

Historical background

The works used for the blue “Historical background” panels on the Farm, Ireland Then and Crossing pages. They are about the times and places, not about our family.

Meath: the place, the estate, the church

• Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London, 1837): entries for Rathmolion, Longwood, Killyon, Rath-Core, Enfield, Trim, Meath (Diocese of). Transcribed at libraryireland.com and GENUKI.
• The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland (A. Fullarton & Co., 1846), vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3: Clonard, Longwood, Moyfenragh (Lower), Rathmolyon, Trim.
• Noel French, Meath History Hub: “Rathmolyon”; “Longwood”; “Killyon, Longwood”; “Houses R–Z” (Rahinston); “The Great Famine”; “Royal Canal in Meath”; “Landowners 1876”.
• Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie), Cullentry / An Chuileanntraigh; Townlands.ie, Rathmolyon civil parish.
• Dictionary of Irish Biography (Royal Irish Academy), “Fowler, Robert” (Archbishop of Dublin, 1725–1801); Robert Fowler, Bishop of Ossory; John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira; Francis Rawdon-Hastings.
• National Inventory of Architectural Heritage: Church of the Assumption, Longwood (1841); St Michael and All Angels, Rathmolyon (1797, spire 1857).
• Catholic Encyclopedia (1911), “Meath”; Shane Wilson, Catholic and civil parish links, Meath.
• Peter Connell, The Land and People of County Meath, 1750–1850 (Four Courts Press, 2004); summarised by the Navan & District Historical Society, “Fat Cattle and Mud Cabins in Pre-Famine Meath”.

Land, tithes, religion, famine, emigration

• Ulster Historical Foundation, Background to the Statutes of the Irish Parliament: “Land” and “Religion”.
• Helen Moss, “Lease of lives”, Irish Family History Centre; Irish measure; Papists Act 1778; Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829.
• W. A. Maguire, “Rural Life: 1690 to 1845”; David Fitzpatrick, “Rural Life: 1850 to 1921”; Ciarán Ó Murchadha, “Famine Clearances”, all in Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (2004).
• Poor Inquiry (Ireland), 1836, “On Labourers & Cottiers” (transcription); Ciarán Reilly, “Hidden Ireland: the world of the cottier”, RTÉ History (2020); John Keating, “Snapshot of a parish before the Famine”, History Ireland (2021).
• National Archives of Ireland, Tithe Applotment Books 1823–37; GenGuide; Tithe War; Griffith's Valuation.
• Peter Higginbotham, The Workhouse: Trim; Great Famine (Ireland).
• National Museum of Ireland, “Irish Emigration to America: The Journey”; Mayo County Library, “Crossing the Atlantic”; Illustrated London News, 6 July 1850, “Emigration from Liverpool”; Timothy J. Hatton, “Time on the Crossing: Emigrant Voyages across the Atlantic, 1853 to 1913”, IZA DP 16274 (2023); Waterways Ireland, “The Royal Canal”.
• Robert E. Matheson, Special Report on Surnames in Ireland (1909); Forebears, “Wylie”.

America

• National Park Service, Castle Clinton National Monument; New-York Historical Society, “Castle Garden”; GG Archives, Castle Garden depot history (INS Reporter, 1976); Dickinson College House Divided, “Panic of 1857”; Cormac Ó Gráda, “The New York Irish in the 1850s”, New York Irish History 19 (2005).
• Madison County ILGenWeb, “Early Railroad History in Madison County” (from Norton, 1912); Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Chicago, Alton, and St. Louis Railroad.
• SangamonLink, Sangamon County Historical Society: “Population changes, 1830–2020”; “The Irish in early Springfield”; “Church of the Immaculate Conception”; “Springfield Iron Co. (the Rolling Mills)”; “Working at the rolling mill, 1890s”; “Ridgely village”; “Riverton”.
• St Joseph Parish, Springfield, “History of St. Joseph Church”; Ss. Peter and Paul, Alton, “History”; Catholic Encyclopedia (1907), “Alton”; Madison Historical (SIUE), “Alton”.
• James J. Davis, The Iron Puddler (1922), excerpt; CultureNL Museums, “Puddlers, Shinglers & Rollers”.
• SIUE Institute for Urban Research, Illinoistown project: East St Louis timeline, industrialisation; Illinois State Museum RiverWeb, “Piggott's Ferry”.
• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Soulard; City of St Louis, Soulard overview; HMdb, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish marker; Archdiocese of St Louis, Ss. Peter and Paul Cemetery; Washington University School of Medicine, history and Barnes Hospital.
• St James Encyclopedia of Labor History, “National Union of Iron Molders”; Bruce Cohen, “A Generation of Hope, Pain, and Heartbreak” (2017); SABR, Bob Broeg.