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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). The lessee is William Weily (about 1788 to 1836), “William Junior” of the tithe book, whose house stayed at Cullentry. 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. She is Eleanor, William's widow, buried 17 Oct 1862. vtls000833743.
• MS 43,577/5 · 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. John Weily of Maryville, William's son. 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

• Griffith's Primary Valuation, Union of Trim, Co. Meath, printed 1854 (surveyed about 1852-53): Wiley occupiers in Rathmolyon (Cullentry, Ballin, Isaacstown) and Rathcore (Ballynaskea). Name search: askaboutireland.ie, Rathmolyon · tabulated rows, research files.
• The printed pages themselves, parish of Rathmolyon (Ballin and Cullentry) and Isaacstown, and parish of Rathcore (Ballynaskea); page images via askaboutireland.ie, stitched from the site's tiles and filed as page files 225057, 225058, 225066, 225068, 225069, 225071 and 225072 in the research files. Every row of Cullentry (33), Ballin (13), Isaacstown (80) and Ballynaskea (70) was transcribed and every money column re-added to the printed totals. Cullentry lot 3 William Wiley (house and offices) with Ballin lot 8 (a field), 41 acres; lot 4 Margaret Wiley (house, adjoining) with lot 18 and Ballin lot 10, 40 acres; lot 5 Ellen Wiley, 228 acres, £182, the leased farm; lots 7, 9, 10, 11 John Wiley; lot 24 Joseph Wiley; Ballin lot 5 John Flynn, 37 acres. page files · the acreage report (research files).
• Griffith's Valuation, Co. Meath, as indexed by RootsIreland (searched 12 Sep 2026): the same fourteen Wiley rows, plus a Margaret Wiley rated in Longwood village (Castlerickard).

Placenames

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

Ireland: the parish church, the stones and the lists

The Weilys of Cullentry were a Church of Ireland family. These are the records of the parish church at Rathmolyon and its graveyards, and the two lists of Protestant householders that name the family before the tithe book. Rathmolyon's Catholic chapel book does not survive before 1878. The parish's Church of Ireland registers do (baptisms from 1733, marriages and burials from 1734), on microfilm at the National Archives of Ireland and in the RootsIreland index, and they hold our family.

Gravestones, Rathmolyon and Rathcore Church of Ireland graveyards

• Baconstown Heritage Group, enfieldgraveyards.com, Rathmolyon graveyard, Weily stone (transcription in the research files). “Here Lyeth the Body of John Weily Late of Cullenter who Departed this Life April ye 3 1749 Aged 69, also his wife Mary Weily alias Brown who Died October 30th 1753 Aged 69, also John Weily Son of the above who Erected this Stone and Died Febry ye 15 1756 Aged 34.” Found by Chris, 6 Sep 2026; the site's search has to be run by hand.
• Same site, Rathmolyon graveyard: Mary Anne Smith alias Weily, died 8 Jun 1776 aged 26, wife of Thomas Smith, son of Michael Wilkinson Smith, late of Ballinaskea.
• Same site, Rathmolyon graveyard: John Weily of Mary Ville “in this parish”, died 28 Nov 1876 aged 61, white marble, Psalm 103, “erected by his fond wife”. The 1861 lessee.
• Same site, Rathcore graveyard: Charles Weily of Cullintra House, Rathcore, Enfield, died 15 Jan 1901 aged 73; his wife Isabella died 24 Dec 1922 aged 80; their son George died 2 Nov 1924 aged 42; Charles Watson Weily and his wife Olivia Ann of Cullintra House, both died April 1976 aged 79 and 81.
• Same site, Rathcore graveyard: Charles Arthur Weily of Cullintra House, died 16 Nov 1903 aged 35; his wife Margaret Emily died 1965 aged 96; their daughter Doris Isabella died 1918 aged 16.
• Same site, Rathcore graveyard: John Weily died 3 Jun 1910 aged 71; his wife Sarah Elizabeth died 30 Oct 1911 aged 70; their sons Samuel Henry (1942), Charles (1957), Robert (1962), daughters Frances Anne Carter (1962), Emily (1964), Sarah E. (1965); George died 18 Nov 1991 aged 80. The Ballinaskea house.
• Same site, Rathcore graveyard, the search list: sixteen Weily burials 1901-1991. All the inscriptions as the site gives them, with the site's photographs not yet read independently: transcription, research files; screenshots in the same folder.

Lists of Protestant householders and freeholders

• Rev. C. C. Ellison, lists of Protestant parishioners, Diocese of Meath, 1802 (The Irish Ancestor), as transcribed at Meath History Hub. Parish of Rathmolyon, August 1802: WILEY John (wife; children John, Alice, William, Daniel), William (wife; children Henry, Michael, Eleanor), Michael (wife; children Joseph, Jane, Lewis, Frances), George (wife; children Grace, Anne, George, William, Michael), and Michael, single. Parish of Rathcore, undated return of the same series: WEILY John at Ballinaskea and Cortown (wife; children Michael, Jane, Alice, John, Ann, Jarvis); WEILY Robert and wife at Rathcore. Transcription, research files.
• Meath freeholders, about 1775-80 (the list dated by T. J. Sadleir), as transcribed at Meath History Hub: John Weilly and William Weilly of Cullendragh. The same page's undated “£10 freeholders” list has Michael Willy and Robert Willy of Cullentry, and George Wyly, John Wyly (Cullentry), John Wyly (High Lane) and Robert Wyly. The original of Sadleir's list has not been identified.

Rathmolyon and Rathcore Church of Ireland registers

• Representative Church Body Library, Dublin, parish sheets P.0864 (Rathmolyon) and P.0063 (Rathcore): the three pre-1877 Rathmolyon registers are recorded as destroyed in 1922; the RCB holds Rathmolyon marriages from 1845 and Rathcore marriages 1845-1904. But the books had been filmed from local custody: MFCI 51, National Archives of Ireland, Bishop Street, microfilm of the Rathmoylan registers (baptisms 1733-1876, marriages 1834-56, burials 1834-77), with Rathcore and Agher on the same reel. Free to read in the Reading Room. Not yet read; every entry below is from the index.
• RootsIreland, Meath Heritage Centre index of the Rathmolyon Church of Ireland register (baptisms 1733-1900, marriages 1734-1900, burials 1734-1900) and of the Rathcore register (1810-1900), rootsireland.ie (subscription). Searched by Chris on 12 Sep 2026 for Weily and its variants in every record type, all Ireland, 1640-1910: 135 result lists and 355 opened cards, kept as 495 screenshots, transcribed twice and adjudicated against the images. Catalogue and tables: CATALOG.md, README, the Meath cards in date order (research files). The card numbers below are the screenshot files in that folder. The register page (National Archives of Ireland microfilm MFCI 51) has not yet been read for any of them.
• Burials, Rathmolyon: John (Snr.) Weily, 4 Apr 1749 (card p075_1; the stone says he died 3 April); Mary Weily, 2 Nov 1752 (p070_2; the stone says 30 Oct 1753, so one year is wrong); John (Jnr.) Weily, Highlane, 1756 (p072_2; the index gives the year only, the stone 15 Feb); Robert Weily, 4 Jul 1802 (p062_2); George Weily, 9 Apr 1836, aged 86 (p044_1); Michael Weily, 26 Nov 1836, aged 76 (p043_2).
• Baptisms, Rathmolyon, 1744-1754, parents not indexed: Michael, 29 Jul 1744 (p004_1); Robert, 8 Jun 1746 (p004_2); William, 6 Jan 1752 (p007_2); Catherine, 13 Jan 1754 (p006_2). The only Weily baptisms in the book before 1794.
• The two William Weily burials of 1836, Cullinter: William Weily, 31 May 1836, aged 48 (p043_1), the 1835 lessee; William Weily, 22 Sep 1836, “aged 96” (p042_2), the man baptised in 1752 and “William Weily Senior” of the tithe book.
• William Weily (about 1788 to 1836) and Eleanor's children, Highlane and Cullinter, 1814-1832: John born 5 May 1814, Ellen 1819, George 1823, Mary Anne 1825, Charles born 8 Sep 1827, Alicia Jane 1829, Elizabeth 1832 (cards p137_2, p149_1, p144_2, p138_2, p135_1, p132_1, p111_1).
• Baptisms, Rathmolyon, Cullinter, indexed as children of “William and Eleanor Weily”: Mary, born 21 Mar 1842, baptised 10 Jul 1842 (p121_1); Grace, born 14 Sep 1843, baptised 16 Oct 1843 (p119_1); Michael, born 10 Mar 1845, baptised 1 May 1845 (p116_1); Robert, born 10 Apr 1848, baptised 29 Jun 1848 (p109_2); William, born 12 Dec 1849, baptised 2 Jan 1850 (p107_2). These are the Catholic branch's children, christened in the parish church as well as the chapel; the mother's name on the cards is read as an index or clerk artefact until the register page is seen. Burial of Mary Weily, 13 Apr 1843, aged 1 (p044_2).
• Burial, Rathmolyon: “William (Sen.) Weily”, Cullinter, 19 Jan 1850, aged 54 (p025_2). The father of the five children above. First transcribed from Chris's screenshot on 7 Sep 2026: research files.
• Marriages, Rathmolyon: John Weily and Mary Pigott, 2 Jun 1851, “husband's father William Weily” (p262_1; the same marriage indexed again with the bride as “Mary Weily”, p258_1); Charles Weily of Cullenter and Elizabeth Douglas, 4 Sep 1860, “father William Weily” (p253_1); Charles Weily and Isabella Reynolds of Ballivor, 28 Jul 1865, Killaconnigan, “farmer, father William Weily farmer” (p255_1). Burial of Elizabeth Wiely, aged 22, Cullinter, 18 Apr 1865 (p028_2).
• Burial, Rathmolyon: Ellen Weily, Cullinter, 17 Oct 1862, aged 73 (p034_1). The 1841 lessee.
• RootsIreland, Longwood Catholic index: Ellen Wiley, baptised 13 Jan 1839, address “Highlane”, mother indexed “Bridget Betagh” (the register itself reads Belagh; to be re-read).
• Other Rathmolyon and Rathcore cards used on the House That Stayed page (Robert and Alice of Castletown, George of Isaacstown, John and Maria Heaps, Frederick and Mary Anne, the Rathcore and Ballinaskea households, Gervaise Weily 1804-48, Charles Weily's twelve children 1866-85) are listed with their card numbers in verdicts/coi_williams_sorted_20260912.md, sections 1 and 3 (research files).

Before 1749: the leads searched (all graded Possible)

• RootsIreland, whole-Ireland sweep, the spelling Weily or Weilly before 1750: Katherine Weily married Richard Gane, soldier, St Columb's, Derry, 3 Jun 1654 (p153_1); Mary Weily, daughter of Alce Weily, widow, buried St Columb's 16 Jul 1662 (p081_1); children of David Weilly of Tullyhubbert and Ballyhenry and of Hugh Weilly of Ballyhenry buried at Comber, Co. Down, 1694/5-1698 (p083_2, p084_1, p084_2, p085_1; the Ulster Historical Foundation's Comber Church of Ireland register). Nothing else in Ireland carries the spelling before 1750.
• RootsIreland: William Wyley of Thomastown, Co. Kildare, married Lucia Trueman at Lurgan Friends' meeting, 9 May 1762 (p177_1); Robert Wyley and Elizabeth Heathers, Armagh licence 1746 (p165_1).
• The Quaker Wylys of Aghalee, Co. Antrim (Robert Wyly, born about 1632; sons John to Annagh, Westmeath, about 1700, and Alexander to Kildare 1704-05): WikiTree profiles Wyly-18, Wyly-275, Wyly-283 and Wyly-322, citing the Friends' Yearly Meeting sufferings and Lisburn Monthly Meeting minutes; “Robert Willey, householder, Aghalee Towne”, 1669 hearth money roll, Co. Antrim, as transcribed at billmacafee.com. Kildare and Westmeath deeds of the same family, 1737-1778, are in the Registry of Deeds group below.
• Bishop Bramhall's Yorkshire: FreeREG, West and North Riding Wiley-variant baptisms 1580-1700 (170 rows, no Wiley and Brown marriage); Bramhall's Works I-V and the 1677 Life: no Rathmolyon tenant named. Negative.
• Registry of Deeds, Co. Down: James Weily, gent, then linen draper, Tullylish, 1762-1807 (six memorials); John Wyly of Caskum, Aghaderg, will 1714; James Willey of Knocknagor, Tullylish, will 1725. A spelling twin in the Rawdons' own barony, not a proven kinsman.
• All of this: verdicts/weily_backwards_sweep_20260906.md and coi_williams_sorted_20260912.md section 5 (research files).

Ireland: the Catholic chapel 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. Negatives: no marriage of a Weily man in the Longwood book between 1833 and 1878 (the two Weily marriages in it are Grace's to John Brady in 1876 and her mother's remarriage in 1854; Grace's second marriage, in 1881, is later than the book); no Weily child baptised 1833-38; no William baptised January to March 1857; no Weily burial 1833-55. 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. Four days after the birth the parish church recorded (21 Mar 1842).
• 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. Hugh, born 20 April 1876 at Moyvalley (the chapel entry was read as 9 April, which cannot be right, and is being re-checked).
• 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 Catholic parish: no chapel register survives before 1878 (NLI parish list; the RootsIreland Catholic index for these parishes begins 1878). This is true of the Catholic books only. The parish's Church of Ireland registers run from 1733 and are indexed 1733-1900: see the group above.

Ireland: civil registration

General Register Office of Ireland via civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie (free; search by name, year and district, then open the register image). Each entry gives the Superintendent Registrar's District, the year and the group registration ID (GRID) that finds it. Deaths and Catholic marriages were registered from 1 Jan 1864, other marriages from 1 Apr 1845. Register PDFs are in the research files, civil_index/details.

• Marriage, 11 May 1857, Rathcore parish church (Church of Ireland): Robert Allen, widower, farmer, of Braymount, and Elizabeth Weily, daughter of Jervis Weily. Trim, 1857, group registration ID 3264471. The couple went to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1859.
• Marriage, 15 Aug 1870, RC chapel of Longwood: Michael Wiley, 21, bachelor, labourer, Longwood, father William Wiley, farmer; Anne Daley, 18, spinster, servant, father John Daley, labourer. Witnesses Thomas Kelly, Bridget Daley. Trim (Innfield district, entry 1), 1870, group registration ID 2718603.
• Births of Michael and Anne Wiley's children, father Michael Wiley, labourer, mother Anne formerly Daly: John, 16 Jun 1871, Longwood, Trim, GRID 11877761; Mary, 1 Sep 1872, Trim, GRID 10830784; Eliza (Elizabeth), baptised at Longwood 30 May 1874 (register image 110); the civil register page fetched on 7 September 2026 for “Eliza Wiley, 1874, Trim” turned out, when rendered on 19 September, to be a different child (Eliza, born 17 Oct 1874 at Trim workhouse, mother Jane Wiley), so her own civil entry is still to be identified; Hugh, born 20 April 1876 at Moyvalley (the chapel entry was read as 9 April, which cannot be right, and is being re-checked), Edenderry, GRID 9513921; Anne, 1878, Edenderry, GRID 9737008; the twins Rose and Julia, born December 1880, Edenderry, GRIDs 8927387 and 8927460; Michael, 27 Sep 1886, Moyvalley, Edenderry, GRID 11165118.
• Marriage, 14 Feb 1876, RC chapel of Longwood: John Brady, 50, widower, farmer, Rathmoylan, father Patrick Brady, farmer, deceased; Grace Wiley, 36, spinster, farmer's daughter, Cullentra, Longwood, father William Wiley, farmer, deceased. Witnesses P. Larkin, Mary A. Flynn; priest Thomas Cassidy P.P. Trim (Innfield district, entry 93), 1876, group registration ID 2899182.
• Death, 28 Nov 1876, Cullentry: John Wiely, 62, married, grazier, accidental death, coroner John Reilly. Trim, 1876, group registration ID 7735483. John Weily of Maryville, the 1861 lessee. Also that year: John Weily, 86, widower, labourer, died 26 Mar 1876 at Ballinaskea, informant John Weily, Trim, GRID 7734762 (the boy John of the 1802 Ballinaskea list).
• Death, 13 Jun 1877, Cullenter: Margaret Flynn, married, 60, wife of a farmer, disease of the heart; informant Robert Wiley, present at death, Cullenter. Trim (Summerhill district, entry 37), 1877, group registration ID 7764419.
• Marriage, 4 Jul 1881, RC Chapel of Longwood: James Byrne, widower, publican, Clonard, son of Michael Byrne, and Grace Brady otherwise Weily, father William Weily, farmer, deceased, residence Cullentry. Witnesses Christopher Geraghty and Jane Flynn. Trim (registrar's district Innfield), 1881, entry 59; certified copy 22 Oct 1881. Image and transcription: research files.
• Births, 25 Oct 1882, Clonard: Ellen and Roseanna Byrne, twins, father James Byrne, publican, mother “Grace Byrne formerly Wiley”. Edenderry (Ballyboggan district, p. 391, entries 291 and 292), 1882, group registration ID 2013415.
• Birth, 30 Jan 1886, Clonard: John Byrne, father James Byrne, publican, mother “Grace Byrne formerly Wiley”. Edenderry (Ballyboggan, p. 410, entry 483), 1886, group registration ID 1973369. Transcription of both pages: research files. Catherine Byrne (said born 13 Apr 1884) is not in the birth index.
• Death, 1886, Clonard: Grace Byrne, married, 43, publican's wife, puerperal fever one week; informant P. Byrne, stepson. Written “Third January”, read as 3 February (John was born 30 January; the entry sits in the 12 February registration batch). Edenderry (Ballyboggan, entry 157), 1886, group registration ID 6446091.
• Deaths at Enfield, December 1887 (registered 1888): Eliza Weily, 14, daughter of Michael Weily, labourer, Trim, GRID 5984154; Michael Weily, 15 months, same father, informant Anne Weily, mother, Trim, GRID 5993554.
• Death, 11 Dec 1903, Cullintra: John Flynn, widower, 83, farmer, senile decline; informant Michael Gill, son-in-law. Trim (Summerhill, entry 452), 1903, group registration ID 4662695. The entry before it (451) is Charles Arthur Weily, 35, land occupier, died 15 Nov 1903 at Cullintra, informant Isabella Weily, mother.
• Death, 17 Nov 1915, Trim Workhouse: Robert Wiley, “from Clonmouly”, bachelor, 67, labourer, cancer of the stomach; informant Laurence Rooney, occupier. Trim, 1915, group registration ID 5480443.
• The searches behind these, 99 queries of the index across twenty spellings on 7 Sep 2026 (no adult William Wiley of any spelling died in a Meath-area district 1864-1911; no William or Margaret Wiley married in Meath 1845-85): verdicts/william_wileys_disambiguation_20260907.md, section 4.1 (research files).

Ireland: the census of 1901 and 1911

National Archives of Ireland, Census of Ireland 1901 and 1911, household returns (Form A) read from the original images. Search page: nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-census/. The links below open the person's index entry on that site; the Form A image is a click further.

• National Archives of Ireland, Census of Ireland 1901, Form A, Ballin, Rathmolyon DED, Co. Meath, house 5, signed John Flynn: John Flynn, head, 78, widower, farmer, born Co. Kildare, RC; Michael Gill, son-in-law, 31; Mary A. Gill, daughter, 38; Maggie and Katie Gill, granddaughters; Robert Wiley, step son, 45, RC, farmer, not married, born Co. Meath; Ellen Byrne, 18, niece. Index entry, Robert Wiley; image file nai001131498 in the research files.
• National Archives of Ireland, Census of Ireland 1911, Form A, Ballin, Rathmolyon DED, Co. Meath, house 1: Michael Gill, head, 40; Mary Ann, 50; Margaret, 16; Catherine, 14; Robert Weilly, 64, brother in law, assistant on farm, single, RC. Index entry, Robert Weilly; image files nai003092139 and nai003092140.
• Census 1901, Cullentry, Rathmolyon DED, house 1: Isabella Weily, 58, widow, land occupier; daughters Elsie, Alice, Kathleen, Dolly, Florence, Adeline; son George, 18; all Church of Ireland; five servants. Index entry, Isabella Weily. House 2: Charles A. Weily, 32, farmer; Margaret E., 31; Charles W., 3; Phylles M., 1. Index entry, Charles A. Weily.
• Census 1911, Cullentry, Rathmolyon DED, house 1: Margaret E. Weily, 42, with Phyllis Margorie, Doris Isabella, Sheila Margaret and George William Weily, 29 (index entry); house 2: Isabella Weily, 69, and Alice, 36 (index entry).
• Census 1901, Ballyaskea (Ballynaskea), Rahinstown DED, Co. Meath, house 22: John Weily, 60, farmer; Sarah E., 58, born Co. Meath (the 1911 return gives Co. Kilkenny); children Samuel H., Robt, Sarah E. (teacher), Emily, William E. and others; all Church of Ireland. Index entry, John Weily.
• The whole Wiley-variant population of Co. Meath in both years (24 persons in 1901, 18 in 1911, thirteen spellings) and every “Weily” in Ireland (all Church of Ireland and Meath-born, in Galway, Waterford, Dublin and Westmeath): transcription and report (research files). No William of any spelling in Co. Meath in either year except a Ballinaskea schoolboy; no Michael Wiley and Anne Daly household anywhere in Ireland.

Ireland: state papers and deeds

National Archives of Ireland, Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers

• National Archives of Ireland, CSO/RP/SC/1821/1155. Major Daniel O'Donoghue, police magistrate, letters of 15 and 16 Dec 1821 on the murder of William Wyley of Rathmolyon by Ribbonmen; a letter of Nugent of Castle Rickard, 12 Dec 1821, “a man named Wiley” killed because his brother had given evidence against Dunn for the murder of William Cruise at Clonard. Related files CSO/RP/SC/1821/1077 and 1080. Michael Wiley's petition of June 1827 (10 Upper Kevin Street, Dublin; Established Church; cooper and wheelwright at the Boyne aqueduct; sent to America with his family about 1827-28) is in the same series; its own file number has not yet been recorded. Known from the catalogue abstracts; the originals are not yet read.

Registry of Deeds, Dublin

• Memorial 2119 (1711): John Proctor senior, gent, of Cullintraugh, Co. Meath, post-marriage settlement. Irish Deeds Index entry.
• Memorial 36732 (26 Jan 1727; Book 55, p. 237): John Crook, gent, of Rathmolian, mortgage of lands including Broadford Mill at Little Cullentragh; earlier occupiers Widow Alldrige, John Hays of “Cullentragh park”, Mr Bramble. Irish Deeds Index entry.
• Memorial 84683 (11 Jun 1745, registered 5 Dec 1746; Book 122, p. 424): Arthur Rawdon of Isackstown, Esq., to Richard Charles, farmer, of Bigg Cullentragh, lease of the lands of Bigg Cullentragh “already occupied by him”, lives his children Richard, Joseph and Ann; witness John Crook of Cherry Valley. The bounding clause, which may name the Weily holding, has not been read. Irish Deeds Index entry.
• Memorial 111880 (11 Dec 1753; Book 166, p. 366): Michael Wilkinson Smith of Ballynaskea, gent, deceased, leaving six sons under age, the third of them Michael and the fourth Thomas (the husband of Mary Anne Weily), guardian Joseph Smith of Ballintubber. Irish Deeds Index entry.
• Book 539, p. 240, memorial 354913 (16 Oct 1800): marriage articles, Walker and Roberts; witness Michael Weily of Highlane, Co. Meath, gent. The only Meath-resident Weily in the volunteer name index 1708-1830. Irish Deeds Index entry.
• The Kildare and Westmeath Wyly deeds (Timahoe 1737/8, memorial 63160; Thomastown 1746, memorials 83673-4; Rathangan 1753, memorial 110111; Annagh, Westmeath, memorials 77806-7; Killowen, Castlejordan, 1756, memorial 354482) and the Tullylish Weily deeds: memorial pages saved in the research files, kildare-westmeath-wylys. The Registry's own images are on FamilySearch (free login); the volunteer index at irishdeedsindex.net gives the parties.
• Civil Survey, 1640, Co. Meath (vol. V), as indexed at Meath History Hub: Cullendrah held by Bishop Bramhall with a share to Lord Netterville of Balligart. Proprietors only; no tenants named.

Australia and Pennsylvania

• Public Record Office Victoria, prov.vic.gov.au, VPRS 947, inward passenger lists (British ports): CARIBOU, Liverpool to Melbourne, March 1858, “Jervis Wiley, 16, Irish, labourer” (register image 268; crops with the header and the neighbouring rows in the research files, australia_20260907/prov). Jervis Weily, born 4 Oct 1840 at Rathcore, son of Jervis Weily (1804-48) and Anne Parsons; farmer at Glebe Farm, Longford, Tasmania; married Ellen Chandler at Launceston 1863; died 24 Jul 1883.
• Find a Grave, Jervis Weily (1840-1883), Longford, Tasmania; also WikiTree Weily-7 and Geni, which agree on the dates.
• Find a Grave, Elizabeth (Weily) Allen (1836-1925) and Robert Allen, Beaver Cemetery, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth, born 20 Jun 1836 at Rathcore, married Robert Allen there on 11 May 1857 (civil record above), emigrated about June 1859 with an infant son, died 9 Jul 1925. A 1912 county biography of her son, Dr John Jervis Allen, is cited in the research files.
• Find a Grave, Rathcore Church of Ireland graveyard, Co. Meath: Weily memorials 268787160 to 268787209 (the same stones as the Baconstown Heritage Group survey above).
• An infant Weily buried at Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, 13 Jul 1870, the only nineteenth-century “Weily” burial found in the United States; and Henry Samuel Weily of Ballinasloe, Co. Galway (born about 1846 at Rathcore), whose sons Robert J. and Samuel H. were born in America in 1874-77 (1901 census). References in the research files.
• The Australian searches for Michael Wiley and Anne Daly's family (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, the Ryerson index, Find a Grave, PROV arrivals), all negative, 7 Sep 2026: report and the Meath Wileys in Australia (research files).

Online family trees (secondary)

• 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). The 1882 and 1886 births are now confirmed to the day by the civil register.
• Ancestry: Thomas Kenny's tree (“M Wiley Brady Byrne”, b. 1843 Cullintry, Rathmolyon, d. 30 Jan 1886 Clonard). Read by Chris, 30 Aug 2026. The tree's 1843 was right: the parish register gives Grace's birth as 14 Sep 1843. Its death date is the date of her son John's birth; the register puts her death four days later.
• WikiTree profiles Weily-1 to Weily-10, the Rathcore and Ballinaskea family (Gervaise Weily 1804-48 and Anne Parsons and their children, including Elizabeth Allen and Jervis of Tasmania), compiled by a descendant from the Rathcore register at the RCB Library. Secondary; checked against the RootsIreland index and the civil records where they overlap.

America

• Polk's Springfield (Sangamon County, Illinois) city directory, 1857-58: no William Wiley (an E. R. Wiley, clothier, a J. Wiley, hatter, “Williey James”, wagon-maker, and the Misses Wiley, teachers); “Flynn Wm., lab, ns Reynolds, west end”. archive.org. No Springfield directory for 1859 to 1880 is freely readable online (archive.org, HathiTrust, Illinois Digital Archives and the Lincoln Library checked, 13 Sep 2026).
• Marriage record, Madison County, Illinois, January 1878: William Wiley, aged 25, and Alice Aspinall. The civil record of the Alton marriage; copy held by the family, not yet in the research files.
• 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; dispensation for mixed religion; witnesses Michael McCarthy and Elisabetha Tobin; priest C. J. Zwiesler. 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 28, roll mill hand, b. Ireland; Alice 19, b. England; Wm 1. Image. The age was first read as 24 in September 2026 and re-read as 28 at four times magnification on 13 Sep 2026 against the same enumerator's other 8s and 4s.
• Thomas Knox's Springfield, Illinois, business directory, 1881-82: “Wiley Mrs, 722 E Reynolds”, two doors from “Flynn Wm J, W Reynolds”; William Wiley himself is absent, though his daughter was baptised in the town that September. archive.org.
• 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: aged 56 years 4 months 26 days, puddler, father Wm Wiley born Ireland, mother “Don't know”. 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.
• The United States census sweeps for William I, Margaret and the infant William, and for a boy William Wiley born in Ireland about 1849-57 in any household: Ancestry, 1860 census, 12 Sep 2026 (fourteen name-matches and two child-keyed hits, all eliminated on the image) and 14 Sep 2026; 1870 census, 13-14 Sep 2026 (Peoria, Perry and Clay county hits eliminated). All negative. verdicts/census_1860_ancestry_sweep_20260912.md, the evidence in us_census_1860_ancestry_20260912, and the entries of 12 to 14 Sep 2026 in RESEARCH.md section 3 (research files). Still to open: a “William Weily” at Hopewell, Seneca Co., Ohio, in the 1860 compiled index, and Michael Weiley, 50, of Washington Township, York Co., Pennsylvania, 1860, a candidate for the cooper of 1828.
• Passenger lists: no manifest found. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, all 28 volumes, 1854-61 (no family group); PRONI's passenger lists end in 1853; no British or Irish departure lists exist before 1890. report, 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 Chris, his father, his uncle and relatives, exported August–September 2026; shared-match (“in common with”) matrices. Testers named by public display name only. The Kenny and Newman testers descend from Grace Weily's daughter Catherine Byrne Kenny (died Chicago 1973); they share 28 to 55 cM with Chris's father and 104 cM with his uncle Bill, and none of them touch the German side of the family. Analyses: verdicts/meath_wiley_byrne_20260830.md, verdicts/segment_and_meath_review_20260905.md, verdicts/pedigree_upstream_of_dad_20260830.md, verdicts/dna_placements_20260904.md (research files).
• Y-DNA: Chris, R-U152 > FT189406 > FTA44479 (YFull, from whole-genome sequencing). Three routes to a comparison: a Weily man of the Enfield or Rathcore families; Jervis Weily's Tasmanian and New Zealand line; Michael Wiley and Anne Daly's line (Hugh, born 1876) in America.

Analysis files (the research repository)

• The estate map, read label by label (5 Sep 2026)
• The Longwood register, Griffith's, the landlord's papers (5 Sep)
• The Meath case weighed link by link (5 Sep)
• Religion: a Church of Ireland house and a Catholic branch (6 Sep)
• Before Cullentry: the Rawdon country, Bramhall's Yorkshire, the deeds, the 1821 murder (6 Sep)
• The William Wileys sorted: the civil index, the census, the Griffith's pages, Australia, the crossing (7 Sep)
• The three Williams and the Catholic branch's children in the Rathmolyon Church of Ireland index (12 Sep)
• Did William II cross as a child without his parents? The two readings and his age series (12-13 Sep)
• The 1860 census sweep (12 Sep)
• How the DNA led to Meath (30 Aug)
• The RootsIreland sweep: catalogue, README and transcription and QA files
• Transcriptions: the gravestones; the 1802 lists; the 1850 burial; Grace's Byrne children; the 1901 and 1911 census
• Agent reports of 7 Sep 2026: Griffith's pages, the Meath census, Australia, the crossing and the other emigrants
• The working pedigree and its GEDCOM, regenerated 19 Sep 2026: verdicts/weily_cullentry_pedigree_20260919.html and verdicts/weily_cullentry_working_tree_20260919.ged, built from scripts/weily_tree_build.py. The 7 Sep 2026 versions are kept as the record of the earlier model.
• The National Library order
• RESEARCH.md, the case file

Historical background

The works used for the blue “Historical background” panels on the Farm, House That Stayed, 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”; “Enfield”; “Houses R–Z” (Rahinston); “The Great Famine”; “Royal Canal in Meath”; “Landowners 1876”; and the transcribed name lists, “Protestant Census 1802” and “Freeholders 1775”, and the index to the Civil Survey of 1640.
• 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. Sir George Rawdon (1604-84), of Rawdon Hall near Leeds, agent of the Conway manor of Killultagh from 1631 and owner of Moira, and Bishop John Bramhall of Derry and Armagh (1594-1663), of Pontefract, the owner of Cullentry in the 1630s: their lives in the same dictionaries; John Bramhall, Works, 5 vols (Oxford, 1842-45), vol. I with the 1677 Life and the bishop's will.
• 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”.

Religion, marriage law and the Ribbonmen

• The marriage law behind the double christenings of 1842-50: the Irish Act of 1746, 19 Geo. II c. 13, which made a marriage by a Catholic priest between a Protestant and a Catholic void in law, and its repeal by the Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act 1870. Cited on the House That Stayed and Ireland Then pages; the statute texts are to be checked against the printed Statutes at Large before the panels are treated as final.
• The Ribbonmen of 1821 in south Meath: National Archives of Ireland, CSO/RP/SC/1821/1155 (Major Daniel O'Donoghue's letters; see the state papers group above); Noel French, Meath History Hub, “Longwood” (the letter of 16 Jan 1821 on the Cruise murder at Clonard) and “Enfield”; John Kenny, Politics and Society in Westmeath, 1815-35, M.Litt. thesis, Maynooth University, 2015 (chapter 6, “Agrarian violence and the Royal Canal”), for the same movement in the next county.
• Ulster Historical Foundation, Background to the Statutes of the Irish Parliament: “Land” and “Religion”; Papists Act 1778; Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829.

Land, tithes, famine, emigration

• Helen Moss, “Lease of lives”, Irish Family History Centre; Irish measure.
• 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.