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From: Sean Hogan <>
Subject: Re: genealogy
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 88 19:29:30 GMT
In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 15 Jul 88 08:16:21 EDT from <R2TJF@AKRONVM>

Sorry to use the bboard like this as most of the following info.
is in reply to T.J.Farris' request re Wiley surname. I thought though,
that perhaps some other users may not be aware of the existence of a
book by Edward MacLysaght entitled : The Surnames of Ireland . This
pocket-book gives a short description of the origins of Surnames to
be found in Ireland. MacLysaght (pronounced Mac-Lyset has more detailed
information contained in 3 Volumes : Irish Families.
Maybe it's possible to access these books from your local
library ? I've got no knowledge of printers or publishers of the Irish
family volumes, but the 5th. edition of the pocket-book was printed in
the Republic of Ireland by Cahill Printers Limited and published by
Irish Academic Press Limited. If anyone wants more information, you
may E-mail me.
That's it. Below is for T.J. who, I hope, doesn't mind
a public reply.
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T.J.,
I gleamed the following from MacLysaght's `Surnames of Ireland'
I reproduce them here without permission:
Wylie,Wiley An English toponymic which came to Ireland
at the time of the Plantation of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth
centuary and is now numerous, especially in Co. Antrim. There are some
families of the name in Co. Clare who use the form O'hUallaigh in Irish:
they may be of different origin.
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I guess this isn't a great deal of information - but I just happened to
have the book at hand.
p.s. O'hUallaigh (pronounced O'Hullig)

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