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Subject: Census lookup for Wyl(l)ie probably in Dunlop
Date: 9 Jun 2005 06:46:04 -0600

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Surnames: Wylie Wyllie
Classification: Query

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I'm trying to trace my ggg grandparents. My gg grandmother, Jean Wyl(l)ie, was born in Stewarton on 16 Sep 1821. I have her on the Census in 1851 at Campbeltown after her marriage to James Whiteford and they migrated in 1852 with their two children to Melbourne.

Her first name is interchangeable with Jane being used as well as Jean. The Australian version of the surname was Wylie but the LDS site shows it as Wyllie.

Information from the LDS records shows she was the daughter of Jean Morton (bn abt 1791 in Dunlop Ayr) and Thomas Wyl(l)ie bn abt 1787 also in Dunlop). She had the following siblings:

Margaret, bn 12 Feb 1813, Dunlop;
John, bn 18 APR 1815, Dunlop;
Thomas bn 14 May 1817, Dunlop;
David bn 22 June 1819 Stewarton.

Jean's father was a farmer. He had died by the time she married in Campbeltown in 1849. Her grandfather on her mother's side was named George Morton.

Would love to pick up the family at the 1841 Census and the 1851 Census if possible, or indeed later if this is possible. Any assistance much appreciated in finding the Wyllie family, branches and twigs.

Thanks all.

Anne Whiteford

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