WILEY
                          by Sharon Cords
                          Sun Nov 18 1990
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I recently was given this information that was written in 1942 by Richard 
Taylor WILEY:

"The WILEY family is an old English one. Some have said that it originated 
in Scotland, but the Media Research Bureau, of Washington, DC, says the 
name was of local origin, dirived from the name of the residence of its 
first bearers at a place of that name in England. It gives eighteen 
different ways of spelling the name, but says that WILEY, WYLIE, WILLEY and 
WILLY are the forms most generally known in America today. Ten counties in 
england and the city of London, as well as various parts of Scotland, are 
said by this authority to have had families bearing this name at very early 
dates.

The WILEY family of the United States to be considered here is descended 
from James WILEY, who married Elizabeth ("Bessie") Barker. They came, with 
their children, from Stockton-on-Tees, England, to this country in 1831, 
and located in Pittsburgh. James WILEY was the son of William and Ann 
(Potts) WILEY, who were the parents of eight children, four sons and four 
daughters. It is the second son, Thomas, whose line this account is 
following.

He married Emily TAYLOR d/o Richard and Martha (Blackburn) TAYLOR, and they 
became the parents of six children: Martha Elizabeth, Emma Devinney, Annie 
Clare, Richard Taylor, Charles Shaffer and James Thomas WILEY. The one last 
named died in infancy, but the others all grew to maturity, and all of 
these married and became parents of children except Emma, who died single."


Does anyone out there have ANY information on this family??? Is anyone 
searching this line???
                                -= Sharon =-