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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

WYLY (or WYLEY), Alexander

Date of Birth

30.10.1808

Place of Birth

Ireland

Date of Death

14.11.1882

Place of Death

Parkside

Place of Burial

North Road Cemetery

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

Ship Candahar, December 1851

Lived in Prospect (dates)

c.1869

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

*Highgate House, Prospect Village

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

North Adelaide

Names of houses (if any)

Highgate House

Parents

Thomas Trueman WYLY and Mary RUSSELL

Spouse(s)

Elizabeth CORAN

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

c.1838

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

Ireland

Children

Robert (1839-1862), Frances Jane (c1842-1924); Henrietta Louisa (1845 -1935); William Louis (1847 -1929); Alexander Peel (1850 -1936); John Conran (1855-1911).

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Storeman / Assistant Superintendent / Assistant armourer, Armoury & Powder Magazine, North Terrace.

Interests/Activities

 

Religion/Churches

Church of England (Anglican)

Notes (points of interest etc.)

*Highgate House may have the property known as Prospect Lodge.

Local Government experience

 

Sources of information

David Johnston, Prospect Schools and Early Teachers, Newspapers, Dorothy AA Wyly, Irish origins – A Family Settlement in Australia. Biographical Index of South Australians 1936-1885. Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes

 

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