Margaret: I'm not sure which townland? Muff is in but could you check your holdings for a marriage between Samuel Wiley (Wylie) and Sarah Porter, May 14, 1847. I believe it occurred in the Presbyterian church. Thanks. Sharon Leigh slnelson@indiana.edu P.S. I tried sending this to Margaret's address but it came back--maybe she can see it on the list???

To Sharon - Sorry to be so tardy in replying to your 10-24 letter. I have had a terrible time trying to keep up with my change of email address - not easy to get used to change at age 80 - and I have not found a way to transfer my hundreds of email addresses OR CompuServe 'filiing cabinet', which I was dumb enough not to have copied all to hard disk. To answer your question - it seems that Derryvane is the Townland, consisting of 929 Acres in the Barony of Inishowen West. The Civil Parish is Muff, the Poor Law Union is Londonderry, and the Province is Ulster (even though it is in Co. Donegal). I just noticed that the official record of Samuel and Sarah Porter Wiley's marriage, which I got at Public Records Office of N.Ireland (PRONI), says Samuel C. Wiley. Now I am wondering what the 'C' stands for? Samuel C. Wiley, full age, Bachelor, Farmer, of Derryvane, Muff Sarah Porter, under 21, Spinster, Derryvane, Muff were married 14 May 1847, Parish of Muff, Co. Donegal, Ireland, in the Church of Muff according to rites and ceremonies of the Church of England and Ireland, by me G. W. Stuart in the presence of Isaac Wiley of Derryvane Thomas Wylie L'derry Notice difference in spelling: WILEY and WYLIE Their Bible has WYLIE imprinted in gold. Their Letter of Transfer to the Macedon Church in Wash. Tp., Mercer Co. OH is from 'sister church of Knowhead Ireland', per Macedon Session minutes. Presbyterians ('Dissenters') had to be married officially under auspices of Church of England until -- what date? I've heard, but don't remember. Must quit. It's late. Marg H. "Leigh, Sharon" <slnelson@indiana.edu> wrote: Margaret: I'm not sure which townland? Muff is in but could you check your holdings for a marriage between Samuel Wiley (Wylie) and Sarah Porter, May 14, 1847. I believe it occurred in the Presbyterian church. Thanks. Sharon Leigh slnelson@indiana.edu P.S. I tried sending this to Margaret's address but it came back--maybe she can see it on the list??? ==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== To browse through the archives of the list go to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Visit my homepage at http://freepages.genealogy.com/~donegaleire ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 M. Hastings Hendrix - HASTINGS & BENNETT, COLLINS & WALSTON in Sussex Co., DE 1700s, to Ohio 1846. WILEY & PORTER - Co. Donegal & 'Derry, IRLD > Western OH 1847 GIFFEN 1700s SCTLD & BENTLEY 1600s VA > Eastern OH Also MORRISON, HENRY, NICHOL, THOMPSON, TAGGART, STITT,, CLARK, DOWNS et al. Additional for my kids - HENDRIX, TOMLINSON, CAMPBELL, PATRICK,