Tony Don't know anything about the Wileys, but a 'fee tail' or an 'entailed interest' is an estate in land which endures as long as the original grantee ('tenant in tail') or any of his/her lineal descendants is alive - the entail was a type of landholding designed to retain land within the family. Hope this is of some help. David. >From: "Tony Butcher" <tonebut@bigpond.com> >Reply-To: IRL-MONAGHAN-L@rootsweb.com >To: IRL-MONAGHAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MONAGHAN~] Wiley >Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:42:15 +1000 > >Hi all, > >I am new to this particular list so I thought I would introduce myself. I >am trying to track down the descendents of a Thomas Wiley born in Monaghan >in the 1840s to a Hugh Wiley and unknown female. Thomas came out to >Australia (Western Australia to be precise) in the 1860s. Two sisters also >came out. They were called Eliza and Margaret. All I know for certain is >that Hugh Wiley was a land owner as sometime in the 1960s Irish authorities >contacted Western Australian authorities to say that some 'entailed land' >(whatever that means) had been left to a descendent in West Australia. The >descendant turned down the land and so it went back to Ireland (so to >speak). I am trying to locate anything about this Thomas Wiley (usual >stuff like parents, family in Ireland and so on) or anything about the >entailed land. Does anyone know anything about this guy, or how I might >find out about the entailed land? > >Regards to all > >Tony > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com