Hi, Fred, If we are related to the Erath County Wylies, , our family Tree back to Ireland does not show it. Possibly they were connected during Oliver Cromwell's reign in England or before , or in Clan Gunn (Highlanders) or Clan McKethan (Lowlanders) of Scotland, before the Quaker Wylys left for Ireland and the Ulster Plantation homes. Other Dimmunitives of William as a sirname are Wylly, Wyllys, Willis, Willey, Wiley, Wily- Wyllie- Willie. Sometimes records in Family Bibles and others were mispelled by a careless or undereducated recorder.Land Records in Georgia list many early Wylly land holdings. Great Grandad Robert Augustine Wyly had 22 siblings and his mom's niece or cousin was his dad's third wife. Over half of these siblings had moved to Erath County area from 1865 to 1890, and the third wife, Martha Catherine Mitchell Wyly lived in Selden for long visits, and on the Plains around Friona. She is buried off the Gulf Freeway near Alvin, Texas. Robert's Great Great Grandad James Wyly came to the British Colonies with a brother Robert.He was a British Colonial Militia Captain and was born 1724 in Ireland.He married a Martha Haris in 1724 in Pennsylvania or Ireland. Robert-The first Robert and James were Quakers who toted guns and were herdsmen for Prince Albert of England. They found more money, as Great Aunt Agness Hatchett Wyly of Selden said, in mining lead in Mecklenburg County to make Cowbells for the Colonists. The first James died in 1772. A Third Wyly family, also Irish Quakers, came to Charleston, South Carolina - Charleston - records in Episcopal church library there for Quaker Irish who were welcome as good business men and family men. They came with Rev. Edmondson, the Quaker missionary who visited The Colonies and Ireland and England and Continental Europe holding Revivals. The Wylys above all had many similarities of naming patterns for parent, or kin- But I assume you have seen this 4 step naming pattern for boys and Girls. Check your Who's Who books and find the Sir James Wylie of a poor Scottish Lowland family who earned a Degree in the Osteopathic- Homeophathic Medicine of that day and cared for the Russian Czar and his hemophilic Children and was a Russian Army Doctor. he did surgery successfully when native Doctors would not try. There was once a Medical College in St. Petersburg named after him. Another Quaker Scotch- Wyly was awarded a Crest-for service in British Army- it was renewed in Glasgow by a Wyly in Sumatran Oil Fields. Also, some Wylies live in Hill County- Mount Calm and in Grosebeck- One was a Houston Security Guard and a Waco Teacher. He was also of Cherokee lineage- and says some of his family had dropped the Wyly- but I have no record of that. John Wylie of Northwest Erath County became a partner of John Chishum- Chisholm - former Paris, Texas County Clerk, who drove his cattle from Denton County though Erath County to the Concho- Colorado River grazing area from East Texas and Northeast Texas , and, when the cattle gained weight in the Grass, they would contract with Goodnight and Loving to drive the cattle with their herds down to the Pecos , then up it to Wyoming pastures and Army Supply depots. These trails did not go north through Waco. This was not the Jesse Chissum or Chisholm who was Sam Houston's Peace maker with Texas Indian Tribes. This one met with Indians in Torey's Trading House Creek, near Waco, and Comanche Peak, Hood County, and blazed a trail from a Red River Port to Yukon , Okla, and on to Kansas, where his Freight wagons and store supplied Army needs and cattle trains going East. towards Chicago area. Technically the Trail through Waco or McGregor was planned by a Railroad planner McCoy, and joined Chisholm's Freight Trail across the Red River. Some maps showed it as the McCoy Trail- the Tracks reached Abilene, Kansas at the same time as the Cattle from Central South Texas got there. Chechk this out on Google Search Windows- and, remember, The John Chissum of Broken Bow was a farmer who drove up the eastern trails towards Illinois markets. Spellings vary from one book to another in present High School reference books. FULFER- The Fulchers ran a diary for Dr. Vance Terrell of Stephenville. It was his Brown Swiss who , in some floods, floated down the Bosque a few miles and some lived. AINSWORTH- Dr Bryan Ainsworth of Waco gave me my first heart Carherization 30 years ago . He died in a plane crash near the Mexican Shore of the Lake (Amistead?) with some friends on a fishing trip. Today the Ainsworth heart Clinic in the old Safeway Building on Hwy 6 in Woodway, South of Lake Waco. some Ainsworth families have Waco phone numbers. Drs. Schoulz, Peper, Schoulz, Jr., Falcone, and others now work in Providence and Hillcrest Hospitals and their own clinic, with 2 visiting Drs. from Austin who specialize in heart Rythm treatments and shock and surgery. Dr Ainsworth's picture plus Croswqaithe and others are prominent in the clinic and hospitals , where some surgery is done. But that is more than you asked, Take care, Charles Wyly On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:15:29 EST Freorden@aol.com writes: > I have a Mary L. FULFER who married A.K. WYLIe on Jan 8-1890 in Erath > Co. Tx. > > I am researching my extended FULFER and AINSWORTH families [Tx. & > NM] mostly. > > Charles..............this person must be related to you? > > Freddie B. 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