Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Living

Sex: M

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Alexander Wylly

Alexander Wylly

Sex: M
AKA: Alexander Wylie ⁴⁰⁵⁸, Alexander Wyllie ⁹⁷⁹, Alex Wylly ¹⁴⁰³
Individual Information

Birth Date: Scotland ¹⁴² Christening: 13 Feb 1703/04 - Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland ⁹⁷⁹ Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1690, Northern Ireland.
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1700, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Membership: Member of Lockian Society, 26 Nov 1723, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. From Colonial Office records 194/7.
• Documentation: Letter from Alex Wylly to Edward Burd Jr., 5 Sep 1726, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The copy of this letter was transcribed and annotated by Dr. Olaf Janzen, retired professor of history at the Grenfell Campus of MUN. I suspect that this man is the father of Ann Wylly, wife of Robert Carter, and that he and she are from Scotland, not Northern Ireland, as the family lore suggested.
• Documentation: Letter from Alex Wylly to Edward Burd Jr., 13 Sep 1726, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The copy of this letter was transcribed and annotated by Dr. Olaf Janzen, retired professor of history at the Grenfell Campus of MUN. I suspect that this man is the father of Ann Wylly, wife of Robert Carter, and that he and she are from Scotland, not Northern Ireland, as the family lore suggested.

Parents

Father: Living Mother: Living

Spouses and Children

1. Miriam Sloan ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 ^,8055 Marriage: Cir 1712 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹⁹³²
Marriage Events
• Alt. Marriage: Cir 1720. Marriage Notes

280721:

Nimshi Crewe was obsessed with proving that there was a direct connection between Lord Baltimore via David Kirke's family through the Dobble and Benger families to the Wylly family and hence to the Carters of Ferryland. He did not invent this theory. It was brought to him in 1959 in the form of a family tree primarily focussed upon the Sweetlands but with the above lineage shown on the first page.

The author of the version Nimshi saw was Mrs. Heber Angel, the sister of Sir Brian Dunfield, both of whom descended from the Sweetland line. But at least the first part of this family tree was supposed to have been originally penned by William Sweetland, the Stipendiary Magistrate of Bonavista, who was the son of Ann Carter by her second husband Henry Sweetland.

The copy of the family tree that Nimshi saw was loaned to a relative of Mrs. Angel from the mainland and he promptly went home with it and never returned it. But Nimshi had made a copy for his own records and we have to assume that it reflects fairly accurately what Mrs. Angel (and William Sweetland) had drawn.

Most of the early part of the theoretical lineage above was disproved by Nimshi, though he must have been devastated to give up this pet theory. The part that is of interest to the Morry and Carter family history is also contentious but has never been proved or disproved. It is the part beginning with a marriage between Alexander Wylly of Scotland and Miriam Sloan of Northern Ireland. Apparently this family tree is the primary source for that unproved "fact".

The first page of this family tree which shows this Wylly-Sloan union and their purported children (evidently based on notations in a bible published in Edinburgh in 1712 and belonging to Alexander Wylly, which was at one time in the possession of William Sweetland) is attached in the media folder here.

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290721:

The section of the above family tree attributed to Stipendiary Magistrate William Sweetland suggests that a bible belonging to Alexander Wylyy was printed in Edinburgh and showed that he married (there?) Miriam Sloan, the sister or niece of Sir Hans Sloan. The date given is 1712 but it is unclear if this date refers to the date of marriage or the date that the bible was published. Thus all the family trees that now appear on the web and presumably offline that reference this marriage are repeating what may be a misunderstanding as to the date of this marriage. One thing is clear, the assumed dates of birth of both Alexander and Miriam as being "ca 1700" make no sense if this date of marriage is correct.
Children: 1. Phillip Wylly 2. Marion Wylly 3. Elizabeth Wylly 4. John Wylly 5. Sarah Wylly 6. Mary Wylly 2. *Mary Donaldson ¹⁰ ^,4058 ^,4287 ^,4288 ^,4289 ^,4290 Marriage: 8 Jan 1717/18 - Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland ⁴²⁹¹ ^,4292 ^,4293
Marriage Events
• Alt. Marriage: 1717, Scotland.
• Alt. Marriage: 6 Jan 1717/18, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. Marriage Notes

Event Description: This is for Alexander Wylie [sic] and Mary Donaldson
Alexander Wylie
in the Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910

No record image
Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910

DetailSource
Name:Alexander Wylie
Gender:Male
Marriage Date:08 Jan 1718
Marriage Place:Campbeltown,Argyll,Scotland
Spouse:
Mary Donaldson
FHL Film Number:1041003

And in Scotland's People:

08011718 WYLIE, ALEXANDER (Old Parish Registers Marriages 507 11 425 Campbeltown) Page 425 of 473

ALSO

Scotland, Parish Marriages & Banns 1561-1893 Transcription
Year Range1659-1774
Record setScotland, Parish Marriages & Banns 1561-1893
First name(s)Mary
Last nameDonaldson
Marriage year1718
Spouse's first nameAlexander
Spouse's last nameWylie
ResidenceCampbeltown
CountyArgyllshire
CountryScotland
PlaceCampbeltown
Page-
Marriage date06 Jan 1718
Spouse ResidenceCampbeltown
Witness-
Item3
Archive RefOPR 507/1
CategoryBirth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
SubcategoryParish Marriages
Collections fromUnited Kingdom, Scotland
Â© Findmypast

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I have now downloaded BOTH versions of the marriage record from Scotland's People website paying 6 credits for each. There are actually 2 versions of all (apparently) BMD records on this site, the original OPR record (rough drafts of the records were kept - called blotters) and a finished transcript made some time later called scroll copies. This explanation came from Scotland's People when I enquired. There is no way of knowing which is which from the index so you have to pay to see and then download both. Tricky Scottish always out to take a few more cents!
Children: 1. Ann Wylly 2. Mary Wylie 3. Agnes Wylie

Notes
General:

NAME Alexander /Wylie/
There is considerable debate about the spelling of the surname of this family. It is seen variously as Wylie, Wylley and Wiley. But according to Enid the real spelling is Wylly and this borne out by the testimony of the sire of the clan himself: "The name is Wylly. Ref. Communication of Alexander Wylly dated Dec 13, 1726 in his own hand to Mr. Edward Burd Jr."

I am today changing the spelling in his case and for his children as well.

Library Batch C115072 dates 1659-1773 Film 6900996 Baptism of his daughter

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090721:

NOTE: The above Library Batch reference which I believe came from Enid O'Brien is a Family History Library film of the Campbeltown church register. As such, it may be a red herring. Because the child being baptised in the register was named Ann Wiley [sic] and her parents were Alexander Wiley [sic] and Mary Donaldson. The jury is out as to whether this was the real name and the real parents of Robert Carter's wife, Ann Wylly [sic].

Computer printout of Campbeltown., Argyll, Scot
Statement of Responsibility:
extracted for the controlled extraction program and published by the Genealogical Dept. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Format:
Books/Monographs/Book on Fiche
Language:
English
Publication:
Salt Lake City, Utah : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990-1991
Physical:
12 microfiches.
Notes
Batch nos. 11507-2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, nos. 11955-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Extracted from microfilm copies of parish registers on film nos. 1041003-1041005.

Subjects
Locality Subjects
Scotland, Argyll, Campbeltown - Church records - Indexes
Film/Digital Notes
NoteLocationCollection/ShelfFilmDGSFormat

Births and christenings, A thru Z 1659-1855 (9 microfiches)
Family History Library
British Fiche
6900996

This item is available on microfilm at this family history center.
Marriages, A thru Z, 1681-1854 (3 microfiches)
Family History Library
British Fiche
6900069

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07 07 2021:

I can find examples of people named Alexander Wylly by that exact spelling in both Scotland and Northern Ireland at about this time. The one in Northern Ireland was a Quaker and that did not come down through to his supposed daughter, Ann, so that may eliminate him. That man's son of the same name was evidently involved on the side of the British in the War of Independence in the US and it is said that his father had vast land holdings in the south that he stood to lose if the rebels won. They did and the younger Alexander sought compensation from where he was settled after the war in the West Indies. But as noted, this is probably all irrelevant to finding Ann's true parents.

08 07 2021:

If indeed the Alexander Wylly who was in Newfoundland as a merchant in 1726 is this same man, here are references to letters that he wrote to Edward Burd Jr., the Supercargo of the Scottish Merchant Vessel, the CHRISTIAN, which visited Newfoundland to purchase salt cod that year. I found these references in several of Prof. Olaf Janzen' (Memorial University of Newfoundland - Grenfell Campus) publications available online concerning that era:

"Alexander Wylly (St. John's, Newfoundland) to Edward Burd Jr., 5 September 1726, SRO [Scottish Record Office] RH 15/54/4, A10, Burd, Journal, 22 September 1726."

and

"Alexander Wylly (St. John's, Newfoundland) to Edward Burd Jr., 13 September 1726, SRO [Scottish Record Office] RH 15/54/4, A22, Burd, Journal, 22 September 1726"

The letters bear evidence to the fact that this man was associated with Newfoundland at the right time to be the father of Ann Wylly who married Robert Carter and also that this was the manner that they spelled their surname. Which makes it less likely that the records found for a marriage between Alexander Wylie [sic] and Margaret Donaldson and the subsequent birth of their daughter Ann in May 1718/19 in Cambeltown, Argyle, Scotland are the same people.

090721:

Today I received transcripts of both of these letters from Dr. Janzen and they are found in the media folder as "Documentation'. Here is what he said about them and my quest for the actual parents of Anne Wylly:

From: Janzen, Olaf <olaf@grenfell.mun.ca <mailto:olaf@grenfell.mun.ca>>
Sent: July 9, 2021 1:51 PM
To: Christopher John Morry <cjmorry@ncf.ca <mailto:cjmorry@ncf.ca>>
Subject: Re: The Journal of Edward Burt, Jr.

Thank you for your email of yesterday's date, indicating your interest in Alexander Wylly who was mentioned by Edward Burd (note: Burd, not Burt), the supercargo of the Scottish trading ship "Christian" in 1726-27. Wylly appears to have been based in St. John's at the time, and provided Burd with advice as well as business (Burd's accounts indicate that Wylly bought some of the cargo and goods that "Christian" carried to Newfoundland). Mrs Wylly (no first name) also appeared in Burd's accounts as a customer of some of the products sold by Burd. There are only two letters from Wylly to Burd, one written by Wylly in St. John's in September, another in December. By the time Burd received the first letter, the "Christian" had already sailed to Ferryland to sell the bulk of its cargo of biscuit and had begun to purchase fish for the next stage of its voyage. I have attached pdf copies of my transcriptions of Wylly's two letters. The spelling, sentence structure, and arcane language in those two letters are as close to what they were in the originals as I can decipher. Whether Mr and Mrs Wylly were the parents of Ann Wylly, who became the wife of Robert Carter, I cannot say. I would suggest however that if there was indeed a connection with your family, then Alexander Wylly was Scottish, not (Northern) Irish as your family tradition suggests. I say this because the commercial contacts on whom Burd and the commanders of the "Christian" relied for information and advice on how to transact business in Newfoundland, would have been people like Wylly with whom they were familiar and most likely had some connection with home, i.e., Leith in Scotland.

Hope this helps.

Olaf Janzen

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230523:

The old family tradition handed down to Dad Morry by his maiden aunt, Emily Frances Victoria Morry apparently was that the original Robert Carter was married to a woman named Ann Wylly and that she was in some way connected (daughter?; niece?) to Sir Hans Sloane (16 April 1660 \endash 11 January 1753), the founder of the British Museumand was born, as was he, in Northern Ireland. I had eliminated this tradition years ago because there was no evidence of such a connection in any of the online family trees associated with this man.

However, an interesting coincidence (?) was discovered today on the Irish Genealogy website:

Area - DUBLIN (COI) , Parish/Church/Congregation - ST. THOMAS

Marriage of SAML HANS SLOANE of MOHILL CO LEITRIM and ELIZABETH WYLIE of 29 LR GLOUCESTER ST on 14 January 1862

HusbandWife
NameSAML HANS SLOANE ELIZABETH WYLIE
AddressMOHILL CO LEITRIM 29 LR GLOUCESTER ST
OccupationESQRE N/R
FatherISAAC SLOANE ALEXANDER WYLIE
MotherN/R N/R
Further details in the record
Husband AgeFULL
Husband Marital StatusB
Wife AgeFULL
Wife Marital StatusS
Husband's Father's OccupationFARMER
Wife's Father's OccupationFARMER
Witness 1THOMAS MOFFETT (WITNESS FOR HUSBAND)
Witness 3THOMAS JONES (WITNESS FOR WIFE)
About the record
Book NumberPageEntry NumberRecord_IdentifierImage Filename
N/R 57 113 DU-CI-MA-63314 d-80-3-6-057

Clearly this marriage took place long after Ann Wylly was born. In fact, long after she had died. But the coincidence of names (including the brides father, Alexander, which was supposed to be the name of Ann's father as well according to the tradition) begins to shed some light upon how this family lore may have begun. It is possible that Flossy did some sleuthing and came upon this marriage record and either misunderstood the significance of the dates or ignored that and came to the conclusion that these people were in some way connected to Ann Wylly, albeit in another generation.

Ann Wylly

Sex: F
AKA: Ann Wylie ⁴²⁹⁵ ^,8791
Individual Information

Birth Date: Bef 24 Feb 1718/19 - Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland ⁴²⁹⁵ ^,8791 ^,8792 Christening: 24 Feb 1718/19 - Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland ⁴²⁹⁵ ^,8791 ^,8793 ^,8794 Death: After 1800 - Sidmouth, Devon, England ³⁰⁵ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: 1724, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Birth: 1740, Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.
• Emigration: 1740, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Death: 1763, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: 10 Mar 1776, Sidmouth, Devon, England. Robert mentions not having yet seen "the old woman" in Sidmouth since he arrived in Devon.
• Census: Household of Robert and Ann Carter, 1800, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Including daughter, Ann Carter Sweetland (widow) and her son Benjamin Sweetland.

Parents

Father: Alexander Wylly ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 Mother: Mary Donaldson ¹⁰ ^,4058 ^,4287 ^,4288 ^,4289 ^,4290

Spouses and Children

1. *Surrogate Robert Carter JP ¹⁰ ^,78 ^,168 ^,454 ^,1991 Marriage: Children: 1. Anne Carter 2. Judge William Carter Esq. 3. Robert Carter JP 4. Carter 5. Joan Carter 6. Mary Carter 7. Sarah Carter

Notes
General:

Surname variously spelled as Wyley, Wylley, Wilie, Wylie.

Seems to be a discrepancy about the place of birth (Scotland or England?) and the date of birth (1719 or 1724?), the first data from Aunt Jean and the second from Enid O'Brien. I am taking Enid's advice as better studied and acccept it.

Email from Lanny dated 07/02/01: 1. I notice you list Ann Wyley as having been born in Sidmouth, Scotland. Sidmouth is in Devon, between Torquay and Dartmouth. I see you have this right for Robert Carter but not for his wife. Dodbrooke, where Richard White was born is adjacent to Sidmouth.

1 NAME also spelt /Wylie/ (Harcourt Gardiner GEDCOM Note)

300910: From Jean Carter Stirling: I have no record of anything new having been discovered about Ann(e) Wylley since then. It's still slim pickings! (3 items) 1] I have an IGI listing as follows: "Christening, dau Ann, 24 February, 1719, of Alexander Wylie and Mary Donaldson, at Campbellton, Argyll, Scotland." I was researching at a Seventh Day Adventist Church Library, and had sent for a film through them, Batch C115072, 1659 - 1773, film #690096. If this is the right family, then Ann was 3 years older than Robert Carter. 2] Enid found (and copied) a letter from Nfld Archives, Colonial Bldg., Scottish Record Office, Ref. B -7 -1 (related to Nfld) from Alex Wylly, St. John's, Nfld, Dec. 13, 1726, to: Mr. Edward Burd, Jr. Edinburgh. It's a business letter, indicating that he was living here year round. He ends by saying ... "I have not more to add but mine and the family's due respects. I am, sir your most humble servant, Alex Wylly (or Wylley)" 3] Enid also found (from William Sweetland's memoirs, as copied by Miss Bremner) a Sarah Wylley dau. Alexander, who married John Benger, Jr. of Ferryland. The husband was son of John Benger who married a daughter of Sir David Kirke.

210614:
This is the entry for her in the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Keep in mind that this Encyclopedia was based on conventional wisdom and not original research:

CARTER (née Wylley). ANN (fl. 1740-1763). Born England? Wife of Robert Carter. Sr., qv. Ann Carter arrived in Ferryland with her husband in the early 1740s. They were reportedly on a stopover on their way to mainland North America, but dreading another sea voyage she convinced her husband of the benefits of settling permanently al Ferryland. Over the next twenty years she bore three sons and four daughters. During the defence of the Isle of Bois from French attack in 1762 she is reported to have manned a canon and brought down the mainmast of one of the French ships with one of her shots. An inspiration to the people garrisoned on the Island, especially the women, she was continually on the firing line passing out ammunition and aiding the defenders. Courageous to the end of the fight, when the French were routed, she boarded a shallop with her husband to give chase.
J R, Smallwood (1978). BGR [Bertram George Riggs]

080615:
Nothing new to add really except that I now have a photocopy of Jean Carter Stirling's hand written notes made at the time that she discovered in the IGI films the christening record of a daughter named Ann on 24 Feb. 1719 to Alexander Wylie and Mary Donaldson at Campbellton, Argyle, Scotland (Batch C115072, 1659-1773, Film 690096). This does not advance our information at all but continues the confusion as to name of her mother and her place of birth. The date I am presently using for her birth is actually this christening date but I am using as the name of her mother Miriam Sloan so one thing is right and one wrong and this needs to be changed.

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Notes from Jean's family tree imported this year (2021)

Anne is said to be from Scotland, daughter of Alexander and Mirian Wylley or Wylie. According to the IGI (Feb. 1996) her parents were Alexander Wylie and Mary Donaldson of Scotland. Possibly, then, Robert met her on his ports of call,as he was a seagoing individual.

!BIRTH: IGI- Batch 115072 Film 6900996

The IGI (Feb. 1996) says that Ann had two sisters-
Mary Wylie christened 11/5/1721
Agnes Wylie christened 17/11/1723

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080721:
Whilst the spelling of Ann's surname remains in doubt, as does her place and date of birth, an even bigger mystery is the name of Ann's mother. Two possibilities have been posited. Miriam Sloan(e) is apparently not based on any recorded evidence so I do not know how it came to be the preferred option prior to Jean Carter Stirling's discovery of the second, recorded event - the birth of Ann Wylie to Alexander Wylie and Mary Donaldson in Campbeltown, Argyle, Scotland, christened on Feb 24 1718/19.

I tend to think that Jean Carter Stirling's discovery is not relevant. But I cannot provide any reason for disbelieving it really.

I would dearly love to know where Joe Smallwood found the name Miriam, however. In his 1937 family history of the Carter Family commissioned by Cyril Carter he refers to Ann's parents as Alexander and Miriam Wylley [sic]. He never gives Miriam's maiden name. Aunt Jean evidently supplied that surname later. I think it may have been unsupported family lore, as there was a long-held (and seriously flawed) story that Ann's mother was the sister of Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum. And it is my suspicion that Aunt Jean's acceptance of this name is responsible for all the iterations of that name all over the internet and in private family trees since. But I have also contributed in large measure to that dissemination of information/misinformation. For example, in 2005, only five years after starting on the family history, I discovered a FamilyTreeMaker tree online referred to as Rachel Ann Dove Ancestors which contained information on Ann Wylly and her parents as well as many others of my ancestors only to discover later that his information was copied directly from my online FTM family tree.

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300921:

In trying to sort out which of two plausible sets of parents were actually the real ones for Ann, Alexander Wylly and Mariam Sloane of Northern Ireland, or Alexander Wylie and Mary Donaldson of Campbeltown, Argyle, Scotland, I quizzed Enid O'Brien and Karen Chapman as to any definitive information they might have to support the apparent belief of William Sweetland in the first origin. He claimed that there was a bible of Alexander Wylie, dated 1716 in Edinburgh, that gave the names of the wife and the children and their spouses (this information was then given to Nimshi Crewe by Joyce Dunfield Angel, a Sweetland descendant).

Here is what Karen had to say on the matter:

Hi Chris,

I just searched Mom's files on Wylly and Carter. I find no mention of the family bible in question. I found a letter that mom wrote to the British Museum and their reply concerning Sir Han Sloan's pedigree. It confirms what you say about no relatives named Miriam or Mariam or Marion. Do you remember the old game telegraph where one whispers something in the ear of the person sitting next to them and they have to pass the message around the circle. By the time it gets back to the sender it is completely wrong? I think of that sometimes when family lore is disproved. Maybe Miriam was a Sloan, but not of the Hans Sloan's family. Someone in the family may have thought there would be some sense of importance by attaching Sir Han Sloan's name to their relative. So maybe Miriam was a Sloan, just of a different family. Just a thought. Maybe searching other Sloans would be good. Maybe it has been done?

I found letters from Jean Stirling to Mom. I found a letter from Alexander Wylly to Edward Burd Jr. about the fishing business dated Dec 13, 1726. There was a family tradition in the file of an Alexander Wylley of Dayton Ohio which stated that there was a Family tradition of 7 Wylley brothers at the time of Cromwell. Five had their heads chopped off. The other two left England (good idea) one going to Ireland the other to Scotland by way of Flanders, then back to England. This last group was supposed to be our ancestors. It is also thought that the last L in the name was picked up in Scotland. Mom said that her great Aunt Alice had Wyllie as a middle name so Wyllie is most likely a family name. She has written that there were lots of Marion Wylies in Ayr Scotland. She found one Marion Sloan in Ayr. I can't see the source of that last piece of info. (her usual sources were church records). There is no Sloan file in her records.

The above paragraph states what few items were in her Wylly file. I think she must have run into the same roadblocks that everyone else has. I wish I could be of more help. Good Luck on the quest!

Your cousin,
Karen

Elizabeth Wylly

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: After 1712 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹⁹³² Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death: Drowned at sea with all their children

Parents

Father: Alexander Wylly ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 Mother: Miriam Sloan ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 ^,8055

Spouses and Children

1. *Unknown ¹⁴² ^,1932 Marriage:

Notes
General:

Drowned at sea with all their children

John Wylly

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: After 1712 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹⁹³² Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: Plymouth, Devon, England.

Parents

Father: Alexander Wylly ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 Mother: Miriam Sloan ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 ^,8055

Marion Wylly

Sex: F
AKA: Mariam Wylly ¹⁹³²
Individual Information

Birth Date: After 1712 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹⁹³² Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Alexander Wylly ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 Mother: Miriam Sloan ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 ^,8055

Spouses and Children

1. *Dr. Spry ¹⁴² ^,1932 Marriage: Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁹³²

Mary Wylly

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: After 1712 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹⁹³² Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: Bay Bulls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Occupant)

Parents

Father: Alexander Wylly ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 Mother: Miriam Sloan ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 ^,8055

Spouses and Children

1. *John McAlly ¹⁴² ^,1932 Marriage:

Phillip Wylly

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: After 1712 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹⁹³² Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Alexander Wylly ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 Mother: Miriam Sloan ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 ^,8055

Sarah Wylly

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: After 1712 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹⁹³² Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Alexander Wylly ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 Mother: Miriam Sloan ⁷⁸ ^,168 ^,454 ^,8055

Spouses and Children

1. *John Benger ¹⁹³² Marriage: Newfoundland ¹³ Children: 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living 4. Living 5. Living 6. Living

Notes
General:

230821:

This Sarah Wylly is the putative sister of Anne Wylly, spouse of the first Robert Carter. I say putative because this information comes from dubious sources. Nimshi Crewe became convinced that there was a link via marriage from George Calvert (via one of his daughters) to his arch enemy, David Kirke, and that from this unlikely marriage through several other marriages between the Benger and Dobble family a connection finally occurred involving the sister of Anne Wylly and John Benger. The source of Nimshi's information was "Mrs. Angel", who assembled her family tree at least partially based upon information evidently recorded in his day by William Sweetland, possibly during the time that he was magistrate in Bonavista, or perhaps earlier when he was involved in business in Ferryland.

Mrs. Angel was née Joyce Dunfield and was a descendant of William Sweetland's brother Benjamin. Because these two brothers were sons of Anne Carter by her second husband, Henry Sweetland, it was her hope and belief that she had found a direct connection between her and her family and the original settlers of Ferryland.

All the families supposed to have formed a part of this chain of descent were real. But there is no evidence showing the marriages between these various families leading down to the mythical and possibly fictional Sarah Wylly. Nevertheless I include her and her putative husband, John Benger, here in case at some future date evidence will be found to support her existence and her relationship to Anne Wylly.

Kristine Yager

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 12 Nov 1949 - New South Wales, Australia ¹⁴ Christening: Death: Cir 2010 - New South Wales, Australia ( about age 61) ¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. Living 2. Living

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