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Other Countries / Re: Kathleen Byrne's marraige in India, 1923
« on: Tuesday 03 February 15 11:44 GMT (UK) »
Tintern, many thanks for that. I found that I did have that record but it then led me to the actual record of the birth of Sir Francis Verner Wylie on 9th August 1891 which reveals that his Mother was Margaret Hyde whose sister Lydia was my grandmother. This record can be seen at https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/search/birth.
It seems that the Verners were not in Sir Francis's direct ancestry but were a little more distantly connected. As the Wylie and Verner families lived in the same small area of County Tyrone where the Verners were major landowners I wonder if the latter perhaps were benefactors of the Wylies, who were small farmers, and maybe aided them with the cost of the education of their son which led him to positions of distinction in later life. This might be the reason that the Verner name appears so often in the Wylie family.
It seems that the Verners were not in Sir Francis's direct ancestry but were a little more distantly connected. As the Wylie and Verner families lived in the same small area of County Tyrone where the Verners were major landowners I wonder if the latter perhaps were benefactors of the Wylies, who were small farmers, and maybe aided them with the cost of the education of their son which led him to positions of distinction in later life. This might be the reason that the Verner name appears so often in the Wylie family.