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John Greenley (b.c1775) in County Wexford, probably in the area of Knockadawk in Kiltrish Parish. He seems to have been a tenant of the White family of the Townland and Manor of Peppardscastle. An 1811 map of Ballywater shows two lots leased by John Greenly. In 1798, John served as a cavalryman with the Ballaghkeen Yeomanry under a Captain Hawtrey White of the Manor Peppardscastle. He was severely wounded and spent time in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin.
In 1801 John Greenley married Dorothea (Blake) Richardson ... widow of a man named Richardson and the mother of three daughters; Mary, Ann and Elizabeth. John & Dorothea had five children all born in County Wexford around Peppardscastle; John (bc1801), Robert (b.c1806), Charlotte (b.c1808), James (b.c1810) and Jane (b.c1813). The entire family emigrated to Canada in 1815 or 1816. They received a land grant and settled at Perth (Lanark County), Ontario.
In about 1815, Dorothea (Blake) Richardson-Greenley's daughter Mary Richardson (b.c1791) married (we think in Ireland) one William Richards (b.c1790/95). William Richards was born in Ireland and both his parents were killed in the fighting of 1798. He served in the Royal Navy and then commanded merchant vessels. This couple moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1817, to St. John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1818 and later to Perth (Lanark County), Ontario, Canada.
