WYLIE in Belfast

[Gortraney]

Back in January, I got some GREAT HELP with the Anderson side of my Wylie family tree (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,631572.0.html) and now I'm hoping someone will be able to give me some help with tracing living relatives in the Belfast area and beyond.

My father, Albert Alexander (Bertie) Wylie was a great deal older than my mother, born in the Castlereagh area of Belfast to James Wylie and Jane Anderson in 1900. He was one of five brothers, the others being Samuel James (S J) Wylie, Robert Waddell (Bobby) Wylie, William Charles (Billy) Wylie and Matthew Anderson (Andy) Wylie.

Samuel (S J) Wylie was a Presbyterian minister and died in Canada in 1992 but I believe he had four daughters with his wife, Sarah McClements, all of which were born in Northern Ireland.

Bobby Wylie married Grace Dobbin and I believe it's their son, my cousin Robin, who had the unpleasant task of informing us when someone in the family had died. I haven't seen him in more than twenty years (think the last time was at my Uncle Andy's funeral) and am unsure if he married or had children.

Billy married Margaret Eleanor (no idea of her surname) but I don't think they had any children. Andy never married.

I can take the family back several generations but am hoping to find someone who can help me fill in the more recent blanks and *fingers crossed* might have some photographs of my dad when he was young. Question is, how do I find them? In the good old days I'd simply have looked in a phone book and rang a few numbers but short of leaving messages on some of the ancestry boards, I'm stumpled.

Help?

Trish

[aghadowey]

Sorry, but Rootschat isn't a forum for tracing living relatives so we can't post details of anyone who might still be alive.

The online civil registration index (www.familysearch.org) only goes up to 1921 for Northern Ireland counties and the latest available census is 1911.

An obituary for Rev. S.J. Wylie might mention the daughter's names but Canada has even stricter privacy laws than the U.K. which could make it difficult to find more recent information.

[Too]

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/the-boy-who-fitted-the-bill-1.690600

Read the whole thing Rev SJ Wylie is mentioned........

[scotmum]

Fascinating article, Too......poor woman though.

Here is further mention of Rev S J Wylie in Canada, about 8 years after his 1959 departure:

http://www.calverley.ca/Part09-Churches/9-12.html

and mention in 1978:

http://treeby-family.co.uk/indiI3764.html

officiating at funeral of another Wylie.

I have found Canadian libraries to be helpful in the past. As you know S J Wylie died in 1992, if you have a full date and place, then you could email the nearest library and ask for an obituary look up. Doing similar gave me an excellent breakthrough on a Canadian line I was researching for a friend and yielded enough clues to eventually track down a living descendant of the deceased.

A Robin Wylie death in Belfast newspaper, albeit may be a different Robin to the one in your family:


http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xtl/

[leighd]

I knew S.J. Wylie while he was in Canada. He was at Scarboro United Church in Calgary  in the 50 and 60s. Contacting the United Church may give you some information

Leigh Davies

[Lynneire]

Hi Gortraney,

I’ve just come across your post. My great grandpa was Bobby Wylie, and great granny, Grace (neé Dobbin. Their son, Robin, who you mention informing of family deaths, was my Grandpa. Robin passed away in 2005, and had three sons, with my Granny, Olive Isabel (neé Porter), the oldest of whom is my Dad.

I met Matthew Anderson Wylie (my great uncle Andy) at his farm in Ballygowan when I was a young girl in the 1980s, he passed away in the early 80s from memory.

There are definitely some family photos we have, which now Robin and Olive have passed, we’re not quite sure who they’re of, so one could be your father.

Hopefully you read this, as your post is from quite some time ago.

[Kiltaglassan]

Welcome to RootsChat 

Just adding some text information and URL links to this older thread.

My father, Albert Alexander (Bertie) Wylie was a great deal older than my mother, born in the Castlereagh area of Belfast to James Wylie and Jane Anderson in 1900. He was one of five brothers, the others being Samuel James (S J) Wylie, Robert Waddell (Bobby) Wylie, William Charles (Billy) Wylie and Matthew Anderson (Andy) Wylie.

Birth record - 26 August 1900 at Windsor Road which is in South Belfast.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1900/01977/1761917.pdf

His brothers-
Robert Waddell Wylie 1899, William Wylie 1902, Matthew Anderson Wylie 1911.
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01tjh/

Oldest brother Samuel James Wylie born 1897 at Castlereagh Road, Belfast.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1897/02109/1802933.pdf

1911 census
House 59 in Edinburgh Street (Windsor, Antrim).
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Windsor/Edinburgh_Street/153519/

Bobby Wylie married Grace Dobbin….

Marriage https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/
Grace Dobbin   Wylie              16th November 1920   Belfast
Robert Wylie   Dobbin              16th November 1920   Belfast
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1920/09276/5358491.pdf

Jennie Wylie       11th June 1922     Female   Dobbin   Belfast
Mary Wylie       28th May 1924     Female   Dobbin   Belfast