When William Wiley was born in 1814, in Franklin Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Wiley, was 31 and his mother, Mary Susan Main, was 34. He had at least 3 sons and 5 daughters with Eliza Freed. He lived in North Sewickley, Franklin Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Daugherty Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died in 1877, at the age of 63.
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English: from various places called with Old English wīg, wēoh ‘idol’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’, such as Whyly in East Hoathly (Sussex), Whiligh in Ticehurst (Sussex), Weeley (Essex), Weoley (Worcestershire), and Willey (Surrey), or from any of the other places called Willey, such as those in Cheshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire, named with Old English wilig ‘willow’ + lēah, or from Wylye (Wiltshire), which takes its name from the river Wylye (of uncertain etymology).
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