Individual Details
Charles Richard WILEY
(15 Oct 1847 - 24 Aug 1903)
It appears that Charles Richard Wiley used to drink fairly heavily and spent some time in a jail. He was considered the black sheep of the family. He also sold bales of hay which he were arranged over tree stumps, so that they would look fuller .He also had an illicit Still. It is thought that they were divorced, but no records of this can be found as yet.
Charles Richard Wiley married an Alice Lillian Morey in 1894, and fathered a further six children
Charles died from Asthma and Valvular Disease of the Heart on 24th Aug 1903 in Hawera, Taranaki and is buried at Hawera.
As a postscript to this story it had been thought that Charles had married Alice according to the birth certificate of the first child Lillian. On checking through Birth, Death and Marriage files of New Zealand for 1893-1905, no marriage entry can be found.
Charles Richard Wiley married an Alice Lillian Morey in 1894, and fathered a further six children
Charles died from Asthma and Valvular Disease of the Heart on 24th Aug 1903 in Hawera, Taranaki and is buried at Hawera.
As a postscript to this story it had been thought that Charles had married Alice according to the birth certificate of the first child Lillian. On checking through Birth, Death and Marriage files of New Zealand for 1893-1905, no marriage entry can be found.
Events
| Birth | 15 Oct 1847 | Wellington, New Zealand | |||
| Marriage | 21 Nov 1871 | Wellington, New Zealand - Priscilla FAWCETT |  | ||
| Marriage | 1894 | Alice Lilian MORLEY | |||
| Death | 24 Aug 1903 | of Asthma and Valvular Disease of the Heart - Hawera, New Zealand | |||
| Burial | 26 Aug 1903 | ||||
| Occupation | Sawyer, Wheelwright and Shingle Splitter |
Families
| Spouse | Priscilla FAWCETT (1853 - 1926) |
| Child | William Charles Hamilton WILEY (1872 - 1944) |
| Child | Charlotte Amelia Jane WILEY (1875 - 1918) |
| Child | David Robert WILEY (1884 - 1905) |
| Spouse | Alice Lilian MORLEY (1873 - 1954) |
| Child | Lilian Susan WILEY (1895 - ) |
| Child | Horace Luther Fred WILEY (1896 - 1943) |
| Child | Miriam Clara WILEY (1897 - 1918) |
| Child | Hilda Alice WILEY (1899 - 1918) |
| Child | Hugh Richard Douglas WILEY (1900 - 1959) |
| Child | Andrew Duncan WILEY (1901 - 1918) |
| Father | Hamilton James WILEY ( - 1879) |
| Mother | Jane Freeman GAUSDEN (1820 - 1887) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | John Freeman WILEY (1843 - 1845) |
| Sibling | Hamilton James WILEY (1845 - 1917) |
| Sibling | William Martin WILEY (1850 - 1918) |
| Sibling | Luther Gausden WILEY (1852 - 1921) |
| Sibling | David Thomas WILEY (1854 - 1927) |
| Sibling | Cornelius John WILEY (1856 - 1891) |
| Sibling | Amelia Jennette WILEY (1858 - 1863) |
| Sibling | Albert Alonzo WILEY (1860 - 1919) |
| Sibling | Robert Maxwell WILEY (1863 - 1957) |
| Sibling | Naomi WILEY (1866 - 1866) |
Notes
Marriage
Their marriage was very unhappy in the respect that Charles drank very heavily and knocked Priscilla about. He used to go to hotels and steal liquor and in the end he was jailed.In one of the letters she wrote to her brother Joseph, she states she divorced, but no records have been found to clarify this. Charles Richard Wiley died in 1903 and Priscilla married a James Wilson in 1914. It must be assumed from her letter that she was living with James Wilson for sometime before marrying him, as in her 1899 letter she calls herself Priscilla Wilson and writes of marrying a nice man.
Her religion was of the Salvation Army. She died of Cardiac Disease.