Copy of Will of William Joseph Harris, Mathematical Instrument Maker, Cork, and other Wills copied by Welply pre 1922.

Welply a Cork Antiquarian copied many historical documents prior to their destruction in the Public Records Office in 1922. He was a Senior School Inspector who opted on Partition to move to Northern Ireland. He died there in the 1950s in his 90s. All along he kept up his interest in Cork history. As he points out in one of his articles he is a McCarthy, the Welply name being adopted in the 18th century. The RCB Library in Rathgar, Dublin have his papers.

Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.

Genealogy of Conor McCarthy, (son John McCarthy Mór), Barony of Muskerry, died 1761 assumed his father-in-law’s surname Welply, names include Baldwin, Uncles, Collins, Jagoe, Riordan.

Copy of Will of Richard Roycroft (Obliterated in the Destruction of the Public Record Office, Dublin, 1922 but copied by William Henry Welply) of Clouney (Clonee, Bog Road), Parish of Durrus, agd 9th May 1801, Proved 1st August 1801, Son-in-law, George Swanton, Grandson Richard Lavers (Levis), granddaughter, Avis Notter, son Thomas Roycroft deceased, daughter Grace O’Sullivan. Executors George Swanton, Richard Lavers (Levis). Witnesses: Robert Lavers. Charles Dalton, John Vickery.

Membership lists of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1893 and 1945, snapshot of Cork Diaspora in Colonial Legal and Medical Service, and 1945 Gaelicisation of Irish Public Service, 1893 names include Francis Joseph Bigger, Belfast, Robert Day, Cork Antiquarian, Herbert Gillman Cork Historian, Rev. Graves Bishop of Limerick, Historian and Archaeologist, William Baylor Hartland Cork Horticulturist, P W Joyce Dublin Historian, Denny Lane, Cork Businessman writer and Historian, Lieutenant Francis O’Neill, Later Chief O’Neill, Chicago Police, Irish Music Collector, Canon Goodman, Skibbereen, Professor Of Irish TCD and Irish Music Collector, 1945 Historians Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, John T. Collins, Cork, Father TJ Walsh, Cork, Genealogists, Edward McLysaght, Herald’s Office, Dublin, William Henry Welply, Greenisland Co. Antrim, Count Eoin O’Mahony BL Cork, Sculptor Seamus Murphy, Cork, Playwright Lennox Robinson, Dublin, Oscar Prince of Prussia, Potsdam, Germany.