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Surnames: Reilly Reily O'Reilly
Classification: Query
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Dialect and literacy level of recorder has impacted the
spelling of this surname. Recorded alternate spellings:
Reilly, Reily, Reiley, O’Reilly, O-Reily, O’Reilly and Riley, a modern version.
Directory Nevada Territory, 1862, Resident Virginia City:
Fergur Reily, miner Gould and Curry
James Riley, liquors, East side C Street, near Union
Peter Riley, bar Virginia City Hotel
James O’Reilly, miner West Side E St, near Gould & Curry
P. S. O’Reilley, liquors (sample rooms) West Side B Street near Fashion Saloon
Directory Nevada Territory, 1862, Resident Gold Hill:
O’Reilley’s Branch Sample Rooms, Main St, opp Gold Hill Hotel
Directory Nevada Territory, 1862, Resident Silver City:
Michael Riley, miner Boston Claim, Main near Wells Fargo & Co
Death records Gold Hill:
Ed Reilly, native of Ireland, D. November 1, 1874. Buried Catholic Cemetery, Gold Hill,
Old Ground
Death records Virginia City:
Sarah Reilly, native of Ireland, d. December 26, 1897, aged 73 years. Buried by John
Reily
From the Journals of Alfred Doten, newspaperman of the time, a
reference to a Rev. W. M. Reilly as being part of the clergy of the diocese of Rev.
Talbott, Bishop of the NorthWest, which also included Rev. O. W. Whitaker and Franklin S.
Rising