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Wyse (Middlethird)
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The Wyse family had been associated with Waterford since Norman times. Depending on political events and allegiences their fortunes ebbed and flowed. Their story, including that of Letitia, niece of Napoleon Bonaparte, who married Thomas Wyse, is told in the Bonaparte Wyse family history at www.askaboutireland.ie. They were industrialists as well as land owners. Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to "the irons mills of John Wyse, situated in a pleasing valley" six miles from Waterford.
Francis Wyse was among the principal lessors in the parish of Dunhill, barony of Middlethird, county Waterford, at the time of Griffith's Valuation while Thomas Wyse held townlands in the parish of Trinity Without. Both Thomas and George Wyse were among the principal lessors in the parish of Aglish, barony of Decies-within-Drum at the same time. The rental of the lands of Dromore in the barony of Decies was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in June and again in December 1852. The Freeman's Journal reported that Patrick Power had purchased this property for £12,000. Over 700 acres of the estate in Middlethird barony was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in 1868 by Thomas Wyse and other family members. Napoleon A.B. Wyse's Ballynacourty and Manor estates were offered for sale in May 1871, amounting to almost 1000 acres in the barony of Decies-without-Drum and extensive property in Waterford city. The Irish Times reported that the purchasers included Messers. Delaney, McMahon, Stephenson, Terry and White.
Portions of this estate were re-offered in April 1872. One portion was purchased in trust for Hon. Thomas Ryan. By 1876, William "Wise", with an address in Brighton, was the owner of just over 300 acres in county Waterford. In the mid 19th century Thomas Wyse held an estate in the parish of Mortlestown, barony of Iffa and Offa West, county Tipperary.
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