Watkins - Wheeler 

Watkins / Walter. English origins. In  1578 they were in Co. Galway - South West Connacht  but most arrived in the 17^th Century.

Watson / Scottish origins / Anglicized from Mac Whatty, Watt and Quatt / Gaelic - Mheic Bhaididh who were in the north - east of the Ulster Province.

Watson. English origins. Descended from a son of Wat / Walter.

Watt. Diminutive of Walter. They are in the north - east of the Ulster Province.

Mac Watters. See - Waters.

Mac Watters. Walter, English origins / They are in the north - east of the Ulster Province.

Wauchope /

Waugh / walh - foreigner. English origins / They came from along the Scottish border and were in Ireland in the Mid - 17^th Century.

Weadock. Used as a variant for Vaddock, which see.

Webb. They were in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster and Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province in the Mid - 17th Century and many were students at Dublin University.

Webster. weaver. English occupational origins. They were in Leinster & Ulster since the Mid - 17^th Century.

Mac Weeney / Irish / Mheic Mhaonaigh - maonach - wealth or dumb. A Sept / Family branch, who had their territory at Moylurg in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province and were also in Co. Leitrim in the north of Northern Connacht later on.

Weir or Weer / Irish / Mheic an Mhaoir - Maor - steward. Originally anglicized as mac Moyer or Moyers, which see. A Sept / Family branch who had their territory in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province.

Weir. Used also by some of the Mac Clures, which see, Irish / Mheic Giolla Uidhir to anglicize their name. Originally known as Mac Gillaweer. A Sept / Family branch who had their territory in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province.

Weir. Used by some of the Irish / Ui Corra - corra - edge in Co. Westmeath in the south - west of Northern Leinster.

Weir. English origins. They were in Co. Westmeath in the south - west of Northern Leinster.

Weir. See also - Wyer.

Welby / Bheilbi. They were in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht.

Welby. They were in Carrickfergus in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province in 1666 AD.

Weldon or Meldon or Muldoon / Irish - Ui Maolduin. A Sept - Family branch who had their territory in Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of the  Ulster Province.

Weldon or Welden or Belton or Veldon / de Bhealatun, English origins / They have been  in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster since the 14th Century AD.

Wellesley or Weelleslie  or Wellisle or Wellysley  or Wellysly or Wesely. English origins / They were in Co. Meath - North East Leinster in 1174 AD and some became "More Irish then the Irish."  The branch from which the Duke of Wellington came from did not. Some also changed to Wesley, which see, as a synonym including a Catholic Bishop of Kildare. See also - Waldron.

Wells. English locative and toponymic origins. They have been in Leinster Province and Munster Province since the 13th Century AD, but most are now in the north - east of the Ulster Province.

Welsh. See - Walsh.

Wemys or Wems. See - Weymes.

Wenman -

Wentworth -

Were -

Wesley. Used as an abbreviation for Wellesley, which see.

Wesley. (Of the Wesleyans) -

West.

Westenra -

Westgate -

Weston. Anglo Norman toponymic. They were in Ireland in Medieval times.

Weston. Recent arrivals they were in the Leinster Province, and the Ulster Province after the Confiscation of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill territories and the Foreign non - Catholic Plantation there.

Westropp or Westhorp or Westhrop. English toponymic origins. They were in Co. Limerick.

Wetherall or Wetherell  or Whethell -

Weymes or Wymes / Originally Wemyse. Scottish toponymic origins. They were in the Leinster Province in the 14th Century AD. Wims, Wyms and Wymbs were used as variants in Northern Connacht.

Whaley. Buck was the M.P. for Newcastle in Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province at only 17 years of age whose father was the anti - Catholic Richard who in 1797 was the M.P. for Enniscorthy. He was paid 4,000 pound to vote for the "Immoral Union" by the English Government and then received another large sum to vote against it,

Mac Whannon. See - Bohannon.

Wharton. May be the Irish / Ui hArrachtain.  They were in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province were Faughton, which see, is also used as a synonym there. (Not connected with the English Wharton there).

O Whearty. Irish / Ui Faghartaigh - faghartach - noisy. A Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province. Now also in Co. Louth and Co. Westmeath in Northern Leinster. Ancestors - *87. Fiacha the original 2nd King of Connacht (Ui Fiachrach), *86.Eochy "Mugmedon" the 124th King of Tara / Ireland.