This chronological compilation of events that occurred to VA Dilleys during the early Years is intended to profile their activities and living sites.
Censuses are important in following their lives and families.
At first, Dilleys seemed scarce in because so many records in the state were destroyed by wars. No 1790 and 1800 censuses have survived, but tax records sometimes offer a substitute for locating living sites. We have not determined the origin and parentage of most of these VA-born Dilleys. The immigrant Johannes Dilli provides a probable ancestry for the W. VA clan, but for about a dozen others born around 1780, parents have not been found. We depended heavily on census records for ages and periods of birth.