Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Commander Greenleaf Cilley
1829 - 1899 (69 years)-
Name Greenleaf Cilley Prefix Commander Birth 27 Oct 1829 Thomaston, Knox, Maine 
[1] Gender Male Death 5 Feb 1899 San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina [1] Burial Elm Grove Cemetery, Thomaston, Knox, Maine [1] Person ID I35347 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 19 May 2021
Father Jonathan Longfellow Cilley, U.S. Representative from Maine, b. 2 Jul 1802, Nottingham, Rockingham, New Hampshire d. 24 Feb 1838, Bladensburg, Prince George's, Maryland (Age 35 years) Mother Deborah Prince, b. 6 Jul 1808 d. 14 Aug 1844 (Age 36 years) Marriage 4 Apr 1829 [1] Family ID F20761 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Malvina Vernet, b. 5 Feb 1830, Malvina Islands, Argentina, now Falkland Islands, British Overseas Territory d. 24 Sep 1924, Argentina (Age 94 years) Marriage 13 May 1861 Montevideo, Uruguay [1] Family ID F20763 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 19 May 2021
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Notes - He joined the US Navy as a midshipman shortly after his father was killed in a duel. He made a career of it and retired in 1865 with the rank of Commander. On a naval visit to South America he met and fell in love with Malvina Vernet, daughter of Luis Vernet, who was once governor of the Malvina Islands. They married in 1861 and lived in the United States for some years, where their first two children were born. They were present in Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. on 15 Apr 1865 when President Lincoln was assasinated. Not long after that, they moved back to Argentina, where they spent the rest of their lives.
They had six children. Their oldest, a daughter, died before her second birthday. The second, Jonathan Vernet Cilley (1863-1947) was born in Brooklyn, New York, trained as a civil engineer, married an Italian woman, and spent the rest of his life in South America. The remaining four children, Luis Prince Cilley (1867-1941), Joseph Saez Cilley (b. 1868), Déborah Malvinas Cilley (b. 1870), and Malvina Justa Cilley (1872-1941), were all born in South America, married South American spouses, and died there, resulting in innumerable descendants of the New England Cilley family on that continent, mostly in Argentina and Chile.
- He joined the US Navy as a midshipman shortly after his father was killed in a duel. He made a career of it and retired in 1865 with the rank of Commander. On a naval visit to South America he met and fell in love with Malvina Vernet, daughter of Luis Vernet, who was once governor of the Malvina Islands. They married in 1861 and lived in the United States for some years, where their first two children were born. They were present in Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. on 15 Apr 1865 when President Lincoln was assasinated. Not long after that, they moved back to Argentina, where they spent the rest of their lives.
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Sources - [S5807] The Cilley Pages by Mark Cilley, at cilley.net, via the Wayback Machine at archive.org.
- [S5807] The Cilley Pages by Mark Cilley, at cilley.net, via the Wayback Machine at archive.org.