His first marriage was on 4 May 1734 to Elizabeth daughter and sole heiress of George Weld of Willey Park.
he assumed the additional surname of Weld by Royal licence in 1811, upon inheriting Willey Park from his cousin George Forester.
He was the only son of Brooke Forester of Dothill in Wellington and Elizabeth daughter and heir of George Weld of Willey Park.
He died at 3 Carlton Gardens, London, in February 1886, aged 78, and was buried at Willey parish church.
Lord Forester died childless at Willey Hall in October 1874, aged 73, and was buried at Willey parish church.
William Forester succeeded to Dothill Park in about 1675 under the will of his helf-brother Richard Steventon (died 1659) and this became the main family seat at least until his grandson obtained Willey Park by marrying the heiress of George Weld.
In 1775, Watt designed two large engines: one for the Bloomfield Colliery at Tipton, completed in March 1776, and one for John Wilkinson's ironworks at Willey, Shropshire, which was at work the following month.
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Daniel Bissell Jr.'s badge was discovered in an unidentified barn in Deerfield, New Hampshire in the 1920s by Captain William Willey, according to the American Independence Museum in Exeter, New Hampshire, who displayed the framed item at their historic site.
The genus Haemocystidium was created to give a name to the haemoproteid of a gecko belonging to the genus Hemidactylus in Sri Lanka by Castellani and Willey in 1904.
Harold B. Willey, an American lawyer, was the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1952 to 1956.
According to an urban myth, it was during a Test match between the West Indies and England when Michael Holding was about to bowl to Willey, that the radio commentator Brian Johnston said: "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey".
The parish borders on several other parishes, including Willey, Kinsham and Presteigne.
Thompson and Meserve's Purchase was sold by Commissioner Willey to Samuel W. Thompson of Conway and George P. Meserve of Jackson, New Hampshire in 1855 for $500 USD.