The Wildes had three children, two sons and a daughter.

The first son was born in 1852, a year after the marriage, and was christened after his father William Charles Kingsbury Wills.

The second son was born two years later, in 1854 and the names given to him seem to reveal the Nationalist sympathies and pride of his mother.

He was christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde; but he appears to have suffered from the pompous string only in extreme youth.

At school he concealed the "Fingal," as a young man he found it advisable to omit the "O'Flahertie." In childhood and early boyhood Oscar was not considered as quick or engaging or handsome as his brother, Willie.