Wicks and Vaisey News
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3 Jan 2001 I have just found the photo below in my copies, and I obviously copied it some years ago, from where I do not know. The man on the left is Arthur Vaisey, son of John Vaisey and Emily Louisa nee Wicks. I do not know who the seated man is, but my mother reckons it could have been his elder brother, Ernest Henry Nathaniel Vaisey. My mother never met him, as he died about a year before she was born. I thought the only known photograph of him was one by his son, Les, taken at home and slightly blurred. So, if this is him, why isn't the photograph better known in the family???? And who has the original??? [Linda]
7 Oct: The Rootsweb WICKS-AUS mailing list is now up and running. To subscribe, send an e-mail with nothing in the subject line, and only the word "subscribe" (but without the talkies!) to:
WICKS-AUS-L-request@rootsweb.com for the List (where messages come individually as they are posted)
or to
WICKS-AUS-D-request@rootsweb.com for the Digest (where messages come in a block about every 18 hours - if anyone is posting)
To read what has already been sent to the List, go to
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/WICKS-AUS/
30 Sept - Linda is just back home after meeting Sue and Morrie (Wicks researchers) in Canberra. Sue and Morrie are off to Merriwa. Decision is - we should start a WICKS - Australia list at Rootsweb, at which the VAISEYS are also most welcome. Stand by for further details.
2 Sept - have just uploaded the updated Wicks chart - thanks to Sue for a HUGE lot of updates. I have finally settled on just loading names for the third Australia-born generation. Firstly to protect privacy, and also because the file is getting so much bigger. Also, for those who do not have it, I have put a photograph of Nathaniel's Vaisey's headstone on the Vaisey Chart.
I have also added a 1787 map of the area around Kingswood. (Linda)
29 August - the Vaisey chart has been updated and uploaded, thanks to asistance from Judy and Corinne. I am working on the Wicks chart, but it may take some time as I am overwhelmed by the extensive work undertaken by Sue, no doubt with the considerable assistance of Morrie. That one will be uploaded as soon as possible. If anyone feels the privacy of any living person is being breached, please let me know and appropriate amendments will be made. In the process, e-mail addresses have been moved to the details page from the Summary page, so it is easier to see who fits in where. (Linda)
26 August - A big welcome to Judy and Corinne, who have been added to the Vaisey researchers. Judy is in the Thomas Vaisey branch, and Corinne in the Mary Ann Vaisey/William Parkinson branch. I have also started a Biographies section, and have one posted which are the notes some may have seen from Nathan Vaisey (b.1877) about the family's time at Hinton and the move to Merriwa. If anyone would like to submit Biographies they are more than welcome.
I have also been having a bit of a look at Huguenots, and subscribed to the Rootsweb Huguenot list, and posted, only to be told all the discussion about Huguenots in Gloucester is on the Huguenots Waloons list. Have to find that one now and subscribe. (Linda)
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13 August
Hi everyone
At last I have put fingers to keys to add to Lindas page. I hope this page will be a success and that you will all use it to share stories and information.
My name is Sue O'Donnell, my husband Mick is the grandson of Emily Wicks daughter of Edwin Lewis Wicks son of Nathaniel Sargeant Wicks and so it goes on. I have been doing family research for a number of years, I have a great skeleton of names but need more meat (stories) to fill the tree out. I also have a number of certificates and photos that I am willing to share.
Mick and I live in Scarborough WA and have 2 daughters, Sandra 27 and Craig and our beautiful grand daughter Koralee live east of Perth near Northam. Karen is 25 and lives in Coral Bay south of Exmouth, this is a holiday resort.
Mick and I retired 12 months ago, we are moving south in January 2001 to live on the river, buy a boat, fish, crab, and enjoy life.
We are heading to Sydney on 20 Sep - 12 Oct 2000 for a holiday and meeting the many new rellies we have acquired over the past 12 months. We are having an informal gathering in Merriwa on 6 Oct plus a couple of yet to be organised ones in Sydney. We can be contacted on 0417 984 948 if you want any information on these gatherings.
Cheers Sue
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5 Aug: Thanks to the Hawkesbury List and Gail Dodd
- we can now see information, including a link to a picture (!!!!) of the
Bussorah Merchant.
(The link above is to our own page on the ship. If you are in
a hurry, click
here)
3 Aug: Have just added a link to Dave Hedges' history of the area around Wotton-Under-Edge, which includes Kingswood. To have a look, CLICK HERE (Linda)
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29 July
Hi Gang,
I have been wondering for a while how to welcome new researchers to the family, and allow them to introduce themselves. And, although I have a Vaisey list, the messages disappear with time. And a Wicks list would be just too out of control with too many unrelated people. So I thought I would trial a page on here, for descendants of the two families who came out on the Bussorah Merchant in 1839 to introduce themselves, and where people can announce new discoveries.
So then, all you need to do is bookmark this page and check it every now and then. And new researchers will get an immediate start on who we all are. So, all you need to do if you want to be part of it is e-mail me with your news/introductions, and give me a couple of days to paste them up on here. It would be an especially good place to announce new research finds. But can you just indicate somewhere in the header or the body of the message that the e-mail is for the "News page", because I will not post it here without that sort of permission.
So I will start. I live in Briagolong, a small town in Gippsland, Victoria. My mother, Ailsa, was born near Newcastle, NSW, and is a grand-daughter of John Vaisey and Emily Louisa Wicks. I don't get a lot of time to do any more research, but I am swish on getting web pages up fast. When I do get some spare time, I will go through some more of my old letters and fill in some more blanks on charts. At the moment I am more into reorganising my papers in my study, knocking doors through walls etc.
In the meantime, feel free to drop in here and leave an introduction, or any new finds that you may have, just by dropping it to me in an e-mail at kapana@netspace.net.au
Cheers
Linda
e-mail Linda: kapana@netspace.net.au
Last updated: 03 Jan 2001