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WIGLEY FAMILY HISTORY |
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„ PHOTOS |
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PHOTOS
ARE ARRANGED BY FAMILIES, SO IF YOU CAN’T FIND A PHOTO OF THE PERSON YOU ARE
LOOKING FOR, ESPECIALLY BEFORE THEY ARE MARRIED, LOOK AT THEIR FATHER PLEASE LET ME KNOW OF ANY LINKS
THAT DON’T WORK ANY PHOTOS WHICH
CONTAIN LIVING PEOPLE ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO FAMILY MEMBERS |
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Many
of these photos are from the “Wigley USA
collection” - there is an interesting story behind these photos, which also
goes to explain why there are so many: After
Herbert William Wigley emigrated to the USA in
1904, his brother and his sisters must have spent the next 50 years sending
him photos of themselves and their families, as in those days they might
never see him again (he did come back to the UK for a visit in 1926), and people still
used to write to each other. This exchange of letters probably ceased
gradually as the various siblings died in the 1940-50’s. When the author visited his children (his
father's cousins) in Schenectady, New York state, about 1980, he found they
had a shoebox full of old family photos – many with a handwritten note on the
back from the person who’d sent them - borrowed them, and made copies. Many
of these photos either didn’t exist any more
England, or had been scattered around the various families - so now there is
have a nice collection of (copy) photos of the Wigley,
Macklin and Davis families, people the author has never seen. There
are more of Albert James Wigley’s family than of
any other family - obviously, over the years he must have been the best letter
writer. Other
photos are from the collection of Margaret Nancy Durham Turner Dootson Chisman, who was an
avid collector – she was one of the eldest in her generation, and had many
photos of her various cousins, taken in a time when the families still mixed,
before they went their separate ways. |
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