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WELCOME TO THE SECOND EDITION OF THE “WORLD WIDE W*GG*”

Editor - Vivian Egan

First of all, thank you for all your kind words and suggestions regarding the first issue. [Ian Wegg has also added it to his webpage at www.wegg.mcmail.com]

Information has been pouring in, and when I can find time to enter all the details, the database will have more than doubled - and will be somewhere around 16,000 entries.

HUGE thanks to Len Wigg in Devon and Rosemary Wigg in Australia. We now have an almost complete listing of all the WIGG GRO & Wills extracts for England & Wales - from 1837 to 1990s. Within the next few months I hope to have these Indices finalised and available to you on disk or by e-mail. However, it will not be available in a printed format due to the volume. But please feel free to ask for lookups.

Christine Wagg of 338 High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford RM6 6AJ, England has also extracted all the WAGG entries on the GRO and Wills Index. Unfortunately these extracts are not in a format able to be photocopied, but Christine is willing to check these extracts for anyone.

Alas, for those of us chasing WEGG and WIGGS, we will have to do the legwork ourselves - unless someone would like to VOLUNTEER to extract them !!! Any takers ???

For those of you with family in the US of A - I have been able to download from the Internet all the W*GG* entries from the US Social Security Death Index [available at www.ancestry.com and follow the links]. This Index includes the date of death AS WELL AS the date of Birth. WIGGS was very prolific with over 870 entries leaving the others WAY behind. BUT...I have not had time to add these details to the Database.

To those of you who have very generously been contributing towards my postage costs - PLEASE don’t go to the expense of IRCs [International Reply Coupons] - I am quite happy to accept English, New Zealand, etc stamps.

Along with this newsletter, I am attaching a List of W*GG* researchers. I hope I am not offending anybody by including their name on this list. These names have been obtained from Genealogical Research Directories, Internet webpages, and other Family History sources which are freely available to everyone. While Ian may add a copy of this Newsletter to his webpage, the research list will be withheld.

The Research List includes the names of the volunteer Newsletter distributors. If you would like to continue receiving future issues, would you please contact your distributor [identified by the number preceding your name] and arrange to reimburse postage costs. IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT YOUR DISTRIBUTOR it will be assumed that you DO NOT wish to receive any more issues.

The format of the list is:

[Number] - identifying distributor; your NAME & ADDRESS; e-mail; FAMILY NAME researched & county. A [letter] at the extreme right indicates common line of research.

** indicates that while I have contacted these people, I have not received a reply as yet.

FEATURE FAMILY

Starting with this issue I hope to feature one particular family and where the research is presently stuck. And I couldn’t think of a better place to start than with my own [ & several others].

In 1742 when John married Sarah FROST at Gresham, he was a widower. Where did he come from and what did he do with his first wife ? Did they have any children ? All we know for sure is that she’s not buried at Gresham. John & Sarah had several children, most of whom died in infancy. Their daughter Sarah was the ancestress of June Morley’s husband; and their son Thomas, we believe to be the Thomas who married Mary COLMAN at Briningham, Norfolk in 1786, the ancestors of Janet Bye, Caroline & Allan McGillivray, Sheila & Tom Barley and Ted Johns and a large contingent of Canadians.

After Sarah died in 1764, John married for a third time to Rosamund WILKINS, the following year and had 3 sons, Richard - ancestor of Mike WEGG, Rose FRENCH and Joan COOMBE & Robert - ancestor of myself and Carolyn LE GAY BRERETON. John died in 1775 and Rosamund and her 3 sons moved to Trunch where she died in 1816.

PROFILE SPOTLIGHT - Ian WEGG

My name is Ian WEGG and I live in the south of England, in the small Hampshire town of Petersfield just a little bit inland from Portsmouth. I work as a computer software engineer, and my wife Wendy is the full time mother of our 2 children, Amy 5 and Toby 2.

I have been researching my family tree since 1995, and find I am descended from a John WEGG (or WAGG) who lived in the Great Bircham and Sedgeford areas of Norfolk. He married Katherine RISDEN from Dublin in Ireland, and their first son - also John - was born in Cork. Following generations were born in Little Walsingham Norfolk, and Spalding in Lincolnshire. My great grandfather came south to Hampshire as a gasworks manager at the turn of the century.

I have a Web home page at http://www.wegg.mcmail.com/ which contains my almost complete tree as I know it to date.

If YOU would like to have YOUR FAMILY featured or add your PROFILE please send particulars. Due to the number of researchers we have, it will be on a FIRST COME - FIRST SERVED basis.

Now that I know we won’t be moving for a while, I hope to have the newsletter out more regularly and I am looking at quarterly issues - as long as I have information to put in them !!! So please send in your ideas and don’t forget to KEEP SENDING IN your W*gg* research findings !!!

Finally I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to my volunteer newsletter distributors. Without them this would not be possible. Thank you to Ian, Rose, Gerry, Steve, Stan, Helen and also Paul who sends out quite a few via e-mail who are not as yet included on the Research List.

Until next time, best wishes to you all.............................................

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