Tag: Wilcox
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An Average Victorian Family ?
My title poses the question because I was quite interested in the size of my Great Grandmothers family. In the space of twenty years she had given birth to twelve children, two who lived for very short periods of time. Apparently this was not unusual other than the number of births. The National Archives reports…
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Going underground
Three years ago I was contacted by an heir hunter from south Wales who was searching for the descendants of the Wilcox family. A distant relative who was unknown to me had left a small legacy and he had no descendants of his own. This led to a discovery about two brothers and one sister…