Oops, my fingers got the best of me! LOL I didn't mean to call the military BUFFS - military BIFFS! My apologies ... you were all wonderful and no insult was intended! :>) Cheers, Ronda -----Original Message----- From: Ronda Wicks <mypal@execulink.com> To: ENG-GLO-HAWKESBURY-L@rootsweb.com <ENG-GLO-HAWKESBURY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 9:57 AM Subject: [[Hawks]] Thank you anyway, etc. >Dear Geoffro, > >Thanks for your effort anyway. I had a few military biffs and a retired >British soldier take a stab at them. Most of the responses agreed with one >another on which battallion my Wicks guys were in so at least I have a start >on them. > >By any chance, do you know anyone that may be living near Tormarton or >Sopworth and might be willing to write some info from the gravestones there. >Excerpts from a library book sent to me by a Wicks relative in Birmingham >have Wicks in the graveyard at Tormarton but it only gives years of death so >I cannot ascertain who is who with any surety. > >Also, thankyou for letting me know about the Wicks in the GRO/PRO data >posted to the website. My Birmingham Wicks relative has followed his line >back to that Bartholomew Wicks of Hillesley so, needless to say that he is >somehow related to mine but I still have to iron out al the how's, etc. > >Thanks again, >Ronda Wicks >(Woodstock, Ontario, Canada) > > > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >