I apologise to the list members for not including more information in my previous posting. My surname interests are WISEMAN (WEISMANN, WEISSMANN) Frederick Conrad Wiseman / Weismann born abt 1861 in Australia. I have his father as Friedrich Egbert Weismann (married in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia 1859) I believe my gggrandfather's name was actually Weismann and was changed somewhere around the year 1900 to Wiseman. I have found certificates for his marriage here in Australia in both names and my gmother used to say she believed the name had been Weismann ... but we don't know the reasoning behind the name change. MACKNEY, I have a large database on the Mackney line, dating from Richard Mackney born abt 1674 in England FENWICK Jane Fenwick married above Richard Mackney abt 1703 in Thanet, Kent, England. They had 4 known children. NICHOLSON, Emma Jane Nicholson was born in Yorkshire abt 1839, she married a Samuel Webster (one daughter Clara my Ggrandmother), she married a ?? Wright who had several children of his own, she then emigrated to Australia where she married Francis Charles Kingston (my gggrandfather) Her daughter Clara married Francis Arthur Kingston (son of Francis Charles Kingston and Mary Jane Agnes Morrison) WRIGHT, as related to Nicholson, above KINGSTON, Edward William Kingston born abt 1803 in Somerset England, father of above Francis Charles Kingston. RALPH, Mary Ralph born abt 1710 in Kent, England married John Mackney 1733 in St Laurence, Kent, England ZIMPEL, Carl August Zimpel and Karlotta Kervietta Grabenten, a son Ernst Theodor Zimpel, born abt 1859 in Prussia married Bertha Redlin in Queensland, Australia in 1887 BALLHAUSE, Henry Ballhause, born abt 1836 in Prussia, emigrated to Australia (? not sure) naturalised 1893. Married Emma Moore, 1863 in Sydney Australia SHAW son of Henry Ballhause (above) Joseph William Henry Shaw married Isobella Mary Louise Shaw (daughter of Malcolm Shaw and Mary Alice Johnson) Regards Cynthia Zimpel (nee Mackney)