This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wix, Wicks, Weeks, Sparks+ Bishop & Barnett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5hVBAIB/1438 Message Board Post: Hello Bishops, Wix, Wicks, Weeks Researchers, I’m looking for my Wix/Wicks/Weeks ancestors and need your help! In Union County, South Carolina, in the 1850 Census I found the following: Milly Wix, age 15, living with Absolom & Rebecca Bishop – no others are living with this older couple; John Wix, age 16, living with the Elmore Bishop family; Nancy A. Wix, age 17, living with the Marshal Barnett family. What is the connection of these children to the Bishops? I’m assuming they were siblings; were they orphans taken in or assigned by the court, older children jobbed out to these families, or related to them in some way? Emillie "Millie" Louisa Wicks (Wix, Weeks) is my GG Grandmother who married Elisha Marion Sparks (son of Lloyd Sparks and Rebecca Berry of Union Co.), about 1853, in Union Co., SC (?). The family moved to Henderson Co. TN, then to Shelby Co., TX, after the Civil War where they lived out their lives. I have not been able to determine who her parents were however it appears from the 1840 Census that Jeremiah Weeks or E. Weeks are possible parent families Any help, pointers, suggestions are appreciated. Tommie J Clayton