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From: Frances Dilley <>
Subject: Re: [WISE] Re: Oliver Wise de Greston (1040)
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:51:54 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <MFMBM002t0OUIHNkjgJ0000545f@mfmbm002.myfamilycorp.local>


The Book Col.John Wise his Ancestors and Descendants
of Virginia by Jennings Cropper Wise has all of this
information . Most larger libraries have the book or
can get it on a loan. Other wise I might be able to
scan the main pages and send E mail/
Frances Dilley
--- wrote:
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> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to
> this mailing list.
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> Surnames: Wise, Scarborough, West, Custis,
> Blackstone, Robinson, Riiley
> Classification: Query
>
> Message Board URL:
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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SiWBAEB/885.1
>
> Message Board Post:
>
> I have bits and pieces of information left to me by
> a g.g.aunt. I don't know where she obtained them.
> She wrote that Oliver Wise of Breston was followed
> by William Wise, whose son, Serlonius, and his three
> sons, Oliver, Sir John, and Henry, were also of
> Greston. These three sons were the founders of the
> three houses of Wise in Devonshire, possibly
> indicated in the family arms by the three chevrons.
> I am trying to connect with my John Wise of
> Devonshire, b. 1617-1695, the supposed progenitor of
> the Wise family in Virginia, with the many other
> John Wise that may go back to Oliver.
> - or if that is where I should be headed.
>


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