Background. This letter involves the family of our great-grandfather, William Samuel Hickson. It recounts the transatlantic voyage taken by members of his family from London […]
Samuel Hickson’s Children: In Search of A New Life
Early Victorian times in England were a time of unrelenting change and unrest. Industrialization gave rise to a host of political and socioeconomic problems. While […]
The Hicksons in Victorian England
My grandmother, Nana (Marion Rosalind Hickson), descended from a couple named William Thomas Hickson and Sarah Mabin Hickson, her grandparents. William and Sarah were part […]
The Start of the Mannon Dynasty – October 30, 1919
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the wedding of Alfred Thomas Mannon and Marion Rosalind Hickson. In one hundred years, this union […]
Mannons in New York City – A Walkabout
The Mannons and Hicksons lived for many years in the New York City environs. Susan Hamilton Hickson emigrated here in 1868 from Ireland and her […]
Selina Hamilton laid to rest in Newtown Cemetery
In the Archives of the Queens Central Library in Jamaica, NY, my daughter discovered a book entitled “Cemetery Inscriptions” copied by Josephine C. Frost, volume […]
New Information on the Deaths of William and Selina Hamilton
I recently spent a day in the Central Queens Library in Jamaica trying to flesh out the details of Selina and William Hamilton’s deaths by […]
The Hamiltons: William & Selina Beatty Hamilton
One of the most interesting and dominant lines in the Mannon-Hickson family tree is that of the Hamiltons. Our great-grandmother was Susanna Maria Hamilton Hickson. […]
100 years ago – Alfred Mannon in World War I
The 100th anniversary of the end of World War I is approaching – November 11th, 1918. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the […]
1918 Letters from WWI Army Camp
Letter #1 – July 7, 1918 — In this first letter, Alfred is in the U.S. School of Military Aeronautics in Ithaca, New York. He […]