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    Brintzinghoffer – Elizabeth Irene Wiggans

    • 1916-1995. Elizabeth Irene Wiggans
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      1916-1995. Elizabeth Irene Wiggans

      My grandmother, Elizabeth Irene Wiggans was born on the 16th of April, 1916, in the back bedroom of 290 Peshine Ave, Newark, NJ. She was named ‘Elizabeth’ after her mother but to her father, she would always be ‘Lovey’. Everyone else called her Irene.

    • 1730-1965. The Wiggans of Lancashire, England

      1730-1965. The Wiggans of Lancashire, England

      The surname Wiggans came to England with the Normans in 1066. It’s the patronymic form of the name – literally, “son of Wigand” and while I can’t trace my line back to the Normans, it may extend as far as a man named James Wygan, born around 1520 in Chorley, Lancashire – though more documentation…