Waking the Tree

2 ITEMS IN THIS ARCHIVE

Wiggans – Elizabeth Irene

James Henry Brintzinghoffer

1508-1913. The Formans

One of my Forman ancestors loaned money to Henry VIII – bad idea. One arrested the governor of NJ for holding court while Scottish. There was a patriot tarred as a traitor for ages, and a religious refugee who persecuted Quakers on Long Island. Knights, vicars, patriots & scoundrels – 12 generations of Formans.
Elizabeth Irene Wiggans, Private

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.