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Subject: [NYNAS ] Re: Wick's Farm History
Date: 13 Aug 2003 20:55:34 -0600


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Surnames: Wicks Family Farm
Classification: Query

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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/419.1.1.1.2.1.2.1.3.1.1.1.2

Message Board Post:

Hi Michael,

I can't thank you enough for this photo. It's priceless.

One thing I noticed while looking at it is that there was a Wicks farm on Wantagh Ave. in Wantagh and I went to that house many times with my mom. It belonged to George Wicks. The photo you sent looks exactly like the house on Wantagh Ave. I wonder if they used the same plans or if someone in the family built it themselves. There is another farm house on Wantagh Ave. just down from Uncle George's house but I can't remember which Wicks lived in that one and it also resembles the photo you sent. I have to look and see who lived there. Both houses are still there. Lawyers purchased them and kept them as they originally looked. I see them quite often because I only live about a mile away from both of them.

"Aunt Pauline" was my grandmother. My cousin Ralph who is much older than me says he used to go to that house with my grandmother all the time. She raised him from the time he was about 3 years old. I sent the photo on to him, I'm sure he will get a big kick out of it.

By any chance do you remember someone who worked on the farm who had the nickname 'Knock Knock"? No Im not crazy that's what they called him. I often wonder what happened to him. I have no idea what his real name was and no one seems to remember.

Thanks Again

Doris

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