NOT YET PUBLISHED

THE WICKIZER ANNALS  

A Genealogical History of the
 Descendants of Conrad Wickizer of 
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 

And His Six Sons

Andrew Wickizer
John Wickizer
Conrad Wickiser Jr.
Abraham Wickiser
Isaac Wickizer
Jacob Wickizer 

Second Edition,
Much Revised and Expanded 

by Mary Wickizer Burgess
with Michael Burgess       

     Who were the Wickizers?  Whence did they spring?  What was their original name? 

     All of these questions have plagued researchers of this German-American family for over two centuries.  The first verifiable record of the Wickizer family dates from 1765, when Conrad Wickizer's daughter is christened in the Stone Arabia Church in Montgomery (then Tryon) County, New York, just north of the Mohawk River.  This region was settled in the early 1700s by German-speaking immigrants, mostly originating from the Palatine in western Germany. 

     The family's original surname may have been Weckesser, the closest German cognate to Wickizer, and indeed, several female Weckessers are mentioned in passing in the Mohawk Valley church registers from the 1750s and '60s.  The French and Indian Wars massacred many of the German settlers in the region, driving the survivors away to safer locales; and the Wickizers had settled eventually by 1790 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.  When and where they lived during the intervening years is unknown. 

     This genealogical history of the Wickizer family traces both male and female descendants of Conrad's six sons and two daughters, including the spelling variations Wickizer (the commonest version), Wickiser, Wickkizer, Wickkiser, and Wickheiser.  It completely replaces and updates the 1983 edition, adding an immense amount of new and newly-configured data. 

     Everyone connected to the Wickizer line will want a copy of this new book.  Illustrated with photos and genealogical charts, and completely indexed.

THE WICKIZER ANNALS