Our guestbook was first signed in October 1996! and is dedicated to the loving memory of
Dave Gambrell. A BIG Texan, with a BIG HEART ❤.
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11 entries.
My name is Niccolo Bicknell My dad is Craig Bicknell from Massachusetts And his father was Harry Bicknell Very interested if i might have more relatives I never knew
Excited to hear about the new report on the ALL Bicknells data on Ancestry.com from our maestro Del Bicknell. Keep in touch to find out the progress we're making
i, as well as my father, john bicknell, were born and raised in montclair nj. my grandparents nixon & saundra are from oklahoma. i don’t know much else about my family and my father has since passed. would love to hear from anyone who may know my grandmother and grandfather.
best wishes -loce fro victoria@kerrigans.co.uk
Hello! My name is John Olbrantz and I am director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. I’m delighted to find this Bicknell family website as I recently wrote a major book on the Scottish artist and traveler David Roberts (1796-1864) and have wanted to connect with David Robert’s daughter Christine Roberts Bicknell’s descendants for some time.
If you would like to contact me via email, you can reach me at jolbrant@willamette.edu. And, if you’d like to find out more about the exhibition I organized or the book I wrote on Roberts in 2022, you can visit the HFMA website at willamette.edu/arts/hfma; proceed to past exhibitions, exhibition library, and 2021-22 exhibitions; and you’ll find the exhibition “David Roberts: Artist and Traveler.” From there, you can take a 360 degree virtual tour of the exhibition and learn more about the exhibition and book. I have been interested in David Roberts for 44+ years and am delighted that I was finally able to bring the exhibition and book to fruition.
As an aside, we’re hoping to travel the David Roberts exhibition nationally beginning in 2026 under the auspices of International Arts and Artists, a traveling exhibition service based in Washington, DC. And, I’m planning a trip to the UK this September to work on an archaeological dig at Vindolanda near Hadrian’s Wall, but when I’m not working at the site, I plan to visit Roberts’s home at 7 Fitzroy Street in London and his final resting place in West Norwood Cemetery, where he’s buried next to his friend and Christine’s father-in-law Elahanan Bicknell, and spend a few days in Edinburgh where I want to visit his birthplace in Stockbridge and review his archives at the National Library of Scotland.
I hope I haven’t bored you with a lot of information you might not be interested in, but I’m thrilled to have found this website and delighted I could share my passion and enthusiasm for David Roberts with you. Take care.
Best wishes,
John Olbrantz
If you would like to contact me via email, you can reach me at jolbrant@willamette.edu. And, if you’d like to find out more about the exhibition I organized or the book I wrote on Roberts in 2022, you can visit the HFMA website at willamette.edu/arts/hfma; proceed to past exhibitions, exhibition library, and 2021-22 exhibitions; and you’ll find the exhibition “David Roberts: Artist and Traveler.” From there, you can take a 360 degree virtual tour of the exhibition and learn more about the exhibition and book. I have been interested in David Roberts for 44+ years and am delighted that I was finally able to bring the exhibition and book to fruition.
As an aside, we’re hoping to travel the David Roberts exhibition nationally beginning in 2026 under the auspices of International Arts and Artists, a traveling exhibition service based in Washington, DC. And, I’m planning a trip to the UK this September to work on an archaeological dig at Vindolanda near Hadrian’s Wall, but when I’m not working at the site, I plan to visit Roberts’s home at 7 Fitzroy Street in London and his final resting place in West Norwood Cemetery, where he’s buried next to his friend and Christine’s father-in-law Elahanan Bicknell, and spend a few days in Edinburgh where I want to visit his birthplace in Stockbridge and review his archives at the National Library of Scotland.
I hope I haven’t bored you with a lot of information you might not be interested in, but I’m thrilled to have found this website and delighted I could share my passion and enthusiasm for David Roberts with you. Take care.
Best wishes,
John Olbrantz
I have long been intrigued by the few stories my father and aunt told of our family history: that someone came to the colony near the time of the Mayflower; a many great great uncle of my father allegedly had his nose shot off at Bunker or Breed's Hill in Boston at the start of the Revolution. Several towns in the U.S. are named Bicknell (in Indiana and Utah) and I once invoked heavy sighs from my young daughter by a side trip to Bicknell, IN which was a deteriorating Midwest town with a nice library and ice cream shop.
I cannot thank you enough, I cannot describe the excitement I feel on finding the memoir of William Bicknell. My husband is a direct descendant of his sister Sarah Bicknell who married John Walter Langton. oh Joy!!
My father was Dr. Donald Roy Bicknell. He was born in Toronto York), Canada in 1924. Deceased 2006
My mother was Jenoese White Bickell nee Spradlin. She was born in Vinton, Va. in 1924. Deceased 2006
Brother Donald Roy, living.
Mark Richard, Deceased
Jenoese Diane, Deceased.
Craig Alan, Deceased.
My mother was Jenoese White Bickell nee Spradlin. She was born in Vinton, Va. in 1924. Deceased 2006
Brother Donald Roy, living.
Mark Richard, Deceased
Jenoese Diane, Deceased.
Craig Alan, Deceased.
Would love to see photos of the Bicknells who settled in Madison Maine. I’m originally from Windham, Maine. The Bicknells in Madison would be my fathers grandparents - John Randall Bicknell, his father John S Bicknell and their families or even photos of their homes.
My great grandmother, Ada Bicknell, born 1872, Southsea, Hampshire immigrated to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada in 1910. Passed at Niagara Falls in 1955
Well it's been 20yrs. Added a daughter Merilee. Flying love hugs! Keep on a rockin
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628 Visitor: Kiersten Gale
Location: Topeka, Kansas, USA
WebSite:
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Contact: kgale3@cox.net
Date: 20th December 2003 00:30:40 GMT
Comment: WOW..Thanks for all your hard work 🙂
I believe I decend from Walter and Edith BICKNELL Withycombe, Devon, England.
This is my Great-Great Grandpa. Edith & Walter sailed from Torquay, UK in May 1890 on the SS Majestic.
Walter was a Potter, sculpturer, stone cutter & a Sgt. in the Royal Artillary during 1879 – 1889.
And then worked for the railroad in Laramie & Denver.
Any info would be awesome…Thanks Again Kiersten Gale
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628 Visitor: Kiersten Gale
Location: Topeka, Kansas, USA
WebSite:
URL Note:
Contact: kgale3@cox.net
Date: 20th December 2003 00:30:40 GMT
Comment: WOW..Thanks for all your hard work 🙂
I believe I decend from Walter and Edith BICKNELL Withycombe, Devon, England.
This is my Great-Great Grandpa. Edith & Walter sailed from Torquay, UK in May 1890 on the SS Majestic.
Walter was a Potter, sculpturer, stone cutter & a Sgt. in the Royal Artillary during 1879 – 1889.
And then worked for the railroad in Laramie & Denver.
Any info would be awesome…Thanks Again Kiersten Gale