Researching Michael Wise
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6242 people with the Wise surname? In that year Wise was ranked number 665 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Michael Wise on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Michael Wise and the Wise Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Wise Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Wise family tree.
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Wise Family History Databases
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Wise Forums
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Some Famous People called Michael Wise
Michael Wise
Michael Wise (1648–1687) was an English organist and composer. He sang as a child in the choir of the Chapel Royal and served as a countertenor in St George's Chapel, Windsor, from 1666 until, in 1668, he was appointed organist and choirmaster at Salisbury Cathedral. In 1676 he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and in the last year of his life was Master of the Children at St Paul's Cathedral.
He was killed during a confrontation with a Salisbury night watchman:
"He had quarrelled with his wife on some trivial matter, and rushed out of his house. The watchman met him while he was yet boiling with rage, and commanding him to stand and give an account of himself, he struck the guardian of the peace to the ground, who in return aimed a blow at his assailant with his bill, which broke his skull, of the consequence whereof he died."
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