The Jane Hicks Collection!

We are happy to inform you that Mrs. Karin Mitschele-Heavener daughter of Mrs Jane Heavener-Hicks recently send us pictures of the family and the pieces her mother Jane inherit from their VR-family. We are very thankful to receive this and welcome the "Jane Hicks Collection" to the VR-Research Project.

Jane's grandmother was Annie Wheat van Romondt who was daughter of Dr. Charles Dietrick van Romondt & Anna Wheat Morgan.

Source: The Eleanor O'Malley Collection, U.S.A.

Dr. Charles Dietrick van Romondt was a medical doctor whom practiced for 55 years and was graduate form the College of the city of New York in 1872. His father Professor Charles van Romondt was the former head of te Foreign Language Deparment of Rudgers College. Charles D. van Romondt was also a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics and the Masonic Fraternity Charles had 1 daughter, 4 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren (Source: Article New York Times, Eleanor O`Malley, 2006).