hello stephen, just recently started the wakeham family myself. so info will be very little. my grams is a wakeham. her and her brothers and sisters grew up in iowa. per "stories" her father came to iowa by train from new york. the "orphan train". 'arthur edward wakeham was #11 out of 14 children and he was born in 1884 possibly in washinton d.c. some time prior to that his parents came to the u.s. as they both were born and married in the channel islands (?island of jersey) that would be francis edward wakeham and janet mac donald. thats the extent of my knowledge so far. eager to learn more ....