Palmerston House, Dickson Street, Waverley Home of George Edwin Wise, 1893-95 George Edwin Wise, his wife Agnes “Aggie” and their eight children lived at Palmerston House, Waverley in Sydney, Australia, from 1893 to 1895. The family later purchased Roslyn House in Croydon, where many of the family lived until Aggie’s death in 1924. George was born in Cork, Ireland on 22 October 1850. A month after his baptism his parents, four brothers and sister boarded the Athenian and migrated to …