Palmerston House, Dickson Street, Waverley The family home of George Edwin Wise, 1893-94 My great grandfather George Edwin Wise, his wife Aggie and their eight children lived at Palmerston House, Waverley in Sydney, Australia, from 1893 to 1894. 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. After his baptism, his parents, four brothers and sister boarded the Athenian and …