The Panitzke family has descendants in Australia, Chille, England, Germany, Netherlands and the U.S.A. The earliest recorded Ancestor is Andreas Ponetzke born about 1758 in Danzig, Prussia, a sub-state of Germany (now Gdansk in Poland). He was a maritime pilot at the port of Neufahrwasser (Nowy Port) which originally served Oliva and from 1807, as a resulting increase in trade, it was enlarged and then incorporated into Danzig. Many descendants where ship captains, ship carpenters, master mariners, dock masters, lock keepers and able seamen. So it is not surprising that their voyages resulted in descendants around the globe. Common Surname dirivates include Panitzke, Panitzki, Ponetzke, Ponetzki, Panetzki and Boneski.

The Page family were mostly Shipwrights and Mariners based in Kingston-upon-Hull. So it appears that they never ventured far from home. The earliest recorded Ancestor is Thomas Page born about 1770 probably in Hull. The spelling of this surname remained constant.