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Note: N11228 Tharston, where Lucy was married, is next to Forncett St Mary.
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A Luke Wright was a Shopkeeper and Joiner in 1845 in Tharston.
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A Lucy Wright was bapt 3 June 1804 at Shipmeadow, Suffolk, which is less than 2 miles from Ilketshall St. Andrew. She was dau of John Wright and Sarah Bencley or Bensly (who married 3 March 1783 at Shipmeadow.)
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A James Wright and Ann (late Ling spinster) had a dau Ann bapt at Ilketshall St. Margaret on 9 Dec 1783, and
John bapt 7 Jan 1787, Robert Jul 5 1789 , Samuel 19 Jun 1791, Harriet 16 Oct 1785.
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John Harvey and his wife Elizabeth Wright ran the Greyhound Inn, in Ilketshall St Margaret. They had sixteen children between 1791 and 1816.
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Lucy’s daughter Jane Alborough’s letter to her sister Mary in 1859 mentions “Uncle William” in the same paragraph as asking her to “give our kind love to the people at Hardwick.” In the same paragraph she also refers to “Poor old Grandmother. Is she still alive, poor old lady. I could not go to wish her Goodbye. It was more than I could bear.”
Presumably there was no uncle called William Alborough, as Jane and Mary’s father was called William Alborough. So therefore likely to be a William Wright.
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Could it be Lucy’s mother who is referred to when Jane Alborough refers in a letter (1859 or 1862?) to her “poor Grandmother” as evidently having been alive when they left for S Africa, and questioning whether she was still alive.
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Hardwick (Hardwick and Shelton) is about 6 miles from Forncett St. Mary, and 14 mIles from ilketshall St,.Mary.
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There were 15 people called WRIGHT in Ilketshall St Margaret at the time of the 1881 census, second only to Burrows at 18.
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