|
a.
|
Note: N40499 Tharston, where Lucy (d. 1853) was married, is next to Forncett St Mary.
---
1738: John Wright and Sarah Bencley or Bensly, (married 3 March 1783 at Shipmeadow. Suffolk), and had a dau Lucy Wright bapt 3 June 1804 at Shipmeadow, which is less than 2 miles from Ilketshall St. Andrew.
---
1783-91: A James Wright and Ann (late Ling spinster) had a dau Ann bapt at Ilketshall St. Margaret on 9 Dec 1783, Harriet 16 Oct 1785, John bapt 7 Jan 1787, Robert Jul 5 1789, Samuel 19 Jun 1791.
---
1791: John Harvey and his wife Elizabeth Wright ran the Greyhound Inn, in Ilketshall St Margaret. They had sixteen children between 1791 and 1816.
---
1832 Cancellation of a removal order on William Wright of Hardwick [Norfolk] and a bill and receipt for the expenses of his settlement.
(Norfolk Record Office)
---
1845: A Luke Wright was a Shopkeeper and Joiner in 1845 in Tharston.
---
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.
---
Hardwick is about 6 miles from Forncett St. Mary, and 14 mIles from ilketshall St,.Mary.
---
CHECK THIS:
1861 census for Hardwick has:
Henry [Henery] Wright (age 52 eg b 1809.) Widower.
WIlliam Wright (age 18 eg b. 1843 , son of Henry,)
Rhoda Wright (82 eg b. 1779) Widow, Visitor - no relationship given.)
---
A Henry and Rhoda Wright had a son William baptised 21 May 1820 at Hardwick (with a twin Mary). That would make him 18 years older than Jane Alborough who enquired after her “uncle WIlliam” in her letter.
---
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.
---
There were 15 people called WRIGHT in Ilketshall St Margaret at the time of the 1881 census, second only to Burrows, at 18.
|
