Stuck finding Alfred Wright

[Jebber]

Hi Daryl.

People  did not always know where they were born, often they would give their birth place as the earliest place they remembered living, with this in mind I  suggest you take a look at the family living in 1871 in  Crispin Street, St Sepulchre, Northampton RG10 piece 1483 folio 97 page 3

When entering Crispin Street and Kingsthorpe into a map the distance is shown as half a mile, suggesting that this is your family.

They have a son Alfred J aged five born in Bermondey, there is a birth of Alfred John WRIGHT in 1865, Sept. quarter, Bermondsey, vol 1d, page 90 which is likely to be your Alfred who you say was born about June 1865. You have six weeks in which register a birth, so it would not be unusual for someone born in late May or in June to appear in the September quarter.

Jebber

[Alwayswright]

Thanks Jebba
You seem to have solved the first part of the puzzle.
The next problem I have is that the only Royal Navy record I can find relates to an Alfred John Wright, born in 1863, at St Marys, Northampton.

It is possible he lied about his age.  Do you know if St Marys, is close to the other areas we have found?

Thanks Again
Daryl

[Jebber]

Hi Daryl,

Yes, it is quite possible he lied about his age, it was often done.

There are several St. Mary's but one shows as being very close,  Kingsthorpe and Crispin Street all within one to one and a half miles of each other.

I think there is a strong chance that it is your Alfred's Naval record.

Jebber

[Alwayswright]

Thanks
I will next order his marriage certificate, to try and confirm some more facts.
Daryl

[tazzie]

    Baptism of Alfred John Wright....

  born 24 july 1865
  bapt 20 Aug 1865
  Alfred John Wright    father Charles     currier of 55 Albert Street.
                                    mother Mary Ann

    Tazzie

[behindthefrogs]

St Mary's CofE church was founded in 1875 from when the first parish registers exist. Previously the parish was part of Hardingstone parish which stretched right up to the river Nene in Northampton.  However if he was brought up in that area he would have thought of it as being St Mary's, although it was more usually known as Far Cotton or Cotton End.  It was within a mile of the centre of the town to the south while Kingsthorpe is about two miles to the north.  Crispin Street is in what I regard as the centre of the town but strictly about half a mile north of All Saints Church which most people regard as the actual centre.

There are of course other churches of St Mary in Northamptonshire.  Some of the internet sites will confuse you by calling Northamptonshire Northampton meaning the county of Northampton.

None of the other places that you mentioned are anywhere near Northampton.

Kingsthorpe is today part of the town of Northampton the greater part of it being incorporated in 1900.  The rest became part of Moulton.

Peterborough was part of Northamptonshire but moved to Cambridgeshire at the end of the 20th century.

David

[Alwayswright]

Thank you all so much for your help.  I had come to a dead end.  I have identified my grandfather, and found that he was born in London. 

What is spooky is that my family and I visited London two years ago(we live in Brisbane, Australia), and of all the places we picked to rent an apartment was about 200m from where my grandfather lived at the time of his christening, and at this stage I assume where he was born.  We quite randomly picked a convenient place over the net.

[carol8353]

What is spooky is that my family and I visited London two years ago(we live in Brisbane, Australia), and of all the places we picked to rent an apartment was about 200m from where my grandfather lived at the time of his christening, and at this stage I assume where he was born.  We quite randomly picked a convenient place over the net.

He was obviously up there somewhere guiding you to the right place 

Carol

[tazzie]

  Spooky sometimes.....

  Years ago before I married future hubby and I went to London. South of the Thames we found Hays Galleria and its shops it was a wierd feeling as it all felt so warm. Only years later when I started this little hobby did I find that my 5x great grandfather was the wharfinger at the original Hay wharf that used to be on the site.......had I "come home"....

  Tazzie