Carol - re his birth place. George was actually born in Abergavenny in Herefordshire. It took my relative and I an absolute age to find him going backwards from his Stockton death, as we could get to 1891 and then he was no where in the North East. Luckily the gentleman I was doing the searching with knew George's second wife Jane well, she was at his wedding and told him about all her sons but not much about her husband. It is from his sons that we traced George. The grandsons were shocked too about the Welsh origins but we have all the certificates as proof.
Mabel, this is what is so frustrating. If the William Wright / Ann Jones marriage is correct then surely they have to be some where near given that Martha is born in the Middlesbrough registration district? I may have to find the funds for the birth certificate to see if it helps identify her family. Then if I am really lucky she may have gone back to them if the marriage failed?? Probably wishful thinking !
