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Wiltshire / Henry Wright - chimney sweep of Mere
« on: Friday 09 December 22 11:47 GMT (UK) »
My 5x great grandfather was one Henry WRIGHT born c1730.
I've never found a marriage for him, just a possible to Sarah Shephard in Portsea in 1762 (I've researched the ones Gloucestershire and it's not them)
The couple have seven children together in Mere. Their second daughter Rachel married Aaron Maidment and it seems that their son Henry was apprenticed to a Henry Wright, chimney sweep of Mere, in 1803 when he was aged 11.
A coincidence - or could he have been apprenticed to his grandfather?
I might be clutching at straws, but I'm desperate to find out more about my Henry Wright who died a year after his wife, in 1826
Could there be an index of chimney sweeps anywhere?
Would Mere museum carry any resources I wonder.
Joy
I've never found a marriage for him, just a possible to Sarah Shephard in Portsea in 1762 (I've researched the ones Gloucestershire and it's not them)
The couple have seven children together in Mere. Their second daughter Rachel married Aaron Maidment and it seems that their son Henry was apprenticed to a Henry Wright, chimney sweep of Mere, in 1803 when he was aged 11.
A coincidence - or could he have been apprenticed to his grandfather?
I might be clutching at straws, but I'm desperate to find out more about my Henry Wright who died a year after his wife, in 1826
Could there be an index of chimney sweeps anywhere?
Would Mere museum carry any resources I wonder.
Joy