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Lincolnshire / Re: George Herod WRIGHT
« on: Tuesday 13 November 18 12:05 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Richard
So your grandmother was my great aunt, Aunt Olive. We must be cousins: good to meet you!
Aunt Olive is in the in the fly-leaf of a family Bible that lists the name, place and DoB for GHW, Sarah and the children including my grandfather, Arnold Wright. It says Olive Rhoda Wright was born in Withcall on 20 March 1905.
I didn't make much progress backwards from GHW and more recently got sidelined into the maternal side following my mother's death in April.
Be good to share what we know about Wright-Cunnington line. I have more info about our great grandmother's ancestry.

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Lincolnshire / Re: George Herod WRIGHT
« on: Friday 05 August 05 09:22 BST (UK)  »
I agree, Tanja.

The birth address is given as Mill Yard, Spalding (could be Gard...).

Family bible only goes back to George Herod and his wife Sarah Cooper. Marriage witnesses are Sarah Cooper's siblings - no help there. And I don't know of any siblings for George.

I originally thought the middle name Herod was in honour of one of the leading lights in Primitiive Methodism. There's a long history of Nonconformist lay preaching in the family and I read somewhere that there was a George Herod prominent in the movement. Surprised that his marriage was solemnised in the Established Church but maybe that was just a legalistic thing.

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Lincolnshire / Re: George Herod WRIGHT
« on: Friday 05 August 05 08:26 BST (UK)  »
Wildwillywright,

What does it say exactly on the birth certificate? Is he down as plain George or George Herod?

FreeBMD doesn't have a too good coverage of marriages in the 1860s if I remember well...


Was it the mother who registered the birth?

Tanja
 


 

He is named George, not George Herod. It's the mother who registered the birth, named as Maria Wright. The registrar is John Smith.

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Lincolnshire / Re: George Herod WRIGHT
« on: Thursday 04 August 05 18:31 BST (UK)  »
It's quite possible that he was George WRIGHT for the first few years of his life until his mother married, at which point he was given his stepfather's name, so that he will be in the 1871 and 1881 censuses as George (Something Else), reverting to his "real" name at marriage. Stepchildren often did that.
Looks like you guys were right about taking the mother's surname. There is no father listed on the birth certificate.

Unfortunately I can't find a marriage to  Mr Herod after 1865. Even more unfortunately, the only Maria Wright I can find on the 1861 Census for Spalding is 20 years old and married with a son! She's still married and living in Spalding in 1871 Census, with more children, none of them George.

Might have to trawl the orphanage records?

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Lincolnshire / Re: George Herod WRIGHT
« on: Wednesday 27 July 05 09:22 BST (UK)  »
Thanks everyone for useful contributions. I also thought the George Wright (  Dwelling   17C Hawthorn Bk,   Census Place Spalding, Lincoln, England) was intriguing as a) Withcall has strong railway connections and b) my father was fascinated by steam railways.

I'm pretty sure of the DOB because all the family's names, dates and places of birth are written in the Family Bible.

It's quite possible that he was George WRIGHT for the first few years of his life until his mother married, at which point he was given his stepfather's name, so that he will be in the 1871 and 1881 censuses as George (Something Else), reverting to his "real" name at marriage. Stepchildren often did that.

This looks like a useful line of enquiry. Maybe if I can find his birth certificate it will shed more light?

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Lincolnshire / George Herod WRIGHT
« on: Tuesday 26 July 05 18:31 BST (UK)  »
Anyone out there researching Wrights in Spalding, Withcall, Caistor? I have hit a brick wall with my G-Grandfather George Herod Wright, b. 3 June 1865 in Spalding, m. Sarah Cooper on 30 April 1889 (no father listed on marriage cert) St Mary's Church Ludborough. No record in FreeBMD for 1871, 1881 census, or birth records. In 1891 Census he was Head of Household in Withcall, Blacksmith, with lodger Charles H Kirk, also a smith. In 1901 Census he was living in Withcall with Sarah (wife), Frances Marion (dau), George Donald (son), Arnold (my grandfather) and Constance (twin daughter to Arnold).  I belive the blacksmith business was sold to the Howard family of Louth.
Arnold married Constance Cunnington (b. 1901 d. about 1962) and subsequently married Norah Howard of Louth. He died in the early 1970s.

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