SEEKING FOR A LONG TIME

[miriamkinga]

Death for Arabella Gray Dec qtr 1885 Selby vol 9c page 423 aged 48

[xpq194z]

Hi Lizdb
          Yes thats correct.thomas gray is buried with her when he died.so selby cementry informed me.when enquired. there is a smashing headstone.in front of the cementry.must have cost quite a bit of money
          mike

[lizdb]

Its not me giving you this info!
It's miriamkinga.

It shows that Thomas seemed to have only brothers . so any nephews via that route would have Smith surname.
So maybe Arabella had a sister who married a Dawson.

Lizdb

[lizdb]

You say her dad was Wright - have you got a Christian name for him? There are more Arabella Wrights around that I would have thought!

[avm228]

Another, perhaps more distant, possibility is that John William Dawson was a nephew by marriage - i.e. he married Thomas' niece.

John W Dawson married Mabel Baines at Pateley Bridge, Dec qtr 1910 9A 116. (Obviously one cannot tell from this whether the marriage was before or after Thomas' death in November 1910).

[xpq194z]

Hello Lizdb
           Arabella father was william wright.but not reseach this line as yet.just been bugging me cannot find.but am sure your right.must be from arabella side.
                 mike

[lizdb]

Do you know when and where she was born?
Failing that, when and where she married 1st husband, Bulmer?

[xpq194z]

Hello Lizdb
           This is what have on arabella wright. christening 24th feb 1837.WRESSELL.Yorkshire
 father William Wright in 1841 living in bondgate selby.
                  mike

[xpq194z]

Hi Lizdb
         On the marriage cert of arabella bulmer says widow age 42.living at selby st james.new lane
thomas is at 6 bondgate.father of arabella is william wright a brick moulder.thomas is blank where father is.but know who it was .
             mike