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Family vanishes from the records - what happened? Or is it me.
« on: Friday 11 February 22 14:08 GMT (UK) »
I'm looking at a family that disappears from the records, is this indicative of emigration or am I missing something obvious? Did army families get moved around?

The parents of the family were Wright/Bodfish. The marriage seems to be this one -
Marriage S Quarter 1903
WRIGHT   John James   Kingston    Volume 02A   843
BODFISH   Lilian               Kingston    Volume 02A   843   

I can't find births for either of these people but that's a different issue.

The three children I can find were -
WRIGHT, LILIAN  GRACE        MMN BODFISH 
GRO Reference: 1904  J Quarter in FARNHAM  Volume 02A  Page 142
WRIGHT, JOHN  WILLIAM GEORGE    MMN BODFISH 
GRO Reference: 1906  J Quarter in FARNHAM  Volume 02A  Page 129   
WRIGHT, EDWARD          MMN BODFISH 
GRO Reference: 1910  M Quarter in KINGSTON  Volume 02A  Page 473

After the 1910 birth I can find no references to any of these 5 individuals anywhere. Certainly there's nothing in the 1911 Census, the 1921 Census or the 1939 Register. I know that JOHN WILLIAM GEORGE WRIGHT was in the UK after WW2, but that's all. At the moment I've got FindMyPast but not Ancestry. I looked at Immigration/Travel but couldn't see them there. Did the army move families around when serving men were posted? I assume, if they did leave the country it would be as a group. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

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Re: Family vanishes from the records - what happened? Or is it me.
« Reply #1 on: Friday 11 February 22 15:41 GMT (UK) »
Lilian Grace Wright age 6 born in Aldershot appears in 1911  in Great Doddington, Northamptonshire, boarding with the family of John and Annie Maria Johnson. 
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Re: Family vanishes from the records - what happened? Or is it me.
« Reply #2 on: Friday 11 February 22 15:54 GMT (UK) »
How did I miss that? Something has happened to the family. I wonder what it was? I am extremely grateful for this bit of info. Thank you very much indeed!

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Re: Family vanishes from the records - what happened? Or is it me.
« Reply #3 on: Friday 11 February 22 15:57 GMT (UK) »
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WRIGHT   John James   Kingston    Volume 02A   843
BODFISH   Lilian               Kingston    Volume 02A   843   


Marriage info gives Lilian's father George William Bodfish deceased Sergt Major in H M Army

Grooms father James Edward Wright stoker

Birth hint is Martha Emily Bodfish Sep 1883 Farnham.  Could check that one out **

In 1891 she is Lily and 1901 Lilly. 

** I think that must be her.  Mothers maiden name is Machon same as the birth for sister Mary Ann who she is with in 1901. 
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Re: Family vanishes from the records - what happened? Or is it me.
« Reply #4 on: Friday 11 February 22 16:00 GMT (UK) »
Death of an Edward Wright aged 0 in the Kingston reg district on GRO which could be the last child.

   WRIGHT, EDWARD       0 
GRO Reference: 1910  S Quarter in KINGSTON  Volume 02A  Page 225

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Re: Family vanishes from the records - what happened? Or is it me.
« Reply #6 on: Friday 11 February 22 16:20 GMT (UK) »
A tree on Ancestry suggests that Lily Wright née Bodfish left her husband at some point between the birth of Edward and the birth of the first of five children born to her and Arthur Leonard Pallett, in 1915.

Celia Dora Pallett Mmn Harris registered Kingston.

There's no marriage for Arthur Pallett and Lilian Wright, but Arthur L Pallett married Lily Harris in Wandsworth district in 1912.

The next child shown in this tree is Ida Alma Pallett, born in 1919. This birth registration gives mother's maiden name Bodfish
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Re: Family vanishes from the records - what happened? Or is it me.
« Reply #7 on: Friday 11 February 22 16:24 GMT (UK) »
I was looking at that one Galium and saw the maiden name Harris which put me off but you have found a Bodfish child well done. 
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Re: Family vanishes from the records - what happened? Or is it me.
« Reply #8 on: Friday 11 February 22 16:36 GMT (UK) »
And looking further back in that tree, Harris is the maiden name of Martha Emily/Lilian Bodfish's paternal grandmother.
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