Walter WRIGHT

[garlands]

Wallace WRIGHT m May ADAMS on 26 Dec 1946 in Radford. According to their MC, he is a bachelor, aged 29 (i.e. b 1917). He works as an Acetylene Welder and his father is Walter WRIGHT (dec’d) who was an Electrician.

In 1939, living at 20 Hubert St, Nottingham, are:-

Lucy        WRIGHT     b 20 Oct 1888                                  single (?)
Wallace        do         b 12 Nov 1917      Welder                 single
John              do         b 25 Mar 1919    Tobacco Worker       -
Joseph          do         b 05 Oct 1924     Cycle Worker         single
Dennis          do        b 23 Jan 1927         School
Ronald         do        b 13 Apr 1928             do

In 1921, living at 26 Cambridge St, Nottingham, are:-
Walter       WRIGHT        Head    b 1883  Basford          Coal miner
Lucy                 do          Wife    b 1888  Nottingham
Annie              do              D      b 1909          do
William          do               S      b 1915   Radford
Wallace         do               S      b 1917         do
John              do              S      b 1919         do

The birth records for William, Wallace, John and Joseph all include the same Mother’s Maiden Name of WHEAT. Dennis and Ronald are completely different.

I cannot find a marriage between Walter WRIGHT and a bride called WHEAT, let alone one called Lucy.

Can anyone help, please?

[mckha489]

The birth records for William, Wallace, John and Joseph all include the same Mother’s Maiden Name of WHEAT. Dennis and Ronald are completely different.

Are they?

Births Mar 1927   (>99%)
Wright    Ronald    Wheat    Nottingham    7b   668    

Births Jun 1928   (>99%)
Wright    Dennis    Wheat    Nottingham    7b   668

Reversed from your list,  but correct as per 1939.

Is this Annie’s birth?

WHEAT, ANNIE       - 
GRO Reference: 1910  M Quarter in NOTTINGHAM  Volume 07B  Page 347


(None of which is any help I know)

[garlands]

Thank you, but now I'm baffled. How can we both consult the '39 and get such different results? Yours certainly make more sense than mine.

If Annie's MMN is also WHEAT, then all the offspring have the same mother; again, what one would expect, but, who is she? I've had two instances of a couple declaring to the world that they are married when they most definitely were  not, so, is that what we've got here?

[garlands]

Thinking about my inability to find a WRIGHT/WHEAT marriage, as suggested in my previous post, perhaps there wasn't one. That might explain the (?) which I put after Lucy's description of herself as 'single' in the '39. I had expected her to describe herself as a widow but, if they were never married.......
Unfortunately, if that is the case, we'll never find her 'maiden' name!

[mckha489]

I’ve been trying to find Lucy & Annie in 1911.  Presumably as WHEAT but perhaps living with and taking the name of a man of another surname. Nothing.

[Comberton]

Baptism
12th December 1909
St Patrick, Nottingham
Ann Wheat
mother Lucy Wheat
abode Woodland Street

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[garlands]

Having spent 3 weeks trying to sort out this root, last night I completely failed to see the wood for the trees! We have 2 records of this lady's forename, and no fewer than 7 records of her surname plus, for good measure, her complete DoB. Unfortunately, thus far a search for the birth of Lucy WHEAT in 1888 has drawn a blank!

[djm297]

In 1901  there is a Lucy Wheat born 1888 in Nottingham with her widower father William- also born in Notingham in 1851- he is a "Rag man". They are at 10 Long Stairs, Nottingham.

djm297

[garlands]

Thanks. I was just about to report the same record, having failed to find her in 1891.

The combination of names certainly is very rare, if not unique, amongst girls born ca 1888.