Thank you, this matches the info I have also on Thos Wright from Bristol.
I have info on the family in Bristol, but also Bath, and London too, and I'm looking for more evidence to confirm it's all the same family.
A brief run-down of the family is:
- Thomas Wright bapt.1775 to Henry Wright (cabinet maker) and wife Alice.
Thomas and Mary baptised the following children:
- Maria Nelson Wright, Bath, bapt. 1801
- Henry Wright, bapt. 1806 (St James, Bristol)
- Bapt 1809 on the same day in St James - Caroline Matilda (b.1807), Eliza Anne (b.1809) and Thomas (b.1803)
- Bapt 1813 on the same day in St James - Mary Anne b.1813 and Edwin b.1811
BATHIn 1825, Henry Wright, a cabinet maker living in Bath, was convicted of burglary and transported to Tasmania. Convict records give DOB as c.1806 and his place of origin is said to be Bristol. A letter pleading for leniency was sent by his father, Thomas Wright, a cabinet maker from Westgate Street, Bath. He confirms that Henry was 19 years old (therefore born c.1806) and from Bristol originally.
In Bristol in 1830 a certain Walter Davis was admitted as a Burgess in Bristol, and the patron was Thomas Wright, cabinet maker. The basis for Davis's admission was that he had married Wright's daughter, Maria, and later censuses record that she was born in Bath c.1800. There is a Maria Nelson Wright baptised in Bath in 1801 to Thomas and Mary.
Also admitted as a Burgess in 1830 was Thomas Wright jnr., a chair maker, the son of Thomas Wright cabinet maker.
Wright's daughter Caroline married Richard Remmington in Bath in 1832. Remmington was originally from East London (more below).
LONDONI also have records which look like they relate to the same Thomas Wright which place him in Shoreditch, London, and I'm similarly trying to find evidence to confirm it's the correct family:
Thomas Wright also had a son, Edwin, born in 1811 in Bristol and baptised in 1813 in St James parish. In 1840 an Edward Wright was sentence and transported for robbery to Tasmania, convict records confirm he was a cabinet maker from Bristol, born at about that time. Again, a letter pleading for clemency is sent by his father, Thomas Wright, a cabinet maker living in Shoreditch but originally from Bristol. On the 1841 census Thomas appears with wife Mary and daughter Eliza, age 30. It's the same family as the street address is given in his letter pleading for clemency. His letter also confirms his son's name was Edwin, not Edward. Also in the convict records it's said that Edward (Edwin) had 2 brother and 4 sisters, which does correspond with what I know of Thomas. The brothers were Henry (mentioned above), Thomas jnr. b.1803, sisters were Maria b1801 (see above), Eliza Ann b.1809, Caroline b.1807, and Mary Ann b.1813.
Wright's daughter, Caroline, married a man from East London and they went back there to live in the Poplar area. Before that they were at Shoreditch and were living in Morton [Martin] Street there when their first child was baptised in 1837. Maria and Walter Davis, mentioned above, were also living in Martin St Shoreditch when they baptised their first child in 1835.
Finally, it seems that Caroline's son, Richard Albert Remmington, married Mary Ann Hankins, the daughter of Caroline's sister, Mary Ann. The marriage took place in Poplar. It seems beyond coincidence to me that this marriage would have taken place unless there were some existing association.
Well, as you can see I have a fair amount of circumstantial evidence. The cabinet maker thread runs throughout, and I cannot find another Thomas Wright cabinet maker in Bristol during this period. The names, dates and events involving Wright's children seem to correspond. What I need though is evidence to confirm that these are indeed the same family.
I'd be very grateful for any help with this.
Thanks!
