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Steve and Pauline Jones’ Family History
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The Wright Family of Knossington, Leicestershire
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tracing
the
history
of
the
Wright
family,
originally
of
Knossington,
Leicestershire.
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shows
the
link
by
marriage
to
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Jones
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4.
Charles
Henry
WRIGHT
[
Parents
].
Born
3/9/1869
in
Billesdon,
Leicestershire,
Charles
henry
died
28/7/1904
in
Liverpool,
age
34.
Cause
of
death:
Meningitis.
He
was
buried
31/7/1904
in
West
Derby
Cemetery,
Liverpool.
Occupation:
Licensed
victualler,
landlord
of
the
Railway
Hotel
in
Tithebarn
Street,
Liverpool
(opposite
the
former
Exchange
Railway
Station).
Charles
was
also
Master of the West Derby hunt.
On
10/2/1891,
when
Charles
Henry
was
age
21,
he
married
Anne
CLAY
,
daughter
of
Robert
CLAY
and
Ann
HUDSON
in
West
Derby,
Liverpool.
Born
2/9/1868
in
West
Derby,
Anne
died
there
on
26/12/1907, age 39.
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.
They had the following children:
(1)
Robert
Frederick
[
5
]
.
(2)
Josiah
James
[
6
]
.
(3)
Dorothy
Ivy
,
born
28/10/1902
in
Liverpool
and died 9/3/1974 in Cheshire, age 71. Dorothy never married.
5.
Robert
Frederick
Wright
[
Parents
].
Born
25/2/1893
in
Toxteth
Park,
Liverpool,
and
baptized
2/4/1893
in
West
Derby,
Liverpool.
Robert
died
18/4/1977
in
Brighton,
age
84.
An
entry
in
the
National
Probate
Calendar
reads:
“WRIGHT
Robert
Frederick
of
Windswept
11
Chorley
Av
Saltdean
East Sx died 18 April 1977 Probate Brighton 22 June £3117”. (The equivalent of around £21,390 today.)
On
4/6/1914,
when
Robert
Frederick
was
age
21,
he
married
Cora
FROST
in
Doncaster.
Cora
was
born
26/4/1893 in Doncaster and died 9/6/1967 in Brighton, age 73.
They had the following child:
(1)
Daphne
Alicia
,
born
5/3/1921
in
Thorne,
Yorkshire
and
died
24/12/2003
in
Taunton,
age
82.
On
29/1/1946,
when
Daphne
was
age
24,
she
married
Leslie
BARRACLOUGH
in
Doncaster.
Leslie
was
born
11/6/1923.
It
is
not
known when he died.
6.
Josiah
James
WRIGHT
[
Parents]
.
Born
13/5/1895
in
West
Derby
and
baptized
23/6/1895
in
St
Saviour,
Liverpool.
Josiah
James
died
2/12/1973
in
Middleton,
Manchester,
age
78.
Cause
of
death:
Cardiac failure. Occupation: Dentist.
On
26/8/1926,
when
Josiah
James
was
age
31,
he
married
Elizabeth
Margaret
Ann
BARKER
in
Carlton
Parish
Church,
Barnsley,
South
Yorkshire.
Born
26/4/1902
in
Stourbridge,
Staffordshire,
Elizabeth
Margaret
Ann
died
4/3/1992 in Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester. Cause of death: Cerebral infarction.
They had the following child:
(1)
Betty Diana
, born 10/9/1929 in Barnsley and died there 7/11/2011, age 81.