Timeline for Finding an elusive ancestor after the 1901 census (who may have deserted his family)
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| Apr 15, 2020 at 19:50 | comment | added | Learned Man | Have you looked for any secondary sources? They might point you in a direction you may not have looked. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 13:48 | answer | added | user104 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 11, 2016 at 10:09 | comment | added | user104 | Andy W -- at one fell swoop you've found more about my grandfather's military record than I've managed to do in several years of trying. I've learned that John Wright was at 67 Rotten Row in the 1911 census living with his widowed step-mother so he had been there for some time. | |
| Oct 11, 2016 at 9:07 | comment | added | AndyW | Based on your "Hettie" question, John Wright was at 67 Rotten Row, Lichfield in 1924. He clearly lived there for some time. From the BNA: Staffordshire Advertiser, Sat 27 Oct 1917: "Sergt Fred Wright, Machine Gun Corps, son of Mr J Wright, 67 Rotten-row, has been awarded the D.C.M. for gallantry in action. A brother, L-Corp Robert Wright, is also serving with the Machine Gun Corps in France, and another brother, J. W. Wright, is in Egypt." | |
| S Aug 18, 2016 at 11:01 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
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| Aug 18, 2016 at 8:16 | comment | added | AndyW | Then I look forward to reading your answer :). Otherwise this is the only other long-shot I have come up with: a 1921 probate record for a John Wright of King's Heath, just a couple of miles south of Balsall Heath, leaving ~£350 to "Mary Ann Wright widow". Might be worth checking out if you haven't already. But there are a lot of John Wrights around. (I've only dabbled in my own Wright branch for much the same reason!). | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 16:00 | comment | added | user104 | @AndyW yes, and it will of part of my self-answer.... especially her migration to Canada and the details about her next of kin that she provided. | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 15:57 | comment | added | AndyW | Not an answer, but have you found the 1911 census entry in Cholsey, Berkshire (RG14; Piece 6516; Enum Dist 09) for Mary Agnes Wright, 23, born Sutton Coldfield, a nurse at Berks County Lunatic Asylum? | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 14:23 | comment | added | user104 | @AndyW Yes, re following the children forward (ditto correspondence) and I'll add an answer when the chance for others has expired -- not sure you can still earn the bounty but please try, | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 13:08 | comment | added | AndyW | That's a tricky surname to track, I'm afraid. Have you followed the children forward in case he turns up? Marriage certs should name the father, and his occupation, and may note if he is deceased. Although one might not trust such a note in this case. Also, the Home Children database appears to include correspondence records for some of the children. Do you know if it's possible to get hold of those, to see if they mention something useful? | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 8:13 | comment | added | user104 | @StewartRitchie, those don't tend to be online for the period in question and he was so peripatetic it'shard to know what area to focus on. | |
| S Aug 10, 2016 at 9:27 | history | bounty started | CommunityBot | ||
| S Aug 10, 2016 at 9:27 | history | notice added | user104 | Draw attention | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 9:59 | history | edited | user104 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2016 at 7:13 | comment | added | Stewart Ritchie | Have you checked records for institutions, asylums and prisons? | |
| Jan 13, 2016 at 1:08 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackGenealogy/status/687078771606814720 | ||
| Jan 13, 2016 at 0:16 | comment | added | Jan Murphy♦ | I made a couple of small edits to clean up punctuation and put the timeline into a list so the items would be bulleted. Please fix if I have changed your meaning by mistake. | |
| Jan 13, 2016 at 0:15 | history | edited | Jan Murphy♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2016 at 22:08 | history | edited | PolyGeo♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2016 at 20:26 | history | asked | user104 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |