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Registrants for name: WRIGHT
| Name | Country | More Information | |
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| Mr J R Wright | j.wright085@btinternet.com | UNITED KINGDOM | I am searching for kin of my father, Arthur Charles Wright (born 1911, killed in action July 1943 in the RAF). His mother was Susan Wright (nee Stone) of 68 Godwin Road, Forest Gate E7. She died in 1947. His brothers were: Fredrick (last known working for Avro Aircraft in Manchester); Alfred (a fishmonger in Hainault, Essex); Reginald (London); Christopher (Hendon police college); John (a fishmonger in Ilford Market); and Henry (West Ham). His sister was Iris, who married a navy man named Eric, … |
| James Curson | fhm@metropolis.co.uk | AUSTRALIA | At 87 years of age I have finally completed both sides of my family history, all except one lost half-cousin. Rosemary Wright was born in the late 1930s and was the daughter of Reverend Theodore William Durant Wright, and Monica. He was vicar at Redhill, Surrey, and Anmerang, Sussex, in the 1930s and an RAF padre during WWII. We know that Rosemary was a pupil at Farling High School before losing touch with the family, and was reported to have married Peter Bruce about 1957. She would be in her … |
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