Wright Family History.

[jimmytheone]

Hello again,

Thanks for getting back to me, Yes, there were far too amny Grants, and William Grants in particular. For what seems to be a well off family "Peter the Pensioner" seems a very odd name.

You're probably right about the dark daughter. My folk were out in India too but the mother came back to England for the birth of one of her many children, my Ggrandmother, but for some reason didn't stay with relatives but gave birth in a rented room. She and a couple of her sons look a little 'foreign' and a grand-daughter certainly does, but we don't know who her father was!, and I do wonder whether the chap I think is my GGgrandfather really is.

Regards,
James.

[corinthian]

Hi,

I think Peter the Pensioner was a nickname the Grant sisters had adopted because he collected some sort of Army pension.

Sounds like you've got at least one skeleton in your cupboard! I often think, when I'm researching my family history,that one deceitful wife from some period in the past,and you're spending hours/days/months/years tracing the completely wrong family.  Probably best not to think about it.

Regards

Coreen

[oswinh]

Coreen,

Hi. I'm a descendant of Charlotte Eliza Wright... she was my Great Great Great Grandmother. She married my Great Great Great Grandfather Thomas Oswin on the 5th May 1835 in Peradeniya, Ceylon.

I had a record of her father as being Joseph Wright and her mother Theodosia Gillie [sic] so I was extremely pleased to find this post on Rootschat because it has opened up a whole branch of my family tree which I didn't know existed!!

Charlotte Eliza Wright's husband Thomas Oswin died in 1841 of TB and Charlotte spent most of the rest of her life travelling and living with her only child and son Alfred Francis Oswin (1836-1900). Charlotte travelled and lived with her son in Ceylon, England, India, and New Zealand. Charlotte Eliza Oswin (nee Wright) eventually died on the 4th May 1887 in Edmonton, London, England from Pneumonia Exhaustion.

I have a copy of Charlotte's Will and some further interesting information about her... would love to share more with you... 

Kind Regards, Hayden Oswin

[corinthian]

Hi Hayden,

I am a descendant of Joseph Ferdinando Wright,Charlotte's brother. He was my 3 x grt-grandfather. I hadn't been able to trace much about the other members of the Wright family so i'm really pleased that you have made contact. Would love more information.

Regards

Coreen