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20 hours ago, seaJane said:

Gustywinds, a totally off-the-beam question, but did Douglas Ross Cameron Wright by any chance have a son called Horace, that you know of?

Thanks!

seaJane

 

SeaJane,

No, he had a son called Douglas Evelyn Day (later changed to Wright after the legitimacy act) by a lady called Eva Margaret Day who he married only a couple of months before he was killed in December 1917.

His widow married a Horace (Dinham).

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Oh - interesting. I'm trying to find out something about the antecedents of a Horace Cameron Wright, born Islington in the June quarter of 1902 - but not a GW man so best not discussed on forum. 

 

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Could this be him?

 

 

First name(s) Horace
Last name Wright
Relationship Son
Sex Male
Age 9
Birth year 1902
Birth place Islington
Occupation School
House name -
House number 63
Street Holmesdale Road
Address 63 Holmesdale Road Highgate N
Parish Hornsey
County Middlesex
Country England
Archive reference RG14
Registration district Edmonton
Registration district number 132
Enumeration district 39
District number 39
Sub district Hornsey
Sub district number 1
Census reference RG14PN7231 RG78PN353 RD132 SD1 ED39 SN188
RG78 code number 353
Piece number 7231
Folio -
Page -
Other household member first name(s) Clara, Eawd, Laura
Other household member last name Wright
Record set 1911 Census For England & Wales
Category Census, land & surveys
Subcategory Census
Collections from Great Britain, England

© Findmypast

Is this the same person?

 

 

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Then shown 1939 register as Horace Cameron- Wright living in Tempsford occupation Physicist

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12 hours ago, seaJane said:

Oh - interesting. I'm trying to find out something about the antecedents of a Horace Cameron Wright, born Islington in the June quarter of 1902 - but not a GW man so best not discussed on forum. 

 

 

My man would have been 10 then and at school in Hamilton Ontario. 

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:) No immediate sign of a connection.

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On 31/05/2019 at 10:25, johnboy said:

Then shown 1939 register as Horace Cameron- Wright living in Tempsford occupation Physicist

Johnboy, I don't know how I saw Gustywinds' post but not yours! And now it's almost two years later.

 

I do apologise! I've found the post again partly because I'm still looking, although with a bit more information as a distant relative of his has been in touch since. The 1911 census shows him living with his father Edward (Edwd, bit of dodgy transcription by the record-maker) and his mother Clara, His sister was Laura.  After that he more-or-less disappears till 1936 when the correspondence I have in the archives for him starts. At some point he became a surgeon, but I have no idea where he trained. Anyway, as I said before, he seems to have missed the Great War by having been born too late to join in. I can't find that his father served, either.

 

Apologies again and many thanks.

 

sJ

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53 minutes ago, johnboy said:

No problem. Did the info I gave tie in?

It did, thank you. He may have been involved with RAF Tempsford, I'm not quite sure. Later he worked with A.B. Wood at the Admiralty Research Laboratory in Teddington.

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