Gustywinds Posted 30 May , 2019 Share Posted 30 May , 2019 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 30 May , 2019 Share Posted 30 May , 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 31 May , 2019 Share Posted 31 May , 2019 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 31 May , 2019 Share Posted 31 May , 2019 Then shown 1939 register as Horace Cameron- Wright living in Tempsford occupation Physicist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gustywinds Posted 31 May , 2019 Share Posted 31 May , 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 31 May , 2019 Share Posted 31 May , 2019 No immediate sign of a connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 25 February , 2021 Share Posted 25 February , 2021 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 25 February , 2021 Share Posted 25 February , 2021 No problem. Did the info I gave tie in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 26 February , 2021 Share Posted 26 February , 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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