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proper brummie kid
Hello - I've never used a website like this, so apologise if I'm doing it all wrong, but I am trying to trace the Wright side of my family tree and wondered if anyone can help with any more info or stories? These are my facts...
- Ernest Edward Wright (my grandad) - born 13.09.1925 at the back of 151 (or 157?) Ashted Row, in the sub district of Duddeston, Birmingham. Father Ernest Wright - Railway Carriage Painter, mother Elsie V Wright (nee Lawrence)
- Ernest Edward Wright married Doreen Hazel Banham (my nan) on 11.09.1943. Ernest Edward address given as 120 Bowyer Road Alum Rock, father occupation Munition worker. Doreen address given as 12 Salisbury Road. Church St Martins Washwood Heath, father occupation Railway Worker. Both these addresses come under 'Saltley'.
- Elsie Wright (nee Lawrence) 1902 -1936, she died when my grandad Ernest Edward was 11. I don't know what of - it was so young. Ernest remarried someone called Alice and my grandad went to live with Elsie's sister Florence Ford and his cousin Francis, who was about the same age. Francis (Frank) later married Maisie Terry and had three children.
- Ernest Wright 1902 - 1961 (not accurate) always lived in Birmingham. It's possible Ernest ended up living in a council flat in Longbridge Birmingham
- My grandad (Ernest Edward) had a brother Christopher who died in the war - possibly 1927 - 1944 as he was about 17/18 in suspicious circumstances. Ernest and Christopher were both in the Navy in 1943/44.
- My Aunt says that Ernest Wrights father was called Harold and he ran a pub. They think the pub was called the Britannia in Alum Rock in Birmingham close to a canal near where they made cars, but the pub was lost because of out of hour drinking sessions and some connection with a bookies??
- My nan and grandad moved to Weymouth, Dorset after they were married and had 9 children. My grandad was the Stationmaster and sadly died in 1978.