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Hi Tess,

Do you know whether Marie Wright nee Armstrong stayed in the Northumberland area? I have found a death for a Marie Wright who died in 1953, aged 74, this would make it that she was born c1879.

Name: Marie Wright
Death Registration Month/Year: 1953
Age at death (estimated): 74
Registration district: Sunderland
Inferred County: Northumberland
Volume: 1a
Page: 813

Just a thought - do you think that George & Marie actually married? Maybe they decided to live together and not marry, although Marie may have changed her name!!!

Going to have to leave you all for now.

Thank you for all your help this afternoon.

TTT

Is it possible that Marie Armstrong had been married before, therefore her surname would be different!

Just off to see if I can see a marriage for George Wright and Marie!!

That's the one!!

This would be George Stephenson Wright's Death, registered at Hull:-

Deaths Sep 1909 (>99%)
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WRIGHT George Stephenson 43 Hull 9d 154

This could be a red herring, so perhaps disguard it for now - put it on the back burner!!!!

Jonesey - I'm glad I'm in good company!

I've looked at both George Stevens Wright as written on George Armstrong's birth cert and George Stephens Wright and can come up with nothing. I did however find a death for a George STEPHENSON Wright but now I can't find it again!

Wondering if the registrar of his day has alot to answer for!

An odd one indeed. I cannot spot the birth of a George Stevens (or Stephens) Wright or indeed of a Marie Armstrong within what might be considered the probable time period for having a child of their own in 1902.

The nearest that I have come up with is the birth of an Edith Marie Armstrong born in Middlesborough (Not a million miles from Whitley) in 1878. I cannot however spot a marriage for her.

Yes, they do corresponde. On George A marriage cert he names his father as just George, who is deceased in 1923

I'm having difficulty finding George Armstrong Wright in the 1911 census, so perhaps we need to start with his marriage and birth!

Have you got a copy of George Armstrong Wright's marriage certificate?

Does the father he names on that tally with what is shown on his birth certificate?

Jan - Just checked his birth cert and it appears I've sent you all on a wild goose chase. His place of birth is WHITLEY, Tynemouth, Northumberland NOT Whitby, My sincere apologise for wasting your time

Jan, that is it exactly!

I know he existed, I'm living proof - a few generation further forward! I just can't find any record of his parents and feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall!

Do you mean Whitley, as Whitby is somewhere else entirely?
Jan

Lynne- George was born Wright, it's just as possible he was given mother's surname as a middle name. Having said that I can't find their marriage!
Jan

He is stated as being born in Whitby.

I'm not aware of any siblings born before or after his birth.

From what you have posted, this would suggest that George Armstrong was born before his mother, Marie Armstrong married George Stevens Wright!!

Just off to double check!

Where does it state (on the birth certificate) that George Armstrong Wright was born?

Any other children that you know of that were born before 1911?

It's looking as though he is not wanting to be found! Unless they moved before the 1911 census was taken!!

His surname was Wright, the same as his father. So his full name at birth was George Armstrong Wright.

On George Armstrong's birth cert, his father is stated as being a builders foreman.

Don't know about Lynn but I can't see them 1911. Do you have an occupation for George?

It's George Armstrong Wright:

Births Sep 1902
Wright George Armstrong Tynemouth 10b 293

Jan

His name was George Armstrong and he was born in the July of 1902

What was the name of the child, trying to locate them on the 1911 census, which states how long they were married?