Generation No. 1

1. JOHN1 WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.) was born Abt. 1587 in Royston, Yorkshire, UK. He married MARGARET RATCLIFFE, daughter of RICHARD RATCLIFFE.

Child of JOHN WRIGHT and MARGARET RATCLIFFE is:
2. i. JAMES2 WRIGHT, b. 1615; d. 1700.

Generation No. 2

2. JAMES2 WRIGHT (JOHN1) was born 1615, and died 1700. He married (1) JANE OWEN 1638. He married (2) MARY SLACKE (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.) 1650 (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), daughter of JOHN SLACKE.

Notes for JAMES WRIGHT:
"Of Golagh & Carrachor Hall, Co. Monaghan" SOURCE: "Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan"

More About JAMES WRIGHT and JANE OWEN:
Marriage: 1638

More About JAMES WRIGHT and MARY SLACKE:
Marriage: 1650 (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.)

Child of JAMES WRIGHT and JANE OWEN is:
i. WILLIAM3 WRIGHT, b. Abt. 1640; m. EMILY SCOTT.

Notes for WILLIAM WRIGHT:
Disinherited. SOURCE: "Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan" Has two sons and one daughter. His death date in this source was given as 1817 which would be 120 years after his birth, therefore I have not entered it.

Children of JAMES WRIGHT and MARY SLACKE are:
3. ii. THOMAS3 WRIGHT, d. 1725.
iii. JOSEPH WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), b. 1652; d. 1731; m. MARY OWEN (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), 1708.

More About JOSEPH WRIGHT and MARY OWEN:
Marriage: 1708

iv. JOHN WRIGHT.
v. JAMES WRIGHT.
vi. RICHARD WRIGHT.

Notes for RICHARD WRIGHT:
"Of Dartry" SORCE "Wright of Yorkshire & Monaghan"

vii. SARAH WRIGHT, m. THOMAS MITCHELL.

Generation No. 3

3. THOMAS3 WRIGHT (JAMES2, JOHN1) (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.) died 1725. He married ELINOR 1724.

More About THOMAS WRIGHT and ELINOR:
Marriage: 1724

Child of THOMAS WRIGHT and ELINOR is:
4. i. ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4 WRIGHT, b. Abt. 1695; d. 1771.

Generation No. 4

4. ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4 WRIGHT (THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.) was born Abt. 1695, and died 1771.

Child of ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD WRIGHT is:
5. i. ROBERT5 WRIGHT, b. Abt. 1725; d. 1789.

Generation No. 5

5. ROBERT5 WRIGHT (ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) was born Abt. 1725, and died 1789.

Children of ROBERT WRIGHT are:
6. i. JOHN6 WRIGHT, b. 1761; d. 1837.
ii. WILLIAM WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.).
iii. ROGER WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.).
iv. JAMES WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.).
v. UNNAMED WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.).

Generation No. 6

6. JOHN6 WRIGHT (ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.) was born 1761, and died 1837. He married ESTHER. She was born 1759, and died 1852.

Notes for JOHN WRIGHT:
Of Rafeenan (Gilford Castle tree fragment)

Children of JOHN WRIGHT and ESTHER are:
7. i. ROBERT7 WRIGHT, b. 1789; d. 1869.
ii. JAMES WRIGHT, b. 1790 (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.); d. 1822.

Notes for JAMES WRIGHT:
The death date is a guess - the page folds on the number and the third digit is questionable. It could be 1822 or 1842.

Generation No. 7

7. ROBERT7 WRIGHT (JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) was born 1789, and died 1869. He married MARGARET SWAN. She was born 1788, and died 1868.

Notes for ROBERT WRIGHT:
Possibly nicknamed "Robin" since that is what shows on the "Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan" page.
Of Ballinode House SOURCE: Indenture in 1873 of William WRIGHT and ELizabeth Mary FIDDES.

Children of ROBERT WRIGHT and MARGARET SWAN are:
8. i. ROBERT8 WRIGHT, b. 1824; d. 9 December 1883, Barton End, Alton.
ii. JOHN WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.).
iii. JAMES WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), m. UNNAMED IRWIN.
9. iv. MARY WRIGHT.
v. MARGARET WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), m. WILLIAM WEST, 1849 (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.).

More About WILLIAM WEST and MARGARET WRIGHT:
Marriage: 1849 (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.)

vi. ELIZABETH WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), b. 1827; m. ROBERT SPROTT.

Notes for ROBERT SPROTT:
Merchant in Co. Tyrone, Five Mile Town SORCE: Indenture 1873 between William WRIGHT & Elizabeth Mary FIDDES.

vii. THOMAS WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), b. 1829; d. 1861; m. UNNAMED NUGENT.
viii. ESTHER WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), m. JOSEPH MOORHEAD.
10. ix. WILLIAM WRIGHT, d. 16 May 1896.
x. JOSEPH WRIGHT (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), b. 1827; d. 1896; m. JANE MCCALDIN.

Generation No. 8

8. ROBERT8 WRIGHT (ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.) was born 1824 (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.), and died 9 December 1883 in Barton End, Alton (Source: (1) Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan., (2) Affidavit of Robert T Wright 30 April 1937.). He married SARAH JANE REED (Source: Affidavit of Robert T Wright 30 April 1937.) 17 November 1863, daughter of THOMAS REED and MARY HODGE. She died 1 November 1920 in "Ivetta", Skerries, Co. Dublin (Source: (1) Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan., (2) Affidavit of Robert T Wright 30 April 1937.).

Notes for ROBERT WRIGHT:
Notes from Brian McDonald: Robert T. Wright of Ballinode, Co. Monahan (see "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage". "Robert T. Wright was manager of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, Newry, Co. Down, member of the United Countries Club, Newry and resided on Hill Street Newry. (See. Burke's Peerage and Baronatage for Coat of Arms).

SORCE Affidavit of Robert T Wright (son of Robert Wright) 30 April 1937: Of Ballinode, tenant from year to year of Mullaghmore West & Killygrallen (see folio 3701, Co. Monaghan) Died intestate. His wife continued to live on the lands and to receive the rents until 1906. Robert T. Wright claimed to have an indentured mtg against the property. The lands consisted of a corn mill and fiftten houses in the village of Ballinode together with a little over 72 acres of land. On June 1, 1906, Sarah Jane Wright bought the lands. At the time of this action, the son did not know where Annie Johnston was living, John S. WRIGHT lived at The Homestead, The Crescent, Felpham, Bognor, Regis, Sussex; Margaret Louise lived at The Grange, Hook, Hants, England, widow; James Francis WRIGHT at Gilford Castle and William Joseph Wright died about 4 years before the affidavit, believed to be a batchelor.

More About ROBERT WRIGHT and SARAH REED:
Marriage: 17 November 1863

Children of ROBERT WRIGHT and SARAH REED are:
11. i. ROBERT THOMAS9 WRIGHT, b. 25 November 1864, Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland; d. 24 June 1937, Barton End, Alton, Hants, UK.
12. ii. MARY ANNE WRIGHT, b. 18 August 1866, Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland.
iii. MARGARET LOUISA WRIGHT (Source: LDS British Vital Records Index.), b. 28 December 1868, Monaghan, County Monaghan, Ireland; m. (1) JOHN HATTON PORTER-HATTON; m. (2) DAVID JACKSON, 28 December 1893; b. 16 November 1855; d. 27 July 1903, Yokohama, Japan.

More About MARGARET LOUISA WRIGHT:
Date born 2: 28 December (Source: Birthday book of Jeannie Moorhead.)

Notes for JOHN HATTON PORTER-HATTON:
THE HATTONS OF WEXFORD and IRELAND
Wexford Hattons of Great Clonard (via John) and Prospect (via Loftus)
Compiled January 1999 by David A. Crerar, 1166 Melville Street #1501, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6E 4P5
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nspictou/elect_text/wexfordhattons.html
i. HARIETTE HATTON = Rev. James Porter
The Reverend James Porter was of Drumnakilly, Armagh. They had one son:
i. JOHN HATTON PORTER-HATTON (b.1858) = Margaret Louisa Wright (Jackson)
John Porter was of Prospect, Wexford. He assumed the additional surname and arms of Hatton by Royal Licence 5 October 1908 [see G.D.Ms. 802, no.8](Arms: 1st and 4th, azure on a chevron between three garbs or an annulet gules (Hatton), 2nd and 3rd per chevron argent and sable, three bells countercharged, a bordure gules (Porter). Motto: Virtus tutissima cassis) [Irish Genealogy Office, MS 111, pp.231-32]. He married in 1905 Margaret Louisa, who was widow of David Jackson of Yokohama, Companion of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun ( brother of Sir Thomas Jackson, Bart) and who was the daughter of Robert T. Wright. formerly of Ballinode, Monaghan County [Burke’s Peerage]. He was the Manager of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, Newry, Co.Down, N.Ireland, and lived on Hill Street. He was member of the United Counties Club, Newry [see Burke’s for Coat of Arms].

Notes for DAVID JACKSON:
A presentation Bowl with Chrysanthemum Design of the late 18th early 20th Century was presented to David Jackson by the Emperor Meiji in appreciation of his work in setting up the banking system in Japan. It was donated by his descendant, David Hugh Plunkett Brown to the Vancouver Museum. A photo of it can be seen on page 157 of "The Arts of Meiji Japan 1868-1912". Apparently a candelabra was also given to him, but the whereabouts of that is not known to us at this time. The chrysanthemum pattern is to signify long life. The presentation was to celebrate David Jackson receiving "The Order of the Rising Sun".

SOURCE: "At the Ford of the Birches"
p. 209 David Jackson apparently attended the Annaneese School (Presbyterian) "David Jackson, Bank Manager in Hong Kong" The school was 26' by 15' by 8' and was built of stone and lime construction with a slated roof. It was built "near McCooey's cross" and had been in existence from 1860. It is possible that it closed down in 1879 when David Ranson became principal of Church Street School.

HSBC Group Archives April 2003
1877 - Joins London Office of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
1878 - Agent Bombay
May 1878 - East to join Shanghai office
1882 - Shanghai Salary $200
April 1883 - May 1884 - Hankow [now Wuhan]
May 1883 - Shanghai
June 1884 - Hankow, acting Agent
August 1886 - Hankow, Agent, salary $6000
1887 - briefly in India
Dec 1887 - Shanghai, Sub manager
May 1888 - Bombay [now Mumbai] acting Agent
1893 - Yokohama, Manager
Jan 1897 12 months leave, extended to two years
1899 - Yokohama, Manager
Service ends between July 1903 and July 1904
(SHARON'S NOTE: We know that he died of an aneurism of the heart 27 July 1903)

More About DAVID JACKSON and MARGARET WRIGHT:
Marriage: 28 December 1893

13. iv. MARTHA WRIGHT, b. 30 October 1870, Monaghan, County Monaghan, Ireland; d. Bef. 1937, Killykeera, Smithborough, County Monaghan.
v. JOHN STEVENSON REED WRIGHT (Source: (1) Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan, This is a family page shared with me by Christine Wright on October 8, 2003., (2) Affidavit of Robert T Wright 30 April 1937.), b. 1877; d. 1941; m. NELLIE RICKETT; b. 1879; d. 1956.

Notes for JOHN STEVENSON REED WRIGHT:
Imperial Bank of Persia, Bushire. The records at HSBC for the Imperial Bank of Persia show him to have an uneven career with many problems with personal debt.

vi. WILLIAM JOSEPH WRIGHT (Source: Affidavit of Robert T Wright 30 April 1937.), b. 1872; d. 1933.

Notes for WILLIAM JOSEPH WRIGHT:
Never married.

14. vii. JAMES FRANCIS WRIGHT, b. 17 November 1874; d. 22 April 1954, The Castle, Gilford.

9. MARY8 WRIGHT (ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.). She married ROBERT SCOTT.

Child of MARY WRIGHT and ROBERT SCOTT is:
i. FRANCES9 SCOTT, d. 8 May 1942.

Notes for FRANCES SCOTT:
Transcription of Miss McCready's news clippings saved in a diary at Gilford Castle. SCOTT- May 8, 1942, at Bangor, Frances, last surviving daughter of the late Robert and Mary Scott, of Ballinode, Co. Monaghan. Funeral arrangements later. (NOTE: This is conjecture putting this here, but it seems most likely)

10. WILLIAM8 WRIGHT (ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) (Source: Wright of Yorkshire and Monaghan.) died 16 May 1896 (Source: Estate of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Wallace Wright.). He married ELIZABETH MARY FIDDES. She died 19 October 1903 (Source: Estate of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Wallace Wright.).

Notes for WILLIAM WRIGHT:
Of Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, UK SOURCE: Indenture of William WRIGHT and Elizabeth Mary FIDDES.

Children of WILLIAM WRIGHT and ELIZABETH FIDDES are:
i. MARY9 WRIGHT (Source: Gilford Castle Family Tree Fragment.), d. 1953.

Notes for MARY WRIGHT:
Never married

ii. ROBERT WALLACE WRIGHT (Source: Gilford Castle Family Tree Fragment.), d. 1925.

Notes for ROBERT WALLACE WRIGHT:
Never married

iii. WILLIAM WRIGHT (Source: Gilford Castle Family Tree Fragment.), d. 1885.

Notes for WILLIAM WRIGHT:
Never married
Is it possible that this is Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Wallace WRIGHT brother of Joseph David WRIGHT who owned -perhaps with his brother William - the lands of Cappog in Monaghan (over 112 acres)? SOURCE: Estate documents at Gilford Castle. There are enough of them and they cross reference with his brothers so that it seems quite likely.

iv. EDWARD WRIGHT (Source: Gilford Castle Family Tree Fragment.), d. 1934.
v. ALICE WRIGHT.

Notes for ALICE WRIGHT:
Died in infancy

Generation No. 9

11. ROBERT THOMAS9 WRIGHT (ROBERT8, ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) was born 25 November 1864 in Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland (Source: IGI v. 5..), and died 24 June 1937 in Barton End, Alton, Hants, UK. He married LUCY DANBY. She was born 1875, and died 1938.

Notes for ROBERT THOMAS WRIGHT:
Robert T. Wright of HSBC.

Robert T. WRIGHT is the brother of Margaret Louisa WRIGHT (wife of David JACKSON) and Martha WRIGHT (wife of Thompson BROWN). Details of other links will likely be nailed down when we get access to a copy of the probated will of George Austin Thompson BROWN, son of Martha & Thompson BROWN. The link is of interest in creating a fuller sense of the family culture and connections in international banking. I suspect a connection with the WRIGHT family of Gilford Castle, but have little to go on at this point beyond proximity and intuition as well as the brokerage firm of Wright & Hornby in Hong Kong.

Service Record of Robert T. WRIGHT from Group Archives of the HSBC

1883 Joins London office of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
May 1886 East to join Hong Kong office
Aug 1891 received special increase from $200 to $225 a month " having rendered
valuable service over the past five years" (HSBC Board Minutes)
April 1898 Hong Kong, 'Bookkeeper', requested and given permission to marry
Sept 1898 Board votes him a sum of $2500 on the occasion of his marriage in view
of the "important post he held and the most efficient way in which he
performs his duties" (HSBC Board Minutes)
March 1901 On leave
1902 Hong Kong
1904 Amoy [now Xiamen], acting Agent
1905 Rangoon, Burma [now Yangon, Myanmar], Agent
April 1907 On leave
1908 Hankow [Wuhan], Agent
1909 Kobe, Agent
1911 Yokohama, Manager
1924 Kobe, Manager
Service ends between August 1924 and 1925.

There is also an interesting description of the Yokohama Earthquake in The History of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank, Vol III, Frank H.H. King, Cambridge Press, 1988 p.141-143

The staff were able to stuff cheques from the clearing in their pockets, carry two cash boxes, and put large numbers of ledgers and other books into a cart commandeered from the Post Office, which was situated next door. unfortunately the books could not be got to the ships and they were subsequently burnt. Most of the staff, however, got on board the Empress of Australia, which had been preparing to leave port when the earthquake struck; J. Caldwell arrived too late, but boarded the French Andre Lebon.

When the staff were able to return temporarily to search the ruins, they recovered various other items, including securities from the safe which Caldwell reached just in time, although a looter was making off with some of the packages; R. T .Wright, the Manager, had the securities insured by cable from the ship.

From entries in Kings history of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank, I know that in 1886, R.T. WRIGHT was the manager of HKSB Yokohama.
Also, R.T. WRIGHT was the manager of the Yokohama Branch 1910-1923 and "would be caught in the Yokohama or Kanto earthquake of 1923 and who transferred the main Japanese office to Kobe". This may be the son of the first R.T. WRIGHT - I have yet to dig that out.This is the "Tim" Wright 1864- 1937 who married Lucy Danby 1875-1938 (SOURCE Gilford Castle Family Tree)

In the footnotes relating to this account, King directs us to: the C.R. Rice account in J.R. Jones, “Personalities “file from James Cardwell, oral history interview and from J.R. Jones “Branches” file all in Group Archives. See also “Branches” p. 95, p. 97. This will have to await further exploration.

Folio 3701 - filed an affidavit to claim lands of Mullaghmore West & Killygrallen owned by his mother Sarah Jane WRIGHT. He lived at Barton End, Alton in Hampshire England at this time. "formerly of Ballinode but then of Hong Kong in China". Since he died in 1937 and the suit was launched either in that year or the year before, he may never have seen it through. His only daughter was Mrs D.L. Newbigging of Shanghai. (SOURCE OBIT)

Transcription of Miss McCready's news clippings saved in a diary at Gilford Castle. WRIGHT - On June 24, 1937, suddenly at Barton End, Alton, Hants, ROBERT THOMAS WRIGHT (TIM) late of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Yokohama, in his 73rd year. Funeral, Frimley Parish Church, 3:30 p.m., today (Saturday). (China and Japan papers, please copy).

Children of ROBERT WRIGHT and LUCY DANBY are:
i. UNNAMED10 WRIGHT, m. D.L. NEWBIGGING.

Notes for D.L. NEWBIGGING:
Of Shanghai. SORCE RT WRIGHT Obit.

ii. CAPTAIN R.F. WRIGHT.

12. MARY ANNE9 WRIGHT (ROBERT8, ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) was born 18 August 1866 in Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland (Source: IGI v. 5..). She married UNNAMED JOHNSTON.

Notes for MARY ANNE WRIGHT:
This is probably the Annie Wright who married an unknown Johnston.

in 1902 she lived at 77 Kansas Avenue, Belfast. SORCE 1937 Affidavit.

Child of MARY WRIGHT and UNNAMED JOHNSTON is:
i. T10 JOHNSTON.

Notes for T JOHNSTON:
Source: R.T. Wright funeral news clipping T. Johnston newphew

13. MARTHA9 WRIGHT (ROBERT8, ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) (Source: LDS British Vital Records Index.) was born 30 October 1870 in Monaghan, County Monaghan, Ireland, and died Bef. 1937 in Killykeera, Smithborough, County Monaghan. She married THOMPSON BROWN, son of THOMPSON BROWN and ELIZABETH JACKSON. He was born 21 August 1868 (Source: Wendy Jack Website Jack/McCullagh families.), and died 28 August 1942 in Killynure House, Armagh (Source: Newsclipping from McCready.).

Notes for MARTHA WRIGHT:
There are 11 cousins on the Wright side.

David Hugh Plunkett Brown got a letter from one of these cousins suggesting that since they had all benefited from the Estate of George Austin Jackson Brown (to the tune of $3,000 each) that a drinking fountain be set up in his memory. David wrote back saying that he had other things to do rather than a drinking fountain in Australia. His brother and sister found out about this afterwards.

Notes for THOMPSON BROWN:
Story told by a neighbour, Eugene Fegan who was seven years old at the time, "Thompson Brown, he just dropped dead in the yard." On my most recent visit, I asked him about this again. "I seen him walk down the lane there, between the chestnut trees. OUt walking, he were. And he just like that. Fell over. It made a big impression on me. A private funeral it was. Strange." This last comment would refer to the fact that there would be no following of the casket to the resting place as was the custom in the Catholic community (which Eugene and his family would have belonged to).

His only son died in Australia.

SOURCE: HSBC Group Archives:
1886 - Joins London office of HSBC
1890 - May, east to join Shanghai office
1891 - Tientsin (now Tianjin) April
1893 - Hong Kong
1899 - Amoy (Xiamen)

Transcription of Miss McCready's news clippings saved in a diary at Gilford Castle. BROWN - August 28, 1942, at Killynure House, Armagh, Thompson, eldest son of the late Mr. & Mrs. Thompson Brown. Funeral strictly private. No flowers.

Child of MARTHA WRIGHT and THOMPSON BROWN is:
i. GEORGE AUSTIN THOMPSON10 BROWN, b. Abt. 1902; d. 26 August 1963, Stanhope, Victoria, Australia (Source: Wendy Jack Website Jack/McCullagh families, Title Indexes to DeathsPublication: Registry of Births. Deaths and Marriages, Victoria, AustraliaNote No 19542/1963Probate Index, Victoria. 1841-1992Publication: Macbeth Genealogical Books, Melbourne 1992Note: Series 601, No. 634.).

Notes for GEORGE AUSTIN THOMPSON BROWN:
He was a farmer in Stanhope, Victoria, Australia. He died in 1963 leaving no will.

More About GEORGE AUSTIN THOMPSON BROWN:
Occupation: Farmer
Will: Left no will

14. JAMES FRANCIS9 WRIGHT (ROBERT8, ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) was born 17 November 1874 (Source: Passport 1926.), and died 22 April 1954 in The Castle, Gilford (Source: Death Certificate 1954.). He married MARY MENARY, daughter of WILLIAM MENARY and MARY JACKSON. She was born 5 November 1872 (Source: Wendy Jack Website Jack/McCullagh families.), and died 29 August 1946.

Notes for JAMES FRANCIS WRIGHT:
Was in Boer War.
Lived at Gilford Castle. (SOURCE: Wendy Jack)
Great grandfather of Major Wright of Gilford Castle.
Bought Urker in 1935.

In 1902 Stockbroker in Manilla, Phillipines (SOURCE: 1937 Affidavit)

This is most likely as well the one associated with Hornby & Wright (or Wright & Hornby - I forget) as the signature of a Hornby is on the loan to Thompson Brown from James F Wright.

Transcription of Miss McCready's news clippings saved in a diary at Gilford Castle.
The resignation of his commission in the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps of Captain James Francis Wright with effect from October 3, 1939, has been approved by H.E. the Governor. (this may have been his son - just guessing here. Sharon Oddie Brown)

Notes for MARY MENARY:
1906 letter from Mary Griffin to Sarah Whiteside: "I am in a little anxiety about Mollie and her care just now as there has been a terrible typoon in Hong Kong and loss of life and I am sure she has been well frightened if not hurt"

Child of JAMES WRIGHT and MARY MENARY is:
15. i. JAMES FRANCIS10 WRIGHT, b. 30 December 1902.

Generation No. 10

15. JAMES FRANCIS10 WRIGHT (JAMES FRANCIS9, ROBERT8, ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) was born 30 December 1902. He married DORIS MARY MARGUARITE BRANDT 1 September 1927, daughter of JAMES HERBERT BACKHOUSE. She was born 1904.

More About JAMES WRIGHT and DORIS BRANDT:
Marriage: 1 September 1927

Children of JAMES WRIGHT and DORIS BRANDT are:
16. i. MICHAEL11 WRIGHT, b. 25 March 1928, Hong Kong; d. April 1995, Craigavon Hospital, Portadown, Ireland.
17. ii. ELIZABETH WRIGHT.

Generation No. 11

16. MICHAEL11 WRIGHT (JAMES FRANCIS10, JAMES FRANCIS9, ROBERT8, ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) was born 25 March 1928 in Hong Kong, and died April 1995 in Craigavon Hospital, Portadown, Ireland. He married (1) ROSEMARY RENNISON 7 April 1951. He married (2) CHRISTINE JOHNSON 30 September 1969. She was born 5 June 1941 in Marketharborough, Leicestershire, UK.

Notes for MICHAEL WRIGHT:
Hal's note mentions Urker. Divorced Rosemary.

More About MICHAEL WRIGHT and ROSEMARY RENNISON:
Marriage: 7 April 1951

More About MICHAEL WRIGHT and CHRISTINE JOHNSON:
Marriage: 30 September 1969

Children of MICHAEL WRIGHT and ROSEMARY RENNISON are:
i. CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL JAMES12 WRIGHT, b. 1953; d. 1993.

ii. NICHOLAS PATRICK WRIGHT, b. 1958.
iii. DAVID CHARLES WRIGHT.

Children of MICHAEL WRIGHT and CHRISTINE JOHNSON are:
iv. LUCIE CATHERINE12 WRIGHT, b. 12 May 1972.
v. JAMES HENRY FRANCIS WRIGHT (Source: email August 27, 2003 from James Wright.), b. 13 February 1974.

17. ELIZABETH11 WRIGHT (JAMES FRANCIS10, JAMES FRANCIS9, ROBERT8, ROBERT7, JOHN6, ROBERT5, ROGER WILLIAM RICHARD4, THOMAS3, JAMES2, JOHN1) She married WILLIAM MURRAY.

Children of ELIZABETH WRIGHT and WILLIAM MURRAY are:
i. MICHAEL12 MURRAY, b. 1959.
ii. JANE MURRAY, b. 1967.