WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 12973 (N&D) 244774 (RE) |
Private Bernard Wright | Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) Royal Engineers (2nd Corporal) |
born 1899 |
| Medal Card | Entered Egypt 15.7.15. Awarded Victory, British and 15 Star medals. |
To reserves 6.2.19 | |
| Roll of Honour | Served on the western front |
No service records on ancestry
Family history etc
| Private Bernard Wright | |||
| Census 1861 | Eventual grandparents living in Aldwinkle, Northants: William, b 1828 Wymondham Anne, b Thorpe Sackville Children: Jane, b 1850 Syston, Leicestershire Maria, 1854 East Norton, Leics Sarah, b 1857 East Norton Elizabeth, b 1861 Liveden Nothants (near Oundle) |
Shepherd |
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| Census 1871 | Naomi (Bernard’s eventual mother) living in Burton Lazars, Melton
Mowbray with: Father: William, b 1828 Wymondham Mother: Anne, b Thorpe Sackville Sister: Elizabeth, b 1861 Burton Lazars |
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| Census 1881 | Naomi living in Alderwasley, Belper with: Father: William Mother: Anne |
Foreman Shepherd |
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| Census 1891 | Naomi living in Sutton cum Granby with: Father: William Mother: Anne Naomi’s son: John A Wright, b 1886 Basford, Nottingham |
Cottager |
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| 1899 | Born Bingham 26/7/1899, baptised 27/10/1899 Son of Naomi Wright |
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| Census 1901 | An inmate of Bingham Workhouse with: Mother: Naomi Wright, b 1865 Oundle Twin brother: Cyril b 1899 |
General servant, domestic |
Bernard and Cyril baptised on 27/10/1899. |
| Census 1911 | Living in Union
Street with: Employer: Joseph Walker, b 1861 Mapperley Julia Walker: wife, b 1853 Nottingham Visitors: Thomas Pacey, b 1904 Bingham Joselyn Walker, b 1907 Costock |
School and Butcher’s errand boy Butcher Assisting in the business |
Relationship “servant” |
| Census 1911 | Bernard’s twin brother was in the Board of Guardians school and children’s home, now Kirkland House, Kirkhill. | ||
| 1939 Register | 16 Market Place, Melton Mowbray: Bernard Wright, b. 26 Jul 1898, married Evelyn Wright, b. 7 Sep 1900, married |
Butcher’s manager Unpaid domestic duties |
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| Family research | A present family member relates the family history thus: Bernard having no family, the Robinson brothers from Melton Mowbray who served with him in the Sherwood Foresters, befriended him and through that friendship Bernard met one of their sisters - Evelyn May Robinson, and married her. He carried on in the butchery trade and worked in Melton Farmers’ shop, eventually becoming the manager. Our informant is not aware of the WW1 side of Bernard’s life and so can't assist. After a hard beginning to his life he progressed from being in the workhouse, servant to J Walker, surviving WW1 , getting married ( no children ) and becoming manager of Melton’s main Butchers - Melton Farmers. Our correspondent’s wife said Bernard’s twin, Cyril Wright, also survived but there are no records to confirm this. |
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| Family tree | Bernard married Evelyn May Robinson of Melton Mowbray in 1924. He died 1980 in Melton Mowbray. | ||
| Clearly the Wrights were a highly peripatetic family. Grandfather William seems to have kept to being a shepherd but in a succession of places in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. Naomi was the 5th child, had one illegitimate son who lived with her and parents. When she had the illegitimate twins, George and Cyril, she went into the Workhouse. Granby was one or the parishes in the Bingham Union. | |||
