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War Brides from World War 2

War Brides from World War 2

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 3:09AM GMT
Classification: Query
My grandmother was a warbride, name coming over was Ellen Ethel "Jean" Pry; married in London,England to my grandfather H. Keith Wright, he was a gunner in the war. His brother and father also served his brother was James Duncan Wright, father was Noble Stanley Wright (who also served in WW1). I am looking for any pictures from that time period with them in it, as well as any warbride pictures from the cross over.
thanks catherine young

Re: War Brides from World War 2

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 2:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
My grandfather was James Duncan Wright of Vancouver Canada

Re: War Brides from World War 2

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 7:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Mar 2014 1:43PM GMT
Surnames: Wright, Pry, Young
Well she did omit one vital detail,...the name of the country.

It is a Canadian related event.

Ellen Ethel's husband was Canadian Army Gunner C 65149 H.K. Wright.

When Ellen went to Canada, she was going to the address of her father in law, Mr N.S. Wright in Little Britton in Ontario,...I think that was a spelling error and should have been, Little Britain.

So if your grandfather's birth certificate, ( James Duncan Wright ), says that his father, ( your great grandfather ), was Noble Stanley Wright, or you can verify the family connection by some other means, then you are related to Catherine Young, who BTW hasn't logged on during the previous three months.

Of course there could have been more than one Noble Stanley Wright, but I can't imagine that there would have been very many people with that name.

If you are related, then Catherine Young's grandmother Ellen Ethel Wright nee Pry, born 1919 in Islington in London, is, or was, your great aunt, and you and Catherine Young are second cousins, and you have one common pair of great grandparent, Noble Stanley Wright and his wife.

Ellen Ethel Wright nee Pry, had two brothers, so they would be Catherine Young's great uncles, so she probably has a bunch of cousins from that connection, and if they had any sense, they would have moved to Canada as well. :):)
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