Brief Family History
John Walter Wright was born in 1898 to John Wright and Eliza Mary Hart in Walthamstow, Essex. He was one of 11 children, 6 survived childhood.
The Bedfordshire regiment were stationed in Dehra Dun, and Delhi during this period. John Walter Wright's grandparents were Thomas Wright, born Ireland, and Fanny Margaret White. She was born in Dover, Kent (mother Hannah White, father unknown). She had several siblings. Thomas was a Colour Sergeant in the 51st Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry stationed at Western Heights in Dover. The regiment went to Ireland before leaving for India (and what is now Pakistan) in about 1871/2 on the troop ship "Euphrates" accompanied by wives. The 51st regiment was stationed in Fyzabad for 2 to 3 years. Fanny gave birth to John Wright, my father's father, in Amballa near Delhi(Umballa 29 Mar 1874). She returned to England without Thomas by the time of the 1881 census. Thomas Wright was either killed during the 2nd Afghan war or died from a disease such as cholera whilst in Peshawar.(Current research). In 1881 Fanny Margaret is listed in the census as a prison warder (widow) in Manchester at Belle Vue prison, Gorton. John Wright, age 7, is in the Dover workhouse at Buckland with his brother, and her daughter Fanny, born Aldershot,1869, is boarded with an army family in Dover. Fanny Margaret later married George Cam in about 1888, and moved to Tottenham. Her children re-joined her,and she had several more during her second marriage. One of John Walter Wright's grandchildren has a connection to NE India, Dharamsala's Tibetan community
Updated 08/2008