My Great x3 Aunt Bessie (1870 - 1???) was the youngest sister of my Great Great Grandfather Francis 'Frank' George Wright (1868 - 1939).
Bessie was born around 1870 in Exeter, Devon to William Wright (about 49), a man of many occupations but at the time of Bessie' birth a labourer in an iron foundry, and Sarah Wright (nee Emberry) (about 41), a housewife and later an outdoor servant and laundress.
Bessie's birth doesn't appear to have been registered by her parents; nor, can I find a baptism. The only record Bessie appears on is the 1871 Census, as a one year old, living with her parents and older siblings.
What happens to her? Why is her life was little recorded? Was she fostered/adopted as a baby (thus maybe born/baptised with another name, which she may have reverted to later in life?)? Were her parents really her grandparents (the illegitimate child of one of the older children?)? Was she the illegitimate child of a neighbour or friend? Was she in any way ill or disabled (lived in an asylum or home away from the family)? Did she die young? Did she move far away young?
There's no record of her attending Rack Street School with her older sibling closest in age Francis, in the 1870s.
Bessie was the youngest of eight children (six sons and two daughters):
- Thomas William 1849 - 1931 (82)
- Henry John 1851 - 1915 (63)
- Frederick Emberry 1854 - 1913 (59)
- Ellen 1857 - 1948 (91)
- Walter Charles 1861 - 1940 (78)
- Alfred Frank 1864 - 1936 (71)
- Francis 'Frank' George 1868 - 1939 (70)
- Bessie T 1870 - 1??? (?)
1871 Census:
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