Great x3 Uncle Frederick Emberry Wright

My Great x3 Uncle Frederick (1854 - 1913) was a tailor, father of one, and an elder brother of my Great Great Grandfather Francis 'Frank' George Wright (1868 - 1939).

Frederick Wright. c 1900

Frederick was born in Jul/Aug/Sep 1854 in Exeter, Devon to William Wright (about 33), a man of many occupations but at the time of Frederick's birth a labourer, and Sarah Wright (nee Emberry) (about 25), a housewife and later an outdoor servant and laundress.

Frederick was baptised on 14th June 1857 in St Mary Major, Exeter, alongside his younger sister Ellen.

Frederick was the third 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 -
• Walter Charles  1861 -
• Alfred Frank  1864 -
• Francis 'Frank' George  1868 - 1939  (70)
• Bessie T  1870 -

1861 Census: 

1871 Census: 

On 24th June 1880, when Frederick was twenty-five, his father William passed away, aged fifty-nine, at the family home in Prospect Place.

1881 Census: 

In his twenties, Frederick moved away from his family in Exeter and moved to the Teignmouth area.

1891 Census: Lodging with Mann family, headed by butcher Albert Mann, at Parson Street, West Teignmouth.

In Oct/Nov/Dec 1892, Frederick (38), a tailor, married Lucy Trout (34), in the district of Newton Abbot.

Frederick and Lucy had one daughter:

• Violet May  1894  

Photograph of Sarah in old age (centre) with most of her adult children, c 1900

Standing left to right: Alfred, Walter, Frank and Frederick

Sitting left to right: Thomas, Sarah and either Ellen or Thomas' wife Mary

1901 Census: 

1911 Census: 

In Jul/Aug/Sep 1913, Frederick passed away, aged fifty-nine, in the district of Newton Abbot.

After her husband's death, Lucy ran a lodging house at 17 Somerset Place. In 1921, one lodger, Alfred Shears, committed suicide - he was found hanging, with his throat cut (thankfully not at Lucy's home).

Frederick and Lucy's only daughter Violet would marry Ernest Huggins, from Norwich, Norfolk, in 1917. He was a sergeant in the Army Education Corps. His job took his family to Wiltshire.

Frederick's daughter Violet would name her firstborn son Frederick after her father.

By 1939, widowed Lucy was living with her married daughter and her family, in her son-in-law's native Norwich, where he was now working as a school master.

In Jan/Feb/Mar 1942, Lucy passed away, aged eight-three, in the district of Newton Abbot. She outlived Frederick by nearly thirty years.