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Thank you thats great - I've never found out anything about him.

Outward sailing

Name: Mr R W Wright
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Birth Date: abt 1924
Departure Date: 21 Jul 1951
Port of Departure: London, England
Destination Port: Adelaide, Australia
Ship Name: Orion
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Shipping line: Orient Line
Official Number: 164493
Master: Norman Anthony

Age 27 occ fitter

Home address Dubthorn Villas,Betchton,Sandbach,Cheshire

So the same address as the 1939 register where his parents etc lived

WILLIAM OSWIN TOWNDROW

England & Wales deaths 1837-2007

Collections from

Great Britain

Country

England

County

Rutland

Year

1997

Birth Year

1921

Event Quarter

1

District

MELTON & RUTLAND

OLIVE TOWNDROW

England & Wales deaths 1837-2007

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Great Britain

Country

England

County

Leicestershire

Year

1999

Birth Year

1921

Event Quarter

4

District

MELTON MOWBRAY

Thank you. I will try and get hold of the marriage certificate and see how I go.

So this may be Mary Ann's death, with the DOB one year out from that given in 1939 (1939 posted by Gins earlier):

Mary Anne Wright
in the England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Mary Anne Wright
Birth Date: 15 Jun 1880
Date of Registration: Jun 1970
Age at Death: 90
Registration district: Crewe
Inferred County: Cheshire
Volume: 10a
Page: 604

William's death:

William Wright
in the England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: William Wright
Birth Date: 3 Aug 1886
Date of Registration: Sep 1970
Age at Death: 84
Registration district: Crewe
Inferred County: Cheshire
Volume: 10a
Page: 525

You need Mary Ann & William's marriage cert to find out their parents' names.
Ref numbers posted earlier by Gins.

I don't see a likely Mary Ann living in Nantwich in 1911.
Nor a birth at the right time in 1881, at least not in Cheshire.
Their parents' names would help to find them in the censuses.

Yes they are her siblings. Ronald emigrated to Australia at some point and he's another one that's difficult to find but I'm really looking for her parents and back.

Siblings to Olive?


Births Mar 1913
Wright Lilian Robinson Macclesfield 8a 227


Births Sep 1914
Wright Mary Robinson Macclesfield 8a 231


Births Jun 1918
Wright Edith Robinson Ashton 8d 735


Births Mar 1924
Wright Ronald W Robinson Ashton 8d 722


Yes the full DOB is after the name. I have added the parents marriage to that 1939 post

Olive is living with her parents on the 1939 register

Thank you all.

Chris - I haven't seen her marriage certificate but I believe that her father was William Wright (b.1880?) and her mother was Mary A Robinson (1800?). I've guessed the birth dates to be honest and I've found nothing really on them.

Gins - that's amazing, I never knew that my Nan worked in a shop. Can I ask - are the dates after the names their births? I'm assuming so. And what are the numbers at the end?

1939 Register

Towndrow Household (2 People)
Chapel Lane , Melton and Belvoir R.D., Leicestershire, England

William O Towndrow 13 Jun 1921 Male Joiner Apprentice Single 71 2
Edith Towndrow 24 Dec 1882 Female Househld Duties Unpai Married 71 1

Here's the 1939 Register


Wright Household (3 People)
Dubthorne Villas , Congleton R.D., Cheshire, England

Olive Towndrow (Wright) 06 Oct 1921 Female Shop Assistant (Sweets & Tobacc Single 34 5
3 more people who are officially closed
William Wright 03 Aug 1886 Male Police Constable (Retired Married 34 1
3 more people who are officially closed
Mary A Wright 15 Jun 1881 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 34 2
3 more people who are officially closed
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Added: Olive's parents marriage?


Marriages Dec 1912

Robinson Mary A Wright Nantwich 8a 710
WRIGHT William Robinson Nantwich 8a 710

Cheshire Marriage indexes for the years: 1947

TOWNDROW William Oswin WRIGHT Olive Sandbach, St Mary Cheshire East 1080/9/73

http://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk/index.php

(from above, useful for Cheshire, if any help)


Who was her Father on Marriage Cert.?...

Chris :)

edits

Cheshire Marriage indexes for the years: 1912

ROBINSON Mary A WRIGHT William Nantwich, Civil Marriage or Registrar Attended Cheshire East NA/44/99

Can anyone help please. i'm looking for the following. All born in the Cheshire area, but only know a few more details about Olive: Olive Wright (b. 1921 - married name Towndrow) Lillian Wright Mary Wright May Wright Edith Wright Ronny Wright (unsure of birth date - emigrated to Australia, died young, know he had a number of children but only know one name - daughter Treena). Olive and Mary moved to Wymondham in Leicestershire. Olive and Ronny are the only ones that ever had children. I think that the father (my g. grandpa) was a policeman but don't know anything else about them. Olive married William Oswin Towndrow in 1947. I'd be grateful for anything that anyone can tell me.