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William Elliott Wright and family collection [textual record, graphic material]

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Date:

1803-1928.

Reference:

R4202-0-3-E, MG24-F94

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Item ID number:

104723

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William Elliott Wright and family collection
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Collection includes:

18 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1803-1928.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

12 cm of textual records some photocopies.
110 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Collection consists of the papers of naval officer William Elliott and his family. They contain two logbooks kept by William Elliott Wright, 1803-1808, 1808-1810. They also include a memoranda written by William Richard Wright, transcript, n.d., 1 page and two books of the Rules and reflection of the Royal Navy Annvitant Society, 1824, 1828, prints. They further contain Wright family photography, a genealogy and details of a marriage settlement trust.

The collection also contains photographs of the Wright family including: Dr. Henry Pulteney Wright and his wife Marion Grahame, and Jean Grahame Wright; Arthur Meredith; Vanda and Charles Lindsay, Ca. 1914; Sir Edmund B. Osler and H.R.H. Duke of Connaught at "Craigleigh" garden party, Toronto, Ont., ca. 1913. These photogrphs are by Pittaway; J. Fraser Bryce; Turner; Notman & Fraser; Press and Commercial Toronto Company; E. Stanton; William James Topley; and E. Dickson Studio. Photographs also depict a log house built in 1833 by W.E. Wright at Corunna, Ont., near St. Clair River; portraits of family members including H.P.G. Wright by Notman & Son; T. H. Wright by Hall & Lowe; P.J. Wright by William Notman; H.P. Wright; W.E. Wright by Poole.

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Wright, William Elliott, 1785-1869 (family)

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Wright, William Elliott, 1785-1869 (family) : William Elliott Wright was a native of Wilton, near Gravesend, Kent. He entered the Royal Navy, 26 July 1798, as an A.B. on board La Sybille and attained the rating of midshipman, 1 May 1799. He was commissioned as lieutenant, 11 December 1807; commander, 20 August 1817; and captain, 1 April 1856. His active service ended with his command, 1816-1818, of the Griffon sloop at St. Helena, to which Napoleon had recently been exiled after his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. On 20 July 1818, he married Jane Leech (d. 1834), youngest daughter of Richard Leech, Governor of the East India Company's stores at St. Helena. He settled first at Chudleigh, Devonshire.

In 1833, William Elliott Wright emigrated to Upper Canada and settled with his family of seven children at Corunna in Moore Township. His eldest daughter, Catherine Louisa, was the wife of Senator Alexander Vidal (1819-1906), and his grandson, Dr. Henry Pulteney Wright (1851-1898), who was called in consultation to the death bed of Sir John A. Macdonald, founded St. Luke's Hospital, Ottawa.

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The material in files 1-4 was presented in 1921 by Loftus Morton Fortier, superintendent of the Fort Ann Museum, Annapolis Royal, N.S., who was the husband of William Elliott Wright's granddaughter, Fannie Maria Wright. It was formerly described in MG 55/24 No. 297, from which it was transferred in 1979 to MG 54 No. 74, where it remained for a few months only before being placed in its present location.
The material in file 5 was presented in 1979 by Harold Richard Tilley of Ottawa, grandson of Loftus Morton Fortier above.
The material in files 6 and 7 was presented in 1979 by Henry Pulteney Wright of Ottawa, a great-great-grandson of William Elliott Wright. The originals of the photographs in file 7 were transferred to the National Photography Collection in 1979, and only photocopies remained in the Manuscript Division.
The deed in file 8 was presented in 1980 by Sherwood Palmer Wright of Toronto, a great-great-grandson of William Elliott Wright.
In 1985, Marion Gibbons of Ottawa, daughter of Jean Grahame Wright Meredith and great-great-granddaughter of William Elliott Wright, presented the family photographs of which photocopies were retained in file 9 when the originals were transferred to the National Photography Collection.

Related material:

Further information on the family is available in RG 1, L 1 and L 3; in the RG 68; from the holdings of the Historical Society of Ottawa; and from the window of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, Ottawa.
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Logbooks, 1803-1805, 1808-1809] Hercules (Ship), 1803

Ship's papers, 1805 Arrogant (Ship), 1803

Midshipmen, 1803-1805 Trident (Ship), 1803-1805

Merchant seamen, 1805 Caroline (ship), 1805

Great Britain. Royal Navy - Officers, 1808-1810 Belliqueux (Ship), 1808-1809

William Eliott Wright - Career in the military, [n.d., before 1893] Rattlesnake (Ship), 1809-1810

William Eliott Wright - Biography, [n.d., before 1893] "Rules and Regulations of the Royal Naval Annuitant Society established at Devonport on the 9th Day of April 1823", 1824, 1828

Annuities - Societies, etc., 1824, 1828 Royal Naval Annuitant Society, 1824, 1828

Great Britain. Royal Navy - Societies, etc., 1824, 1828 Jane Wright, 1819, 1824, 1849

Trust indentures, 1819, [1849] Catherine Louisa Wright, 1824

Trusts and trustees, 1819, 1849 Malcolm Wright, 1824

Marriage settlements - St. Helena, 1819, 1849 William Richard Wright, 1824

Wright family - Genealogy, , 1928 Ann Goble, 1824, 1828

Corunna (Upper Canada) - Dwellings, ca.1892 Sophia Ann Bâby, n.d

Moore (Upper Canada : Township) - Dwellings, ca.1892 "Genealogy of the Wright Family", 1928

Corunna (Upper Canada) - Log buildings, ca.1892 Charlotte J. Nisbet, 1928

Moore (Upper Canada : Township) - Log buildings, ca.1892 "Oaklands", ca. 1892

Wright family - Photographs, n.d., 1860- ca. 1918 William Eliott Wright, 1835, ca. 1860

Dwellings - Photographs, ca. 1892 Phoebe Jane Wright, ca. 1875

Log buildings - Photographs, ca. 1892 Thomas Howard Wright, n.d

Deeds - Moore Township (Upper Canada), 1835 Dr. Henry Pulteney Wright, n.d., [ca. 1860- ca. 1918]

Land grants - Records - Moore Township (Upper Canada), 1835 Dr. Henry Pulteney Grahame Wright, n.d

Land deeds - Moore Township (Upper Canada), 1835 Moore Township (Upper Canada), 1835, ca. 1892

Land titles - Moore Township (Upper Canada), 1835 Arthur Meredith, [ca. 1860- ca. 1918]

Land settlement - Moore Township (Upper Canada), 1835 Great Britain. Court of Chancery, 1849

Grahame family - Photographs, [ca. 1860- ca. 1918] Jane Leech, 1819, 1824, 1849

Meredith family - Photographs, [ca. 1860- ca. 1918] Corunna (Ont.), ca. 1892

Photographs - Albums, [1913-?], [ca. 1860- ca. 1918] Corunna (Upper Canada), ca. 1892

Moore Township (Ont.), 1835, ca. 1892

Jean Grahame Wright Meredith, [1913-?], [ca. 1860- ca. 1918]

E. A. Meredith, [ca. 1860- ca. 1918]
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Private

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1979-313 NPC
1985-078 NPC

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MG24-F94
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