Hello Gary, 
Thanks for putting the Wright family on the Widdington site.  I have pasted below, an outline of the Wright family that is related to me.  My grandfather Harold is in red, my mother Monica in red and then me.    I am also attaching some photos.  My mother Monica Wright Cooper was dearly loved in our family, particularly by her grandchildren, my children.  She was called BaBa.  I don't know if any of these are things you want to use since only one, I think, was actually taken in Widdington. 

I've been thinking about the two Wright families.  My mother recognized the thatched cottage you have on your web page as belonging to her grandparents, Frederick Wright and Isobel Dellow Wright.  The photo of her was taken, I think there.  These grandparents had 11 children, including my grandfather Harold.  If I go back one generation, it is Frederick Wright and Eliza Wright.  Frederick is the child in your photograph of the cottage.  He and Eliza had 9 children, including Frederick, my mother's grandfather.  That steps me back to James and Mary Wright who had 6 children. 

I looked in my records and I cannot find an Alfred and Ivy Wright at all.  Can you tell me who they are? Could you put me in touch with the person working on the Wright family history in Widdington?  Maybe we can figure out what lines go where.  Again,  many thanks for your work on the Widdington site.  I really hope to have the opportunity to come across the "pond" as they say at some point and visit.

Regards,  Cheryl

                  Dear Gary and Lisa,

Thank you so much for the information and for keeping me in touch. I have been in touch with Denise and she said she was going to send the photograph to you of Elizabeth Wright. I have included it in my photographs as it shows the mother and daughters as a family. I have sent pictures of : Elizabeth Wright   [1145-42]    [Simons/Tassell/Tappenden] born Widdington Essex about 1823    [I have varying dates] Died July 17th   1919 aged 96 from senile decay and heart failure in  Chatham workhouse Infirmary. She was the daughter of James and Hannah Wright. Elizabeth married Charles Tassell  in 1844.  He was her second husband and had several children. One of which was my great grandmother Emily Caroline  She lived with her son, Albert, and wife, Mary Ann,  and my mother in Chatham, Kent. Emily Caroline was born 1864 in Chatham and died 1943.Emily had a sister Sarah Mahala who is the grt grandmother of Denise.My mother told me that her grandmother Emily Caroline and her sister Sarah would take my mother Hop picking in the hop fields of Kent when my mother was small. Harriet Tassell was another sister. Many of these children went to New Zealand and a son called Charles went to Australia. I hope these pictures are of interest. The longevity of the Wrights is interesting and they do carry a family resemblance. My mother in her old age looked very much like her grandmother  Emily Caroline.

Best wishes and thanks for a great site,

Pam

Hi Gary,

I enjoyed your pages, photos and history of Widdington. My great grandfather Charles Baines  grew up in Widdington  and was later to Marry Harriet Elizabeth  Hannah Tassell, ( who's photo and that of her mother  Elizabeth  Wright,  appear on the Wright family's web page !! Much to my delight to find them there. ) They then emigrated to New Zealand. Later, Harriet's brother Thomas emigrated to New Zealand with his 2nd wife Sarah and their 3 children, along with my grandmother Hilda, her cousin. Grandma's aunt, Sarah's mother was the publican of the pub, The Army and Navy, in East Rainham ,Kent.

Grandma was later to marry a son of Harriet Elizabeth Hannah Tassell and Charles Baines. There are several Wright descendants here in n.z., Baines, Tassell, and Melrose families.

Regards  Judith Baines

Photo of Harriet Elizabeth Hannah Tassell,  daughter of Elizabeth Wright, who was married Charles Richard Baines. This is taken at a family reunion  when they are in their 80s. My Dad  Walter Baines aged about 4 is sitting on the ground, the middle child in the group of children numbered 37 in the photo. His father Leonard George is numbered 10 and mother Hilda 8 in the photo.
Charles Baines was also born in Widdington and grew up there. He was the youngest son of William Baines and Sussanah. As a young boy, his dad died  leaving Sussanah to raise the family.
If you have any info about the Baines family would love to learn more of them. Where they lived, worked etc.  Most of my info is from census records. Any help here would be much appreciated, any relatives, other family of Charles siblings.

Regards,    

Judith Manning

Emily "Emmy" Wright is named by George Clausen as the model for the young girl in "Evening Song", painted at Widdington in 1893. I recently had the opportunity to examine many studies in pastels for this picture which are held in the Royal Academy's archives, including a very fine study of the girl's face. Since I wrote to you I have traced the 1901 census record for Emily Wright and I was pleased to discover that she was still living at home (25, The Village, Widdington) and her occupation is given as Assistant School Teacher. Emily must therefore be the young lady standing on the far right of your 1900 Widdington school photograph and on the left of the 1901 picture. She was born in 1881, making her about 12 when she posed for "Evening Song"; her small stature makes her look younger in both the painting and your photographs, taken when she was about 19 and 20. The census shows that her grandfather James Wright, retired from his position as the village shoemaker, was also at the same address - there were then four adults (including Emily) and seven children living there. I wonder if this is the same property as "Wright's Cottage".
Ten years earlier, Emily and her parents Frederick and Isabel Wright were living at Woodend Cottage, which does not appear in the 1901 census and may be one of several houses which were demolished before that date.

Thanks again for your assistance,

Regards,

Dave Rayner

Emily Wright, Far left of the picture.

Emily Wright was born 5th July 1880 at Widdington, Essex, England, 

She was the daughter of Frederick William Wright and Isabella Dellow

Emily Wright appeared in the 1881 census at Widdington, Essex, England, .

She was Scholar in 1891 at Widdington, Essex, England, She was Assistant

School Teacher in 1901 at Widdington, Essex, England,

She would have been around thirteen when

George Clausen painted her in  "Evening Song"

A PORTRAIT by Widdington artist George Clausen, which was expected to fetch up to £0.5m at auction today (Wednesday, June 15) failed to find a buyer.

The Victorian oil of farm girl Emily Wright, from the village, was part of a sale at Christie’s in London and estimated to fetch at least £300,000.

Clausen originally sold the work for just £26 and five shillings. In his account book  for 1894, Clausen noted he had sold “the little head of Emmy Wright” to Vernon Wethered.

According to the 1891 Census, Emily, or Emmy as she was affectionately known, was the eldest child of Widdington-born bricklayer Frederick Wright and his Clavering-born wife, Isabel, who lived at Main Street in the village.

She was about 13-years-old when the picture was painted by Clausen in 1894. In 1891, the Wrights had five children: Emily, 10: Nellie aged eight: six-year-old James; John aged four: and Fred junior who was two. By 1901,the Wrights had five more children and in the same census Emily was listed as "an assistant school teacher".

Descendants of James Wright

 1       James Wright    b: 1814 St. Georges East, Middlesex, England             d: 1907 Widdington, Essex County, England               

..               +Mary Ann       b: 1814 Wimbish Debden, Essex, England  m: Abt. 1836 UK                  

       2       Frederick Wright        b: 1838 Widdington, Essex, UK            d: 1881 West Ham Essex, UK               Census: 1881

....             +Eliza Wright   b: 1841 Widdington, Essex, UK   m: 1858 Saffron, Walden, Essex, UK      d: Bef. 1891            

...     3       Frederick William Wright        b: 27 Mar 1861 Dist. of Uttersford, Newport,  Essex Cty, UK              d: 26 Oct 1946 Widdington, Essex, UK             Census: 1861 Widdington ag. 13 days.

.......          +Isobel/Isabella Dellow b: 23 Dec 1860 Clavering, Essex, England        m: 27 Mar 1880 Widdington Parish Church d: 1951 Widdington, Essex, UK            Census: 1881 6 mos. born Clavering

......  4       Emily Wright    b: 05 Jul 1880 Widdington, Essex, UK                              

..........               +F. W. Wells                                       

......  4       Mahalia Nellie Wright   b: 20 Aug 1882 Widdington                d: 13 Apr 1959          

..........               +Harry Duller   b: 1881 Widdington      m: 12 Jun 1905 Widdington Parish Church d: 1961         

.........       5       Ernest John Duller                                         

.........       5       Cyril James Duller      b: 04 Sep 1902           d: 29 Mar 1984          

.........       5       Eric James Duller                                          

.........       5       Arthur Frederick Duller                                    

.........       5       Isabel Phyllis Duller                                      

.........       5       George Herbert Duller                                      

.........       5       Ernest John Duller                                         

.........       5       Charles Leslie Duller                                      

.........       5       Henry Norman Leonard Duller                                        

......  4       James Frederick Wright  b: 03 Aug 1884 Widdington, Essex, UK             d: 1896 Widdington, Essex, UK           

......  4       John William Wright     b: 1887 Widdington, ENG          d: 03 Mar 1920 Widdington, Essex, UK            

..........               +Nellie Grace Canning   b: 1885 m: 02 Jun 1911 Saffron, Walden, Essex, UK       d: 07 Jun 1964 Widdington               

......  4       Frederick Wright        b: 19 May 1889           d: Bef. 1945            

......  4       Arthur George Wright    b: Oct 1891 Widdington, Essex, UK                d: Bef. 1945            

......  4       Charlie John Wright     b: 1894 Widdington, Essex, UK            d: 1979         

..........               +Elsie   b: 1896          d: 1971         

.........       5       Anthony Wright                                     

......   4       Harold Wright   b: 24 Jun 1898 Saffron Walden, Newport, Essex County, UK                 d: 22 Jul 1946 Four Mile House, Brookethorpe, Gloucester,  Eng.         

..........               +Mabel Grace Goff       b: 29 Nov 1899 Etherbert Rd., Folkestone, City of Kent, England m: 15 Nov 1919 St. Paul's Parish Church, Leyton, W. Ham Essex   d: 28 Mar 1957 Borough of Gloucester, England           

.........       5        Monica Louisa Jessie Wright     b: 06 Jun 1925 Hatchway, Bristol, County of Bristol, UK          d: 20 Aug 2002 Downingtown, PA USA              

.............            +Ross P. Cooper, Jr.    b: 06 Mar 1919 Baltimore, Maryland      m: 05 Sep 1945 St. Swithins Church, Gloucester, England d: 05 Aug 1957 New Orleans, LA, USA             

............    6        Cheryl Ann Cooper       b: 22 Dec 1946 Seattle, Washington                                 

................                  +James T. Spaulding     b: 18 Nov 1943 Chester, PA      m: 28 May 1967 Wilmington, Delaware USA                  

.........       5       Kenneth Frederick Wright        b: 01 Aug 1921 Surrey, Kent, Eng.                d: May 1989 Petherton, Somerset UK              

.............            +Irene "Renee" Wycherley         b: 11 May 1921 Wales    m: Jan 1944 Derbighshire, England       d: Jul 2004 Petherton, Somerset UK              

............    6       Valerie Wright                                     

................                  +j. Collard                                        

............    6       Carolyn Wright  b: Nov 1945 Wrexham, Wales                                

................                  +Hooper                                     

............    6       Mabel Wright    b: 01 Oct                d: 24 Aug 2009 UK               

................                  +Norman Habberfield                                        

............    6       Deryl Wright                                       

................                  +Dumayne                                            

............    6       Christine Wright                                           

................                  +Sawbridge                                          

............    6       Kenneth Wright                                     

................                  +Celia                                      

......  4       Cyril James Wright      b: 04 Sep 1902 Widdington, Eng.          d: 29 Mar 1984          

..........               +Edith Maud     b: 24 Sep 1900           d: 06 Mar 1989          

.........       5       Gwyneth Wright                                     

.........       5       Daughter                                            

......  4       Daisy Wright    b: Aft. 1901             d: Abt. 1942 of TB              

..........               +Robert A. See           m: Jan 1919 Brentford, Middlesex         d: Aft. 1945            

.........       5       Daphne                     d: Aft. 1945            

.........       5       Joan                       d: 1941 Age 18          

......  4       Isabel Wright   b: Aft. 1901                              

...     3       Emily Jane Wright       b: 05 Jul 1863 Harlow, Essex, UK                                  

...     3       George Wright   b: 1866 Harlow, Essex, UK                                 

...     3       Mahala Wright   b: 1868 Latton, Essex, UK                                 

...     3       Alice Wright    b: 1870 Latton, Essex, UK                                 

...     3       Mary A. Wright  b: 1872 Latton, Essex, UK                                 

...     3       Ada F. Wright   b: 1875 Latton, Essex, UK                                 

...     3       Harry Wright    b: 1878 Latton, Essex, UK                                 

...     3       Martha Wright   b: 1880 Latton, Essex, UK                                 

       2       James Wright    b: Abt. 1834                              

....             +Mary Ann                                          

       2       William Wright  b: Abt. 1829                              

       2       Lillia Eliza Wright     b: Abt. 1841                              

       2       Mahalia Wright  b: 1847 Widdington, Essex County, UK             d: Aft. 1871            

      2       Emily Wright    b: Abt. 1838   

Prior to 1917, listed as the Fleur de Lis

                              Known Residents

The following entries are in this format:

Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.

1845/George Knight/../../../Post Office

1848/George Knight/Victualler/../../White's

1852/G. Knight/../../../Kelly's*

1862/George Knight/../../../Kelly's

1870/James Cox/../../../Kelly's

1871/James Cox/../../../Post Office

1874/James Cox/../../../Kelly's

1878/James Cox/../../../Kelly's

1881/James Cox/Farmer & Licensed Victualler/61/Hanningfield, Essex/Census

1881/Esther White/Domestic Servant/21/Henham, Essex/Census

1882/James Cox/../../../Kelly's

1894/Frederick Hopwood/../../../Kelly's

1898/Frederick Hopwood/../../../Kelly's

1908/Joseph E. Rule/../../../Kelly's

1912/Joseph E. Rule/../../../Kelly's

1917/John W. Wright/../../../Kelly's

1925/Mrs. Nellie Grace Wright/../../../Kelly's

1933/Mrs. Nellie Grace Wright/../../../Kelly's

* Provided by the Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900