The Wright Family
many members of this family have Bourke as a middle name, and the family
surname is sometimes seen as Bourke-Wright
Florence Henrietta Wright
1869, in Glendale
district, Northumberland, England
10 January 1869, in Wooler,
Northumberland, England
William
Bourke Wright
Catherine
Jane (Kilroy) Wright
- England Birth Index
(1Q1869 Glendale vol 10b p379)
- IGI baptism extracts
batch C025108
- Baptism records
Henrietta B. Wright
July 1867, in Glendale
district, Northumberland, England
18 August 1867, in Wooler,
Northumberland, England
William
Bourke Wright
Catherine
Jane (Kilroy) Wright
Henrietta was in the United States
in 1900. She had been there 4 months at the census on 1 June 1900 and was
staying with her uncle in Turlock, California.
19 February 1903, at 3 Florence
Terrace, Leeson Park, Dublin, Ireland, aged 35, of pneumonia of duration 3
days, and heart failure.
Henrietta Wright is recorded as a spinster, aged 35, a lady. The informant
is C. E. Wright, cousin, of 3 Florence Terrace, Leeson Park
granted 20 March 1903 to William
Bourke Wright
Calendar of Wills and Administrations
(1903)
WRIGHT Henrietta
20 March Administration (with the Will) of the estate of Henrietta
Wright late of Athleague County Roscommon
Spinster who died 19 February
1903 at 3 Florence-terrace Dublin granted at Tuam
to The Reverend William Bourke Wright Clerk Effects £333 6s.
4d.
1900:
Turlock, Stanislaus county, California
Katherine Mary Henrietta Wright
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Katherine Mary Henrietta Wright (1897)
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later in life, Katherine styled herself as Katherine (or Kitty)
Bourke-Wright
1870, in Wooler, Northumberland,
England
9 October 1870, in Wooler,
Northumberland, England
William
Bourke Wright
Catherine
Jane (Kilroy) Wright
Katherine attended University
College Aberystwyth, Wales, and then obtained a B.A. from McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1898), with First Rank Honors in English
Literature
University College of Wales magazine 3 December
1894
News
has come to us, from across the “fish-pond,” which students of Sessions 1891-3 will
be glad to hear. Miss Kathleen Bourkewright, a former student and
prominent member of the Magazine staff, has this Session entered McGill
University, Montreal, Canada, after having passed the Higher Entrance
Matriculation Examination, and having gained a bursary of ninety
dollars.
In a letter to Miss Carpenter, she
describes some phases of University life in the New Countree. Needless
to say, they are in some respects in advance of us, e.g.,
all students have to wear the Academic gown and trencher. On
the day on which she wrote she had donned hers, with great pride, for
the first time.
Yet in another branch they have not reached such an advanced
stage in the equality of the sexes, as has been attained in the Sister
Colleges of gallant little Wales; for, she tells us, the women have
lectures in different rooms from the men, though in the same buildings.
They take the same examinations however, and have all privileges and
exemptions the same.
Most of the Professors are from the old country; the Dean of the
Faculty of Arts is of Trinity College, Dublin. The University there is,
she says, a very fine one. The various buildings of it are scattered
about beautiful grounds—the Campus,
as they dub University grounds over there.
True to the instinct born of long associations, Miss Bourkewright
has already discovered, among the staff, warm friends of “Cymru Gu,”
nay, even of dear old Aber. itself. We are sure that all students, who
knew her, will join in warmly wishing her success in her new career.
In 1900, Katherine worked on the
staff of the Witness newspaper in
Montreal
5 November 1944, in Tubberclaire,
Glasson, Athlone district, county Westmeath, Ireland, aged 73. The cause of
death is listed as myocardial degeneration.
Katherine Bourke Wright is recorded as a spinster, aged 73, the daughter of
a clergyman.
1903: Montreal, Quebec (Graduates of McGill University, Montreal
p76)
1906: Athleague Rectory, county Roscommon (Graduates of McGill University, Montreal
p90)
1911:
Craig, Muff, county Donegal
1924: 41 Ashley Avenue, Lisburn Road, Belfast (McGill University Directory
of Graduates 1924)
Mable Selina Wright
21 April 1872, at Athleague Glebe,
Athleague, county Roscommon, Ireland
Mable Selina was born on Twenty first April 1872 at Athleague Glebe,
Athleague, the daughter of William Bourke Wright, vicar of Athleague, and
Catherine Bourke Wright formerly Kilroy
in Athleague, county Roscommon,
Ireland
William
Bourke Wright
Catherine
Jane (Kilroy) Wright
1872, in Roscommon district, county
Roscommon, Ireland, aged 0
William Bourke Wright
Reverend Canon
1842, in Tipperary, county
Tipperary, Ireland
M.A. William was educated at
Trinity College Dublin, where he is listed as a scholar of Classics in 1861.
He received a B.A. in 1866 and an M.A. in 1892.
Catherine
Jane Kilroy in 1866, in Cavan district, county Cavan, Ireland
Mary Mitchell in 1874, in
Roscommon district, county Roscommon, Ireland. Mary was born in 1844/5, the
daughter of General John Wray Mitchell R.A., of Castlestrange, county
Roscommon. She died in 1882, in Roscommon district, county Roscommon, aged
37
- John Wray Mitchell Wright (1876 - ? ). John married, secondly, Eveleen
Mary Brame
- Ella Mary Wright (1877 - 1960). Ella married Dr. William Chapman
Croly, R.A.M.C., in 1903. She died on 21 July 1960, in Belfast.
- Alice Mitchell Bourke Wright (1879 - 1966)
- Annie Wright (1880 - ? )
- Mary Bourke Wright (1881 - ? ). Mary married Michael P. Harding in
1909.
THE TUAM HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1909
The marriage arranged between Michael P. Harding, National Bank,
Roscommon,
son of the late George Harding, Charleville, and Mary Bourke Wright,
daughter
of the late Rev. Canon W. Bourke Wright, M.A., of Athleague Vicarage, and
granddaughter of the late General John Wray Mitchell, R.A., of
Castlestrange, Co
Roscommon, will take place in September.
Jean Dick Baldie in 1893, in
Mountbellew, county Galway, Ireland
Jean was born on 12 September 1852, in Govan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire,
Scotland, and baptised on 16 October 1852 in Regent Place United, Glasgow,
the daughter of Robert Baldie and Ann Lennox Fraser.
- Wilhelmina Parmler Bourke Wright (1893/4 - ? )
Clergyman. Minister of Athleague
Vicarage and Mount Talbot in 1871. William was ordained as a priest on 22
September 1867 by the Bishop of Durham.
Crockford's
Clerical Directory (1868) lists:
WRIGHT, William
Bourke, Wooler, Northumberland.-Duh
Univ. Scho. 1861 ; Deac. 1866 and Pr. 1867 by Bp of Dur. С. of Wooler 1866
Crockford's
Clerical Directory (1872) has:
WRIGHT, William
Bourke, Athleague, Roscommon.-
Late Scho. of Trin. Coll. Dub. B.A. 1866; Deac. 1866, Pr. 1867 by Bp of
Dur. V. of Athleagne, Dio. Elphin, 1871. Formerly C. of Wooler
Northumberland 1860-71.
and Crockford's Clerical Directory (1874)
has:
WRIGHT, William
Bourke, Athleague, Roscommon,-
Late Scho. of T.C.D; B.A. 1866 d
1866 p 1867
by Bp of Dur. V. of Athleague, Dio. Elphin, 1871. Formerly C. of Wooler,
Northumb. 1866-71.
William wrote this letter in 1880 to The Freeman
(reprinted in The present case of Ireland plainly stated: a plea for
my people and my race, p80, by Mary Francis Cusack (1881))
THE LAND AGITATION
TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'FREEMAN.'
ATHLEAGUE VICARAGE ROSCOMMON,
Nov 1st
SIR,–
My strong feeling on the subject urges me to enter my earnest protest
against aggravating the trouble now existing in Ireland by the
introduction of the religious element, so as to connect the one in any way
with the other. That there is no reason for doing so my experience
leads me implicitly to believe. I have been for nearly ten years
resident in the west of Ireland, and I declare with great pleasure that I
have never met anything but extreme kindness and courtesy from my Roman
Catholic fellow-countrymen, lay and clerical. Religion has nothing
to do with the present disorder, the cessation of which is earnestly
desired by all peaceable citizens–by Roman Catholics as much as by
Protestants.– Yours faithfully,
W. BOURKE WRIGHT, Vicar of Athleague.
19 March 1909, in Roscommon district,
county Roscommon, Ireland, of a stroke, aged 67
Death of Canon
Bourke Wright
We record with much regret, the death of Canon Bourke-Wright, MA, Rector
of Athleague. The Rev. gentleman officiated as usual on last Sunday week
and early in the evening was seized with a stroke of paralysis. He rallied
somewhat, and was at once attended by his son-in-law, Dr. Croly RAMC.
Although everything possible was done to preserve life, he succumbed early
on yesterday (Friday). Much regret is felt far and near, for the removal
of so genial a spirit – an able scholar, a reliable friend, a good
neighbour. He was a member of most of the Diocesan organisations and had
been Rector of the Parish for nearly forty years. We tender to his wife
and family our truest sympathy.
Fuerty cemetery, county Roscommon,
Ireland
in the Roscommon
Journal (reprinted in Roscommon People 27 March 2009)
Late Canon
Bourke Wright
From his first coming to Athleague Mr. Wright had a great love for the
Suck River, which flows past the Glebe lands. A skilled oarsman, he soon
discovered that it was possible to descend the river by boat from
Athleague to Ballinasloe, and many were the pleasant boating excursions he
and his family and friends organised on days when duties were not too
arduous.
He had seen the more prosperous days of the country Protestant Church in
the West of Ireland, when it would be filled with comparatively large and
wealthy congregations. Yet in these latter days of small congregations
with usually limited means, he took as much interest in the two churches
under his charge and used the same care in preaching and conducting the
services as ever.
The working people love him, sensible that beneath their rough exteriors
he recognised men, their circumstance differing no doubt, but with souls
and hope and longs not incompatible with his own in the universe of
things. He was truly glad to use his influence in promoting the welfare of
all worthy people and to help cases of real distress from his own purse.
All classes and creeds respected him and loved him and feel in his sudden
‘taking off’ the loss of a dear, personal, kindly, God-fearing friend –
one who though he was connected with the past days of the district, yet
retained to the last his interest in present matters.
A staunch and conscientious supporter of his own Church, the late Canon
Wright respected and comprehended the different views of others.
Protestants and Roman Catholics alike were glad to call him friend and
both were equally welcome at his table. He appreciated and thoroughly
understood the characteristics of the Western peasantry and frequently
said that no more civil or generally intelligent, interesting and amiable
people could be found anywhere than the peasants who lived in his part of
Roscommon.
The late Canon Bourke was interred in the burying ground at Fuerty. The
funeral was unquestionably the largest seen in the district for years, the
long line of carriages and mourning arches extending for fully half a
mile. The coffin, which was of oak, brass mounted, was hidden in beautiful
wreaths.
granted 24 April 1909 to Jean D.
Wright and Alice M. Wright
Calendar of Wills and Administrations
(1909)
WRIGHT (The
Reverend) William Bourke 24 April Probate of the Will of The Reverend William Bourke Wright
late of Athleague Vicarage County Roscommon
Clerk who died 19 March 1909
granted at Dublin to Jean D. Wright the Widow and Alice M. Wright Spinster
Effects £1,607 11s. 9d.
1901:
Glebe, Athleague West, county Roscommon
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