Gertrude Henrietta Rivers Wright (Sullivan)

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Gertrude Henrietta Rivers Wright (Sullivan)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bay of Bengal
Death: October 01, 1907 (61)
Calgary, Division No. 6, Alberta, Canada
Place of Burial: Calgary, Division No. 6, Alberta, Canada
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Captain John Eugene Sullivan and Emily Cornelia Sullivan (DeWaal, Leighton)
Wife of Surgeon Major Daniel Wright
Mother of Leonora Cecilia Emily Cook (Wright); Major Alexander William Overbeck Wright; Daniel Rivers Wright and Walter Bryan Wright
Sister of Mary Jane White Knight (Sullivan); Blanche Aleda Sullivan; Lt. Col. Eugene Overbeck Sullivan; Col. Gerald Hope Wildig O'Sullivan; John William DeWaal O'Sullivan and 1 other
Half sister of Anna Maria Pullan (Leighton)

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About Gertrude Henrietta Rivers Wright (Sullivan)

Born at sea in the Bay of Bengal, February 20, 1846.

Daniel Wright married Gertrude Henrietta Rivers Sullivan 2nd quarter 1877, marriage registered in Thanet, Kent. She was his second wife, his first wife and infant son having died in Nepal in 1873.

Probate: Wright, Daniel, MD late Surgeon-Major, HM Indian Medical Service, 54 Stanley Street, Aberdeen, died 14 January 1902, at Aberdeen, testate. Confirmation granted at Aberdeen, 19 March, to Gertrude Henrietta Rivers or Wright, 54 Stanley Street aforesaid, his Widow, Executrix nominated in Will or Deed, dated 14 October 1901, and recorded in court books of Commissariot of Aberdeen, 14 March 1902. Value of estate: 284 pounds, 1s. 5d.

Gertrude Henrietta Wright died in 1907 in Calgary, Alberta, and is buried there. Her son Walter Bryan Wright married Margaret Ritchie 1907 in Thunder Bay, Canada. The couple appears to have moved westward in Canada. Walter Wright's mother Gertrude Henrietta Wright must have joined him because she died in Calgary in 1907 and is buried there.

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Gertrude Henrietta Rivers Wright (Sullivan)'s Timeline

1846
February 20, 1846
Bay of Bengal
1879
May 30, 1879
Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
1879
Saint Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
1881
May 20, 1881
Saint Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
1884
March 16, 1884
Saint Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
1907
October 1, 1907
Age 61
Calgary, Division No. 6, Alberta, Canada
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Erlton, Calgary, Division No. 6, Alberta, Canada