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Frances Wright James formerly Wright (née Brooks)

Profile & Legacies Summary

1797 - 1828

Biography

Mother of Helen Frances Wright later Clifton (q.v.). She had married first William Burt Wright and then Thomas James (each of whom q.v.), and was buried at Brighton 17/04/1828 aged 31.

  1. Will of Frances Wright James wife of Cobham Surrey [made in 1823] proved 20/10/1828. She opened her will by rehearsing her marriage settlement with Thomas James, under which her 'real and personal estate and slaves' to which she was entitled as a life-interest was assigned in trust [it appears for her to retain control of it despite her 'intended couverture'], but she willed it anyway to her husband.

Sources

Ancestry.com, England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 [database online].

  1. PROB 11/1746/377

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Maiden Name
Brooks
Spouse
(1) William Burt Wright (2) Thomas James
Children
With (1) Helen or Ellen Frances; With (2) Fanny; Elizabeth

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Enfield [ Jamaica | Manchester ]

Relationships (4)

Frances Wright James formerly Wright (née Brooks)
Daughter → Mother
Elizabeth Brooks
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Frances Wright James formerly Wright (née Brooks)
Mother → Daughter
Ellen or Helen Frances Wright later Clifton
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Frances Wright James formerly Wright (née Brooks)
Wife → Second Husband
Thomas James
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Frances Wright James formerly Wright (née Brooks)
Wife → Husband
William Burt Wright II
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Addresses (1)

Cobham, Surrey, South-east England, England
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Of Cobham when she made her will in 1823.