Julia St John Wright

  Notes:

Got precise birthdate (and marriage date) from HA Bryden's book 'The Bryden and Cowper Family History'

1861 Census (Age 5); Living at Priors Marston ('South of Village') with parents, 5 siblings, 2 cousins (Eleanor and Charlotte Lamb) and 4 servants.

1871 Census (age 15); Living in Priors Marston with parents, 3 sisters, a cousin (Julia Rands - 14, born in Northants), a governess and 3 servants.

1877; Leamington Spa Courier; Hotel Arrivals ".....Misses Wright, Priors Marston"

1879; Leamington Spa Courier; Fenny Compton and Dassett Magna Horticultural Society ".... Misses Wright, Priors Marston "

1881 Census (age 25) living as Boarder in 12 Park Crescent, Broadwater, Sussex as a boarder in the house of Henry Joy, Curate of Broadwater Church. Unmarried. Occupation; Income from Investments. Henry Joy (and his wife) born in Ireland, but their children born in Oxon.
Married later this year, and only 3 months after her father died, presumably married in PM, certainly was Southam district.
Note is living off investments ; but her father still alive.

Marriage banns read at Priors Marston (she OTP, he of Surbiton) on 17th July, 24th July, 31st July 1881.

1891 Census (age 34) living with husband and children as boarders at No.9 Christ Church Road, Hampstead, London.

1901 Census (age 45) living with husband and daughter in Eastbourne, Sussex. Kate St John Wright (niece) is also living with them, as well as one servant.

1911 Census; Living (age 55) at 10 Gore Park Avenue, Eastbourne with husband and dau Olivia and a servant.

1921 Census; Living (age 65y,6m) at 66 London Rd, Tunbridge Wells with husband and a Marian xxxxx (62 visitor). Occupying 3 rooms.

1921; Ann St John Wright biog "Grannie, Auntie Kate and I stayed for the summer at Tunbridge Wells, having sub-let the house. Grannie's sister-in-law, Julia, lived in Tunbridge Wells, with her husband (Henry) Anderson Bryden, who had shot wild life in Africa and who also often went to Norway. Anderson and Julia had son Ronald and a daughter, Olive (actually Olivia). Olive was unmarried, and an artist. She and Kate had been at school at Eastbourne together. Ronald was a medical doctor.......... Ronald Anderson had two children, Jean and John. Their mother died when John was born (wrong; John born Apr 1920, she died Jan 1921). I used to play with them on the green at Tunbridge Wells, on the rocks, and the Toad Rock. There are photos of this and others taken at Tunbridge Wells this summer when I was four. "

From Wendy H; The Times 11 Jun 1934; Deaths; BRYDEN, on June 9, 1934, JULIA dearly loved wife of H.A.Bryden, 71 London Road, Tunbridge Wells, aged 78.

Julia married Henry Anderson Bryden, son of William Anderson Bryden and Maria Cowper, on 10 Aug 1881 in Southam, Northants. (Henry Anderson Bryden was born on 3 May 1854 in Banbury, Oxfordshire and died on 23 Sep 1937 in Parkstone, Dorset.)