Frederick is my great grandparent (maternal side), father to Cyril Wright.
Frederick George Wright was born in 1872 to Jesse Wright (1845-1899) and Mary Ann Hancock (1851-1932). He died in 1942 of stomach cancer.
Frederick married Josephenna Teresa Cramer in 1897 in Wentworth, NSW. He lived his whole life in Mildura, Victoria, working as a fruit packer and foreman.
Frederick is buried in the Nichols Point Cemetery in Mildura, Victoria.
1872-1942 Mildura
Josephenna Theresa Wright (nee Cramer) is my maternal Great Grandmother (Cyril Wright’s mother).
Josephenna was born 15th August, 1877 in Port Pirie, South Australia. Her parents were Heinrich Christoph Cramer (1835-1885) and Margaret McNamara (1842-1910).
Josephenna married Frederick George Wright in Wentworth, NSW in 1897. They had 7 children, Cyril being their 3rd child.
Josephenna’s husband George died in Mildura in 1942. She died in 1958 in Castlemaine, Victoria at the age of 85 years.
These are the places where Josephenna lived along with key life events:
1880 Josephenna is 3 years old when her father, Heinrich deserts her mother, Margaret. He attempts suicide and is jailed for this – for 3 months.
1885 Josephenna is 8 years old when her father suicides by gunshot wound to his head.
1887 (1 April) Josephenna’s mother marries John Hill Sedgman in Balranald, NSW (Registration Number 1887/003844).
1887 (July 8) Josephenna Theresa (10 years) and her siblings, John (8 years) and Matilda Cramer (6 years) are ordered to the Royal Park Industrial School in Flemington, Victoria. Their mother, Margaret Sedgman (Cramer/McNamara) is destitute since her husband (John Hall Sedgman) has deserted her.
Josephenna (Theresa), John & Matilda: Neglected, found wandering about. Father (Henry) dead, Stepfather, J.H. Sedgman deserted
1891 (October 20) Josephenna Theresa Cramer, daughter of Margaret McNamara and Henry Cramer, is listed as living in Abbotsford during her time as a Ward of the State. She is 14 years old.
Reference: Index to the Children’s Registers of State Wards 1850-1893 (Victoria) BB=Boys’ Book, RH=Receiving House
Volume BB7, page 174 TC & TSN. RH6, page 150 (TC & TSR)
1896 Balranald, New South Wales
1896 (March 11) Theresa, John and Matilda are discharged to their sister (Mrs. Dean) in Gampang, Balranald, NSW. There is no trace of their Step-father, John Hill Sedgman. Their mother is also living in Balranald.
Reference: Index to the Children’s Registers of State Wards 1850-1893 (Victoria):
(Matilda and John) Volume BB7 (Boys’ Book), page 173 & Vol RH6 (Receiving House), page 155.
(Theresa), Volume BB7, page 174 TC and TSN & RH6, page 150 TC and TSR
Margaret McNamara (1842-1910) and Heinrich (Henry) Christopher Cramer (1835-1885)
Henry Cramer – 1835-1885 is my maternal three x grandfather. He is Cyril Wright’s grandfather.
He was born in Geseke, Westfalen, Preuben, Germany on 12th June, 1835. His parents were Conrad Cramer (1789-1835) and Elizabeth Leising (1796-1835).
He married Margaret McNamara on January 17, 1867 in the Roman Catholic Church in Mt Gambier, South Australia. They had seven children including Josephenna Theresa Cramer (in 1877) who was Cyril Wright’s mother.
1872: Henry is charged with forging and uttering a cheque
Henry Cramer, a German, speaks good English, aged 30
years, 5ft. in. high, fair complexion, beard and moustache
inclined to be sandy, very thin whiskers, dressed in a suit of
light striped tweed (very dirty), and a high-crowned felt hat,
is charged, on a warrant issued at Adelaide on the 13th
instant, with feloniously forging and uttering a cheque for
£5, on the Bank of Australasia, signed Gong Yung, with
intent to defraud Albert Domeyer, at Adelaide. The offender
is reported to have a wife living at Kapunda, and deals in
greengrocery ; he was also employed by Dean & Laughton.
South Australian Police Gazette, 14 Feb 1872, p.26
1880 (August) Heinrich was charged with deserting Margaret and ordered to pay maintenance for desertion.
Henry Cramer, a German, aged 40 years, height 6ft.,
stout build, dark hair and whiskers, dark complexion, a
carpenter by trade, for deserting his wife, at Port Pirie, on
the 20th Ultimo.
South Australian Police Gazette, 18 Aug 1880, p.153
In the same year, he attempted suicide (by hanging) and was charged with wilful suicide for which he served 3 months in jail.
In 1885 in Wentworth, NSW, he died by a gunshot wound to his head, inflicted by himself. He was 49 years old.
For further details, go to Henry’s pages for the places below.
The Cramer Family is linked to me (Greg Curran) through my grandfather Cyril Jesse Wright (maternal side).
Cyril’s mother (Josephenna Theresa) was a Cramer.