It is often said that the way the most satisfying way to make progress in genealogy is to move backwards and that is certainly a very good - and the most usual - way to achieve your goal. However, sideways expansion is extremely desirable too and is in itself often an effective pathway to reaching earlier times. In thIs project we are pursuing both approaches and our current situation is reflected in part in the drop-down menu provided under the Ancestry tab above.
Lady Meriel's ancestral record leaves us searching for the parents of her paternal grandfather John George Winchester Wilmot (b 19 Sep 1830 - d 3 Aug 1895) and, on the maternal side, of her great x5 - grandfather, Philip King (b 1726 Launceston, Cornwall). On the paternal side, she has convincing evidence from family artefacts and documents that her line attaches to the Eardley-Wilmot family, one of whom was Governor General of Tasmania at a period that is consistent with our confirmed findings so far. An illustrated summary of the Eardley-Wilmots can be seen here but exactly which of it's sons produced John George still, for the present, remains a mystery.
What is so far recorded on this site for Lady Meriel's late husband, Sir Roy Douglas Wright's ancestry, leaves us to concentrate our continuing search backwards from his great-great grandfather James Wright (1798-1855) and from his mother Emma Maria Lewis (b 7 Aug 1907 Central Castra, Tasmania).
From each of the ancestral listings which you will have read in other pages it will be seen that we have no - or extremely limited - knowledge about many of the individuals who are named. Just as we are anxious to go as far backwards as we can through past generations, we are equally keen to know as much about the families of those people who we have already identified and efforts continue to expand this aspect too.
Lady Meriel's ancestral record leaves us searching for the parents of her paternal grandfather John George Winchester Wilmot (b 19 Sep 1830 - d 3 Aug 1895) and, on the maternal side, of her great x5 - grandfather, Philip King (b 1726 Launceston, Cornwall). On the paternal side, she has convincing evidence from family artefacts and documents that her line attaches to the Eardley-Wilmot family, one of whom was Governor General of Tasmania at a period that is consistent with our confirmed findings so far. An illustrated summary of the Eardley-Wilmots can be seen here but exactly which of it's sons produced John George still, for the present, remains a mystery.
What is so far recorded on this site for Lady Meriel's late husband, Sir Roy Douglas Wright's ancestry, leaves us to concentrate our continuing search backwards from his great-great grandfather James Wright (1798-1855) and from his mother Emma Maria Lewis (b 7 Aug 1907 Central Castra, Tasmania).
From each of the ancestral listings which you will have read in other pages it will be seen that we have no - or extremely limited - knowledge about many of the individuals who are named. Just as we are anxious to go as far backwards as we can through past generations, we are equally keen to know as much about the families of those people who we have already identified and efforts continue to expand this aspect too.