This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rutila_Washburn Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/11673.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: hi, she was raised by her father Thomas William Henry Holmes. My grandmother does have a baptismal record that has her birth date 10 Aug 1927. but no birth record, since she was born in a private medical clinic or centre, where they probably didn't bother to keep any birth/death records when she was born and when the mother died, since the family was doing everything they can to keep the affair of Thomas W. H. Holmes and May Wright a secret and since it was a shame to the family. and my grandmother's stepsisters from what I heard, destroyed everything they can of records and such of May Wright. and the only evidence that we have for May Wright, is of her book of common prayers that my grandmother still has, that had writing on the first page "May Wright from W. Fowler, May 1915" and the May 1915, gave us kind of a clue that that was the year of her communion and that May Wright would have been born by 1899. and that there's only one painting of my grandmother's mother that's at my grandmother's house, that her father Thomas had it made from an original photo that Thomas kept, meaning that Thomas must have cared for May Wright after she died.... and I just for some reason feel confident that this May Doris Wright could be the right one after looking at so many possible May Wrights on Ancestry.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>