The Journey

  Who was Aunt Polly? Joseph Wright was adopted out in 1928. The thing about it was the story goes the Les and Anne Wright had a biological daughter Iris and had adopted a girl Joan unfortunately she passed away at 12 months old.  They had gone to an orphanage to adopt another baby girl. There was a lady there in the waiting room with a baby and this lady begged them to take her baby. That baby was Joseph.  The Wrights at the time lived in Carlton Victoria and had property at Kinglake Victoria which they visited many times and on different occasions there are photos of "Aunt Polly" with Joseph there and other places on special occasions like birthdays and times when Joseph was away at College at Kilmore Victoria.   Aunt Polly with Joseph Anne Wright holding a baby and Iris at Kinglake  Aunt Polly with Iris and Joseph on bike  As Joseph got older he was sent to Assumption College at Kilmore Victoria which is an private boarding school. Who would of ...

  The Life of Joseph Wright  Wow what a last week or so has been after receiving new information  and working with the wonderful helpers I have.  The Mystery of Joseph Wright I believe may be solved or at least some of it.   I’ve had Josephs name for at least 29years but he had been quite elusive many trips all those years ago to State Library’s and Archives trying to find the clues that would led to Josephs whereabouts.  And after all those years it was of searching, it was some new information that had appear recently that led to the discovery of Joseph Wright for me  The follwing is an Extract from a story found on Ancestry, It was placed on there by Raine who is the  daughther of the Wrights biological daughter Iris Wright,  "Joseph Wright’s Two Families The story was that Joe was transferred to Sydney (without Joyce?) with his work and that Dot followed him there. At the time of Jo-Anne’s birth in February 1960, Joe was a listed as a For...

    Joseph Wright Timeline 1928-1982  The following is a Timeline that has has been put together by Raine,  Raine is the daughter of Iris.  Iris was the biological daughter of Les and Anne Wright who Adopted Joseph Wright. Raine thought there may be more to uncover about Joseph and she was certainly right and so ever kindly put a huge  amount of information under  " Joseph Unknown k.a. Wright (Adopted)" on Ancestry.  Joseph Wright – Timeline 1928-1982 Born 11 September 1928, Carlton, Victoria (Royal Women’s Hospital?). Melbourne babies are mostly born at RWH Carlton. Could Joe have been born elsewhere; Yarrawonga? Joe was not registered as Joseph Wright in 1928. Was Joe’s birth mother a Catholic. He was later sent to a Catholic private school. In 1928 the Wright family was renting at 38 Deakin Street, Brunswick. Les was listed as a Farrier (on some lists, it was shown as ‘farmer’). The family lived there until around 1931 when they moved to 31 Alb...