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The Search for Aunt Polly

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  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 ...

Finding Joseph Wright

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  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...