His wife's father was William Jarrett and his wife's mother was Mary Anne Harrison. His grandfather was John Wright and his paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Blake.
Children
His issue who married whose issues were
========= =========== =================
Robert Strang m. Judith one son deceased
Harry Wright Harry Wright - Marg
- Edith
- Winnie
Thomas Wright George Wright
Minnie Wright m. Walter Robert Strang Robert
b.~1882 b.~1869
m.31.10.1906, Marrickville++ Eileen m.Andrew McLaughlin
d.14.9.1950 Isabella (Belle) Frances Rose Strang b.16.6.16, West Wallsend**
Walter Alexander (Alexander) Strang b. 1923 d.20.6.1945, Darwin***
Ethel Wright m. Alexander John Seberry (III) Alexander John (IV) (m. Jane Cruickshank)
Jean (Wilds now Mikkelsen)
Daphne Muriel (George)
Margaret Elaine (Atkinson)
Betti Edith (Lahiff
Helen Mabel Maude (Barrow)
Ada Wright m. Jack Dennis* Mona Dennis+ (Daughter Doreen who married John Williams?)
Edith Wright****
Maude Wright never married
Charles Wright
William (Bill) Wright m. Jess Gwen
June
Fay
Much of the information on this web age has been provided by Belle Strang**, Alexander John Seberry (IV)'s cousin orally.
* Jack Dennis was a tram driver from North Sydney. He came to Newcastle to teach the ;local tram drivers how to drive electric trams as all the trams had previously been steam trams.
++ The date of marriage is recorded in a Bible given to the couple by the officiating clergyman.
+ Ada Wright and Jack Dennis" daughter Mona was a nurse at Wallsend Hospital.
** Belle Strang has lived in and around West Wallsend and Jesmond all her life and went to West Wallsend Public School. She was delivered by Nurse Birrill as Dr Hoppin arrived too late. Belle wanted to be a school teacher and finished her Leaving Certificate but in the Depression years the family could not pay for her to go to Teachers College. Finally Belle working in a shop in Newcastle which her father later bought from the owner for a family business and Belle continued to work there. Belle later worked as a Phonogram operator taking telegrams for the PMG at Newcastle P.O. and then for Telecom.
Belle Strang's** great grandfather owned the "Hand of Friendship Hotel" in Minmi.
*** Walter Alexander Strang, 131729 LAC Strang, W.A. R.A.A.F., d.20.6.1945, Darwin as a result of Japanese bombing.
**** Edith Wright was a nurse at Waterfall Hospital.
Belle Strang tells another story her mother Minnie (Wright) Strang told her. In the 1890's Depression Minnie's husband Thomas Wright went to the gold fields near Bathurst to try to earn money. However the money he send often did not come to much more than the rent in Marrickville. The landlord used to come to the back door for the rent. Afterwards rhubarb would be found left on the back-door step. Next door to Belle's grandmother Wright lived a group of Carmelites nuns from France. They made food and clothes which they would sell at fetes to try to raise the extra funds Cardinal Moran had told them they need to build a convent. When the Sisters heard from Grandma Wright about the children they helped to feed them. Family lore has it that the nuns finally had a convent in manly near St Patrick's College.
Updated 11 January 1999. Revised 6th January 2003. Please email questions or comments to j.seberry@uow.edu.au