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Hannah Maria Wright 1858 – 1928 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1858

Birth Location: Polstead, Suffolk, England

Death Date: 1 Nov 1928

Death Location: Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand

Father: John Wright

Mother: Mary Kettle

Spouse(s): Edward Staples

Children(s): Frederick Staples, Walter Staples, Emma Staples, Mary Staples, Edward Staples, Charles Staples, Mary STAPLES, Stanley Staples, Percy Staples, Ethel Staples, Ernest STAPLES

In 1858, Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) entered the world in Polstead, Suffolk, England, born to John Wright and Mary Anne Kettle. Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) married Edward James Wastfield Staples, and had children including Frederick John Staples, Walter Charles Staples, Emma Maria Staples, Mary Elizabeth Staples, Edward James Staples, Charles Edwin Samuel Staples, Mary Elizabeth STAPLES, Stanley Norman Staples, Percy Gordon Staples, Ethel Maude Staples, Ernest James STAPLES. Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) passed away in 1928 in Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand.

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Biography

  • In 1858, Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) entered the world in Polstead, Suffolk, England, born to John Wright and Mary Anne Kettle.
  • Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) married Edward James Wastfield Staples, and had children including Frederick John Staples, Walter Charles Staples, Emma Maria Staples, Mary Elizabeth Staples, Edward James Staples, Charles Edwin Samuel Staples, Mary Elizabeth STAPLES, Stanley Norman Staples, Percy Gordon Staples, Ethel Maude Staples, Ernest James STAPLES.
  • Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) passed away in 1928 in Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand.

Immediate Family

Parents

John Wright
1833 – 1909
Birth Location: Polstead, Suffolk, England
JW
Mary Kettle
1837 – 1915
Birth Location: Stoke, Suffolk, England
MK

Spouses(s)

Edward Staples
1848 – 1916
Birth Location: Warminster, Somerset, England
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Children(s)

Frederick Staples
1876 – 1940
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
FS
Walter Staples
1877 – 1878
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
WS
Emma Staples
1879 – 1922
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
ES
Mary Staples
1881 – 1881
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
MS
Edward Staples
1882 – 1923
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
ES
Charles Staples
1884 – 1956
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
CS
Mary STAPLES
1887 – 1929
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
MS
Stanley Staples
1889 – 1922
Birth Location: Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
SS
Percy Staples
1892 – 1964
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
PS
Ethel Staples
1894 – 1900
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
ES
Ernest STAPLES
1897 – 1938
Birth Location: Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand
ES

Hannah Wright's Ancestors

Self
Hannah Wright
1858 – 1928
Birth Place: Polstead, Suffolk, England
Parents
John Wright
1833 – 1909
Polstead, Suffolk, England
Mary (Anne) Kettle
1837 – 1915
Stoke, Suffolk, England
Grandparents
John Wright
1798 – 1885
Polstead, Suffolk, England
Anne Humphrey
1795 – 1870
Polstead, Suffolk, England
William Kettle
1801 – 1844
Greetham, Rutland, England, United Kingdom
Frances (Waller) (Kettle)
1794 – 1867
Clare, Suffolk, England
Great-Grandparents
John Wright
1764 – 1837
Ann Lester
– 1838
Daniel Humphrey
1755 – 1827
Hannah Small
1757 – 1828
2nd-Great-Grandparents
Nathaniel Lister
1740 – 1782
Sarah Sheldrick
1736 – 1788
Thomas Small
1725 –

Hannah Wright's Descendants

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Hannah (Maria) Wright (1858 – 1 Nov 1928) m. Edward (James Wastfield) Staples (17 May 1848 – 29 May 1916)
  1. 1. Frederick (John) Staples (9 May 1876 – 20 Feb 1940) m. Elizabeth (Ellen) BRANDT (12 Feb 1881 – 6 Jan 1948)
    1. 1. Frederick (Wastfield) Staples (14 Feb 1905 – 10 Mar 1997)
    2. 2. Ethel (Maud) Staples (24 May 1906 – 23 Oct 1920)
    3. 3. Mary (Elizabeth Ellen) Staples (17 June 1909 – 29 Mar 1995)
    4. 4. Gordon (Stanley) Staples (02 Jul 1910 – 2002)
    5. 5. Emma Staples (9 Nov 1912 – 23 Jul 1913)
    6. 6. Samuel (Ian) Staples (23 Sep 1915 – 26 July 1996) m. Annie (Enid) Wilton (19 10 1921 – 7 Jul 2017)
      1. 1. Richard (John) Staples (24 Oct 1952 – 18 Aug 1998) m. Unknown
        1. 1. James (Tane Wastfield) Staples m. Bingham
        2. 2. Lisa Staples
        3. 3. Vanessa Staples
        4. 4. Deanna Staples
      2. 2. Ian (Edward) Staples m. Unknown m. Unknown
        1. 1. Staples
        2. 2. Staples m. Unknown
        3. 3. Staples
      3. 3. Staples m. Unknown
      4. 4. Staples m. Unknown
      5. 5. Staples
  2. 2. Walter (Charles) Staples (11 Nov 1877 – 7 Dec 1878)
  3. 3. Emma (Maria) Staples (13 Jun 1879 – 16 Sep 1922)
  4. 4. Mary (Elizabeth) Staples (12 Aug 1881 – 15 Dec 1881)
  5. 5. Edward (James) Staples (24 Dec 1882 – 14 Nov 1923) m. Elizabeth (Maria) Stribling (28 Aug 1883 – 1 Jun 1963)
    1. 1. Mabel (Ethel) Staples (29 Nov 1905 – 19 Feb 1989)
    2. 2. Doris (Lucy) Staples (10 Feb 1907 – 25 Aug 1983)
    3. 3. Theodore (Edward) Staples (30 Oct 1918 – 15 Mar 2020) m. Mary (Irene) Bruce (17 Oct 1919 – Jul 2020)
      1. 1. Jocelyn (Marie) Staples m. Christopher (George) Beath
        1. 1. Andrew (Lance) Beath
        2. 2. Alison (Mary) Beath
      2. 2. Aubrey (Bruce) Staples m. Sandra (Louise) Bolland m. Colleen (Joy) Looser
        1. 1. Ewan (Murdoch Bruce) Staples (6 Mar 1974 – )
        2. 2. Cameron (Bruce) Staples (25 Jan 1985 – )
        3. 3. Philippa (Jane) Staples m. Samuel (Thomas) Wallace
        4. 4. Bronwyn (Claire) Staples
        5. 5. Fleur (Alice) Staples
        6. 6. Duncan Staples
  6. 6. Charles (Edwin Samuel) Staples (24 Dec 1884 – 03 Jan 1956)
  7. 7. Mary (Elizabeth) STAPLES (21 May 1887 – 29 Oct 1929) m. Thomas (Henry) Elliott (Apr - Jun 1884 – 14 Jul 1914) m. James (Edwardes Collingwood) Thomas
    1. 1. Hazel (Eileen) Elliot (06 Jun 1906 – 23 Feb 1991) m. John (Francis) Yeatman (7 Mar 1904 – 23 Dec 1988)
      1. 1. Jan (Gregory) Yeatman (18 May 1932 – 04 Jun 2020) m. Diana (Iris) Robertson (18 Feb 1936 – 29 June 2019)
        1. 1. Jonathan (Francis) Yeatman (7 Mar 1904 – 23 Dec 1988) m. Valerie (Ruth) Gluyas
        2. 2. Virginia (Jane (Ginny)) Yeatman (1959 – )
        3. 3. Timothy (James) Yeatman (22 Feb 1965 – 18 Feb 2000)
    2. 2. Wasefield (James Henry) ELLIOTT (26 Dec 1908 – 10 Nov 1964)
    3. 3. Allan (Thomas) ELLIOTT (Feb 1910 – 25 Sep 1910)
    4. 4. Mavis (Audrey) ELLIOTT (Jul 1911 – 03 Jun 1968)
  8. 8. Stanley (Norman) Staples (8 Jul 1889 – 14 Jul 1922) m. Eunice (Eliza) Mathews (24 Oct 1889 – 19 Nov 1960)
    1. 1. Florence (Maria) Staples (4 Dec 1911 – 17 Jan 2004) m. Harold (Raymond) Hill (2 Jul 1911 – 29 February 2000)
      1. 1. Graham (Harold Thomas) Hill (23 Jan 1937 – 9 Sep 2014) m. patricia
        1. 1. Rhys Hill m. Raewyn
      2. 2. Elaine Hill
      3. 3. Bruce Hill
      4. 4. Beverley Hill
      5. 5. Rodney Hill
    2. 2. Edward (Norman (Ted)) Staples (9 Nov 1913 – 26 May 1989)
    3. 3. Stanley (William) Staples (19 Mar 1915 – 21 December 1994) m. Christina (Agnes) HENDERSON (10 Oct 1915 – 28 Jun 1987)
      1. 1. Margaret (Christina) Staples (1941 – )
    4. 4. Sydney (Ernest) Staples (24 May 1917 – 21 Aug 1999)
    5. 5. Mavis (Ngaire) Staples (30 Dec 1921 – 30 June 1993)
  9. 9. Percy (Gordon) Staples (27 Apr 1892 – Feb 1964)
  10. 10. Ethel (Maude) Staples (26 Mar 1894 – 25 Oct 1900)
  11. 11. Ernest (James) STAPLES (11 Dec 1897 – 22 Jun 1938) m. Margaret (DORIS May Livingstone) Judson (29 Jun 1897 – 10 Sep 1946)
    1. 1. Doris (Hazel) Staples (06 June 1918 – 26 May 2003)
    2. 2. Ethel (Lorna) Staples (25 October 1918 – 20 July 1969)
    3. 3. Rhoda (Staples) Johnson (23 December 1920 – 13 Aug 1995)
    4. 4. Stanley (Ernest James) STAPLES (16 Feb 1923 – 18 Nov 1981) m. Irene (Maud) Howorth (20 March 1924 – 12 Jul 1991)
      1. 1. Ernest Staples (14 March 1952 – 01 Jan 2020)
      2. 2. Terence (Bertrand) Staples (26 March 1954 – 11 March 1973)
      3. 3. Lyndall (Joy) STAPLES
      4. 4. Sandra STAPLES ( – 12 Feb 2019) m. Keith (Stanners (Kit)) Bird (1950 – 28 Jan 2020) m. Tony Smith
        1. 1. Keith Bird (17 Sep 1985 – )
        2. 2. Tamara Bird (24 Nov 2004 – )
        3. 3. Callum Bird m. Unknown
        4. 4. Kylee Bird

Hannah Wright's Timeline

7 Records

1857
07 May 1857
Birth of Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) in Polstead, Suffolk, England
Polstead, Suffolk, England
1857
7 May 1857
Birth of Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) in Polstead, Suffolk, England
Polstead, Suffolk, England
1858
1858
Birth of Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) in Polstead, Suffolk, England
Polstead, Suffolk, England
1928
1 Nov 1928
Age 70
Death of Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) in Public Hospital, Ashburton, New Zealand OR Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand
Public Hospital, Ashburton, New Zealand OR Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand
1928
1 Nov 1928
Age 70
Death of Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) in Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand
Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand
1928
01 Nov 1928
Age 70
Death of Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) in Public Hospital, Ashburton, New Zealand
Public Hospital, Ashburton, New Zealand
1928
1 Nov 1928
Age 70
Death of Hannah Maria Wright Ann Maria Hannah WRIGHT Staples (1857-1928) in Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand
Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 07 May 1857
    Event Place: Polstead, Suffolk, England

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 7 May 1857
    Event Place: Polstead, Suffolk, England

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1858
    Event Place: Polstead, Suffolk, England

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1 Nov 1928
    Event Place: Public Hospital, Ashburton, New Zealand OR Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand
    Record Source: Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1 Nov 1928
    Event Place: Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 01 Nov 1928
    Event Place: Public Hospital, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Genealogy Event 7
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1 Nov 1928
    Event Place: Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand
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