18 Aug 2023
Husband: Cecil Lewis Fortescue
Born: 15 Jan 1881 in Northamptonshire 1 Census: 1911 in London (see note 1) Occupation: 1911 Professor of Physics, Royal Navy Resided: 1939 in London 1 Occupation: 1939 Professor Electrical Engineering 1 Died: 1949 in Hampshire 2 (see note 2) Father: Mother: Media link: http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Cecil_Lewis_Fortescue Media desc: Biography
Wife: Mary Dorothea Wright Married: 19 Jun 1909 in Trumpington 3 (see note 3)
Born: 26 Oct 1884 in Middlesex 3,1 (see note 4) Census: 1891 in Yorkshire (see note 5) Census: 1901 at Goldieslie, Cambridge Road, Trumpington (see note 6) Census: 1911 in London (see note 7) Resided: 1939 in London 1 Died: 1975 in Hampshire 2 (see note 8) Father: Richard Thomas Wright (1846 - 1931) Mother: Mary Marshall Kennedy (1846 - 1939)
Sources: (1) 1939 Register. (2) Index on ancestry.co.uk. (3) FreeBMD website.
Event Notes Note (1) Age 30, born Barnack. Professor of Physics, Royal Navy, with wife Mary Dorothea Note (2) Sep 1949 New Forest 6b 257 age 68 Note (3) Jun 1909 Chesterton 3b 1037 Jun 19 FORTESCUE Cecil Lewis 28 bac instructor NO of Naval Barracks Portsmouth son of Lewis gent WRIGHT Mary Dorothea 24 sp [blank] of Goldieslie Trumpington dau of Richard Thomas barrister at law wits: Richd WRIGHT, K WRIGHT, Lewis FORTESCUE Note (4) Dec 1884 Brentford 3a 141 Note (5) Age 6, born Turnham Green, with family Note (6) Age 16, born Chiswick, with family Note (7) Age 26, born Bedford Park, with husband Cecil Lewis Fortescue Note (8) Sep 1875 New Forest 20 0238 born 26 Oct 1884 Copyright © Trumpington Local History Group 2023 Email TLHG Return to TLHG introduction page Name Index