| Called | John Wright went by the name of Jack.2 |
| Migration | Lambeth, Surrey, England --> Manitoba, Canada --> Watson, Saskatchewan --> ?
|
| Birth | He was born circa 1884 in Lambeth, Surrey.3
|
| (with Parents) 1891 Census | John appeared on the 1891 Census of Battersea, London with his parents. He was 7, a scholar, and born in Lambeth, Surrey.3 |
| (with Parents) 1901 Census | John appeared on the 1901 Census of Battersea, London with his parents. He was 17, worked as a Terra Cotta brand Potter, and was born in Vauxhall, London.1 |
| Passenger List | He was listed on a manifest dated May 1905 for the SS Southwark, arriving in Montreal from Liverpool. John was a cabin passenger - 21 years old, single, a metal worker, intending to be a farmer, from London, with a destination of St Rose de Lac, Manitoba.4 |
| 1906 Census | John Wright appeared on the 1906 Census of Manitoba, at Section 6, Twp 25, Range 14 W, enumerated 26 Jun 1906. John was recorded as age 24, single, born in England, and immigrated in 1905 [the rest of the family was 1904]. The Wrights had two milch cows and two other cattle. The nearest post office was Ste Rose du Lac, which is 50 km ESE of Dauphin and 300 km WNW of Winnipeg. With John were his mother Emma and siblings Ellen (17), Flora (15), and Charley (13.)5 |
| Anecdote | Played on the Watson [Saskatchewan] soccer club.6 |
| (with Mother) 1911 Census | John Wright appeared on the 1911 Saskatchewan Census with his mother. He was single, age 29, born May 1883 in England, immigrated in 1904, Canadian, Baptist, and was a farmer working on his own account.7 |
| (with Mother) 1916 Census | He appeared on the 1916 Census of Ayre Municipality, Saskatchewan with his mother. He was 33, single, born in England, Church of England, immigrated in 1904, and was a farmer.8 |
| 1921 Census | Charles, his mother Emma, and his brother John Wright appeared on the 1921 Census of Saskatchewan, at Section 22 Township 34 Range 19 W2. They owned their single family 3-room wood house. Charles was 28 and single. Emma was a widow, age 63. John was 38 and single. Charles and John's occupation was Farmer working on their own account on their own farm. All were born in England, Charles and Emma immigrating in 1904 and John in 1905.9 |
| Death | John died before 1930.
There is the comment in a Watson Saskatchewan history book published c1950, "Jack Wright possessed skill as an athlete but died twenty years ago."10 |
