Person:Sydney Evelyn Liardet Wright (1)

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Capt. Sydney Evelyn Lairdet Wright, Esq
b.7 Jun 1825 Westminster, Middlesex, England
d.2 Oct 1897 Wellington, New Zealand
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  1. Capt. Sydney Evelyn Lairdet Wright, Esq1825 - 1897
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Name Capt. Sydney Evelyn Lairdet Wright, Esq
Gender Male
Birth? 7 Jun 1825 Westminster, Middlesex, England
Christening? 14 Jun 1825 St. Pancras, Middlesex, EnglandSt. Pancras Old Church
Immigration? 16 Jun 1842 New Zealandon the Blenheim from England, Arrived in N.Z; 5 Nov 1842
Death? 2 Oct 1897 Wellington, New Zealand
Burial? 4 Oct 1897 Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandBolton Street Memorial Park, Plot:1413, ID No:108567

Sydney Evelyn Liardet Wright


Sydney Wright travelled to New Zealand with his younger brother John (Jack) in 1842 on the Blenheim. They lived in New Plymouth until 1844 when they returned to England. Sydney married Georgina Amelia Pickford in 1857 and they returned to New Zealand on the `Cresswell' in 1858

First 6 volumes concerned mainly with life at sea, but include a period of 9 months in New Plymouth 1841-1844 (Vol 3). The daily round in Lyttelton, Christchurch and Wellington, in the later volumes. Vol 11 is a journal of a period in Burma in 1848. Vol 12 consists of miscellaneous papers, logs etc, including a genealogical table (presented 1967, by O E Smuts-Kennedy, Wellington) of the Wright, Evelyn and Liardet families.

Sydney Wright left London on the `Blenheim' on 16 June 1842 and arrived in Wellington on 5 Nov. Later that month he sailed for New Plymouth where he resided until returning to Wellington on 5 Sep 1843

Wright of Wellington

Wright, Sydney Evelyn Liardet, Esq. of Hope Lodge, Hopper-Street, Wellington, New Zealand, late paymaster R.N., has served twenty years in the Royal Navy; was engaged in the Syrian War (1839-40), and during the Crimean War in the "Quake" gunboat; was specially gazetted for sinking a Russian gunboat at the taking of Kertch; and was five years on the West Coast of Africa engaged in the suppression of the slave trade for which services he has recieved the Turkish Order of the Medjidie, and holds four medals and two clasps.

He emigrated to the colony of New Zealand in 1858, and entered into mercantile pusuits; b. 7th June, 1825; m. 26th September, 1857, at St Alphage Church, Greenwich, England, Georgina Amelia, eldest daughter of the late William Pickford, Esq. of Coventry, co. Warwick, and has had issue





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Comprises photographic account of the Liardet, Wright, Evelyn and Moffitt families compiled by McBride-Wilson and including genealogical data; (2) An Account of the revolution in China, by Josephine Liardet Venebales-McDonald [sic]; (3) A Sketch of Hong Kong, 1848-1853, by John Fortunatus [sic] Evelyn Wright; (4) The New Zealanders; observations by Sydney Evelyn Liardet Wright and John Fortescue Evelyn Wright (1842); and (5) The Voyage of the `Samarang' to the colony of New Zealand, by Fortunatus E E Wright (1852)

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