Amy Rose Bright (1848 - 1910)

Born 2 Jul 1848 in Bangalore, Madras, India

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Died 11 Aug 1910 at age 62 in Portslade, Sussex, England

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Biography

Amy Rose, the daughter of George Augustus Campbell Bright and Emily Mcleod, was born in India in July 1848 and christened in October.^[1] Her father was a staff surgeon with the East India Company. When the Eighth Regiment Native Infantry arrived in Bangalore, Mysore (Karnataka), India, in 1843, he became the garrison's surgeon.^[2] Amy spent her very early childhood in India, but the rest of her life in England after the Brights returned home sometime before her father's death in Staffordshire in 1851.^[3] In 1861, she lived with her widowed mother and three siblings in Bristol.^[4]

At 22, after her mother's death in 1870, ^[5][6]she moved into a lodging house owned by Eliza Richards at 1 Park Crescent, Weston Super Mare, Somerset.^[7] She never married and died in Portslade, Sussex, in 1910.^[8] Her brother Charles named one of his children after her.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ "India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FG42-6YC : accessed 17 Nov 2014), Anny Rose Bright, 20 Oct 1848; citing , reference v 27 p 532; FHL microfilm 521846.
2. ↑ Crawford, D.G. Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 ,Volume 2, p. 312. U.K.: Andrews, 2012. Google e-Books
3. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1851," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/SGD5-HDX : accessed 17 Nov 2014), Amy Bright, England; from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," index and images, findmypast (www.findmypast.co.uk : DC Thomson, n.d.); PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
4. ↑ Class: RG 9; Piece: 1739; Folio: 81; Page: 28; GSU roll: 542860.Ancestry.com. 1861 England Census [database on-line]. Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1861.
5. ↑ "England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-2007," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2JN2-PJ5 : accessed 16 Nov 2014), Emily Bright, 1870; from Death, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," findmypast.
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright. Copy of original seen.
7. ↑ Class: RG10; Piece: 2459; Folio: 60; Page: 49; GSU roll: 835188.Ancestry.com. 1871 England Census [database on-line].Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871.
8. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright.
9. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]