Glenwright Name Study - English Diaspora

Date: 1825 to 2000
Location: England, United Kingdom
Surname/tag: Glenwright

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Records of Glenwrights overseas

This page follows the Glenwright families that migrated further from their roots, elsewhere in England or worldwide.

• An otherwise unknown Mr. and Mrs. Glenritt were in Cape Francois, Haiti before sailing to the USA in April 1800. We know nothing more of them.

• Daniel Glenwright (bef.1791-1831) was among the earliest (1820) English colonists of Simonstad, Cape Colony (South Africa).

• John Glenwright (bef.1789-1869), a lead miner, emigrated to the Isle of Man with his wife Mary sometime between 1818 and 1841. They died in the 1860s leaving no children.

• Summers Glenwright (1819-1872), another lead miner, was managing a mine near Porto, Portugal when he died in a suspicious mine accident. (Some reports said he was pushed down a mine shaft.) He too left no descendants.

• Leslie Glenwright (1921-1999), from South Shields, was headmaster of the Rhodesia School for Boys in Bulawayo on 7 December 1959 when he wrote a letter to the Home Office in London, later archived among the War Office files at the GRO. He subsequently returned to England.

Burials of Glenwrights who died overseas

• George Edward Glenwright Jr. (1920-1942) was an R.A.F pilot shot down during the El Alamein campaign of World War 2 and is buried in the Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery in Algeria.