Shirley Village Archive

Thomas Wright, shoemaker, Derby Lane

The household moved into the village from Yeavely sometime after 1841.

The 1851 census lists the household as being:
Thomas, head, shoemaker, 32.
Sarah, wife, shoe binder, 36.
Harriet, dau. 10.
Edwin, son, 6.

In 1858 Thomas dies.

By 1861 there was just Sarah and Edwin in Shirley.