Old George Inn, Mitcheldean, George MacIntyre WRIGHT c1906 (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, February 12, 2018, 18:27 (2479 days ago) @ Jefff

The best website for info about old pubs is the following Easywell site. However I cannot give a direct link, this will take you to the homepage. Don't enter "George" in the search box as you'll get hundreds of hits; instead enter "star pitch" (the pub's address) and it will find it immediately, there is a superbly detailed history and photos old and new.
http://www.gloucestershirepubs.co.uk/AllGlosPubsDatabase/AllGlosPubs_view.php

Best quality images of this old photo of the George Hotel Mitcheldean shows the large noticeboard above the front door carries the landlord's name of George MacIntyre Wright. The Easywell site states he was landlord in 1906, presumably learnt by dating the photo.
http://www.forestprints.co.uk/george_hotel_v01.htm

In nearby Longhope my maternal grandparents were born c1905, and by 1950 they were pub landlords there until their retirement. Just before my grandad's birth his family were living in Liverpool, the 1901 Census shows his father was a licensed victualler manager, altho the family were back in Longhope within 3 years, except for my grandad's uncle who stayed there and in the pub trade. These Wrights were descendants of two brothers who left their home area nr Birdlip above Gloster c1850 and settled in the Forest. One of them, my maternal G-G-Grandad George, settled in Longhope. His brother Josiah married in Longhope but eventually settled in Mitcheldean, his son Felix Wright b1890 was landlord of the White Horse pub in Mitcheldean c1950.

Knowing all this boozy background led me to wonder if George MacIntyre Wright was a relation of mine, altho why the apparent Scots name, and why wasn't he appearing in any of the family's Census records etc ??

However, dispite my searching the various BMD sites for him, including trying various spellings etc, I have been unable to find any definite idea of who this man was. I did find a reference in the local newspapers, but nothing helpful, and sadly I've lost my research notes...

Please can anyone shed some light on George MacIntyre Wright for me, I can't but help think he should be in my tree somewhere. All suggestions gratefully received, thankyou. Please don't worry about plotting Census data etc for my Grandparents, I have all that and can do anymore myself. What I'd dearly love to see is a Birth, Marriage or Death record, or any other, that appears to definitely belong to George MacIntyre Wright. Hopefully that record will be in Glos or maybe Merseyside, but ???

Many thanks, Jeff.