William Wright, who was from Saxmundham in Suffolk, married Margaret in Aberdeen on 26 December 1860 and they moved first to Cheltenham, where William was a brass finisher, and then to Suffolk, where in 1871 William was an engineer and manager of the gas works in Lewes and thereafter was a master miller in one of the nearby villages. This suggests that he wasn't a brass finisher by trade, he just managed brass finishers in some capacity.