William Enright And His Brother Thomas Enright: Robber's

William Enright was born 4 Apr 1871 in Pennsylvania, although some records say NY. To Thomas T Enright (1844-1922) & Johanna Madagan (1845-1922).

The earliest record I found for William was the 1880 census He was about 5 years old and his family was all living in California by then. William had a very large family all brother and one sister. William was the 3rd oldest.

Bartholomew Enright

1869–1899

John Enright

1870–1918

William Enright

1871–

Michael Enright

1872–1933

Thomas Enright

1872–1923

Margret Enright

1878–1970

Joseph Enright

1881–

Peter Joseph Enright

1883–

Frank Joseph Enright

1886–1957

Albert Enright

1891–1937

By 1901 William was in some trouble with the law for highway robbery.

Inmate: #19108 San Quentin Prison

Rec:2 Aug 1901

Crime Robbery

Term: Life

I found the following newspaper articles:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87415582/william-enright/

The San Francisco Call

San Francisco, California

Tue, Jan 08, 1907 · Page 3

The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento, California

Tue, Jul 28, 1903 · Page 10

In 1910 his brother Peter who was a newsboy, most likely for their other brother whom owned a newspaper, the lot of the brothers were all in the newspaper business in some manner except for the 2 oldest ones, one was a plasterer and the other a photo engraver.

So peter went to work on fighting for a pardon for his big brother William, I found this newspaper article.

He was pardoned but he was back in prison by 1923.

Inmate: #12346 Folsom Prison

Rec: 8 Jan 1923

Crime: Robbery

I am not sure why this record has his 1901 conviction on it.

He was also Inmate #1460 at Walla Walla, Washington state prison.

His brother Thomas Enright was also in prison twice once in 1904 and again in 1908.

Inmate: #20534 San Quentin Prison

Rec: 24 Feb 1904

Crime: Robbery

He was also committing highway robbery, here are some newspaper articles I found.

Santa Cruz Surf

Santa Cruz, California

Wed, Jun 10, 1903 · Page 5

After his release he was back at it and was again in court in 1907, here are those newspaper articles.

(Click on the links to read the articles)

Inmate: #22769 San Quentin

Rec: 1 Apr 1908

Crime: Robbery

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87429359/thomas-enright/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87429514/thomas-enright/

San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco, California

Fri, Feb 07, 1908 · Page 14

The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento, California

Fri, Feb 07, 1908 · Page 4

Thomas died in 1923 here is his Find A Grave Memorial

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105006700/thomas-enright

I found a Find A Grave Memorial for William but I think it is wrong, they have him buried in the Folsom Prison Cemetery. Also I found a William Enright who is buried in the same cemetery as his family who died in 1948, I believe this to be the right one.

Here is the Prison Cemetery Memorial

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169965128/william-enright

Here is the other memorial I found

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206254264/william-enright

I linked all the children and parents to each other on Find A Grave.

Their one and only sister Margaret lived to be 91 years old I found her funeral record.