In a message dated 7/23/01 9:56:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, payphone@bellatlantic.net writes: > I ran across a Reading N. Wright which is I think Reading Newbold Wright in > Medford Township, Burlington County in the 1850 census. I know there's a > Reading Newbold, father and son but cannot make any connections of the > Newbolds to the Wrights in this time period. Reading Wright was born ca. > 1819. Would appreciate any help you can give me as I think it might solve > a big problem for us. > > Marie Wright > > Marie, Sometimes people names their children in honor of someone they admired instead of a family member. Perhaps your Wright was named in tribute to Reading Newbold. Just a thought. Joan Joan Lacy Fitzsimmons Researching - US: LACY/LACEY, SCUDDER, AICHELE, VANAMAN, BUDD, MOOD (MUTH), HUTCHINSON, BATES, BROOKS, CRANE, LADD, and sundry others. Collateral lines: GANDY, GODFREY, CORSON. (all in New Jersey) Ireland-County Wexford: FITZSIMMONS/FITZSIMONS, FENLON, BARRINGTON England - Lancashire: O'HARA Germany - Baden: Muth