This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42Vietnam_ParkerCoTX Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16629/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Booker T - Vietnam Wall section 44W - our thanks to those who put their lives on the line - and honor to this hero who died there Honor our Veterans. This is one of many photographs of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Parker Co, TX. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 217,144 photos free at http://teafor2.com If you know more about this person please reply here instead of contacting me because this is not my family. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: godangel2004 Surnames: Wright, Green, Todd Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/7090.1.2.1.2.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My David R. Wright and wife, Margaret (Green) Wright had a son; George W. Wright. He and his wife, Hannah (Lum) Wright had a one child that I'm aware of; William Lyon Wright. William was born in 1913 and died 1941. I'm searching for who he married and children's names and dates. Luwana Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gedkad72 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/7090.1.2.1.2.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't know if there is a connection. My g-g-grandmother Rachel Wright (Married Robert Finley, Jr.). Her father was William Wright. His wife was ? Massey. I don't know more than this on that line. Thanks. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gedkad72 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/7090.1.2.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If Seamon and Clara were her grandparents, then she would be a 1st cousin to my father Harold C. McEathron. His mother was Gertrude Finley. Who was your wife's parent? I show 13 kids for them, too. Do you have any other information on Seamon's parents? Clara May Kelley's parents? My e-mail is [email protected] Please send me a note. It's easier to pass info between us that way. Thanks, Karen McEathron Davis Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Thanks, Mike, for the explanation on the different social standings back in the "olde" days. My Joanna Gilbert in Surry Co. VA who married Reuben Wright in 1798, Sussex Co. VA, was apparently from a family where the men carried the title, "Gent" & I wasn't quite sure as to what that signified. Also, I believe, maybe incorrectly, that might be a lead as to the standing of Reuben's Wright bunch since these folks didn't seem to marry outside of their family's social group without enduring severe consequences from the community. The "surety" for Reuben & Joanna (also called Anna on some records) was a Gray Barker who is a desc from the "Washington" Wright line. However, DNA testing shows that Reuben's Wrights didn't match that family but instead, was a close match with the Jarrett-Wright family of Lunenburg Co. VA. Also, Reuben & Johanna had a son named David Gerrard Wright so that is even more convincing that Lunenburg Co. is the place to concentrate the gen efforts. Gray Barker married Elizabeth Gilbert (dau of James Gilbert of Sussex Co) in 1785 so I am assuming that, rather than being related to Reuben, he was possibly an in-law of Joanna's. The main thing about my Wrights is that they all seemed to be devout members & workers in the early Methodist-Episcopal church in VA, Greene Co. OH & mine went on to Henry Co. IN. You, & also Bob Grant, of course, have been so much help to so many of us & we appreciate it. Thanks again, Diane Ethridge TX

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: SBond007 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/6959.2703.2.1.2.2.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mike, Again, Thank you for your quick reply. I find all this information interesting. I descend from Lydia Wright who married Lawrence Bliss. I new to the DNA part of genealogy and I think that because I'm female, my DNA would not connect me to the Wright family. Do you have any data on the descendants of Lydia Wright? My direct email address is [email protected] Thank you so much, Denise Bond Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dgrams12 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16628/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am posting this for information purposes only. I am not related/nor am I researching this family. I have no additional information. Harvard Cemetery, Harvard, Clay Co, NE 2 Wright burials Jacob H 10/13/1817-11/27/1906 01WC11 Civil War Vet Elizabeth B 3/15/1821-5/8/1892 Lot 01WC12 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: calindsay2 Surnames: Scobie/Wright/Lindsay Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2935.4513.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Sorry I hadn't gotten back to you yet... My direct line is through his son Samual Scobie, then his daughter Jane, and her son James Samuel Lindsay. Cheryl Lindsay Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MichaelWright12 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/6959.2703.2.1.2.2.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: SBond007 Funny you should ask....I have put in the last 13 years double-checking all the published claims and doing original research in England on the origins of Deacon Samuel Wright of Springfield and Northampton and of Thomas Wright of Wethersfield, CT. The first thing I want to say in setting the record straight is that there never was a Lord or Sir John Wright of Kelvedon Hall. Just because he was granted a Crest and Arms does not mean he had any rights to a title of nobility or knighthood. He is consistently referred to in the English records as simply a "yeoman" or "gentleman" or just "Mr.". These terms were reserved for men of property and standing in a community who possessed manor estates. Mere possession of such wealth and property did not confer any rights to noble titles. Noble titles could only be bestowed by the King or Queen. Typically an estate was granted status as a Baronetcy by Letters Patent from the King before the owner had any right to use the honorific "Sir". If a man was knighted by the King or Queen then he could also claim the title of "Sir". But only those Knights and Barons called specifically by the King to serve in the upper house of Parliament were allowed the title of "Lord". The only ! other use of the title "Lord" was strictly a local designation that referred in a very limited sense to the lord of the local manor estate. The accepted public title of record for such "Lords of the Manor" was typical just "Mr." or "Gent.". There was never a baronetcy granted to any of the Wright manor estates, hence none of the Kelvedon Hatch Wrights could properly be called Lord Wright. It turns out that the two immigrant fathers I spoke of earlier, Samuel and Thomas, were third cousins and their common ancestor was John Wright of Kelvedon Hall, Kelvedon Hatch, Essex England (ca. 1488 to 2 Oct 1551). Thomas Wright of Wethersfield was descended from John Wright's son, Robert Wright of Brookstreet (Moat House) and Ropers near Brentwood, Co. Essex. Deacon Samuel Wright descended through John Wright's son, Myddle John Wright (1522 - 1558). There were three sons named John in this family: John Wright the Elder inherited his father's estate of Kelvedon Hall. Myddle John Wright inherited his father's estate of Wrightsbridge and Wealdside. John Wright the Younger inherited his father's estate of Bishop Hall and other estates east of Brentwood. The descent of Deacon Samuel Wright from John Wright of Kelvedon Hall is not fully proven by documentation but the descent of Thomas Wright of Wethersfield is. Genetic genealogy has proven to be the key to establishing the relationship of Deacon Samuel Wright to Thomas Wright of Wethersfield, thereby linking Samuel to the Kelvedon Hatch Wright family group. Male descendants of both immigrant fathers have a Y-DNA profile that is nearly identical and quite rare in England as a whole, clearly indicating their descendants are closely related within the last 20 generations. Research of original records in England reveal that the most likely descendancy of Deacon Samuel Wright is as follows: Henry Wright of Upminster, co. Essex (ca. 1424 - aft 1568) Rev. John Wright of Upminster, co. Essex (1450 - 1509) John Wright of Wealdside and Kelvedon Hall (ca 1488 - 1551; probably original recipient of family Crest and Arms) Myddle John Wright of Wrightsbridge (ca. 1522 - 1558) John Wright (1542 - 1624; of Wrightsbridge - Ancestral Crest and Arms variant confirmed by Cook, 20 June 32 Elizabeth I) John Wright, Esq (1569 - 1640; Clerk of the House of Commons 1612 - 1639) Samuel Wright (1606 - 1665; in Springfield, MA 1639; Deacon of Springfield and Northampton Congregational Churches) Dea. Samuel Wright was born in 1606 and was baptized 29 or 30 June 1606 at St. Peter's church, South Weald parish, Co. Essex, England, son of John Wright of the Bridge. He matriculated Emmanuel College, Cambridge University in 1624 after which he disappears from the English records and does not appear again in any records until 1639 in Springfield, MA where hs is among the first settlers of that town. In 1639 we find he is married to Margaret (nee ??) and has five living children. We have never found his marriage record nor any record of the birth of these first five children. We think we know what parish he lived in before he came to New England and we think that parish church register is where the marriage and early children birth records are recorded but has been missing for centuries. We have only recently given up trying to find it after a five year search effort. However, the birth of his sixth child, James Wright, is recorded as 1639 in the Springfield records. Likewise the birth of his seventh child, Judah Wright was recorded in Springfield 10 May 1642. The birth and death of his eighth and last child, Helped, in 1644 is also recorded in Springfield records. In 1654 he joined about 30 other families who left the Springfield church to take up homesteads further up the Connecticut River and found a new town, Northampton. He was sleeping in his chair in his home in Northampton when he died 2 Oct 1665. He left a will which was probated in January 1666. His wife, Margaret died in 1681 and also left a will that was probated. The children of Dea. Samuel and Margaret Wright were: Samuel (16?? - 1675; killed by Indians at the Battle of Bloody Brook near Northfield Hester (16?? - 1664) Margaret (16?? - 1684) Lydia (16?? - 1699) Mary (16?? - 1653) James (1639 - 1723) Judah (1642 - 1725) Helped (1644 - 1644) These are all mentioned in the wills of their parents. Many genealogists believe that Samuel and Margaret also had two older children, Benjamin and Hannah. I personally do not believe those are his children. I do not believe that Benjamin was related in any way and if Hannah was related, she was more likely the daughter of a cousin who did not immigrate himself but put his daughter in the Deacon's care until she married. I base this opinion on the contents of Samuel's and Margaret's wills where neither of them is mentioned nor are their children mentioned. I would not have expected Hannah herself to be mentioned because she died in 1661, years before either Samuel or Margaret made their wills. But I would have expected Hannah's children to have been mentioned if they had actually been grandchildren of Samuel and Margaret. Same argument for Benjamin's children. In any case, we cannot prove or disprove their connection by any known vital records. Someday I want to find a paternal descendant of Benjamin and convince him to participate in our Wright-DNA project so we can get a clue about which Wright family he belongs to or does not belong to. For Hannah, we are probably stuck trying to prove her true relationship to Dea. Samuel Wright. Genetic Genealogy can not help us and in searching English records I never could find a Hannah Wright record that was a likely candidate to be her (which actually argues she may be Samuel's eldest child and her records are lost along with those for all the other early children). Very much an open question still. That is a thumbnail sketch of the ancestry of Samuel Wright of Springfield and Northampton, MA. Best Regards, Mike Wright Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Bud, Glad to hear you reap some benefits from my blurbs and I am also glad to hear you are feeling up to doing research on your family these days. There was a time not too much in the past where I remember you seemed to think you were losing the ability to continue your genealogical research. Let me know any time you feel I can be of more direct help. TTYL, Mike -----Original Message----- From: samuels <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Tue, Oct 5, 2010 1:45 pm Subject: Re: [WRIGHT] Wright Brothers Mike I am always fascinated by your postings. They have helped me many times to eliminate a noted WRIGHT, from among my very convoluted ERIGHT families. Please continue to post these excellent vignettes. Bud In Mo. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message =

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Pangela84 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/7090.4.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Well, it's always possible that your Margaret Green is a brother or sister of my Catharine Green who was born around 1860 and that Wildridge Green is a brother of Catherine's father, Owen Green from Ireland also. I will keep my eyes looking out for that name! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: SBond007 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/6959.2703.2.1.2.2.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you so much for the last two messages. This gives me something to go on in my search. I also descend from Deacon Samuel and Margaret on my Dad's side of the family. I am curious about his ancestors. I've seen some sources say he is descended from Lord John Wright and some say no. Do you have any data on that? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: margiedav55 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16627/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Alvin Louis Wright, Born June 18th 1935. Was raised in Sapulpa Oklahoma. Father Arthur Wright. Mother Rachael Marie Stoughton. Brother Freddy or Fred. I am Alvins daughter Margaret. My mother was Betty Lou Malone. Some how her last name was incorrectly entered as Eone. If I have any half siblings or family members that would like to communicate with me I would love it. I never met my father or any of his side of the family. It would be a long awaited dream come true. Thank you for your time Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MichaelWright12 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/6959.2703.2.1.2.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: SBond007 I forgot to mention one other publication that does support the lineage from Jonathan and Abiah (nee Keep) on down to the next two generations you list, and that is Henry Stiles' 1859 publication, "The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut: including East Windsor...etc." On page 837 we find a listing of Jonathan Wright's children and by the dates of first born birth (1739), I would judge this to be the family of the Jonathan Wright who married Abiah Keep in 1737. By this list there was a son named David born to them 24 Feb. 1742, and David's son, George, was born 16 March 1774 in Windsor. Again, hope this gives you some focus on where to research the proposed connections between James and Abigail Wright of Northampton and Jonathan Wright of Windsor. Mike Wright Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MichaelWright12 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/6959.2703.2.1.2.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: SBond007 I am aware of this lineage only from the "Vermillion County, Indiana History", by the Vermillion County Historical Society. I have notes on this reference that there are some crucial contradictions in the reported birth dates and places of the Jonathan Wright men in this lineage as reported in this publication versus original Northampton records, which beg further research. In the book, Jonathan Wright Sr is said to have been born Dec 18, 1686 in Northampton, MA. However the Northampton vital statistics records has the Jonathan Wright born to James and Abigail (nee Jess) Wright as being born Dec 19, 1681. He died there 8 July 1743. These same Northampton, MA records have listed that his son, Jonathan Wright Jr., was born in Northampton on March 1, 1710/11 and not in Windsor, CT 1710 as reported in the Vermillion County History publication (page 119). Windsor, CT is sufficiently far away from Northampton, MA so as there can be no jurisdictional confusion as to where the ! birth should have been recorded. This suggests that there is an error in the Vermillion County Historical Society's publication of some sort. Now I know about Abiah Keep marrying a Jonathan Wright on 9 June 1737 in Windsor from the 1912 publication, "A Genealogical Record of the descendants of Quartermaster, George Colton". It is entirely possible that this Jonathan Wright was one and the same man as Jonathan Wright born in Northampton. That man would have been 26 in 1737. But if this is true he was certainly not born in Windsor, CT as reported in the "Vermillion County, Indiana History". And it seems highly unlikely he was nothing more than a transient resident from somewhere else anyway, given that there were no Wright families recorded in the Windsor, CT vital records during the 1600s and early 1700s. Transient from where is the critical question to be answered and given the number of Jonathan Wrights for about the correct age in New England at the time, I am not entirely convinced that we have the correct Jonathan Wright identified in these two publications. I have not personally researched this descendant family of James Wright and Abigail Jess any further than what I report here. I have not even verified the marriage record for Abiah Keep and Jonathan Wright in Windsor, so in my book, the connection between Jonathan Wright born 1710/11 in Northampton, MA and the Jonathan Wright married to Abiah Keep in 1737 in Windsor, CT is yet to be shown in any conclusive way, and thereby hangs the lineage you cite. I hope some of what I have pointed out sends you off in the right direction with further research. Best of Luck, Mike Wright Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: godangel2004 Surnames: Wright, Green, Todd Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/7090.4.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: According to the print out that I have from the St. Lawrence Historical Association, Wildridge Green did come from Ireland, as did David Wright. Hopefully I can fill in the blank in this part of my Todd line. Luwana Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Mike I am always fascinated by your postings. They have helped me many times to eliminate a noted WRIGHT, from among my very convoluted ERIGHT families. Please continue to post these excellent vignettes. Bud In Mo.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42DeLeon_ComCoTX Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16626/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Perelene 1910 1966 DaveStrickland photographed this gravestone in the DeLeon Cemetery, DeLeon, Comanche Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 217,144 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com . If you know more about this person please reply here, instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Pangela84 Surnames: Green, Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/7090.4.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi there, no I have not come across those names yet but, Wildridge sounds like an Irish first name and i know that the Greens in my tree are from Ireland so, perhaps you will end up finding some Irish roots. If I find anything I will let you know.... -Angela- Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: SBond007 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/6959.2703.2.1.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I know this is a "re-run" but, I was told that our family was related to the Wright Brothers. I have seen the Wright Brothers direct line and my ancestor isn't in that direct line. The only sure thing that I have is Aaron Wright born 21 July 1798-died 20 May 1879 in Brookville, Ohio, he married in 1822 to Ruth Hackett. I've seen several Trees on Ancestry.com that have the following as his ancestors: Aaron Wright George Wright married Anna Handy David Wright married Mary Cooley Jonathan Wright Jr. married Abiah Keep Jonathan Wright Sr. married Experience Edwards James Wright married Abigail Jess Deacon Samuel Wright married Margaret ? Any information that you might have is greatly appreciated. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.