Mike I would add one item; Just because it is in print does not make it fact!!!!! I have several things where using the three civil source rule has turned up conflicts which must be worked thru and will be disputed. AF from LdS is one, and complied, printed by publishers and reprinted especially those without sourcing, and abstracted data. And I have files full!! I continue to search for the Carolinian WRIGHT families and their possible "old country " origin. Bud in Mo.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mvrc1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16604/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Frances Matilda Wright who lived in Wetherfield, CT in the late 1880's. I believe her father was John Wright. She later moved to Asheville, NC (around 1897) where she died on January 24, 1916. I believe she was buried in New York City. 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.

Precisely the point Christopher. Before there were records we can say anything without being able to prove any of it directly, therefore carelessly thought out speculation is a snare to the unwary genealogist. But if we make a thorough study of the history of a region using the ancient records that do exist, and views of the times in the context of historical mega-trends that have been studied for that era, we can begin to piece together speculation that is at least a well educated guess. For instance, that a few families within Clan MacIntyre (and a number of other Scottish and Irish clans also) came to be referred to as Wryghts by the Norman rulers is entirely plausible. I doubt seriously that the other members of the clan started out calling this family unit 'Wryghts' so this name did not come from the clan. It came from outside rulers. That these select families were among those who were the first to break away (or forced to break away) from the Clan and establish themselves as somewhat separate social units, is also consistent with the wider social trends of that era. These families became one element of the commercial interface between the Clan and the ruling class of England both in Roman times as well as Norman times. So I would say that clan MacIntyre claiming Wrights as a part of their clan is very likely to be a correct speculation. But what I think also makes sense is that the MacIntyre family member that began to be referred to as a Wryght, did not come from any language root in the native MacIntyre tongue. It came from outside the clan. From the Normans and their Anglo-Saxon underlings. My other objection is that clan MacIntyre is not the only Scottish or Irish clan that can make the claim of Wright members. And all of them that claim the Wrights are more than likely to have some truth to that claim. It is parallel to the finding that there were at least a hundred unrelated Wrights found scattered all over the land by 1400 (as evidenced by today's Y-DNA results). So, although we only have myth and speculation to support these types of claims, at least the claim is not inconsistent with what we know about the social history of the times. Key elements of the social history of the times are common to all surnames so that we do have documents and written accounts that tell us some important things for certain. For example, we know that the Gaelic/Celtic language group was in England centuries before the Romans, Vikings, Saxons, Angles, Jutes or Danes brought their languages there. It then follows logically that those clan names that derived from that language group are, by necessity much older than any written records and certainly much older than any surname of Anglo-Saxon, Latin or French origins. We also know that the break-up of the tribe/clan social structure was greatly delayed in Scotland and Ireland compared to England. A good part of the reason for that delay rests in the fact that the Romans held no influence whatsoever in Ireland and very little in Scotland, and Rome was one of the earliest societies to push family allegiances above tribal allegiances as a social norm. It was one of those social levers that the Romans used to gain and keep control of vast new territories. Buying the allegiance of key families within a tribe or clan and then insuring their protection and continued loyalty was the tactic of choice, which in combination with their formidable military allowed the Romans to control vast territories that would have been impossible for them to control with Roman Legions alone. This influence survived the Dark Ages to emerge in the Middle Ages as the model for the perpetuation of kingships, lordships and as the middle class grew, for the landed gentry and merchant classes. Eventually this pre-eminence of family unity versus allegiance to larger social groupings included everyone from the highest to the lowest in the land. This, too, argues for it being quite natural that a Wright family was part of a MacIntyre clan. What we will never know for sure for any particular clan or tribe is when and exactly how did one of its clan families separate itself out and establish a separate identity as a Wright family unit in preference to continuing to identifying itself as a member of the clan or tribe. It seems certain to me that it was not the clan/tribe that gave them the name Wryght and drove them out to stand on their own. They were pulled out of the clan by outsiders (Romans, Anglo-Saxons or Normans) by virtue of the recognition of their special talents for building things with wood. So, I agree with you up to the extent that you have taken the subject. I just mean to indicate that there is more of a slant and justification to it than either you or Catline have outlined. To the enjoyment of discussion, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Wright <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Sep 11, 2010 12:04 pm Subject: Re: [WRIGHT] Wright - origin of name?? On Sep 11, 2010, at 12:56 AM, MichaelWright12 wrote: > Catline Wright (author of the piece you reference) writes a pretty > piece on the origins of the Wright surname. Unfortunately there is > very little truth to any of it. Nothing is ever so elegant or > simple as Catline has suggested. It is a pretty piece and may even be partly true, but it would take some very hard slogging to separate the leaps of faith from actual history > > For starters, there is no root word in the Celtic languages of pre- > Conquest Northern England that would lead to any form of the Wright > surname, so that identifying the north of England as the seat of > the origin of the surname is extremely improbable. This isn't necessarily true either. Clan MacIntyre claims a sort of kinship with the Wrights by naming the Wright family as a sept of Clan Macintyre. MacIntyre derives from the Scots Gaelic 'Mac an-t- Saoir' meaning son of ship-builder or son of carpenter. It doesn't seem like a big leap of faith to infer some common ancestry between North English Wrights and Scottish MacIntyres, given that the borders were pretty fluid. That doesn't prove that all the Wrights have a north England origin--'wright' is a Saxon word for 'builder' or 'maker' and the Saxons first arrived in the south and east of England, and there were plenty of builders all over England. The MacIntyre surname goes back a lot further than written records and it's impossible to separate legend from fact, but you can find a good presentation of both at <http://www.electricscotland.com/ webclans/m/macintyre/> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at [email protected] | this distance" (last words of Gen. .......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864) http://www.skypoint.com/members/chrisw/ ------------------------------- 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: Guambaby Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16460.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you very much for the additional information! Do you know Charles Thomas Wright's death date? I have a Charles E. Wright b. 4 Oct 1869 KY, d. 19 Mar 1922 in Pike Co., IL. His obit: Pittsfield, IL - Pike County Republican March 29, 1922 Charles E. Wright, who has lived at Earl Seaborn's place near Baylis for the past five years, died March 19 at the age of 52 years. He was a Kentuckian by birth and at one time lived in Iowa, from which state he moved to Butler, Mo., where his father resides at the age of 86. He had suffered for two years from locomotor axtaxia or nerve paralysis, from the effects of which he was almost blind, but in spite of this affliction, he struggled on and tried to make a living for his family. His wife, formerly Myrtle Sparks, has been in very poor health and there were four little children: Herbert, aged 9; Charles, 7; Dorothy, 5; and baby Wanda, aged 2 1/2 years. Two days before his death Mr. Wright went to Jacksonville and was treated by Dr. Dollear. The night before his death he did up his chores and retired, soon thereafter passing into a state of coma from which he never rallied. The funeral was conducted from the home by Rev. J. E. Ennis and burial was in Baylis cemetery. His death certificate has his father as "Thomas Wright" b. KY. I have been unable to locate him. From what the family has been told, either Charles or his father was a professor in KY. I'm not sure this is the right man, but the naming pattern and names/dates/locations seemed like a possibility. The family was under the impression Charles had been married prior to Myrtle Sparks (seen as "Hattie" in the obit and d.c.), but nobody knows anything about that previous marriage, or if there were children from it, whether it ended in divorce or death of the wife. Can you please tell me what you do know about your ggggfather? 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.

On Sep 11, 2010, at 12:56 AM, MichaelWright12 wrote: > Catline Wright (author of the piece you reference) writes a pretty > piece on the origins of the Wright surname. Unfortunately there is > very little truth to any of it. Nothing is ever so elegant or > simple as Catline has suggested. It is a pretty piece and may even be partly true, but it would take some very hard slogging to separate the leaps of faith from actual history > > For starters, there is no root word in the Celtic languages of pre- > Conquest Northern England that would lead to any form of the Wright > surname, so that identifying the north of England as the seat of > the origin of the surname is extremely improbable. This isn't necessarily true either. Clan MacIntyre claims a sort of kinship with the Wrights by naming the Wright family as a sept of Clan Macintyre. MacIntyre derives from the Scots Gaelic 'Mac an-t- Saoir' meaning son of ship-builder or son of carpenter. It doesn't seem like a big leap of faith to infer some common ancestry between North English Wrights and Scottish MacIntyres, given that the borders were pretty fluid. That doesn't prove that all the Wrights have a north England origin--'wright' is a Saxon word for 'builder' or 'maker' and the Saxons first arrived in the south and east of England, and there were plenty of builders all over England. The MacIntyre surname goes back a lot further than written records and it's impossible to separate legend from fact, but you can find a good presentation of both at <http://www.electricscotland.com/ webclans/m/macintyre/> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at [email protected] | this distance" (last words of Gen. .......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864) http://www.skypoint.com/members/chrisw/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42MountOlivet Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16603/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Charles E 1937-1999 I photographed this gravestone in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 216,521 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: ryanmorris7 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16460.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dr. Charles Thomas Wright's wife, Mildred Pauline Boswell Wright, is buried at Wright's Chapel Cemetery in Mayfield, Graves, Kentucky. Rev. Robert Thackston Wright and Eleanor Brame Wright are also buried there. I have not yet been able to locate Charles Thomas' burial location. He was my ggg-grandfather. Hope this helps, Ryan 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: CarlDavidWrightJr Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Well, It's nice to know you're an expert. According to what you said, it's going to be hard to place the Wright Surname as Scottish, Irish, Welsh, or English. It's more likely it came as a designation by their trade or thier association to something. Course, from a romantic view of history, I was hoping to have come from Scotland - especially after watching Braveheart. So, I have some questions for you. 1.) You're saying that Wright Surnames began all over Great Britain with no apparent exclusive or 1st place of origin geographic place? 2.) My GGG Grandfather, John W. Wright, his brother Samuel, and sister Ann all sailed from Liverpool to Charleston S.C. around 1808. I've looked at birth records, baptisms, and ship passenger lists; but I've not been able to get "anything". Can you give me advice on how to find stuff in Liverpool or elsewhere? 3.) What's your opinion of the DNA projects out there? Thanks, David 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/2263.2297.2764.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Don't get too carried away by this unique physical trait, guys. You might want to try to correlate its occurance with a particular Y-DNA profile to see if it is truly unique to a particular line of Wrights or spread across several different genetic lines, which would suggest another cause other than inheritance. 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/2263.2990.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dear Carl, Catline Wright (author of the piece you reference) writes a pretty piece on the origins of the Wright surname. Unfortunately there is very little truth to any of it. Nothing is ever so elegant or simple as Catline has suggested. For starters, there is no root word in the Celtic languages of pre-Conquest Northern England that would lead to any form of the Wright surname, so that identifying the north of England as the seat of the origin of the surname is extremely improbable. Especially when there is a much more clearly recognized source and time of creation for all surnames in England, not just that of Wright. I am speaking, of course, of the Norman Conquest of 1066. Prior to the Norman Conquest of England there were no surnames inherited from father to son anywhere in England, Ireland or Scotland outside of a very few of Royal blood. In those pre-Conquest days, a man, even a Royal, might be identified by a number of different names during his lifetime depending on what he had done recently that was notable or what lands he held or battle he had fought in, or what clan or tribe he belonged to. This practice was ancient and had not been much affected by the Roman occupation as the Romans also had a penchant for modifying, adding to or changing a man's name to suit the occasions or appease and align themselves with the Gods. No, most surnames in use today in England can be traced to Latin, French or Anlgo-Saxon origins versus Ireland and Scotland where the majority are Anglicized versions of Celtic original words. The names of Anglo-Saxon origin, such as Wright, were the gift of invading Germanic people who first started coming to England's Eastern and Southeastern shores during the fourth and fifth centuries of Roman occupation. After the Romans abandoned 'Britannia' in 410 C.E. The pace of invasion by Jutes, Angles, Danes and Saxons from the Continent increased and they brought their Germanic language with them to southern England, pushing the Celtic speaking people West to Wales and North to Scotland and eventually ruling most of England. Even during this time in southern England, there are no records prior to 1086 that anyone was ever referred to by any form of the surname Wright. We should not find that surprising because prior to that time there was no practice among commoners of perpetuating a family surname of any sort by inheritance. All that changed when the Normans took charge of England in the years of William's reign from 1066 to 1087. The Normans brought a form of the French language as the official language of the land and there was instantly created a class division based on languages between the French speaking ruling class and the Old English/Anglo-Saxon speaking former rulers of the South and Midlands, and the Celtic speaking natives of the West (including Ireland) and North (including Scotland). Examination of the French language that the Normans brought with them gives one possible origin to the surname Wright in the French nickname, 'Le Droit', meaning an upright man. The homophones 'Droit', 'right' 'Wryght' and 'Wright' being presumed to have been confused in translations of this nickname applied to a man when writing his name into Middle English from the spoken word, giving us first 'Le Wryght' instead of Le Droit, or just Wryght. This then is tranlated into Wright in Modern English. No evidence exists that this happened anywhere except centuries later in New England. The most commonly and widely accepted theory of the origin of the surname Wright is that it is of Anglo-Saxon and Danish language origins, coming from the Anglo-Saxon word 'wrycan' meanning 'to work' in the sense of a craftsman, and particularly with reference to making things of wood. The variant we find in Middle English records of 'Le Wryght' probably does not come from a Middle English misspelling of 'Le Droit' but is simply the French translation of an Anglo-Saxon name such as 'Robert the Wryght', 'le' being the French equivalent of 'the' in the male tense. The chroniclers of the Doomsday inventory of the people of England were all French speaking Normans but they employed local authorities in every shire of the land to help them compile the Doomsday book. These local authorities, then reported the names of prominent land holders, freemen and slaves in their shire using their Anglo-Saxon, Celtic or Latinized names which were then written down by French scribes so that the information that was compiled, except for the Little Doomsday Book, were all second hand accounts and abbreviated as much as possible so that mispellings and homophonic representations were further confused by illegible returns. Many surnames were first written down and thereby established by the Doomsday Books (there are two: The Doomsday Book and the Little Doomsday book). Nowhere in either Doomsday book is anyone identified as Le Droit, Wrycan, Wryhta, Wryght, Wright or any other variation of the surname. So what we base our theory of origins for the Wright surname on is the pattern of origins for most of the other surnames that are given in the Doomsday book. Most of them we find in England started out as Anglo-Saxon or Old French words describing the type of work one did or the place one lived. Those that we find in the outer shires, Ireland and Scotland are heavy on Celtic origins and it makes perfect sense given the history of invasion and conflict in England prior to the 1086-87 compilation of the Doomsday Books. Coincidentally, about this same time in history there arose multiple reasons that it became customary to retain a surname for one's lifetime and pass it on to the male children, and later, female children. As the world progressed through the Medieval periods, going from the Dark Ages into the Middle Ages, the practice of perpetuating a surname within a family became part of the social fabric of England. It was a social custom that served nearly everyone's interests. It served the successive Kings, Queens and their Lord's needs to have a ready way to identify subjects for tax purposes and their skills and valuing their domains as time progressed. It also served to preserve the identity of a family unit and gave a legally useful stamp to put on the possessions of a family versus the previous emphasis on preservation of the identity and territorial rights a clan or tribe and viewing the individual's possessions as merely clan/tribe possessions. Part of the impetus for emer! gence from the Dark Ages to the Middle ages was that societies, as a whole, were breaking away from clan and tribal living and in its place establishing the family as the nuclear unit of society. As a mechanism of solidifying a family's place in society, the possession of a recognized surname was as useful to a man's ambitions as had been association with a clan or tribe in previous generations. But this was a gradual trend that started in England in the southern parts of the country and radiated out to the West and North over a period of two or three centuries. It then follows that if we are doing our genealogy based primarily on surname associations, it is best to remember that unless you are researching royalty, surnames are totally unreliable as indicators of family membership prior to 1086 C.E. and still highly problematic between 1086 and 1300 C.E. For commoners, surnames did not become a reliable way to determine family membership until well into the 1400's, and then only if reliable location data or some other corroborating data accompanied the surname. And now that we have Y-DNA to show us the way to true genetic family memberships we find that it is apparent that in 1086, at least a hundred unrelated men in England acquired the surname Wright by 1500 C.E. so that Catline's lumping together of all of those notable Wrights as though they all descended from a single Wright line originating in Northern England is totally unsupportable. We know today that most of those mentioned by Catline were, in fact, not related to each other in any genealogical way and some are not even related in any near term anthropological way (within last 10,000 years). And finally, the Arms that she displays at the top of her piece belongs to one of my ancestors whose ancestors had been in England since Roman times. This is the Arms confirmed to John Wright of Wrightsbridge, Co. Essex, England by Cook, 20 June 32 Elizabeth I and is a variant of the Arms presumed to have been granted to his grandfather, John Wright of Kelvedon Hall, Co. Essex, England which was: Arms - Azure, two bars argent, in chief, a leopard's face, proper. The Wright Crest - Out of ducal coronet, a dragons head and neck couped all or. This original Arm and crest was extinct by 1681, and was also varied slightly by various descendants to distinguish their Arms and Crest from that of the original. More to the point, even if John Wright of Kelvedon Hall was the first of my family to be granted arms and crest in 1509, his would not have been the first Wright Arms and Crest to have been granted. That distinction goes to John Wrythe, The first Garter King of Arms who died in 1504, so Catline is mistaken on that point as well. There is no date on her posting so I don't know when she wrote it and what information she had at her command when she wrote it, but I must observe that it is way out of date now and is a snare to the unwary web surfer with interests in the Wright surname. 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: @@[email protected] Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2297.2764.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My pinkys are shorter than "normal". First my mother and then a couple of Wicken members have told me this is the sign of a good witch-one who cannot cast spells which injure people. Go figure. Anyway, my left pinky bends inward and slightly sideways, almost as if I had arthritis or had broken it. My right pinky curves sideways. 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: StephieWright1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2297.2764.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: When you say crooked pinky, are your pinkies bent as though the bones are longer than the skin? That is the way mine are. I find this very fascinating! 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: lwright339 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/8985.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I know this responce is very late but this is my first time on this site. maude is my grandmother and lawrence was my father. he passed in 1971 when when i was 10. after that i have lost touch with my grandmother. i have had recent contact with a gentleman out of illonois(laret wright) who is a half nephew of mine. that is the only information i have currently. any help from either of us would help. my father was an only child and passed at an early age that research is difficult. would love to hear more. 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.

I, too, descend from Richard Sr., Philburd, Sarah Wright and my 3rd and 4th toes on my right foot are grown together. :

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: henrijay48 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2297.2764.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I found your message very interesting...not sure on the croocked pinky...would have to see one to compare. Do have 2nd and third toes that seem to be joined on each foot. Very intresting. My father was a Wright...George Johnson Wright...Martin Luther Wright...George Johnson Wright...James B. Wright...Benjamin Wright Sr....Richard Wright Sr....Philburd 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: t42MountOlivet Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16602/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Edith BOSTIC 1922-1989 I photographed this gravestone in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 216,521 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: @@[email protected] Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2297.2764.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My mother was a Wright and I have crooked (and short) little fingers. I also have some webbing between my fingers and toes. Enough webbing between toes that I cannot wear any shoe that requires any sort of material between toes (sandals or flip flop kind of shoe). 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: CarlDavidWrightJr Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2990/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I've done some basic research and found one Wright to write that that the Wright's came from the border clans of Scotla)nd and England. I am the GGG Grandson of John W. Wright (b.1804 - d. 1891 who sailed with his parents from Liverpool to Charleston, S.C. around 1808. It is thought that is parents "could have been" John Sr. and Elizabeth and that they died of fever and are buried around Charleston, S.C. He had a sister named Ann who married a Jake/Jacob Ringer and a brother named Samuel. Here's the link describing the early history of the Wrights in Scotland. http://www.caitlinbinning.com/wrightname.htm 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: CarlDavidWrightJr Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2989/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I've done some basic research and found one Wright to write that that the Wright's came from the border clans of Scotla)nd and England. I am the GGG Grandson of John W. Wright (b.1804 - d. 1891 who sailed with his parents from Liverpool to Charleston, S.C. around 1808. It is thought that is parents "could have been" John Sr. and Elizabeth and that they died of fever and are buried around Charleston, S.C. He had a sister named Ann who married a Jake/Jacob Ringer and a brother named Samuel. Here's the link describing the early history of the Wrights in Scotland. http://www.caitlinbinning.com/wrightname.htm 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: t42Vietnam_ParkerCoTX Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16601/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Edward T honor our hero who died in Vietnam - Wall section 58W Honor our Vets. 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 216,521 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.