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/16592/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Ethel 1885-1961 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 216,495 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: ctiller22001 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16590.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Spc. Wright and his family will be in my thoughts today. Carolyn T. 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: olinwright Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16591/mb.ashx Message Board Post: He was born Sept 1895 in Kansas, Died in Colorado I think in 1969. my grandfather named my fatherand he named meafter him would just like to know why also I named my son Olin and he did the same for his any help on this would be 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.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RIP_10 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16590.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Link: http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13819 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: RIP_10 Surnames: Wright Classification: death Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16590/mb.ashx Message Board Post: IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 753-10 August 23, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Christopher S. Wright, 23, of Tollesboro, Ky., died Aug. 19 in Pech, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Hunter Army Air Field, Ga. For more information, the media may contact the 75th Ranger Regiment public affairs office at 706-545-4260 or the USASOC News Service: http://news.soc.mil . U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) ******** Not related. Posted for genealogical purposes only. 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: t42Holloway_ParkerCoTX Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16589/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Arthur P Cpt 1966 161st AHC Shernam TX I photographed this Plaque in the Camp Holloway, Vietnam Memorial replica at Vietnam Memorial, Parker Co, TX. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 216,495 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: PLANTINGA Surnames: Wright, Shaler Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/5633.5634.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Angela and Arthur, do either of you have an Arthur C. Wright in your line? My Arthur, a twin to Alex G., was born in Boston, MA in March 1850. The family had moved from New Brunswick to Boston, and then in the 1880s they "returned to Canada", I believe, to Nova Scotia. My Arthur traveled to Boston in the mid to late 1890s and indicated he was living in Nova Scotia. Arthur's father was Thomas Wright, a botanical physician and was involved in commerce while in Boston. Thomas was born in about 1809 in England (??). Thomas had a child, Mary, born in New Brunswick in 1835. Mother of Arthur, but not of Mary, was Mary Shaler. 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: beckyquina Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16587/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm looking for any information on Fred L. Wright (1865-1944),born in North Carolina, married to Lillie Mae Walles or Waller. Children were Barbara, Forest, Mae Bell...He died in 1944 in Orange, Texas. 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/16585/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Frances Jo 1936-2002 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 216,463 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: stepwright Surnames: wright lee Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16584/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have so far found no information on who his parents were. According to the 1841 census he had an 'I' in the column marked nationality; which is meant to mean Ireland. He was a surgeon and died of a heart attack in 1842 leaving two children: Susannah and Thomas Oram. He was married to Esther Lee. Can anyone shed any light on this ancestor 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.

Carolyn, Our family tree is the work of over a dozen genealogist working since 1871. There are even a couple of books and a number of articles written on this line of Wrights. The bulk of the genealogical work I have done over the last 25 years involved connecting my branch of the family to the Kelvedon Hatch Wrights in New England, and then going about verifying the facts on the Kelvedon Hatch Wrights among the collected contributions of those previous genealogists. In many cases all I did was provide citations that were missing and developed arguments debunking theories and speculations that cannot be supported by the available documentation. My only real totally original work has been the launch of research associated with the Y-DNA analyses that took the line from the 1424 surname references back in time to 79 C.E where there were no surname references to guide us. I was aided in that last effort because I had the very good fortune to be in a family group whose Y-DNA haploid is relatively new to England and therefore fairly rare as a percentage of the population. As a consequence the haploid has quite distinctively defined phylogeographic distribution patterns in England that allow us to correlate the locations they occur with the Roman history of the immediate area. This same distinctive pattern distribution also holds in the Balkans where they originally came from so it was not too difficult to reconstruct their travels from the mid first century C.E. to 1424. It is worthy of note, however, to tell you that the area around Chester, England has the highest frequency of the E1b1b1a2 haploid of anywhere in England. Chester was the site of the largest Roman fort in England, Deva, and the disembarkation point and subsequent deployment dispatch point for many Legions of the Roman army during the first century C.E.. In fact, most of the Thracian mercenaries who operated in England in the first century arrived though that part of England. Initially they were there to develop salt mines near present day Manchester and silver and gold mines in Whales and to build roads to those mines. Later they were brought in for service building up and defending Hadrian's Wall and the fortifications along it. Later still, in the early third century, they were pulled off the wall and redeployed to help build the first three or four new shore forts on the Southeast of England. That is how Roman Legion XX ended up in Colchester for a time. We figure that a male line descendant of a Thracian mercenary who joined the Roman Army himself may have been a veteran of Legion XX who retired before Legion XX left Colchester. As for your husband's Y-DNA, you may find he is also haploid E1b1b1a2, since Cheshire has such a high incidence today of that haploid. That would mean he also has a mercenary Thracian as an original English ancestor, but perhaps from another Thracian who may have retired from one of the Legions in a prior time before they were spread out along Hadrian's wall or sent south to build and garrison the shore forts. That would be way cool to weave into your ancestry story. If that turns out to be the case, please get in touch with me and I can direct you to the research references that can explain and support that anthropological origins theory. Of course if he ends up being R1b1 then it would be impossible to tell what part of England he came from before his surname family emerges into recorded history. A R1b1 haploid could mean anything from him being a member of the original Cornovii tribe of of the Cheshire area in pre-Roman times to an Irish or Scottish transplant in later times. The problem with being R1b1 haploid is that this haploid has been in England since the end of the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago. As a result it has had enough time to spread evenly throughout the entire British Isles and without paying big bucks for a deep clade analysis, it is impossible to tell where most of them came from based solely on haploid profile matching. So, you see we were very lucky to be of Thracian origins and only have 2,000 years of moving around in England to track back through. What is quite doable for us is impossible for the vast majority of Wright men who are R1b1. As for our Wright line surname preservation, none of our girls (there are four of them) is the least bit interested in preserving the Wright surname. They are all quite traditional in the marriage category. They are happy to be able to claim DAR membership and that is all they want to do with their maiden name. So, it is the Y-DNA that is the link I would like to see preserved in our branch of the family through my brother's son who is the youngest of his generation and the wildest of the bunch. He is sort of an idiot savant who is too smart for his own good and can't seem to stay out of trouble with authority figures becasuse he can't figure out (or remember longer than a few minutes) what the rules of life are. He is a worry to us all. Anyway, it has been a thrilling ride for me taking up my paternal grandmother's hobby doing genealogy research. At first, I didn't much care to work on the Wright problems she left me. Gradually over the last 25 years I have picked up steam in the effort, boosted along by several discoveries that have eluded past researchers. Today I can admit I'm addicted to the pursuit of ancestors of all types and surnames. Their struggles, disappointments, triumphs and quirks all fascinate me, partly because their stories make me realize I come by my own bravado and quirkiness quite naturally. My ancestors, like almost all of those immigrants who left their homes and came to America, or Australia, or Canada, were never satisfied with things as they were and moved mountains and rivers to make a better life for themselves and their families and neighbors. That satisfactorily explains to me why I can't leave things well enough alone. I buy a house; I have to change and add to it. I buy a car; I have to gussy it up. I buy a tool; I have to find new ways to use it. I join a company; I have to find better ways to do the work. I can't help myself. As a result, I am a pain in the ass to a lot of people who would rather things stayed as they have always been....safe, predictable, routine. That is just not me and now I know why it can never be me. It just isn't in the genes. Best of luck to you in your genealogical endeavors, and keep in touch. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:34 am Subject: Re: [WRIGHT] wright name origin This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CarolynWright30 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2988.1.1.1.1.1.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What a very detailed family tree you have. Your Wrights came from the South East of England, whereas mine hailed from Cheshire in the NW of England, though my grandad's grandma (gt-gt) was born in France, and according to my gt-aunt was French by nationality. She was born a few years after the French revolution, so wonder if that's why she came to Britain or maybe due to religious persecution. If you have daughters, couldn't they carry on the name? Or is it the continuity of the Y-DNA profile that concerns you? Best wishes, Carolyn 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. ------------------------------- 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: t42MountOlivet Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16583/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT Bobby Lee 1934-1995 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 216,463 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: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/5633.5634.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dear Arthur, The first Wright that I have from Digby, Nova Scotia is Joseph James Wright (1852-1910); he is my great great great grandfather. My great great great great grandfather (Joseph's dad) is Joseph Henry Wright (b. 1820- d. ?). At some point Joseph James Wright probably immigrated to Montreal where his kiddies were born. If I find out that a George is amongst them, I will let you know. In the meantime, keep in touch and do please let me know what you have discovered. Regards, 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: nanablue2007 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16580.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: timeframe and location? 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: CarolynWright30 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2988.1.1.1.1.1.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What a very detailed family tree you have. Your Wrights came from the South East of England, whereas mine hailed from Cheshire in the NW of England, though my grandad's grandma (gt-gt) was born in France, and according to my gt-aunt was French by nationality. She was born a few years after the French revolution, so wonder if that's why she came to Britain or maybe due to religious persecution. If you have daughters, couldn't they carry on the name? Or is it the continuity of the Y-DNA profile that concerns you? Best wishes, Carolyn 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/16582/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT 5 Gilbert 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 216,463 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: t42MountOlivet Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16581/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT 5 Jasper 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 216,463 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: MichaelWright12 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2988.1.1.1.1.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Carolyn, Our male descendant line of Wrights in England come from a Roman mercenary soldier who was originally a Thracian of the Dardanian Tribe. Of course, when he arrive he was not called Wright. We do not know what his name was, but through DNA testing we know something of his movements and wereabouts in England. We believe he arrived in England sometime between 79 and 110 C.E. as a member of the calvalry auxiliary troops attached to Legion XX and retired from military service while Legion XX was stationed at the Roman fort that stood where Colchester, Co. Essex, England now stands. The family's given surname is not noted for certain in the Doomsday book although it is possible that the Robert le Wrichte mentioned in 1255 Essex in my previous post was a forefather of the Henry Wright that is the first mention of my ancestors in written histories (Philip Morant's, "History and Antiquities of the county of Essex..." 1768). Henry Wright was in some way that is not entirely clear involved with the church at Upminster, Co. Essex. He was born about 1424, possibly in or near to White Notely, Essex England. In any case, he married Anna Whitebread of White Notley, daughter of Thomas Whitebread of that place. Henry's son, John Wright (1450 - 1509) appears to have been a rector of the Upminster Church. Rector John's son, John Wright (1488-1551), who was an up and coming landed yeoman in the Havering/Navestock/South Weald parish area of Essex, came into possession of the former monestary estate called Kelvedon Hatch in 1538. This estate, which included some 628 acres of land and a manor home called Kelvedon Hall, descended in the progenitor side of the Wright family for nearly the next 400 years. Hence this line of Wrights is called the Kelvdeon Hatch Wrights by most genealogists today. John Wright (1488 - 1551) had four sons, John the Elder, Robert, Myddle John and Young John. The John the Elder male line died out in the early 20th century and no descendants survive today. Robert Wright left a large descendant family in England and America and we have a proven descendant represented in our Wright-DNA database and three more possibles who can't quite trace their ancestry back with documentation. Myddle John Wright (d. 1558) also left a large descendant family in England and America and we have at least a half dozen descendants in our Y-DNA database from him. We are currently seeking descendants of Young John in England. None of his male descendants ever left England that we can determine. My ancestor is Myddle John Wright through his eldest son and eldest grandson, John Wright (Arms and Crest 20 June 32 Elizazbeth I; (1542 - 1624) and John Wright, Esq. (1569 - 1639?; Clerk of the House of Commons, 1612-death). The immigrant father to New England was the third son of John Wright, Esq. and wife, Martha Castell, Samuel Wright (1606 - 1665). Samuel, like his father before him, was a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. Unlike his father Samuel had no interest in the law and seems to have been more interested in religious matters and business. Though he was never ordained he was prominent in church affairs and was a deacon in the Congregational churches of New England where he resided. He left England with his family sometime between 1635 and 1639 where he is first mentioned in Colonial records as serving on a jury in Hartford, CT and later receiving a home lot and pasture lot in Springfield, MA where he was among the first settlers of the town! . In 1654 he accompanied 30 families from Springfield who were dissatisfied with the Springfield church affairs, going with them up the Connecticut River a short distance where he was a substantial contributor to the founding of Northampton, MA where he died at his home, "sleeping in his chair" on 2 October 1665. I am a descendant of his eldest son, Samuel (16??-1675). Wilbur and Orville Wright are descendants of his second to youngest son, James Wright (1639 - 1724), and Ethan Allen of the Green Mountain Boys is a descendant of his youngest son, Judah. We are also related to Gov. Silas Wright of NY (1844-1846) and Nancy Reagan, among others. We are not related to Frank Lloyd Wright or the Wrights of North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia or Georgia, among others. Male descendants of Sgt. Samuel Wright (16?? - 1675) went to Vermont in 1762 and descendants of theirs went to Ohio in 1815 to found the town of Saybrook, Ashtabula Co., Ohio where my GG-grandfather, Moses Wright was born (it was called Wrightsburg at that time). All the rest of my male descendant family, including my two brothers were subsequently born there. I currently live in Texas and my two brothers live in Boston and Southern Indiana, respectively. Among us there is only one son to carry on the male line of the descendant tree and we are praying he doesn't get himself killed before he produces a son. He is currently 22 years old. So you can find our Y-DNA profile at www.wright-dna.org under the E1b1b1a2 haploid. We are labeled Kelvedon Hatch Wrights. And that, in a nutshell, is my Wright family group. Mike 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: LouiseWilliams88 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16580/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm looking for info on my Wright family. Any help will be 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.

Louise if you really want help you will have to give a name or so a guess at the date or time frame and the area. Is Ralph a SMITH or a WRIGHT. I take the brief item to mean. Ralph Smith Married to Francis Wright but it could be Ralph WRIGHT married to Francis WOFFORD One of the great things I learn several years back was to do every surname in full caps. Sure ends misunderstandings and highlights the indexing name. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 2:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WRIGHT] Ralph Smith and Francis Wofford Wright This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: LouiseWilliams88 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16580/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm looking for info on my Wright family. Any help will be 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. ------------------------------- 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