This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MsLefty Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2988.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Mike - I finally got my husband to start scraping his mouth for the Wright DNA project ... he made some joke about wiping his OTHER cheeks. Somebody mentioned German Wrights in a much earlier post. There is a possibility that my husband may have an ancestor named Anthony or Antony Wright b. about 1785 who claimed to be from Germany. It will be interesting to see if Dave is part of yet another Wright line. If this is the case, maybe the name was anglicized from "Reidt" - nickname for a curly-haired person, from Middle High German reite 'crisp', 'curly'; or habitational name from several places in Rhineland called Rheydt or Rheidt. Then again, it might be a translation of the German for a "wright" - Zimmerer, Schreiner, Tischler, Zimmermann. Most of his family is German anyway - I'm kind of hoping Dave is a Scots Wright - then he can wear a McIntyre kilt over his lederhosen. We'll see what the DNA shows ... 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: jeffreyraywilliams Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16574.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Great thanks a heap 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: wa4ivm Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16574.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am no kin, but have you tried a digital camera in macro mode? Use plenty of room light and not the flash. I have had good luck with this in the library in stead of using their copiers. Jim Wright in Virginia 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: jeffreyraywilliams Surnames: Jacobs, Sullivan, Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16574/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My wife is the granddaughter of Norman L Wright. His mother Pauline Jacobs. I am attempting to locate the Wright side, lol sorry bout the pun. We have a black and white photo with the following written on the back: November 1961 Savage and Florence Wright Barbara and husband Jack sullivan Cardill (somewhat illegible) Wright Pearl Johnnie and wife Mildred Pauline Albermina (somewhat illegible) and Lillie (somewhat illegible) Wright Rose Unfortunately the photo is in no condition to be scanned. Any information or assistance would be grateful. Thank you 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: heddenmahuronresearch Surnames: Wright, Mahuron, Kinnett Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16573/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Would very much appreciate any contact from any of their descendents. [email protected] 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/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Carolyn, The surname Wright is a linguistic descendant of the original Old English (Anglo-Saxon) noun, wrytha, which was used to describe many different families throughout England, Scotland and Ireland by William the Conqueror's Doomsday census takers in 1086. The Old English noun, wryhta, when used by itself, generally referred to a craftsman builder of watermills and other large wooden structures. A great many of the families throughout the British Isles possessed this watermill building skill and each of them was called a Wryhta family by William's Dooomsday book census takers, creating a situation where there existed after the Doomsday book was finished, many totally unrelated Wryhta families scattered throughout the realm. Along with his assignment of surnames for the Doomsday Book, William and later Kings of England insisted that the family elders pass their assigned surname to each of their sons, thus creating the first true hereditary surnames to ever exist in England. T! hat is to say that the surname Wright did not exist in any form prior to 1000 other than as an Old English descriptive noun used to refer to an the type of work an individual man performed. William The Conqueror was the first English ruler to impose on England the practice of assigning hereditary surnames to the families of all the commoners withing the realm. He brought this new practice with him from Normandy. This was a practice of identifying the people of the realm that had never been used before about 1000 C.E. Even the European nobility prior 1000 tended to change their names to reflect their holdings which tended to change with each succeeding generation, thus changing their names. Assigning surnames to everyone in the realm and making it manditory that the name be passed down to the sons was a new control devise that Kings settled upon so that they could more or less permanently identify the members of the emerging middle class of skilled craftsman type laborers and merchants that had begun to emerge as a significant political force in society. The Old English noun 'wyrhta or wryhta'is derivative from the Old English verb 'wyrcan' meaning to work, or make, particularly to craft something of wood. In Middle English this verb morphed into 'wrycht, wricht' right along with the corresponding surnames, as noted above in the list of earliest records of some form of the Wright surname. Hope that provides you with some in-depth appreciation for where our Wright surname comes from. Mike Wright Outside of the Doomsday Book itself, the earliest English records of a version of this surname include Petere le Writh in Sussex in 1214, a Robert le Wrichte was recorded in Essex in 1255, and a Robert Wricht of Shropshire in 1274 and a Thomas le Wrighte of Derbyshire in 1327. None of these men were related in any way that has been traced, but male lines descended from each possessed a surname of the form,'Wright' by 1550. This is how it came about that in America, we have found through Y-DNA testing that there are over 100 entirely unrelated lines of Wright men. That is men whose most recent common ancestor lived from 2,000 to 10,000 years ago. 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: BARR Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/14826.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: No worries, if you can't find it there but you know roughly the month and year of Irene's death then by all means, see if a volunteer can help you. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~obitl/vwcan.html Just copy and paste the above address into your browser. With any luck, you will find out a lot of clues about next of kin, their spouses and children. Good luck, 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: t42MountOlivet Surnames: WRIGHT Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16571/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT 5 James Ivison 1836-1908 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/16570/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT 5 Mary 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: kohlerbj Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/14826.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks, Angela. I'll try it. Bonnie 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: bree0616061 Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2090.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From my prior post here is my email address [email protected] Thanks, Brenda Loibl (Wright 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: CarolynWright30 Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2263.2988.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I believe that in England the name originated in the Norfolk area. It simply means a craftsman such as wheelwright - a maker of wheels. My family hail from Cheshire, NW England. 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: BethThackeray Surnames: Wright, Gleason Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16569/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am trying to organize an informal family reunion of the descendants James Jefferson and Mary Ann (Gleason) Wright. Date: September 18th & 19th, 2010 Where: Princeton, Missouri If interested, please contact me and we can collaborate details on time and exact location. I do hope to make this a yearly event, so if we can't meet now, possibly in years to come! 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: agmaciaszek Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16568/mb.ashx Message Board Post: from millet, alberta cemetery wright, henry woodbridge oct 26 1931- oct 1917 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/16567/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT 5 Roland 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/16566/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WRIGHT 5 Clara F and William I 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: bree0616061 Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/14784.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This has to be my relation as theres too many coincidences in your writing. Here is my email I wrote to someone else. If you want more info on their grandson Eben Daniel and Florence Pike Wright I have it included in this email. They had 12 children but one died in infancy. My great gandparents were Eben and Florence (Pike) Wright and my great great grandparents are Silas Ebenezer Wright who married Louise Mary Erway and the other set Manville Thomas Pike who married Amanda Jane Mingus then Eben Wright who married Lucy Lucy McAllister great great greats and the other 3 are Daniel Erway who married Hilah Clark and the 3rd set are Perley French Pike married Mary Somers Reed and the last set are Hiram Mingus who married Mary Ann Rebbecca Babb. I just started looking for my families genealogy. My grandmother Amanda Jane Wright married Josef aka Joseph Loibl who immigrated from Germany. I found a first cousin of my aunt and father over there and his wife online. They had 2 childr! en JoAnne Alcock and Joseph Jerry Loibl. I'm the daughter Brenda Jane of Joseph and I have 2 siblings Shari Linn and Julianne. Also there was Ruth and Dewey Frye, Aunt Louise and her husband Fred Klemach. Then Lillian who married George Snover and found my 2nd cousins by calling Snovers in the phone book just a few days ago. Then Clarence and his wife Edith who had Dick and Wyman, Aunt Doris Wright who married George Mann and had no children, Aunt Lila and Uncle Fred Ehle, whose children are Max, twins Ray and Roy and Louise. Uncle Fransis and his wife Effie but don't have her maiden name and they have a daughter named Lynn or Linn. Uncle Eber and his wife Lizzy and don't know her maiden name but their children are Emil, Herman and Josephine. Uncle Walter and don't have his wifes name yet but will soon. He had Ron, Dale, and Floyd, and Aunt Helen Wright Roe married Bartley Roe and their childen are Bartley and his wife Marilyn Roe, Walter and his wife Eleanore Roe and Betty! Jean Roe who married Elmer Reisig and they have 2 daughters but I don 't know their name. I just called my aunt but her and her husband were playing cards with some friends. I'll have more updates from her and need to call a 1st cousin of my dad to see what he remembers. How do you know my Aunt Ruth and Dewey Frye? Are you related to me by chance? I'm just starting this and decided to get on rootsweb as I figured I would find some there being that my great grandparents had 11 children. They lived in Gladwin Michigan. I know that many Wrights are buried in the Gladwin Cemetary and my father will also be buried there right next to the Cedar River. Makes me sad as we all live in Saginaw and would rather he be closer to us but thats his wishes and I honor them. Please email me back and we'll keep in touch and I'll get all the info I can. I can't wait to hear back from you. Warmly, Brenda Loibl 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: bree0616061 Surnames: Wright Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/2090.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My great gandparents were Eben and Florence (Pike) Wright and they had 11 children. I just started looking for my families genealogy. My grandmother Amanda Jane Wright married Josef aka Joseph Loibl who immigrated from Germany. I found a first cousin of my aunt and father over there and his wife online. They had 2 children JoAnne Alcock and Joseph Jerry Loibl. I'm the daughter Brenda Jane of Joseph and I have 2 siblings Shari Linn and Julianne. Also there was Ruth and Dewey Frye, Aunt Louise and her husband Fred Klemach. Then Lillian who married George Snover and found my 2nd cousins by calling Snovers in the phone book just a few days ago. Then Clarence and his wife Edith who had Dick and Wyman, Aunt Doris Wright who married George Mann and had no children, Aunt Lila and Uncle Fred Ehle, whose children are Max, twins Ray and Roy and Louise. Uncle Fransis and his wife Effie but don't have her maiden name and they have a daughter named Lynn or Linn. Uncle Eber and his wife Li! zzy and don't know her maiden name but their children are Emil, Herman and Josephine. Uncle Walter and don't have his wifes name yet but will soon. He had Ron, Dale, and Floyd, and Aunt Helen Wright Roe married Bartley Roe and their childen are Bartley and his wife Marilyn Roe, Walter and his wife Eleanore Roe and Betty Jean Roe who married Elmer Reisig and they have 2 daughters but I don't know their name. I just called my aunt but her and her husband were playing cards with some friends. I'll have more updates from her and need to call a 1st cousin of my dad to see what he remembers. How do you know my Aunt Ruth and Dewey Frye? Are you related to me by chance? I'm just starting this and decided to get on rootsweb as I figured I would find some there being that my great grandparents had 11 children. They lived in Gladwin Michigan. I know that many Wrights are buried in the Gladwin Cemetary and my father will also be buried there right next to the Cedar River. Makes me sad ! as we all live in Saginaw and would rather he be closer to us but that s his wishes and I honor them. Please email me back and we'll keep in touch and I'll get all the info I can. I can't wait to hear back from you. Warmly, Brenda Loibl 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: leanneshort400 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/16565/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for any information on Benjamin George Wright and Elisabeth Wright/Crosbie. Benjamin was a joiner (journeyman) he was born in glasgow sometime in the 1900s. Elisabeth Crosbie was also born in glasgow sometime in the 1900s. I dont know the date when they got marryed if anyone has any information it would be appreciate. Leanne 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: WRIGHT, DUNPHY Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/14826.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Bonnie, My great uncle, Edward WRIGHT married a Bernadette Theresa DUNPHY (both people of Montreal). They Dunphy name seems to be a predominant last name because of the in-laws on that side now. Have you tried searching her name in the Canadian obituary search engine of ancestry? You might come up with something mentioning her son's name. It wasn't such a long time ago...1999. Good luck. Hope you get this message. Cheers, 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.