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/6959.2722.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Neither Orville nor Wilbur ever married or left any descendants. But both older brothers Reuchlin and Lorin did. Lorin Wright (1862 - 1939) m. Ivonette Stokes in 1891. They had two sons and two daughters: Milton Wright (b. 1892, d 1961); Ivonette Wright (b. 1896, d. 1995); Leontine Wright (b. 1898, d. 1977) and Horace Wright (b. 1901, d. 1990). Reuchlin Wright (1861 - 1920) m. Lulu Billheimer in 1886 and also had four children: Catherine Wright (b. 1887 but died young in 1892); Helen Wright (b. 1889, d. 1977); Herbert Wright (b. 1893, d. 1960) and Bertha Wright (b. 1896, d. 1977). >From among Reuchlin's and Lorin's descendants we have a direct male descendant of their father, Bishop Milton Wright, who has participated in the Wright DNA Project at Family Tree DNA. The Y-DNA profile of this modern day Wright Brothers male line cousin confirms the genealogical research of Bishop Wright, who traced the family lineage back to the immigrant father, Deacon Samuel Wright of Springfield and Northampton, MA (1606 England - 1665 Northampton, MA). Bishop Milton Wright and his children all descend from Deacon Samuel Wright's second to youngest son, James Wright (1639 Springfield, MA - 1725 Springfield, MA) and are, therefore, descendants of the Kelvedon Hatch Wright family of county Essex, England whose earliest well documented ancestor is John Wright of Kelvedon Hall, Kelvedon Hatch, Essex England (1488 - 1551). The Kelvedon Hatch Wrights were not related to the ancestors of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose immigrant father was Benjamin Wright (b. 1610 England d. 1677 Killingworth, New Haven Co., CT). Benjamin Wright was from Bolton, Co. Lancashire, England which is way to the northwest of Co. Essex, England. However, it is interesting to note that even though Bolton is far away from Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, the area around Chester and Manchester England contains the highest percentage in England of the Haploid to which the Kelvedon Hatch Wrights belong (E1b1b1a2) which greatly increases the chance that Frank Lloyd Wright's ancestors might also carried the E1b1b1a2 Y-DNA profile without being directly related to the Kelvedon Hatch Wrights. This haploid originated in England with the arrival of the Roman Army in 43 C.E. and increased greatly in the Chester area in number between 43 C.E. and about 130 C.E. peaking in 122 C.E. with the building and garrisoning of Hadrian's Wall by mercenary soldiers who had been conscripted into Legionary auxiliary corps of engineers, and cavalry from the Thracian-Illyrian tribe known as the Dardanians after their defeat and subjugation by the Romans in 49 C.E. Most of these Dardanian mercenaries never returned home to the Balkans, but were retired ! from military service, if they survived it, with full Roman citizenship and a small plot of land near their last duty station that was large enough to support their family. Most of them had started these families while still serving the Roman Emperor by taking local women as wives. This was a common practice by the Romans. The idea being to create a buffer zone, particularly in frontier areas where the people living outside the fortifications were related to both the soldiers and the local population. This tended to deter uprisings by the locals because it meant killing some of their own kin in order to get to the Roman garrisons. The point is that this area where Frank Lloyd Wright's immigrant ancestor came from contains a greater percentage by far of the E1b1b1a2 haploid than anywhere else in England or Scotland, far greater than its frequency in any part of the county of Essex. Therefore, it might be found in the future that descendants of Benjamin Wright (1610 - 1677) are indeed haploid E1b1b1a2 and then it will be very interesting genetic genealogical research to discover distinctive differences between the two Y-DNA profiles that might allow us to distinguish between them, genetically. Currently, we have only one Y-DNA participant who thinks he might descend from Benjamin Wright (1610 - 1677). He is not sure of this decent and it remains speculative in his research. He has tested his Y-DNA (not at Family Tree) but his profile for this test places him in the haploid I1, which is of Viking/Anglo Saxon origins rather than Balkan/Roman. Benjamin Wright's descendant family is pretty well known, not least because of the fame of one of his descendants, Frank Lloyd Wright. So, I am surprised that we don't have a documented male descendant yet for Frank Lloyd Wright in our database. Hopefully, that will change in the future. 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.