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Many Wright Researchers have pieces of information that may be of some help to others. On this page, with the momentous help of Cathy Hall, Nancy Wright Bays, and Margaret Case, I have put some of those bits and pieces. If you would like to contribute to this page in any way, please contact me. If you'd like to add your family information, I will put up what information you give me with a link to your email address. This page is meant to be of benefit to all Wright researchers.
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Subject: Re: John Wright lineage

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 97

Hi Joann, It definitely is a success story. Carla has the documentation on her end regarding (our) John Wright and Winfield Wright and their parentage. Their children came to Missouri and settled in Callaway County.

Thanks to the Wright's Tidbit Pages. We would not have been able to connect without you. Donna Burry "Donna Burry" <dburry@mail.coin.missouri.edu>

Thanks for passing this out! I found the marriage date and location of my 3 greats grandparents on it! [Wright Marriages]

Sue morgana@ghg.net


 
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WRIGHT SURNAME ORIGIN
The following information was contributed by June Ross. Please be sure to look at her family group sheet - all in Scotland.
I am very fortunate as I have a small notebook that Peter Wright of Glasgow wrote in 1800, "Respecting the Name of Wright and the Wrights of Aithry, Drumdrouls, Loss and Foodie etc." This gave me a great deal of information about the Wrights and enabled me to do further research. I have copied the first few paragraphs before he starts the genealogy.
"The name of Wright seems to very ancient, as we find from History, that John Wright a famous architect, constructed a bridge (Kildean) over the Forth nfar Stirling which upon drawing a pin separated in the middle; this stratagem being put in execution gave Sir William Wallace a decided victory in a battle fought 13th September 1297 over the English when part of their army had passed & part upon the Bridge,the Pin was drawn out by Wright himself who was suspended in a basket under the Arch and escaped unhurt. The English Army being thus divided & surprised, many were killed & drowned and suffered in the pursuit through Stirling, St. Ninians, and the Forwood. Wright was ever after that known by the Name of the Pin.
The great Barony of Aithrey in the Parish of Logie near Stirling seems to have been in the possession of Wright long before the reign of James 1st, King of Scotland; one of that family, Bishop James Wright, baptised a son of James the 3rd in the year 1473 in the Castle of Stirling; a large hall was erected in the course of six weeks for that occasion. The Bishop's son John was Armour Bearer to King James the 4th & by him knighted; but happening in a Duel to kill a man in Stirling, the friend of King James, he fled to Ireland where he remained till his death, His eldest son sometime after came back to Scotland & endeavoured to get a gift of his father's escheat but to no purpose; so he was obliged to take the farm of Nethertown of Inverallan, where he & his heirs laboured for several years."

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Will of Joseph Wright, Peoria, Ill.

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Isaac Wright

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Indiana Wrights - Quaker Records Hancock County, IN - Cemetery Records

Indiana State Library Genealogy Division -Marriage Index through 1850 - Great source!

KENTUCKY

Commonwealth of Kentucky Web Server

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NEW YORK

Early Jury Lists - Ontario, N.Y.

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1704-5 Virginia Rent Rolls

Virginia Colonial Militia

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"Virginia and W. Virginian - 1607 - 1870"

Library of Virginia Digital Collections

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Ancestral Findings -Free Searches-

Alabama Dept. of Archives and History - information and sources online

America's First Families

American Memory from the Library of Congress - interviews done by the WPA

Ancestry's Social Security Death Index - Online Search

Archived Messages on NC-Scot - by surname!

Steve Johnson's Cemetery Listings

Census On Line

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Deciphering Old Handwriting

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General Society of the War of 1812
 

Index of names for all USGenWeb Sites

LDS Family Seach site - THIS is what we have been waiting for!

Making of America - contains scanned pages of sources!

National Archives & Records Administration

The Olive Tree Genealogy Homepage

Quaker Genealogy

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Social Security Death Index - Searchable database
 

U.S. Civil War Center - Index of Civil War Information on the internet

U.S. Genealogy Easy Index to the States

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Vital Records

War of 1812 Bulletin Board

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