Friday, September 03, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
I've been busy. I found another Wright family that got me SO EXCITED. This family, George and Mary (maiden name unknown) Wright lived in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Granted, I do not have a single George Wright in my family line, but, this family's sons were named William, Leander, Alfred and Robert, all names in my family. I really started working on this family and was able to extend it to 1900, but no further back. I searched the Wright GenForum at Genealogy.Com and found descendants who claim that George Wright was the son of Isaac and Chaney Wright. I remembered Chaney Wright being mentioned several times in the Rootsweb Wright mailing list so began reviewing those posts. My hopes were somewhat dashed however when I discovered that DNA tests had been done on this family and that they were connected to the infamous Richard Wright of Rowan County, North Carolina. My brother had a DNA test done a few years back and we definitely do not come close to the Richard Wright clan.
I'm not giving up, though,the coincidence is just too strong. Perhaps the names were a "local" thing - that part of Western North Carolina. After all, my Alfred Leander Wright's wife, Jane Howard, was born and raised in nearby Burke County, North Carolina.
In the meantime I have upgraded my account at Webstarts so I can recreate my North Carolina Wright pages with all the information I've gatherered on Wright families of North Carolina. In reworking these pages I've been double checking to see if there is anything I can add and because of that I am finding new "leads" to my own family. Sometimes we just need to take a different approach.
I still have one other very strong lead I need to pursue. There is a deed recorded in McMinn County, Tennessee in Feb 1834 from a William Wright to his son Alfred regarding personal property. So why is this of interest? William Wright, the brother of my great great grandfather, Alfred Leander Wright, was first located in the 1850 census of McMinn County, Tennessee. Now according to family tradition William and Alfred Leander Wright's father was named Robert, but I've just about decided that that wasn't the case. I'll be ordering a copy of that deed, hopefully today.
I've been busy. I found another Wright family that got me SO EXCITED. This family, George and Mary (maiden name unknown) Wright lived in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Granted, I do not have a single George Wright in my family line, but, this family's sons were named William, Leander, Alfred and Robert, all names in my family. I really started working on this family and was able to extend it to 1900, but no further back. I searched the Wright GenForum at Genealogy.Com and found descendants who claim that George Wright was the son of Isaac and Chaney Wright. I remembered Chaney Wright being mentioned several times in the Rootsweb Wright mailing list so began reviewing those posts. My hopes were somewhat dashed however when I discovered that DNA tests had been done on this family and that they were connected to the infamous Richard Wright of Rowan County, North Carolina. My brother had a DNA test done a few years back and we definitely do not come close to the Richard Wright clan.
I'm not giving up, though,the coincidence is just too strong. Perhaps the names were a "local" thing - that part of Western North Carolina. After all, my Alfred Leander Wright's wife, Jane Howard, was born and raised in nearby Burke County, North Carolina.
In the meantime I have upgraded my account at Webstarts so I can recreate my North Carolina Wright pages with all the information I've gatherered on Wright families of North Carolina. In reworking these pages I've been double checking to see if there is anything I can add and because of that I am finding new "leads" to my own family. Sometimes we just need to take a different approach.
I still have one other very strong lead I need to pursue. There is a deed recorded in McMinn County, Tennessee in Feb 1834 from a William Wright to his son Alfred regarding personal property. So why is this of interest? William Wright, the brother of my great great grandfather, Alfred Leander Wright, was first located in the 1850 census of McMinn County, Tennessee. Now according to family tradition William and Alfred Leander Wright's father was named Robert, but I've just about decided that that wasn't the case. I'll be ordering a copy of that deed, hopefully today.
