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  • Unnamed boy Wright (c.1573 - d.)
  • Williams (1872 - d.)
  • 1st wife of Richard Wright (c.1599 - bef.1643)
    Richard Wright of Lynn, Boston, Braintree & Seekonk, was born in England about 1598. He may have been the Richard Wright who married January 8, 1625/6 Margaret ( .. ) Padding at St. Dunstan's, Stepne...
  • Aaron Wright (1755 - 1840)
  • Abel Wright, Jr., Ensign (1664 - 1745)
    In 1702, Abel purchased 90 acres of land in Lebanon, CT. for 7 pounds, silver, current money of New England. In 1703, he purchased 21 acres and in 1711 he purchased 9 more acres. His greatest purchase ...

About the Wright surname

origin

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.

Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright.

Wright is also an anglicized version of the Scots Gaelic clan name "MacIntyre" or "Mac an t-Saoir", meaning "son of the wright" (son of the carpenter)
In Ireland, the native Gaelic Mac an Cheairt sept of County Mayo occasionally changed their name to Wright. This is a literal translation meaning, "son of the right or righteous".

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