When Infant Wright was born on 23 March 1911, in Syracuse, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Alma Thomas Wright, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Wilhemina Hansen, was 28. He died on 23 March 1911, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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English and Scottish: occupational name for a craftsman or maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Middle English and Older Scots wriht, wright, wricht, writh, write (Old English wyrhta, wryhta) ‘craftsman’, especially ‘carpenter, joiner’. The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright ), but when used in isolation it often referred to a builder of windmills or watermills. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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