When William Henry Wright was born on 11 March 1827, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Edward Stubbs Wright, was 32 and his mother, Esther Wright, was 24. He married Emma Taylor on 5 September 1847, in Handsworth, Staffordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. His occupation is listed as mercentile, dry goods business. in Lake, Fremont, Idaho, United States. He died on 29 December 1897, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Josiah Nelson BIRTH 1841 Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA DEATH 1841 (aged less–than 1 year) Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA BURIAL Ogden City Cemetery Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 240526232 · View Source
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
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.
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Possible Related Names[Four Generation Picture: L-R, back: Emma (Wright) Grant; Granddaughter, Marilyn Grant Newman; Daughter-in-law, Kathryn (Hoag) Grant. Front: Great-granddaughter, Kim (Rowley) Hawley.] Emma was born J …
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