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M Lewis Wright

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1861 personal census, Colchester Twp, Essex Co., ON, transcribed by the Essex Branch of the OGS:
Wright Daniel, M, Married, 42, born Can, C[hurch of] E[ngland], Farmer;
Sarah, F, Married, 38, born Can, C E;
Emaline, F, 15, born Can, C E;
Lorinda, F, 13, born Can, C E;
Louis, M, 8, born Can, C E;
Isabel, F, 5, born Can, C E;
Ellis, M, 2, born Can, C E.

Marriage record, Amherstburg, Essex Co., ON, from Mary Crandall's site:
2481-76 Lewis WRIGHT, 23, farmer, Colchester twp., same, s/o Daniel & Sarah, married Josephine SYPPS, 19, Colchester twp., same, d/o Henry & Theresa, witn: H. O. FALLS & Melinda PARLETT, both of Amherstburg, 26 Sept 1876 at Amherstburg.

1881 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 Can census household record:
Wright Louis, M, Married, 26, born Ont, origin: Germna, Church of England, Farmer;
Josephine, F, Married, 23, born Ont, origin: German, Church of England;
Forrest, M, 2, born Ont, origin: German, Church of England.

Marriage record, Walkerville, Essex Co., ON, from Mary Crandall's site:
6864-03 Craig Henry JOHNSON, 21, storage? uo--?, Sandwich East, same, s/o Fred JOHNSON & Hattie S. JENKINS, married Grace Lillian WRIGHT, 22, Colchester, Walkerville, d/o Louis N. WRIGHT & Josephine A. SYPPS?, witn: F. W. JOHNSON & Catherine E. WEBSTER, both of Walkerville, 12 May 1903 at Walkerville.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 559-560:
Ellis L. Wright, a thrift farmer of Colchester South township, County of Essex, and a member of one of the early settled families of this locality, was born on the farm place July 16, 1858.
     The ancestor of the New World Wrights was Henry Wright, who was born and reared in England. In his young manhood he emigrated to America with a brother, locating in Rutland, Pennsylvania, where the latter remained. In that State Henry married Mary Klingensmith, and they became the parents of the following family: William, ...
     William Wright, son of Henry, was born in Pennsylvania, and was eight years of age when brought by his parents to the County of Essex. By trade he was a blacksmith, following that occupation in connection with farming. His wife was Elizabeth (or Betsy) Lipps, a native of Virginia. He died in 1854, aged seventy-nine, and his wife in 1866, aged seventy-five. They were members of the Church of England. Their children, all now deceased except Daniel R., were: Henry, who married Amanda Kent; Mary, who married John Mickle; Elizabeth, who wedded Henry Leighton; Jacob, who married Amy McDonald; Simon, who married Sarah Knapp; Hannah, who died unmarried, aged forty-five; Daniel R.; and Joseph, who married Zoie Marentate.
     Daniel R. Wright was born in Colchester South, on Lake Erie, April 28, 1820. He remained with his parents off and on until his marriage. In 1837-38, in the Mackenzie Rebellion, he served as a soldier, the first year as corporal, and he was then transferred to the cavalry, with which he continued to the end of the war. He then farmed until 1858, on the home farm, and that year came to his present farm. He has always taken an active part in politics, as a stanch Conservative, and for many years was a road supervisor, and for twenty years township councillor. He is a member of the Established Church. On Nov. 27, 1855, he was married in Colchester South to Sarah Leighton, who was born in Amherstburg Oct. 7, 1823, and who died in April 1901, daughter of John and Ann (Posten) Leighton, natives of Liverpool, England; after coming to Canada Mr. Leighton engaged in farming. To Daniel R. Wright and wife were born the following children: Miss Emaline, living with her brother Ellis L.; Lorinda, who married Charles Knapp, now deceased, of Walkerville, and had eight children; Alfred, who died young; Lewis, who married Josephine Lipps, and has four children; Isabella, wife of Albert Simcoe, of Harrow; and Ellis L...

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William Wright 1773-1843   Elizabeth (Betsy) Agnes Lypps 1779-1863   John Leighton   Ann Posten ca 1778-
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Daniel R. Wright 1820-   Sarah Leighton 1823-1901
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Lewis Wright ca 1853-