The Tudors, The Wrights, & Kelvedon Hall

The time has come to update this very popular post. Recent research along with DNA developments* has revealed that my ancestor, Abel Wright (1631-1725) was not born at Kelvedon Hatch as previously believed, but that he was most likely born in Leverton, Lincolnshire, England, and thus, he is not a descendant of the Wrights of [...]

Martha Ketcherel Wright

My Wright family line is one that so often appears in the shadows of my research. Simply because so much of the research was done by those who came before me, I suppose the allure of revealing the unknown is gone. And yet, each time I travel down its branches, I find it all so [...]