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The Wrights have been a Sandford family for many generations, though as yet we have been unable to determine the origin of the earliest Wright in our family - Thomas, born about 1650. Several generations in different branches were blacksmiths in and around Sandford, but the break up of a partnership led to rivalry between brothers that became competition between their two branches of the family. Most of the Wrights here are descended from those brothers, James and Robert, the sons of my 3 x great grandfather James Wright (1799-1851) and Mary Bragg (1800-1875). Wright marriages connect with our Heards, Berrys and Pittses.Click on the thumbnails to see a larger version of the picture.
james wright 1799 and grandson   ottertonmillmachine   james and robertwright advert   wright plaque   cart
Grave of James Wright 1799-1851 and William Robert Wright 1855-1872,. Sandford churchyard   Milling machinery at Otterton Mill, sold by James Wright.   Advert for the West of England Iron Works from the Exeter Flying Post of 18 June 1857   James Wright name plate from the business.   A cart made by the Wrights
                 
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Grave of Mary Hatting, née Back,  Mary Ann Hatting née Morgan, Lewis Hatting, James Hatting and Sarah Hatting née Chapple    Tradeplates, from machinery made by various combinations of the Wright family members in blacksmithing companies.      James Wright 1825-1897   Ellen Wright, née Hatting 1818-1914.     Ellen Wright, née Hatting 1818-1914. 
                 
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Meadowside, Sandford, today.   Farm implement made by Wright's   Medal won in 1882 at the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show by James Wright for a cart he made.   Grave of James Wright 1825-1897, and Ellen Wright née Hatting,
1828-1914		   Lewis William Wright 1850- 1928
                 
         
Lewis Wright 1850-1928    Lewis Wright 1850-1928    James Wright 1851-1909    Jane Wright née Coulson, 1839-1900. First wife of James Wright, sister-in-law to Lewis Wright.   Grave of James Wright and second wife Eliza Hookway Wright  née Pickett
                 
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  William Wright 1854-1923   William Wright, 1854 -1923     One of the gates made by Lewis Wright and the West of England Iron Works..   Wrights' workmen   Cart made by Wrights outside their works
                 
west of england ironworks       lewis wright   mary martha berry
Wrights' workmen   Cart made by Wrights   Farm machine made by Wrights   Lewis Wright, 1850-1928, and Mary Martha Wright née Berry 1851-1929   Mary Martha Wright née Berry 1851-1929
                 
    mary martha   mmb and children   mmb kate and carrie
Step-sister(?) of Mary Martha Berry   Step-sister(?) of Mary Martha Berry   Mary Martha Wright née Berry 1851-1929 with baby Emma Kathleen Wright, 1878-1954   Mary Martha Wright née Berry, 1851-1939 with daughters Kate, 1878-1954, Clara 1882-1911, and baby Nellie Louise 1891-1959   Mary Martha Wright née Berry, 1851-1939 with daughters Kate, 1878-1954, Clara 1882-1911.
                 
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Lewis Wright, 1850-1928
with daughter Nellie Louise Wright, 1891-1959
at Meadowside, Sandford 		  Mary Martha Wright née Berry 1851-1939   Mary Wright née Berry, with daughters Kate, Mary
and granddaughter Sadie Clarice Pitts		   Mary Martha Wright and granddaughter Kathleen Wright   Lewis Wright with sons, sons-in-law and family friends in about 1922
                 
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 A Wright family gathering at Sandford    Mary Wright, Margaret Wright, Lewis Wright and Violet Wright   Lewis and Mary Wright with children Fred, Kate, Jack and George   A gathering of Lewis and Mary Wright's children.   Mary Wright, Ida Mary Pickett,
Emma Kathleen Pitts and baby Mildred Pickett
                 
lewis mary and margaret wright   lewis and mmb with maryetc       mildredmaryandmmb
Lewis Wright 1850-1928, Margaret Wright 1897- 1987, Ida Mary Wright 1896-1967   Standing: Annie Wright née Lillicrap, Ida Mary Wright, Lillian Wright née Boydell. Seated: Mary Wright née Berry, Lewis Wright.   Mary Martha Wright and her three daughters   Lewis and Mary Wright with children, and two grand children in about 1915   Mary Pickett née Wright, with her mother, Mary Wright née Berry, and daughter Mildred Pickett, in the Square, Sandford
                 
mary her mother and mildred     lewis and mmbolder   lewis and mmbmi  
Mary Wright with daughter Ida Mary Pickett and her granddaughter Mildred Pickett   Lewis and Mary Martha with daughter Mary Wright and daughter-in-law Annie Wright   Lewis and Mary Wright   Grave of Lewis and Mary Wright, in Sandford churchyard.   Young Emma Kathleen Wright
                 
kate   emma kate     nickpittsandemmakathleen   emma kate and laurie
  Kate Wright 1878-1954   Kate Wright 1878-1954    Nick Pitts and Kate Pitts née Wright with Laurie Pitts   Nick and Kate Pitts    Kate Pitts and Laurie Pitts
                 
kate and sadie   idanellandkate   kate and nick   nick and kate pitts  

Kate Pitts with Sadie Pitts

     Nellie Louise Willing,Ida Mary Pickett and Emma Kathleen Pitts, nées Wright   Kate Pitts and grandson Nicholas Heard   Nick and Kate Pitts      Fred Wright 
                 
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  Fred Wright, 1880-1946    Sapper Fred Wright
     Fred Wright in Ireland,   Fred Wright, 1880-1946     Grave of Fred and Ada Wright
in Higher Cemetery, Exeter
                 
fred clara george and jack     john berry wright     annie
Clara, Fred, George and Jack Wright
   Clara Jefferis Wright, 1882-1911   John Berry (Jack) Wright , 1887-1959     Jack Wright   Annie Lillicrap 1880-1964 
                 
  jbwright   johnberrywright    
   Annie Wright née Lillicrap 1880-1964 with children Jack Wright and Vi Wright
   A gathering of Jack Wright's children and grandchildren in Exeter   Jack and Annie Wright with daughters Vi and Betty.   Annie Wright née Lillicrap.   .   Annie Wright with children and grandchildren
                 
  jbwright   jbwright     george wright
Jack and Annie Wright with son Jimmy Wright and son-in-law Roy Retter    John Berry Wright with his children   John Berry Wright with three children, a son-in-law and a grandchild    Grave of John Berry (Jack)Wright and Annie Wright née Lillicrap in Sandford churchyard.   George Jefferis Wright
                 
lil and brother   georger at leigh   george at fair    
Lillian Boydell and a brother   George Jefferis Wright 1888-1958, at Leigh.     George Wright at an agricultural fair   George Wright and Lillian Wright née Boydell    George Wright, at the West of England works, with a fellow workman.
               
  george and lil       lil and book
George Wright, left, at the West of England Ironworks     George Wright and Lillian Wright née Boydell.   Rose and Crown Hill, Sandford   Lillian Boydell in middle row   Lillian Boydell
                 
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Lillian Boydell with a brother   Lillian Boydell     George and Lillian Wright with baby Kathleen Wright, Ida Mary Wright and unknown man    Lillian Wright with daughter Kathleen    Lil and Kathleen Wright with friends
                 
    nell and mary   nell and mary   nell 1911
Wrights' day out   Wrights' day out   Wright sisters: Mary and Nell   Wright sisters Nell and Mary   Nellie Louise Wright, 1891-1959, in 1911
                 
moreton   nell andmoreton   nell and francis   francis and nell in alberta   nell
Francis Moreton Willing 1888-1970

 

   (Francis) Moreton and Nell Willing   Nell and Moreton in Alberta   Moreton and Nell in Alberta

 

   Nell Willing in Canada
                 
francis on wagon       willings mi   marywright
Moreton Willing   Moreton and Nell Willing with baby Agnes   Agnes, Moreton, Theo and Nell Willing   Willings' grave in Ebford cemetery, Plymouth   (Ida) Mary Wright 1896-1967
                 
mary pickett        moreton with sisterinlaw   mary and margaret wright
(Ida) Mary Wright 1896-1967   L to r Mary Pickett née Wright, son, John Pickett, daughter Mildred Pickett, and husband Fred Pickett   Mary Wright at Meadowside, Sandford   Fred and Mary Pickett.   Margaret Wright and Mary Wright
                 
maryon farm     mary with book    
Mary Wright,1896-1967   Mary Wright   Mary Wright   Mary Pickett  née Wright, with baby Mildred   Mary Pickett with baby son John Pickett
                 
mary and fred pickett   wright children   sadie kathleen vi   marynell and agnes  
Fred and Mary Pickett with son John.     Grandchildren of Lewis and Mary Wright   Three granddaughters of Lewis and Mary Wright   Picketts and Willings Pickett and Willings,   Mary Pickett and Lillian Wright in unknown group.
                 
sadie and laurie   sadie and laurie      
Sadie Pitts 1916-1993 and
Laurie Pitts 1912- 1999		   Sadie and Laurie Pitts   Laurie Pitts   Sadie Heard née Pitts, and Jack Heard   Jack Heard, 1916-1989, with Sadie Heard née Pitts, 1916-1993, and son Nicholas
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Jack Heard, Rachel Wright née Pett and Sadie Heard  née Pitts in St Mark's Square, Venice.   Laurie Pitts and Audrey Pitts  Wheeler   Grave of Ivor Jack Wright and Phyllis Wright,née Larcombe   Violet Lillicrap (Vi) Wright 1912- 2009   Vi Retter née Wright and Roy Retter
                 
roy and vi     vi and betty   vi at jimmys diamond   jack and rachel
Vi Retter née Wright and Roy Retter   Peggy Wright, Vi Retter and Mary Pickett   Vi Retter and Betty Junaluska nées Wright   Vi Retter née Wright   Jack and Rachel Wright with daughter Katherine
                 
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Wrights and Heards at the Wellington Monument   Jack Wright   Jack, Rachel and Katherine Wright and Jack Heard   Jack and Rachel Wright with Jack and Sadie Heard   Katherine, Jack and Rachel Wright
                 
rachel jack mi   betty and peggy   bety   betty   betty
Grave of Jack and Rachel Wright at Broadclyst   Betty and Peggy Wright   Betty Wright 1920-2005   Betty Junaluska Smith, née Wright 1920-2005   WAAF Betty Wright
                 
arthur     rachel sadie betty   peggy  
Arthur Smith Junaluska   Rachel Wright, née Pett, Nick Heard, Betty Junaluska Smith née Wright   Rachel Wright née Pett, Betty Junaluska Smith née Wright, Sadie Heard née Pitts   Peggy Wright   Peggy Wright
                 
  jimmy   jimmy   mildred and jimmy  
Peggy Wright and nursing colleagues   Richard Lewis "Jimmy" Wright   Jimmy Wright 1923-2013   Jimmy Wright with Mildred Glass née Pickett   From left to right, Sadie Heard, Vi Retter, Sylvia and Richard Lewis "Jimmy" Wright.
                 
jimmyolder   kath at school   kathleen   kath and uncle   kathleen on bike
Richard Lewis "Jimmy" Wright, 1923-2013   Halberton school with Kathleen Wright   Kathleen Wright 1912-1987   Kathleen Wright with an uncle   Kathleen Wright 1912-1987
                 
Kathleen   kathleen   Kathleen Wright and friend   kathleen   kath 1936
Kathleen Wright and friend from Leigh, Dorothy Unsworth   Kathleen Wright 1912-1987   Kathleen Wright and Dorothy Unsworth   Kathleen Wright 1912-1987   Kathleen Wright 1912-1987
                 
kathleen at Torquay   gerald   kathleen and gerald   gerald goodwin   agnes
Kathleen Goodwin née Wright   Gerald Goodwin   Kathleen Goodwin née Wright and Gerald Goodwin   Gerald Goodwin, 1909-1968   Agnes Willing, daughter of Moreton Willing and Nell Willing née Wright
                 
may and theo   olivia agnes and theo     olivia and theo  
Olivia May and Theo Willing   Olivia May, Agnes and Theo Willing
   Newspaper photo of May and Agnes Willing in Alberta   Theo and O.May Willing   Olivia May Willing
                 
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May Willing's grave marker   Communal grave at Efford cemetery, Plymouth

 

   Agnes Willing 1917-2009   Agnes Willing 1917-2009   Agnes Willing
                 
agnes   sid and agnes wedding   agnes     sid
Agnes Willing Wedding of Agnes Willing to Sid Davis at Loddiswell in 1948 Agnes Davis (r) with friend Nurse Agnes Davis née Willing
1917-2009		 Sid Davis,1909-1997
                 
agnes in fur   sid and agnes   sid   sid and agnes  
Agnes Davis née Willing 1917-2009   Sid Davis,1909-1997 and Agnes Davis née Willing,1917-2009   Sid Davis,1909-1997   Sid Davis and Agnes Davis née Willing   Donald Glass,1931-2023 and Mildred Glass née Pickett, 1929-1991
                 
       
Mildred Glass née Pickett and Rachel Wright née Pett    John Pickett, 1937-2024
doing his National Service		   John Pickett, 1937-2024, and Phyllis Pickett,  née Rowe, 1938-2024   John Pickett, 1937-2024   Phyllis Pickett née Rowe, 1938-2024
                 
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John Pickett, 1937-2024, and Phyllis Pickett,  née Rowe, 1938-2024     Katherine Wright, 1949-2007   Katherine Wright's Memorial Inscription at Broadclyst church   Nicholas Heard, left with friend Paul Smart.    Nicholas Heard in 1960s
                 
           
 Nicholas Heard in Brighton for graduation ceremony.     A gathering of Wrights in Basingstoke in the noughties.   A celebration of the wedding anniversary of Jimmy Wright and Sylvia Wright née Scott        
                 
britannia letterhead   wright gate post   robertwright gate   robert wright mi   walter henry wright
Letterhead of the rival Britannia Iron Works    Robert Wright's work - a gate post at Woolfardisworthy   The complete gate at Woolfardisworthy   Grave of Robert and Eliza Wright in Sandford churchyard     Grave of Walter Henry Wright 1856 -1908, and Elizabeth Wright  Trickey, 1863-1947
                 
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 Grave of Henry George Wright, 1893-1953, and Lena Wright née  White, 1907-1999   Margaret Elizabeth Dallyn, née Wright, 1897 - 1987   William Percival Dallyn, 1892-1984, and Margaret Elizabeth Dallyn née Wright, 1897 - 1987. Grave stone in Martinhoe   Alan Wright, 1933-2015 and Lillian Wright née Breeze, 1930-2008    Grave of Roger Wright, 2nd cousin once removed of James Wright and Elizabeth Wright née Glanfield.
                 
ellen huxtable   ellen huxtable       frayling photo children   young ellen huxtable?
Ellen Wright or Ellen Frayling, née Huxtable, 1858-1939 Ellen Wright/Frayling, Ellen Wright or Frayling, née Huxtable,in 1935, photograph from her US Naturalization documents Possibly Ellen Huxtable in a Berrynarbour school group? Could this be Ellen in the school photo?
                 
     ellen huxtable    arthur wright    arthurjohnfraylingwright  

Ellen Huxtable with daughter-in-law Alice Cowell, and son and daughter Alfred and Maud Frayling 

    Grave of Ellen Frayling, 1858-1939, in Medford, Massachusetts, USA    Arthur Wright 1888-1979    Arthur Wright 1888-1979   Arthur Wright with Ernest and Alf Frayling
                 
        ernest frayling
Fred Rothera with a grandson   Florence M Rothera, née Wright, 1886-1972   John Herbert Rothera, 1875-1958. Florence's brother-in-law.   John Herbert Rothera, 1875-1958   Ernest Francis Frayling
                 
ernest frayling     ernest frayling   ernest francis frayling  
   Ernest Francis Frayling   Ernest Francis Frayling   Ernest Francis Frayling   Ernest Francis Frayling   Ernest Frayling and Margaret Cooper's wedding
                 
        ernest and family
  Ernest Frayling and Margaret Cooper's wedding     Margaret Louise Frayling
née Cooper		   Ernest Frayling with wife Margaret and children   Ernest and Margaret Frayling     Ernest Frayling with wife Margaret and children

 
                 
       
Ernest Frayling with wife Margaret and children   Ernest, Margaret, Francis and Lillian Frayling   Margaret, with Ernest, and children.   Ernest, Margaret and Ernie   Ernest and Margret Frayling
                 
      alfred sydney frayling   alfred frayling   alfred frayling2
Grave of Ernest and Margaret Frayling   Young Alfred Sydney Frayling,1893-1941   Alfred Sydney Frayling      Alfred Sydney Frayling    Alfred Sydney Frayling 
                 
  alfred and alice frayling      
Alf Sydney Frayling   Alfred Frayling and Alice Frayling née Cowell     Alfred and Alice Frayling   Alfred Frayling   Alice Frayling née Cowell
                 
      Maud Frayling   maud frayling
Alfred Frayling   Grave of Alfred and Alice Frayling in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford City   Maud FraylingMaud Frayling,1896-1963, daughter of Ellen Wright and Ernest Frayling   Maud Frayling 1896-1969    Maud Cuthbertson née Frayling
                 
maud frayling   maud and ken   maud with ken and pat    
    Maud Frayling at 24 Cannon Road, Liverpool   Maud and son Ken    Maud,with children Ken and Pat   Gathering of Maud's family.     Maud and her girls
                 
      charles and Maud Coffin   gravesof frayling
Maud and Frayling family members   William Cuthbertson, 2nd husband of Maud Frayling   William Cuthbertson, 2nd husband of Maud Frayling   Charles Coffin, third husband, and Maud Coffin née Frayling     Frayling graves
                 
      Ernest Kenneth Reid Cuthbertson  
Ada Lillian Boothroyd née Rothera, 1912-1984   Ada Lillian Boothroyd née Rothera, 1912-1984   Ida Boothroyd's wedding to Eric Aaron in 1953, at Bradford.     Left, Ernest Kenneth Reid Cuthbertson       Ernest Kenneth Reid Cuthbertson
                 
       
  Ernest Kenneth Reid Cuthbertson    Pat Hammond née Cuthbertson/Coffin    Ernest George Frayling   Alfred Frayling and  Madeline Frayling née Connors   Lillian Frayling 
                 
       
Lillian M. Frayling 1928-2021     Lillian M. Crossman née Frayling  1928-2021     Lillian M. Crossman née Frayling  1928-2021   Reverend Ivan Haynes Crossman, 1927-2021, husband of Lillian M Frayling   Grave of Rev.Ivan Crossman, and Lillian Crossman  née Frayling, Colrain West Branch Cemetery, Massachusetts
                 
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Francis L Frayling, 1932-2004   Cheryl Frayling-Wright/ Cheryl Murray in the Rovers Return   Cheryl Frayling-Wright b.1952   Cheryl Murray b.1952    
                 
 robert bishop wright mi    wgswrightmi    edward wright        
 Robert Bishop Wright, nephew of James Wright.  William George Sanders Wright, grandson of Robert Bishop Wright  Grave of Constance Ellis,  Wright, 1889-1927, and her brother Edward Wright, 1886-1960  Grave of Robert and Mary Wright and their daughter-in-law, Winifred Mary William George Sanders Wright and Elizabeth Ellen Wright née Rice
                 
         dorothy wright       regwrightandednahudson
  Elizabeth Ellen Wright  née
Rice, 1883-1955		     Elizabeth Ellen Wright  née
Rice, 1883-1955 with child		    Dorothy Wright 1906-1935
 		    Reginald Wright with wife Edna Wright, née Hudson and mother-in-law Ethel Hudson and children.
    . Reg Wright and Edna Hudson Son of William George Wright, great grandson of Robert Bishop Wright
                 
                 
 Walter John Bishop Wright, 1921- 1985    Harry Harris Wright,  1927-2003, in the company of??    Ashley Russell Wright, 1960-2018.        
                 
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