Grewelthorpe

Wright family

Details of the Wright family in the Grewelthorpe area. updated Oct. 2024.


Letter from Daniel received August 2013.I am researching the Wright family, although you don’t seem to have a Wright family on your list. Im trying to find the surname of Joseph Wrights first wife. He was married to a Jane and they had three children that I know of, Joseph b.1857, Robert b.1859 and Mary b.1854. Can anyone help please.


Please contact the site if you can help Daniel.


The following are members of the Wright families living in and around Ripon, Masham, Grewelthorpe district.


AGNES WRIGHT. Born C1888 Masham. Dau of James [the slater] & Mary Jane Dennison.

ALFRED WRIGHT. Born 11.3.1874 Ripon. Died 1949. Son of James [Cab. maker] & Alice. He was a joiner. In 1921 he was a woodwork teacher at Ripon Grammar school. Living Princess Rd. Ripon. Married to Amelia Wray. Amelia died in 1964.
ALFRED WRIGHT [Fred] Born C1879 Sutton. Farmer at Mowbray View Grewelthorpe. Married to Ethel Eliza.
ALICE WRIGHT Born 1899 Ripon. Dau of Alfred [woodworker] & Amelia Wray She was a teacher at Starbeck school in 1921.
ALICE AGNES WRIGHT. Born C1905 Ripon. Dau of Ernest Harry & Ethel Metcalfe.
ALICE JANE WRIGHT Born 19.3.1920 Ripon. Died 1994. Dau of George [Malster] & Lillian. Married Joseph R.Jeffrey. in 1941.
ALLAN WRIGHT Born 1855 Ripon. Died 1922. A plumber. Son of Thomas [plumber] & Laine.
ANN WRIGHT. Born C1866 dau of Joseph & Elizabeth.ANNIE WRIGHT. Born C 1895 Grewelthorpe. Dau of William [cattleman] & Jane.
ARTHUR WRIGHT. Born 1876 Ripon. Died 1950. Son of James [cab. maker] & Alice. He was a saddlers apprentice in 1891. In 1910 married Jane Rycroft. Saddler in Bedale in 1921.
ARTHUR WRIGHT Born C1906. Son of Frederick & Annie Elizabeth. Living Mickley in 1911.
AUGUSTUS WRIGHT. Born c1876 Ripon. Son of James [the slater] & Mary Jane Dennison.

BATES WRIGHT. Born C1892 Son of James [slater] & Mary Jane Dennison.
BERNARD WRIGHT Born C1902 Bedale. Son of Arthur [saddler] & Jane Rycroft
CHARLES WRIGHT. Born 27.9.1868 Ripon. Son of James & Alice. Cabinet maker. Unmarried in 1911. In 1939 living with brother Alfred. He was a joiner and timber merchant.
CHARLES PERCIVAL WRIGHT Born C1910 Bedale. Died 1951 Thirsk. Son of Arthur [saddler] & Jane Rycroft
CHARLES HENRY WRIGHT. Born 4.3.1913 Masham. Died 23.1.2010 Ripon. Son of Ernest & Ethel Metcalfe. Married Jennie Metcalfe. in 1931.
CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT. Born 1774 Coverham. Died 1853 Ilton. Son of George & Henrietta Hardcastle. Married to Elizabeth Jeff. of High Ellington in 1798.
CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT Born 1821 Masham. Died 1856 Masham. Son of Christopher [slater] & Elizabeth.
CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT. Born c1856 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of John & Catherine of Laverton. Unmarried Joiner in Skipton in 1891. Living with his sister Mary in 1901.in Leeds. In 1911 he was back in Laverton with his widower Father.
DORA WRIGHT. Born C1898 Masham. Dau of James [the slater] & Mary Jane Dennison.
EDWARD WRIGHT. Born 1766 Coverham. Died 23.2 1835 Ilton. Son of George & Henrietta Hardcastle. Married to Mary Imeson. of Fearby.
EDWARD WRIGHT. Born C1871 Ripon. Son of James & Alice. Cabinet maker. Unmarried in 1911.
This could be the following, found on the 1939 register:-
EDWARD WRIGHT. Born 6 Oct 1870. Married in 1911 to Kate Moorhouse. [born 1888]. Joiner.
EDWIN WRIGHT. Born C1887 Masham. Son of Henry & Margaret Alice Thornberry. Killed in WW1 fighting in France on 25 Sept. 1916. Commemorated on Thiepval memorial.
ELEANOR WRIGHT. Born C1862 Ripon. Dau of James [cab. maker] & Alice. She was a grocers shop assistant in 1881.
ELLEN WRIGHT Bap 1816 Masham. Dau of Christopher [slater] & Elizabeth
ELLEN WRIGHT. Born C1855 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of John & Catherine.
ELIZABETH WRIGHT Bp 1803 Masham. Dau of Christopher & Elizabeth. Possibly married Robert Imeson in 1828 in Masham.
ELIZABETH WRIGHT. Born C1838 Laverton. Dau of George & Ellen Athinson.
ELIZABETH WRIGHT Of Kirkby Malzeard. 1866 Banns read in Grewelthorpe for marriage to John Ascough of Grewelthorpe.
ELIZABETH ELLEN WRIGHT Born C1891 Dallowgill. Dau of John. [b1843].
ERNEST HARRY WRIGHT. Born 1877 Pateley Bridge. Died May 1958. Son of James & Mary Jane Dennison. Married Ethel Metcalfe. of Ripon. He was a slater. In 1911 they were living College Lane Masham.
FREDERICK WRIGHT Born C1854 Bolton Lancs. Life Insurance Agent married to Annie Elizabeth of Pntefract in 1906.
GEORGE WRIGHT. Born C1729 Carlton. Died 1.4.1806 Carlton. Son of Edward & Margaret Nicholson. Married to Henrietta Hardcastle.
GEORGE WRIGHT. Born C1762 Carlton. Died March 1843 Carlton. Son of George & Henrietta Hardcastle. Married to Margaret Barker. in 1783.
GEORGE WRIGHT. Born C1798 Carlton. Died C1871.He was a wheelwright & Draper. Married to *Ellen Athinson.*of Masham in 1827. Living Laverton in 1861.
GEORGE WRIGHT. Born 1806 Masham. Died March 1859 Pateley Bridge. Son of Edward & Mary Imeson. Married Ellen Atkinson. in 1827. at Masham. He was a slater living Laverton in 1851.
GEORGE WRIGHT. Born 3 .4.1810 Ilton cum Pott. Son of Christopher & Elizabeth Jeff. Married [1] Ellen in 1829. [2] Mary Broadwell. of Masham. in 1856.
GEORGE WRIGHT. December 1847. Farmer of K.Malzeard. Married Ellen Rodwell. of K. Malzeard. at Ripon Registrars Office.
GEORGE WRIGHT. Born C1864 Ripon. Son of James [cab. maker] & Alice.
GEORGE WRIGHT Born C1889 Healey. Farm Lab in 1921 Leighton.
GEORGE WRIGHT Born 21.7.1894 Ripon. In 1921 an out of work maltster. Married to Lillian. Living Stonebridgegate Ripon. In 1939 he was a paint grinder.
HARRY WRIGHT. Born C1878 Pateley Bridge. Son of James [the slater] & Mary Jane Dennsions.
HENRIETTA WRIGHT. Born C1842 Laverton. Dau of George [wheelwright] & Ellen Athinson. She married Robert Lofthouse. a woodman of Laverton in 1867.
HENRY WRIGHT. Born Sept 1855 Ilton cum Pott. Son of William & Hannah Brooks. Married Margaret Alice Thornberry. of Aiskew.

Henry Wright of Ilton.


HILDA WRIGHT. Born C1890 Dau of James [slater] & Mary Jane Dennsion.
JAMES WRIGHT. Born C1763 Coverham. Died March 1841 Carlton. Son of George & Henrietta Hardcastle. Married to Jane Metcalfe. in 1790.
JAMES WRIGHT. Born C1839 Laverton. Son of George [wheelwright] & Ellen Athinson. He was a cabinet maker living in Ripon in 1911 with his wife Alice. They had had 9 children, 7 still alive.
JAMES WRIGHT. Born 1850 Masham. Died 1919 Pateley Bridge. Son of William. Married Mary Jane Dennison. in Pateley Bridge in 1874. He was a slater.
JAMES WRIGHT Born 1853 Ripon. Son of Thomas [plumber] & Laine.
JAMES WRIGHT. Born C1860 K.Malzeard. Son of John & Catherine. Joiner.
JAMES WILLIAM WRIGHT. Born C1900 Ripon. Son of Ernest Harry & Ethel Metcalfe.
JAMES EDWARD WRIGHT Born C1909 Dishforth. Son of Fred & Ethel Eliza. at Mowbray View.
JANE WRIGHT. Born C1822. Died July 1860. Dau. of Robert & Margaret Lambert see grave below with Robert.
JANE WRIGHT. Born C1864 dau. of Joseph & Elizabeth Moore.
JOHN WRIGHT Born C1843 Kirkby Malzeard.
JOHN WRIGHT. Died Feb 1845 Laverton.Report in The York Herald 8/2/45. On Sunday 2nd Feb the remains of Brother John Wright of Laverton [Ancient Order of the Golden Fleece] was interred in Kirkby Malzeard churchyard being the 1st funeral of the order in this part of the country. A great number of persons from the surrounding villages were in attendance. The brethren, about 80 in number, went in procession from the lodge to the house of the deceased, and thence to the church, attired in black silk scarves and white gloves. The funeral service was performed by Rev.T.C.Wilson, curate. Throughout the ceremony the greatest order prevailed. The deceased had been married for 15 years, and had a family nearly equal to that number, of whom 6 children are surviving and a widow to deplore his death.
JOHN WRIGHT. Born C1826 Laverton. Farmer. Married to Catherine of Leeds.
JOHN WRIGHT. BornC 1827 Sutton. Died 7.11.1873. MI Grewelthorpe churchyard. Living Grewelthorpe in 1871. Landlord of The Crown Inn. Married to Margaret Peacock. of Azerley in 1858. Also shown on his gravestone is Mary Peacock died 19.4.1902. age 84.
Advert in press. 1872.
GREWELTHORPE. NEAR MASHAM AND RIPON. ELIGIBLE INVESTMENTS. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, Mr ROBERT IMESON. (“re of the Trustees of the late Thomas Barker, at the home Mr John Wright, the Crown Inn, Grewelthorpe. the county of York on Monday. October Fourteenth, 1872. Three for Four o’clock in the Afternoon precisely,


JOHN WRIGHT. Born C1845 Wilsill. Slater living Laverton in 1881.
JOHN WRIGHT. Born C1860 Grewelthorpe. Son of John & Margaret Peacock. of Crown Inn.
JOHN WRIGHT. Born C1866 Ripon. Son of James [cab. maker] & Alice. He was a joiner.
JOHN WRIGHT. Born C1867 Grewelthorpe. Died 1925 Bradford. Son of Joseph & Elizabeth Moore. In 1901 he was a railway guard in Bradford married to Dorothy of Middleton Tyas. They had 6 children. In 1921 he was a horse driver. In 1939 he was a retired dustbin man in Harrogate.
JOHN H. WRIGHT. Born C1872 Grewelthorpe. Son of Robert Henry & Mary. A gardeners apprentice in 1891.
JOSEPH WRIGHT. Born C1820. Grewelthorpe. Son of Margaret [died 1874] of Kirkby Malzeard who was his housekeeper in 1861 when he was a widower. He married Jane Buckle. of Masham in 1847. She died in 1860. It is possible his wife [Jane] died in childbirth as his son Robert was only aged 1 in 1861. In 1862 he married Elizabeth Moore. and had 4 more children. See newspaper report on his neighbour Isabella Harland on the Harland page.
JOSEPH WRIGHT. Bap. 24 May 1857 Grewelthorpe. Son of Joseph & Jane.
JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT. Born 9.6.1859 Healey, Masham. Died 20.11.1943 Durham. Killed in an accident. Son of William & Hannah Brooks. Married Dinah Annie Smart. in Dec. 1881 in Harrogate.
JOSIAH WRIGHT Born 1849 Lincoln. Son of Thomas [plumber] & Laine. of Ripon.
LEONARD WRIGHT. Azerley Corn Mill.

Newspaper ad. 1845.

LILIAN WRIGHT Born 1903 Ripon. Dau of Alfred [woodworker] & Amelia Wray. In 1921 she was a shop assist in a chemists.
LIZZIE WRIGHT. Born C1900 Dishforth. Dau of William & Jane.
LOUISA WRIGHT. Born 1897 Grewelthorpe. Dau of William [cattleman] & Jane.
MARGARET WRIGHT [nee ?] Born C1782 Kirkby Malzeard. Mother of Joseph. She was a widow in 1861.
MARGARET WRIGHT. Born C1850 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Joseph & Jane.
MARGARET WRIGHT. Born C1864 Grewelthorpe. Dau of John [Publican] & Margaret Peacock.. Married to George Gill the Hackfall gatekeeper. in 1891.
MARY WRIGHT Born 1722 Low Ash Head. Died 1775 Colsterdale. Dau of William. Married Thomas Graham of East Witton. in 1736.
MARY WRIGHT. Born C 1854 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Joseph & Jane.
MARY WRIGHT. Born C1855 Laverton. Dau of John & Catherine.
MARY WRIGHT. born C1858 Kirkby Malzeard. Unmarried cook in 1911 living in Harrogate.
MARY WRIGHT. Born C1859 Grewelthorpe. Dau of John [Publican] & Margaret Peaock.
MARY WRIGHT 1888 Grewelthorpe. Banns read for the marriage to John Crabtree.
MAUD HILDA WRIGHT. Born C 1908 Ripon. Dau of Ernest Harry & Ethel Metcalfe.
NELLIE WRIGHT. Born C1887 Kepwick. Dau of William [cattleman] & Jane.
OLIVE WRIGHT [nee?]. Born 28 Oct 1896. Charwoman living Ripon 1939.
OLIVE WRIGHT Born C1904 Bedale. Dau of Arthur [saddler] & Jane Rycroft.
PHYLLIS WRIGHT Born C1911 Mickley. Dau of Frederick & Annie Eliz.
REGINALD WRIGHT Born C1909 Mickley. Son of Frederick & Annie Elizabeth.
REGINALD WRIGHT. Born 22 March 1928 son of Olive the charwoman.
ROBERT WRIGHT. Born C1783. Died June 10 1855. Married to Margaret Lambert of Kirkby Malzeard. M.I.

Grave of Robert & Margaret Wright and daughter Jane in Grewelthorpe churchyard.


ROBERT WRIGHT. Born C1799 Kirkby Malzeard. Married to Sarah of Ripon.
ROBERT HENRY WRIGHT. Born C1848 Boroughbridge. Married to Mary of Ripon. Had children born in Grewelthorpe.
ROBERT WRIGHT. Bap. 8 Nov. 1859. Grewelthorpe. Son of Joseph & Jane.
SILVESTER WRIGHT. Born C1879 Pateley Bridge.* Son of James [the slater] & Mary Jane Dennsion. He was a horseman on a farm. Married Margaret of Northallerton. In 1911 living Halifax.
STANLEY WRIGHT Born C1908 Mickley. Son of Frederick & Annie Elizabeth.
THOMAS WRIGHT Born 1820, Ripon. Plumber & Glazier. Married to Laine.
THOMAS JAMES WRIGHT. Born C1874 Grewelthorpe. Son of Robert Henry & Mary.
THOMAS WRIGHT. Born C1879 Ripon. Son of James [cab. maker] & Alice. He was a drill instructor at a school.
TOM WRIGHT. Born C1894 Masham. Son of James [the slater] & Mary Jane Dennison.
THOMAS RICHMOND WRIGHT. Born C1896. Lived Fearby Cross. Age 20 [in April 1914] enlisted in the Royal Artillery No.77349. He was discharged in July, medically unfit. Next of Kin, his brother Harry Wright of College Lane Masham.
THOMAS WRIGHT. Born 4 June 1913. A circular sawyer in 1939 working Craven Gill.
VIOLET CUNNINGHAM WRIGHT Married in 1939 to B.McCall in Harrogate.

V.C.Wright after her wedding at Christ Church Harrogate.


WILLIAM WRIGHT. Born 20.5.1812 Ilton cum Pott. Died 20.5.1882 Ilton cum Pott.Son of Christopher & Elizabeth Jeff. Married Hannah Brooks.
WILLIAM WRIGHT. of Grewelthorpe Married in 1825 Mary Todd of Laverton.
WILLIAM WRIGHT. Born C1824 Sutton Grange. Farmer married to Mary of Azerley.
WILLIAM WRIGHT. Born 1870. Son of Joseph & Elizabeth Moore. In 1901 he was a cattleman on a farm in Dishforth. Married to Jane from Kepwick. He had 4 girls.
WILLIAM PYBUS WRIGHT. Born C1877 Grewelthorpe. Son of Robert Henry & Mary.