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Orville Wright

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Rebecca Sykes

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Orville Wright — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 33 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1678 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Oct 1760 
  • Death Location:
  • Columbia, Tolland, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Yard Cemetery, Columbia, Tolland, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Wright
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1697 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Benoni Wright (Ahnentafel No:16 )

• Sources for Rebecca Sykes

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for son Benoni Wright.
  • ² Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934, Death record for Rebecca Wright.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/11/2014).
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1969, Vol. 123, p. 264.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ⁶ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 843.