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Noble Wright. According to his military records he joined the military in 1810 at the age of 16. He was from Clogherny and a weaver by trade. Looking for any further information on this family.

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Tim,

I think you may struggle to get any information on Noble. Normally you need to rely on church records to trace someone born in the late 1700s. However none of the churches in Clogherny has any records for that period.

If your ancestor was a weaver, that suggests he came from a labouring background. Labourers tended to move around a lot (to follow available work). They tended to weave in the winter months when there was not much labouring required.  People who moved around rarely feature in many records.

I looked to see if there were any Noble Wrights in the 1901 census of Tyrone. (Families often repeated the same names, generation after generation). That might have given a clue as to any relatives in the area after your Nobel left, but there was no-one named Noble Wright anywhere in Ireland that year. There were 240 people named Wright in Co. Tyrone, mostly Presbyterian or Church of Ireland. So probably Plantation settler backgrounds.

 

 

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