John
Clarke
Wright
Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia
Ancestors 
Son of Mark Wright
and Catherine (Clarke) McHeffey
Brother of
Ann Wright [half], Patrick Mansfield Maxwell Wright, Mark Henry Hector Wright, Richard Andrew McHeffey MLA [half], Eleanor (McHeffey) Allison [half], Robert McHeffey [half] and Elizabeth Campbell McHeffey [half]
Husband of
Ann (Gordon) Wright
— married
29 Nov 1815 in Windsor, Nova Scotia
Descendants 
Father of
John Clarke Wright, Harriet Buchanan (Wright) Grant, Andrew Inglis Wright, Mark Wright, Robert Wright, Michael Gordon Wright, Catherine Wright, Mary Elisabeth (Wright) McHardie and Eleanor Jane (Wright) Grant
Died
at age 72
in Hants ,Nova Scotia
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Apr 2016
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Biography
His will was probated Oct 27 1858 in Douglas (Hants)
Sources
http://novascotia.ca/natr/land/indexmaps/064.pdf land grant
http://sbenoit.tripod.com/clarke.html Shirley Benoit has the wrong sister as mother of John, Patrick and Mark Wright but some of the other info is accurate
1817 Douglas census household of John Wright
https://novascotia.ca/archives/census/returnsRG1v445.asp?ID=4887
1 male over 50,2 males between 16 and 50,1boy ,1woman ,1 girl
https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/image-details?page=2&place=3050785&lifeEvent=102899&rmsId=TH-909-54310-152966-43&imageIndex=97&singleView=true. death date from cemetery records
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/257605119/john-clarke-wright#
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
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~6.25%
Cynthia Oxman
:
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Laura Bezzeg :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A125843 [compare], Ancestry member lbezzeg
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~0.78%
Mark Maxner :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JF3078256 [compare], Ancestry member Mlmaxner
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