Glenwright Name Study - North America

Date: 1770 to 2000
Location: North America
Surname/tag: Glenwright

This page Highlights the Glenwright families that emigrated to North America.

Links to Glenwright families that emigrated to the USA

• John Glenwright (christened 1751-1837), of the 3rd Battalion Royal Artillery who fought in the Siege of Charleston during the American Revolution, and married his wife Elizabeth (Maddutz) Glenwright (married 1781) while in South Carolina. They returned to England. His great-nephew Thomas George Glenwright and great-great-nephew Henry H Glenwright (see below) settled permanently in the USA.
• Mr. Glenritt and his wife who arrived on Apr 22, 1800 at Philadelphia on board the sailing ship Hope from Cape Francois, Haiti. We know nothing more about them.
• John Glenwright, immigrated 1845 through New York to East Greenwich, Rhode Island. John's grandfather had migrated across the Pennines to Cumberland. He has no more living descendants with the Glenwright surname; the last died in 1948.
• Thomas Glenwright, immigrated 1848, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Thomas was a coal miner from County Durham and came with his pregnant wife Hannah and infant daughter Sarah Ann. His descendants lived in eastern Pennsylvania and then spread across the country.
• Jane (Glenwright) Carruthers, immigrated circa 1867, Cortland County, New York. She came with her husband and young family, and was a cousin of John Glenwright above.
• Esther (Glenwright) Bond, immigrated circa 1867, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania), sister of Thomas listed above. She came with her husband and young family. They moved onward to Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the 1880's or 1890's.
• George Glenwright, immigrated circa 1869, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, nephew of Thomas listed above. He brought his wife Isabel and daughter Eleanor with him, but the family returned to County Durham before 1877, and left for the gold mines of New South Wales, Australia the following year.
• Henry H Glenwright, immigrated 1881, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. He was the patriarch of the large Glenwright families of north-central Pennsylvania and the Genesee Valley region of New York. His father was a cousin of Thomas and [[Glenwright-518|Esther] above.
• Thomas Glenwright, immigrated 1889, Tamarack, Michigan. Thomas was a mning engineer from Tyneside. The family returned to England before 1900.
• Martha Edith (Glenwright) Harrison, immigrated 1912, Sangamon County, Illinois. "Edie" was born into a mining family. She came to Illinois from County Durham with her husband Richard and their three oldest children.

Links to Glenwright families that emigrated to Canada

• Thomas Forster Glenwright, immigrated 1870, Quebec City, later Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Thomas was a coal miner from County Durham. Within a month, he moved near Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA where he lived a few years before finally settling in Nova Scotia, where he died in a mine explosion in 1873. His widow, Hannah (Grieg) Glenwright, re-immigrated 1882, Winnipeg, Manitoba returned to England for a few years but then re-emigrated to Canada with all her sons.
• Joseph Glenwright, immigrated about 1906, returned to England about 1908, his widow and sons re-immigrated about 1914. Joseph was a labourer/railway porter/coal miner from Allendale, Northumberland who moved first to Newcastle, then the Northumberland Coast, and then to Nova Scotia.