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Estate plans of Foodie in Fife, correspondence, testaments and deeds, 1700-2001. The papers provide detailed information on the legal and personal affairs of the Wright family in the 18th and 19th centuries, and on the estate of Foodie. The donor has provided a listing of the documents, a genealogical outline of the Wright family, a list of the properties related to the Wright family, and an article regarding the Wrights of Loss by R.T Young. Also included is a transcription of GD490/20, a notebook written by Dr. Peter Wright regarding the Wright family history. |
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The Wright family has long had roots in the counties of Fife and Stirling, dating back to the 15th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the family appears to have prospered. James Wright of Inverallan (ca. 1615-1674) accumulated many estates in his lifetime, leaving the lands of Loss, Ashentre, Cauldquhame, Ploverburn, and Callendar, in the parish of Logie in Stirling, to his eldest son, Alexander, (d. 1708); and Droumdouls and Houghead in Perth to his son Archibald. Alexander further expanded the family domain by marrying Mary Fergus (d. 1732), heiress to the estate of Freuchie in Fife, in 1672.
Alexander's sons continued to acquire more lands. James, (1679-1745), married Janet Galloway, gaining the estate of Lipnoch in Stirling, near to the family estate of Loss, through this marriage. Robert, (1688-1749), inherited £2000 upon his uncle Robert's death in 1729, and with it purchased the estate of Foodie in the parish of Dairsie in Fife. Upon Robert's death, the estate passed to his eldest son Robert (1719-1769), an amateur landscape architect and surveyor. The younger Robert had no children and his brother James (1721-1800), minister of Logie in Stirling inherited the lands in 1769. James also became the owner of Loss at the death of his cousin, James Wright of Loss, (d. 1769), who was grandson of Alexander Wright. James Wright of Logie sold Loss in 1778. Peter Wright, (b.1737), one of Alexander's youngest sons, established himself as a doctor in Glasgow, and in his latter years worked on the Wright family history. |