Wren Kin
From the monthly archives: March 2007
Over at the Wren Family Surname Forum at Genforum, I found this statement:
It is said Randolph Wren signed off on the marriage of Binns Jones Wren and Elizabeth Betsy Depew in Kentucky. I have never been able to document this information.
The record of this marriage may be [...]
Source Citation: Thomas W. Wren will (1924), Wood County Clerk, Quitman, Texas. Transcription by Bonnie Wren, from a photocopy of the original. Downloaded from WrenKin.com on [insert today’s date].
No. 1493n
Last Will and Testament
of
T. W. Wren.
Filed for Record
Feb 27 1924
J. J. McLeod, Clark [...]
From:
TENNESSEE TIDBITS
1778-1914
VOLUME III
by Marjorie Hood Fischer
Ruth Blake Burns
Ram Press
1239 Coventry Road
Vista, CA 92084
Page 415
“WREN, Nicholas
Taxes were not collected for 1832 as this person has removed from the County. (Crl TN, Co Ct Min, 2/505)”
In the July 1991 issue of the original Wren Kin Newsletter, Bobby Joe Wren’s column “Rememberin’” discussed his brother, Worth Sylvester Wren, Sr.
We regret to inform you this gentleman has passed away.
February 13, 2007
Mr. Wren
Funeral services for Worth S. Wren Sr., 83, of Lampasas were Feb. 11, 2007, at Briggs-Gamel-Wilcox [...]
WILLIAM BOYCE—Will Book B, Page 348—Names wife, Elizabeth; sons, John and William; daughters, Betsey Wilson, Patsy Moody and Nancy Wrenn. Written December 9, 1811; probated February 1812. Executors—John and William (sons) Thomas Wren (son-in-law). Witnesses—William Smith, Stephen Smith.
“Fayette County Will Abstracts, Contributed by Mrs. Joseph Beard and Mrs. Ernest Dunlap, Bryan Station Chapter)” pg. [...]
VINCENT WREN–Book B, age 46–Names three eldest children, Sally McMurtry, Woodson Wren and Polly Spillman, daughter Temperance Wren, son, Thomas Wren. Grand-son, Vincent Wren McMurtry. Wife, Tabitha Wren. Exec’s., Wm. Brown, Sr. and Alexander McMurtry. Written Mch. 14, 1810. Witnesses, Wm. Lobb, Nathan Pulliam, Robert Pulliam. Probated Aug. Court 1810. “Garrard Co, Kentucky, Copied by [...]
My goal is to create a Wren/Wrenn/Ren/Renn database and stuff it full of all the vital records, family group sheets, etc. that we can gather.
Until that day comes, we’ll work with this temporary index. At present it only contains marriages from a few counties in Kentucky and Tennessee [...]
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