Wren Kin

While unsourced genealogies are not considered “good” genealogies (in that every fact has a documented source to back it up) they can still be very helpful to other family researchers, especially if contact information is provided.

To that end, Ruth and I have decided to create a special category in the Wren Kin website, one that will offer readers some family histories which are not fully documented. This category will be called Breadcrumbs.

I would like to remind everyone, however, not to take information from Breadcrumbs as fact unless they can find documentation to back it up. Please contact the authors of these genealogies (contacts will always be provided) for more information on the specific genealogy.

And to inaugurate our Breadcrumbs category, Laura Lee Jaworski has given us her family information on the descendants of Vincent Wren, which you may download in PDF format by clicking here.

Here is my very rough genealogy on Vincent Wren. I’ve got TONS of information on the family, but at this point can only provide names. This information has been gathered from first hand knowledge of decendents and then backed up mostly by census records, published bible records, historical accounts, newspaper articles and obituaries. Where I can not provide sources in this email given the shear volumn of information and time contraints due to having two pre-school age children, they do exist. If anyone is interested, I am more than willing to provide sources in limited numbers. Most of my information, however, was gleaned from the internet and Ancestry.com. Woodson Wren and his brother Thomas died in Natchez, MS along with some of their children. After the Civil War, many of the family moved to New Orleans. Some are in Memphis, TN and others are in Michigan. Sally married McMurtry and some of her children went to Natchez, MS as well (or there abouts). Tabitha McMurtry, Sally Wrenn’s daughter, married Holtzclaw and stayed in Kentucky. Ally died in Kentucky and her daughter and husband moved to Indiana. Polly married a Spilman and they stayed in Kentucky as well. We have no idea what happened to Claibourne.

7- Laura Lee Bauerle Jaworski - myself
6- Virginia Lee Edwards - James Robert Bauerle - parents
5- Virginia Lee Davis - Harold Alonzo Edwards - grandparents
4- Susie Wren Allen - Sumpter Boyer Davis - greatgrandparents
3- Sarah Walworth Wren - Charles Henry Allen - 2nd great grandparents
2- William Wren - Susan Van Allen - 3rd great grandparents
1- Woodson Wren - Mary “Polly” Grant - 4th great grandparents
Vincent Wren - Tabitha Crenshaw - 5th great grandparents

Laura Lee Jaworski
Spotsylvania, VA