Wren Kin

Mr. Alvin Lee Wren was the son of James Milam Wren (born 1862 in Smith County, Texas), the grandson of James C. Wren (born 1832 in Tennessee), and the great grandson of William Wren (born about 1802 in Kentucky).
Alvin’s great-grandfather William Wren was brother to Nicholas Wren, the Texan war hero mentioned several [...]

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I had a fine time following Mr. Alexander Wren (and his wife, Amarilla S. Wood) from state to state.
Born in Virginia in May 1831 according to the 1900 U.S. Census, I tracked him from Warren County, Illinois in 1850 and 1860, to Appanoose County, Iowa in 1870, to Mitchell County, Kansas in 1880, to [...]

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I’ve been in contact with a descendant of the Bamburg/Wren line from Coushatta, Louisiana and am in the process of adding more data on that family to our database. How exciting!
And in my online cemetery hopping I found William E. Wren and his wife Pearl N. and their family, all from Iowa and apparently moved [...]

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I wasn’t having as much success as I’d hoped in interviewing relatives about my great-grandparents.

The Railroad Retirement Board will not release information on living individuals, but if your deceased ancestor worked for the railroad from 1937 on, they will provide you with his or her employment records for a non-refundable search fee. [...]

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“In beta” means I’m still working out the kinks. Please take a look and tell me what you think.
You’ll have to register for an account, but don’t worry, it’s free and your email won’t be sold to anyone.
Bear with me if there are any hiccups in the process, as this is new [...]

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Subscribers of the original Wren Kin newsletter will remember the sweet and informative columns of Mr. Bobby Joe Wren.
Bobby Joe passed away in 2000, but I wanted to post the notice of his death here for all the people who came to know him through the pages of Wren Kin.

A WREN HAS [...]

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The dates and counties of these marriages have been entered into the W(R)en(n) database:
Bennie WREN, Delia TUCKER (1914)
Carter WREN, Rilla SHAW (1882)
J.C. WREN, Mattie GODFREY (1878)
Sources used: Marriage Records Van Zandt County Texas 1909-1931, Compiled by Quana Barber, Ruth Johnson & Maefayr Hooton; and Van Zandt County Texas Marriage Records 1855-1884, transcribed, compiled & [...]

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I just received a package from Ruth containing Civil War Pension records for the following individuals:

Mrs. Anna K. Wren, Wood County, Texas
Mrs. E.J. Wren, Wood County, Texas
G.W. Wren, Lamar County, Texas
Mrs. M.A. Wren, Brown County, Texas
T.E. Wren, Brazos County, Texas
W.B. Wren, Anderson County, Texas
William B. Wrenn, Falls County, Texas
William Henry Wrenn, Mills County, Texas

All I [...]

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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 found in the book Warren County, Kentucky marriages, [...]

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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 County Court
Wood County, TEXAS
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WOOD KNOW ALL [...]

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