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’m slowly making my way through the member-submitted data in Ruth Wren’s collection of family group sheets and lineage charts and adding them to our database. Tonight I added a lineage chart that includes Butler County, Alabama Wrens who migrated to Louisiana.
If you have Wrens from the Red River and Natchitoches Parishes of Louisiana, [...]

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Ruth Wren sent me a binder containing all the family group sheets submitted by Wren Family Association members in the early 1990s.
I’ve been wondering about the best way to share it with everyone, and have decided to input each group sheet into the database, preferably after I’ve found some vital records to back [...]

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This article was published in the Wren Kin Newsletter April 1990, Vol. 1, Issue No. 2. and is reprinted here with the permission of author Ruth Wren.
According to census records, William R. Wren was born in Virginia between 1770 and 1780. We can place him in South Carolina in 1810 and 1815 for his [...]

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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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PLEASE NOTE: Since I wrote this post, this offer has been withdrawn due to the changes announced here.

I’ve been looking for ways to lower the cost of DNA testing for the Wren Family Association DNA Surname Project. The test we recommend costs $155, which might be too expensive for some.
The best price-reduction option so far [...]

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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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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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