Update News:
17/11/04
Oldest Photographs: Mary Hannah Dunn and John Shepherd, my gg-grandparents
(taken around 1890) and their daughter Margaret Ann Dunn Shepherd, my
g-grandmother (~ 1910). Provided jointly by my long-lost
second cousins Beverly Hemmings and Margaret Rutherford.
01/02/04 Oldest Wren photograph to
date. My gg-uncle Daniel Wren and his wife Mary Isabella Stonehouse.
Many thanks to Joan Pattison
This site contains the information gathered by
Mick and Rosie Wren about their ancestors for their children, Vicky, Lucy
and Polly Wren.
Recent family names include Wren,
Parkinson,
Fenney and Lee. See the surnames page for a complete
list. Currently the Wrens go back to Cumbria around 1800, the Lees to
Lincolnshire in the 1780's, the Parkinson's to Lancashire in 1828 and the Fenneys to
1544 (that's 15 generations from my children to Richard Feney and his wife Jane
Thirlwynd!) also in Lancashire.
Click on a surname
to see the respective family tree.
Ironically, I've recently discovered that the male Wren line stops with my
ggg-grandfather Joseph Wren the 'bastard son
of Mary Wren'. I doubt if we'll ever know who Joseph's father was and what
surname we might have inherited. Genetically though it doesn't
matter. We're still Wren descendants as well as descendants of dozens of
other families.
The background page explains how this interest
and this site came about. The photo album contains
some of the key photographs relating to our history. There are plenty of
other photographs throughout the site. The links page
contains links to other sites of interest to Wren researchers and general genealogists.
I'd like to make a
special mention to five researchers without whom this site would be a mere shadow
of what it is:
