Wren Family History
Wren Name Meaning
English: nickname from the bird, Middle English wrenne,
probably in reference to its small size.Irish: Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó Rinn ‘descendant of Rinn’, a personal name
possibly derived from reann ‘spear’.Welsh:
Anglicized form of Welsh Uren.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
346,410
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wren
Name Distribution of Wren Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wren families
 380 - 758  127 - 379 |
 1 - 126  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wren families
|
29 - 56 10 - 28 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wren census records
You can see how Wren families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
View all Wren census records
>
Wren Family Origin
Wren Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Wren emigration records
You can find out when most of the Wren families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Wren emigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Wren Emigration Information (AU)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Wren emigration records
You can find out when most of the Wren families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Wren emigration records >
from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Wren Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wren census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Wren ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Wren census records >
Military Service by Wren
Message Board about Wren
405 Threads, 45
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Wren.
Threads: 405 - Messages: 45
Start a FREE Wren family tree
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.
About Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×