Wren

References:

Wren family research by Jenny Wren.
Wren family research by Jimmy Kelly.
Wren genealogy (and here) by Alison Tate.
LETTER HOUSE in [Houses of Kerry]
Sources yet to be consulted:
- WREN in [Smith, 1756]

Capt. Thomas Wren,
of Golmoylestown, Co.Meath [Alison Tate],
later of Littur, Aghavallen par, on the coast a few miles W of Ballylongford, Co.Kerry,
some Wren researchers say he was of Hinton, Cambridgeshire (must be Cherry Hinton), was 2nd cousin of the father of the architect and scientist Sir Christopher Wren, and settled in Ireland after the 1641 Rebellion,
but [Alison Tate] convincingly gives his parentage as Irish,
settled in Littur,
mar pre-1655 to Mary Blennerhassett [descendant of Edward III],
died 1662,
had issue:

Charles Wren,
mar Ellen Blennerhassett [descendant of Edward III],
had issue:

John Wren,
of Littur House, Littur, Co.Kerry,
High Sheriff of Co. Kerry 1732,
mar 1733 to Honora Ponsonby [dau of Thomas Ponsonby and Susanna ----],
died 1769,
had issue:

Thomas Wren,
mar Alice Leslie [dau of Robert Leslie],
died 1792,
she mar 2ndly 1811 to George Gunn,
had issue:

John Wren,
[Alison Tate] gives the descent down to him.

[Jimmy Kelly] says Thomas Wren below is the son of John Wren above.
[LR] records should be able to prove it.

Thomas Wren,
of Littur, apparently of Littur House, his son John's obituary says he was born "at his ancestral home at Littor House, County Kerry, Ireland, on June 24, 1855",
born 1824, Protestant,
mar Mary Enright [NOT "Enight"],
children Catholic, she must have been Catholic,
had issue:

Edward Wren,
Catholic, born Sept 1849, Littur, Co.Kerry.

Wren genealogy
- Wren of Co.Kerry

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