Anthony Wren

Anthony Wren
Born abt 1540 probably in England. I think he had brother's named William, Ralph, Roland, Francis, and Thomas because they show up in the IGI with children of their own in the same place/time. However, they could also be cousins
Married: UNKNOWN abt 1563. It is likely but not positive that one of their little girls was named after her so she could be Mary, Frances, or Jane

CHILDREN

Mary
Christened 2 Feb 1562 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Source
IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
*Charles
Christened 26 Jun 1564 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: Surname spelled Wrene in record
Married Unknown
Source
IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Frances
Christened 10 Mar 1566 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Source
IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Jane
Christened 5 May 1569 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Source
IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653

Charles Wren 1564-1621 Gertrude Thornhaugh abt 1570

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Binchester like this:

BINCHESTER, a township in St. Andrew-Auckland parish, Durham: on the river Wear, adjacent to the Weardale railway, 2 miles N by E of Bishop-Auckland. Acres, 500. Real property, with Newfield, £3,473,-of which £2,294 are in mines. Pop., 33. Houses, 5. The manor has belonged to the Wren family since the time of James I and their mansion on it, a venerable building with wings, appears to have been built about the beginning of that King's reign. A spot on the brow of an eminence, commanding an extensive view, and now enclosed and cultivated, was the Roman station Binovium or Vinovium, and has yielded a great variety of Roman relics. The extent of the station was probably about 30 acres. The Roman Watling-street passed either through it, or close on its western side.

In the Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson there is a reference to the family as the "Wrathful Wrens" by the Bishopric and that there was difficulty with the pedigree which was cleared up by a Mr. Farnham Burke (who had access to the original records preserved at Heralds College) and solves a problem caused by a book, Visitation of Durham, published in 1887 written by Mr. Joseph Foster.  However, the problem has not been solved.  I'm still unsure about Gertrude.  According to Foster, Gertrude daughter of Sir Charles Wren became a nun.  I originally gathered this information from Ancestral File.


(Sir Knight) Charles Wren
Christening 26 Jun 1564 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Parents: Anthony Wrene (no mother listed)
Married: Gertrude Thornhaugh abt 1597
Attended Brasenose College in Oxford
Knighted 28 May 1607
Buried 24 Mar 1621 Auckland, St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Book:  North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
Gertrude Thornhaugh
Born abt 1570 Fenton, Nottingham, England
Parents:  John Thornhaugh
Buried 4 Dec 1616 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206

CHILDREN

Frances Wren (she belongs to a Charles Wren, just not sure this one)
Christening 1 Sep 1598 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Married Ralph Blackstone abt 1618
Note:  Ralph's surname is spelled Blakiston in Family Search.  His marriage to Frances was his second.
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Marriage: Ancestral File
Lynley Wren
Born 22 Sep 1600
Christening 14 Oct 1600 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: His given name is spelled Lynley in record
Married Barbara Blackstone 27 Sep 1622 Durham, England
Children: Barbara, William, Lindley, Anthony, Ralph, Elizabeth, Charles
Sources
Birth and Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
Marriage: North County Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 12 and on page 8 he is physically described as followed: "...a fine gentl. very livelye, and of a free cariage etc."  his wife Barbara is described as "a mightye gallant, a fine daintie gentlewoeman if shee knew not how to value and prise the perfections that God hath given hir"
Charles Wren
Christening 1 Nov 1601 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Died unmarried
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Unmarried status:  Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
John Wren
Christening 22 Jul 1604 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Died unmarried
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Unmarried status:  Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
Jeremy Wren
Born abt 1605
Buried 9 Jul 1616 in the quire of Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
Henry Wren
Born abt 1607
Married Mary Pemberton
Sources
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
William Wren
Christening 31 Dec 1609 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: His name is abbreviated Willm in record
Buried 23 Jul 1616 in the quire of Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
*Gertrude Wren
Christening 20 Oct 1611 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: Her given name is spelled Garthrude in record
Married George Trotter 21 Apr 1629 England
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Elizabeth Wren
Christening 17 Jul 1614 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: Her surname is spelled Wrenn in record
Buried 1 Nov 1614 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Burial: ebook North Country Diaries by John C Hodgson

George Trotter 1607 Gertrude Wren 1611

Here we go with controversy.  I found the original information for George's and Gertrude's christening in the Auckland St Andrew parish.  However, according to the Book North Country Diaries by JC Hodgson, Charles Wren's daughter Gertrude was a nun. 

Gertude Wren listed below might not be the right woman.  I need to find the original marriage record.  The fact I found both George and Gertrude together in the same Parish is a good and bad thing.  This information came from a Family Group Sheet if I remember right, so there is a likelihood that it is not correct.

George Trotter
Christened 7 Jun 1607 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Parents: George Trotter (no mother listed)
Married Gertrude Wren 21 Apr 1629 England
Note: The place of marriage may be Massachusetts
Sources
England Births and Christenings Film 0091080 Batch P000211
Gertrude Wren
Christened 20 Oct 1611 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: Her given name is spelled Garthrude in record
Parents: Charles Wren (no mother listed)
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 91080 Batch P00021-1
CHILDREN

William Trotter 
Born 4 Apr 1630 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Married 1) Cutbury Gibbs 9 Dec 1652 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Children:  Mary, Rebecca, Samuel, Benjamin, William, Abigail, Sarah, Robert
2) Alice Ebell 28 Sep 1667 New Jersey
Died 1676 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Ancestral File

William Trotter 1627-1676 Cutbury Gibbs 1628

William Trotter
Born 4 Apr 1630 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note:  Newbury existed as a plantation prior to its being settled in 1635.  Some sources claim William may have been born in England because his birth year is 1630. 
Parents George Trotter and Gertrude Wren
Religion:  Quaker
Married 1) Cutbury Gibbs 9 Dec 1652 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note: Her name IS Cutbury not Catherine in the record
2) Alice Ebel 28 Sep 1667 New York City, New York
Died September 1676 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Marriage to Cutbury : Massachusetts Marriages 1695-1910  Film 0886202-03 Batch M50032-2
Marriage to Alice:  Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriage Records Before 1699. Pompton Lakes, NJ, USA: Biblio Co., 1926
A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England Before 1692 Volume 4 Treadway-Trow By James Savage
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1652 page 292
Ipswich Court Records and Files, The Essex Antiquarian, vol. 10, 1906
http://www.dougwilson.com/family/reports/fam1058.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49075126
Cutbury Gibbs (Some say Catherine others say Ann, but in their marriage record it IS Cutbury)
Born 8 Jul 1628 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Parents John Gibbs and Joan Scott
1667 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Sources
A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England Before 1692 Volume 4 Treadway-Trow By James Savage Note:  Savage disparages her given name, calling it "unchristian"

CHILDREN (those he had with Cutbury)

Mary Trotter
Born 22 Jan 1652 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note:  the calendar used at the time began in March so the real year for Mary's birth would be 1653.  With that said, in Newbury court records, in 1653: “William Trotter and wife fined and to be whipped for defiling themselves before the marriage bed.”
Sources
Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C50032-1 Film 823653
Rebecca Trotter
Born 5 Jul 1655 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Married Reverend John Drake 7 Jul 1677 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Note:  Alternate city for marriage place is Elizabethtown
Children: Hannah, John, Francis, Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ebenezer, Ephraim, Rebecca, Abigail, Mary
Buried 1702 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C50032-1 Film 823653

Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. I page 527

http://ringleib.com/Ringleib_Info/Family_Tree/ColinR/d782.htm#P2357
Samuel Trotter
Born 5 Jun 1657 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note: given name is spelled Samuell in record
Married Hannah Higgins abt 1680 New Jersey
Children:  Abigail, Benjamin, William, Hannah, Rebecca, Sarah, Mary, Phoebe
Died Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C50032-1 Film 823653 ref 2
Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988
Benjamin Trotter
Born Jun 1659 Newbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Note:  his given name is not on the record
Married Hannah
Children: Sarah, Abigail, Benjamin, William, Hannah, Rebecca, Mary, unnamed baby
Death abt 1726 (Will Proved 18 Apr 1726)  
Sources
Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C50032-1 Film 823653
New Jersey Abstract of Wills page 472-3 
*William Trotter
Born 1661 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Occupation: Sawyer working in Philadelphia
Married Rebecca Theach 18 Apr 1693 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Children:  William, Joseph, Benjamin
Died 11 Sep 1699 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Note:  he died of yellow fever a few months before the birth of their last son
Sources
https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/webster/trotter
Abigail Trotter
Born 1 Feb 1663 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note:  name spelled Abigaill in record
Died 11 Sep 1699 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Sources
Birth:  Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C04442-7  Film 877468 ref 15
Sarah Trotter
Born 3 May 1665 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note: Her given name is spelled Sara in the record
Married Joseph Martin 25 Nov 1679 Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children:  James, Joseph, Abigail, David, Joshua, Moses
Died Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Birth:  Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C04442-7  Film 877468 ref 18
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/z/i/z/John-F-Corleto/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0864.html
Robert Trotter
Born 1667 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Died Baltimore, Maryland
Sources
Family Search