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From: "Cathy Wright" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: Wroten
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 06:14:39 -0500
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It is exciting to finally hear all this talk about the Wroten's. That is
why I joined this board. I only just learned last summer that I was related
to the Wroten's, Wroton's, Raughton's, etc. I was tracing the name back
from where my Mom grew up in Ashe County, NC. She is a Roten. I went to
the archives in Wilmington and discovered the deed of the Wroten's acreage
in the Broadkill Hundred in Sussex County back in the sixteen and seventeen
hundreds. I called my Mom and told her that I traced the family back to
where we live today, in Delaware. I was very surprised that I have grown
all around where they lived so many years ago. My Mom and Dad moved up here
from NC/TN in the fifty's when Dad got out of the Korean War. He heard
there was work up here so this is where they came and still live here today.
They are Glynn and Dorothy Payne.

There is a Wroten's Hardware in Newport and I am sure that they are
descendants. I enjoy tracing the family history and intend on doing more
research after the tax season. I am swamped right now with tax preparation.

Cathy Payne
Newark, DE


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy M. Dickinson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: Wroten


> Thanks for the info. The last time I went to visit my mom, which was last
> 4th of July, I went to the Delaware archives. I discovered a new way to
> research, in what I call the snatch and grab...
>
> I found myself short on time so I didn't read anything I copied. I just
> looked for the last names I needed, in the county I needed them, and
copied
> them and read them later, when I got home. I found out I get a lot more
> info that way, in not wasting time with reading while I'm there.
>
> I think I'll assault the MD archives in much the same manner!
>
> Nancy M. Dickinson
> Webmaster Fayette County Genealogy - OHGenWeb
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohfayett
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: Wroten
>
>
> > In a message dated 4/1/2004 12:46:20 PM Central Standard Time,
> > writes:
> >
> > > i dont know if you might of missed my posting but there is 3 binder
> books
> > > in
> > > the cambridge library on the wroten family.They are in the maryland
> room. It
> > >
> > > has all the ways the family name was spelled also it is a great volume
> for
> > > anyone searching the family name my husband's great grandmother was
lena
> > > wroten
> > > daughter of george wroten and annie thompson.
> > >
> >
> > If you have time after going to Cambridge and the Maryland Archives, you
> > might want to make a quick trip to Dover, De, to the Delaware Public
> Archives
> > (phone, directions online).
> >
> > There was a Wroten family that lived in Milford, DE, when I was growing
up
> > there in the 50s and 60s. One of them was a classmate of mine -- he's
not
> > listed in the Milford phone book today. I just looked. Deep sigh. His
> dad owned
> > the town's bookstore and would probably be hitting his 80s if he were
> alive
> > still today. Son's name was James. Dad's name?? Mr. Wroten! (Sorry)
> >
> > FYI: Milford is just a few miles from the MD state line.
> >
> > Another suggestion: If you check out Yahoo's white pages (putting just
> the
> > name Wroten with no first names and just the name of a state -- e.g.,
DE),
> you
> > could find that there are a small number of living Wrotens in areas that
> you
> > know you might have had kin. I looked in the white pages putting in
just
> > Wroten and DE and found the number of Wrotens in the whole state of
> Delaware was
> > actually quite small. Today, they live all the way from the bottom of
the
> state
> > to the top!
> >
> > I've actually made phone calls to people with my family names when the
> number
> > of people in a targe area has been small. A couple of times, I've
struck
> > gold. Even if folks are not genealogy-hungry, I've found that they
> respond quite
> > positively to me. Most people like learning that I could be a cousin
and
> > they are happy to share even the little that they know about their
family.
> Can't
> > Hurt!
> >
> > Karen
> >
> >
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