Is anyone familiar with a family of poeple with the surname Fondren?

Question:my great grand father is hilton fondren. anyone know about him or anyone else in the family?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: my great grand father is hilton fondren. anyone know about him or anyone else in the family?

I suspect you are in the USA or UK. Everyone else puts in their country. All the questions in English go into one "pot" and get read by people around the world.

I also suspect you are 14 - 24. Most Y!A users are.

Consider - if you are now 16 and come from a long line of teen-aged lovers who had their first child at 16, your great grandfather could have been born 64 years ago, in 1943. If you are now 80 and come from a long line of men who had their last child at 60, with a second wife, your great grandfather could have been been born 260 years ago (60 + 60 + 60 + 80) in 1747. Both possibilities are physically possible but highly improbable.

Together they show you why you should use dates and places in genealogy queries. If you are normal, 16 and generations run 33 years in your family, he was born 115 years ago (99+16) in 1892.

I found these. If you are an Australian, this isn't him.
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1910; Census Place: Justice Precinct 3, Bowie, Texas; Roll: T624_1534; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 14; Image: 432.

Hilton Fondren 28
Alice Fondren 25
Dovie Fondren 6
Rufus Fondren 5
Gorden Fondren 2
Jewel Fondren 2
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1930; Census Place: Hewitt, Carter, Oklahoma; Roll: 1896; Page: 22B; Enumeration District: 23; Image: 662.0.

Hilton Fondren 50
Alice M Fondren 46
Alice M Fondren 13
Armon P Fondren 9
Mary Fondren 4 3/12

You can see the complete census image at your local LDS Church's Family History Center to see his occupation, birth state, parents' birth state, how much his rent was in 1930 and many more things. The images are 1.5 MB each and I'm on dial-up.

Playboy Playmate in the 1970s, Debra Jo Fondren. There is a Fondren Avenue (Drive ,Parkway or something) in Houston.

I don't know of anyone with the surname, but www.ancestry.com has this to say about the name,
fondren
Americanized spelling of German Vondran, variant of Vorndran, a nickname meaning ‘ahead of all’.

Place of
Origin fondren Immigrants
England 2
San Domingo 1
Preussen 1
Ireland 1
Holland 1
Germany 1

Sorry it isn't what you asked for I just thought you might be interested in the information I've given.

try www.geanesreunited.co.uk

yes.
Here's a message from the Fondren family list. You can browse the older messages, and you can also subscribe and get talking to them.
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/FON...

if this link does not work just go to www.rootsweb.com and enter your great grandfathers name in the left column
http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/me...
there are some links on ancestry but its a pay site so in order to read it you would have to either use the free trial to read it.
hope this helps

Adding to Ted's information (for the people he found), Hilton's WWI Draft Registration card (September 12, 1918) indicated...
lived at #1 Dekalb, Bowie, Texas with his wife Alice. He was a farmer and born July 20, 1881.