Beaver Island ArchiveA primary-source archive & encyclopedia45°40′N 85°33′W · Lake Michigan
Colour scheme
Search

Person

Clarence Redner

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypePerson
ErasIrish era
On this page
Person
Spouse
Elizabeth Gibson Redner
Eras
Irish era
Concepts
heritagemigrationdemography

Summary

Clarence Redner is named as Elizabeth Gibson’s husband. The held article provides no further biographical details.

Open questions

  • Which marriage, census, directory, and death records identify Clarence Redner?
  • Helen Collar’s church-record transcription calls Elizabeth Gibson’s husband “Charles Redner,” while the later Northern Islander account calls him “Clarence Redner.” Are these the same person, or does one transcription or secondary account contain an error?

See also

Sources

See the sources block above.

Kin

This articleClarence RednerElizabethGibson Redner
Only relations stated in the sources are drawn; absence means unrecorded, not childless or unmarried.

Sources

  1. Connie Wojan, "The Stories Behind the Names of Islanders Lost on the Great Lakes," Northern Islander, February 2026.
    Described in this archive: Northern Islander, 1850–1856.
    Names Clarence Redner as Elizabeth Gibson's husband in a January 1896 marriage and as the deceased husband represented by a 1918 directory entry; it does not provide birth or death dates. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Clarence Redner”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/people/clarence-redner/, accessed [date], citing Connie Wojan, "The Stories Behind the Names of Islanders Lost on the Great Lakes," Northern Islander, February 2026..

Last revised 2026-08-02. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

BibTeX for “Clarence Redner”RIS for “Clarence Redner”