The Warburton Website

I was recently contacted by Oliver Lott whose third great aunt is Susan Lott nee Warburton, the sister of Nurse…

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Last December I added the story of Emily Jane Warburton, as written by her descendant Mick Bourke, to the External Documents section of the Papers page. Recently Paul Kinsey sent me information that showed how Emily Jane was descended from a branch of the Warburton Village clan.

Paul also sent me a couple of wills…

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A recent update of the Garryhinch clan introduced a slightly speculative origin for Richard Warburton of Dublin. There is good evidence that Richard was the same Richard, son of George, who became an apprentice to Thomas Ince, Haberdasher, in 1611. There is also evidence to identify George as associated with both Hulse and Boughton in Cheshire. George of Boughton is identified in the will of Peter Warburton, Macebearer of Chester, as his cousin. Another cousin was called Robert. Peter’s father is identified as Thomas, Rector of Warburton.

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I have been spending some time recently on my own family tree. It is the Greater Hale Barns tree on the website and it differs from all the other Warburton trees on the website in that it is more then a tree of descendants from an earliest known Warburton ancestor. It also has details of my various other paternal and maternal lines of descent. A copy is loaded to Ancestry Public Trees to support my AncestryDNA result.

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A new BigY DNA result from the Markham Family has recently been posted in the Warburton DNA Project. It shows *STR (Short Tandem Repeat; see explanation at the end) matches with two results from The Warburton Village clan.

To recap, in the early days….

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Earlier this year I wrote a Post on Two Shakespearean actors. One of these was Edward Augustus Warbruton of the Mongan clan who performed with the Bensonian company. His descendent, Terrie Edgar, has sent the following photos….

I also received photos of a solid silver memorial bowl inscribed fro Joseph Warburton (1866-1939) of the Radcliffe clan…..

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Cathy Warburton has alerted me to a Warburton Elphinstone Bible that is for sale on eBay for £295. The bible includes some inscriptions and pedigrees. The following image shows Frances Warburton as the owner of the bible the year before she married Howard Elphintone.

A section of a pedigree shows two Elphinstone Warburton marriages.

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I have added two new pages to the Artefacts 2 section of Galleries. The first is Annie Warburton Turner’s Album.…

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I received the following plea from Nathan Mackey in Pennsylvania: I was searching online for records related to Robert Anderson…

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Updated on July 25th to expand on my conclusions.

Recently Brian Cluff joined the Warburton DNA Project at FTDNA. The most recent SNP he shares with the Lancashire Group of Warburtons is R-A11376. On my Lancashire Group Haplotree this SNP defines the left half of the R-S6881 community. Below R-A11376 there are a couple of SNPs that are not shared with the Warburtons. These are R-A11378, which includes the Warburtons and a family called Graves, and R-A15056 which defines the Warburton group.

SNP R-S6881 is dated by the FTDNA Discover Tool at 355 AD with a 95% chance it falls in the range 50 AD to 625 AD. The supported the conclusion that it occurred in England, probably amongst the Anglo-Saxon invaders who established the Kingdom of Mercia.

However Brian offered an alternative narrative. “I believe that our clan is paternally brythonic and it has been acculturated into the Anglo-Saxons over a thousand years. My FTDNA results show an arrival to Britain around 1150 BCE, well before the Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes arrived. My studies have recently indicated that the Iceni split up into different groups, and our group came to be the Icinglass, which in turn became the Mercians.”

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