Welcome to the Warburton Website

25 March 2019 49 Comments

Welcome to the Warburton Website, which includes my Warburton One-Name Study, and Warburton DNA Project. To learn more about this site please visit the various sub-pages under the About menu item.

I hope you will find this site useful in your own studies of Warburton family history. You are invited to subscribe to receive notifications of future Posts about my research, future site updates, or anything else of interest.

The Warburton DNA Project enhances the knowledge gained from traditional genealogical research. For example about half of all Warburtons belong to one of two groups, one descended from a Norman knight, the other from a Saxon inhabitant of the village of Warburton. Several smaller groups have also been identified. My DNA Project has devised a low cost strategy to determine if you belong to one of these groups, so please contact me (click my picture to the right) if you are interested.

The site includes a Contact Me page. I welcome questions, comments, and anything you have which may enhance the site. There is also a Reach Out page for you to submit anything you would like to me to share with Subscribers via a Post.

Ray Warburton

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Some New Photographs

20 September 2024 Leave a comment

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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Warburton Elphinstone Bible

1 September 2024 Leave a comment

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.

Warburton Elphinstone Bible Inscription

A section of a pedigree shows two Elphinstone Warburton marriages.

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A New Theory on the Lancashire Group’s Origins

24 July 2024 Leave a comment

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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Bishop Charles Warburton’s Mourning Ring

20 July 2024 Leave a comment

Note: This Post received a major update on July 23rd 2024.

I recently Posted about this ring, which was offered for sale by a Sydney dealer in antique jewellery. All that is known about it is that the dealer bought it from someone who acquired it at an auction in Australia.

I have now created a Page called Bishop Charles Warburton’s Mourning Ring that can be accessed via Galleries – Warburton Artefacts 2. The Page states:

The following photos are of a Ring….

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Birth Date of Charles Warburton Carr

19 July 2024 Leave a comment

I have written about Charles Warburton Carr here, here, and here. He was the great nephew of Bishop Charles Warburton of Cloyne, who had become guardian to his mother when his grandfather died. The town of Warburton in Victoria was named after him.

His grave features on FindAGrave and states be died in 1888 aged 64. His date of birth is given as 1823/4 and that of his twin sisters as 1821. This gave me a bit of excitement recently when not only did the hallmark on Bishop Charles Warburton’s mourning ring fit closely to his birth, his mother was born in the same year (1791) as Selina, the Bishop’s youngest daughter, who predeceased him by 2 months and was also mentioned on the mourning ring. Was this a clue as to how the mourning ring ended up in Australia?

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Mary Warburton- Army Orphan

9 July 2024 Leave a comment

I was contacted by Mary’s 3 x great granddaughter Sandra Lindsay, who is seeking information about her. If anyone can add to the information below please contact me via Comments, the Contact Form, or replying to the Post notification email.

Mary was born in 1806 at The Cape of Good Hope, South Africa…

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