The Warburton Website

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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I have just published Issue 27 of the Button Files. These are stories I couldn’t fit in the recent Issue…

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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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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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I have just published issue 26 of the Button Files. Stories begin life as website Posts, and are then gathered…

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