I have just added a brand new clan, The Bury and Massachusetts Clan, containing 194 people, 124 of them Warburtons. You can access the tree, a chart and a Descendant Report from either the Clans page or the sidebar.
The tree is based on a large tree sent me some time ago by Eric Warburton. Eric’s tree included many branches of ancestors so I have been pruning it down to the Warburton lines, and changing the style to match my other trees. I have also been able to extend some of the Warburton branches. It is the first time I have included information from the 1939 Register.
I have also changed the way I create the Combined Index. The content is the same, but its creation is easier, and it seems to load more quickly.
Eric’s line emigrated to Massachusetts in the 19th century. The earliest Warburton ancestor was William of Bury. He married Mary Yates in 1802, but his birth and death dates are still unknown. He was a widower when he married. The most logical explanation of the available records identifies his first wife as Ann Taylor and suggests he was originally a soldier, so he may not have originated in Bury. The last quarter of the 18th century was when the Industrial Revolution saw an explosion of cotton mills in towns like Bury so there was a large influx of people from surrounding areas to man them.
This clan is significant because Eric is one of the two members of the Lancashire Group who has done the Big Y DNA test as well as the standard 37 marker STR test done by 6 other members of the group. The 7th member was my experimental approach using a 12 marker test followed by specific SNP tests based on knowledge from the many Big Y tests. We have just ordered the new S6881 Panel test at YSEQ for him and it will be interesting to see what that produces. Meanwhile Eric is most closely related to the Radcliffe half of the Haslingden and Radcliffe clan, a result whose origins are still unclear, and another with origins in Turton that has yet to be documented. The two other results, both linked to Haslingden, are a bit more remote and are probably excellent candidates for the S6881 panel.