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This website has now been replaced by my new site at http://warburton.one-name.net. All worthwhile material from this site is now on the new one (improved and updated in some instances), and all new material will appaear there. Please follow the link, and I hope you enjoy it.
The
Warburton One-Name StudyWelcome
Fellow Warburton
Researcher, Welcome to the
Warburton Website, home of the Warburton
One-Name Study (registered with the Guild
of One-Name Studies), the Warburton Surname DNA Project,
and the Warburton
Society. Recent
Updates
11-June-13
Updates to Warburton Trees including a major extension of the
Tottington Clan, a restructure of the Radcliffe and Haslingden Clans into two Haslingden Clans, and oth minr updates, particularly to the hale Barns and Houghton Clans.
17-Jun-12 Added new Poynton
Clan, plus additions to Mobberley, Bancroft and Liverpool and Oldham
Clans. Also added a few parish
records from St Werberg, Warburton.
23-Feb-12 Added the new
Liverpool and Oldham Clan. This small clan comprises the
family of a recent DNA participant. 15-Feb-12 Updated DNA Results and
Commentary
with 2 results fron Family Tree DNA (unfortunately unmatched). Total
results is
now 27. The trees for the participants
will follow shortly.
24-Oct-11
Added Winwick Families Resource. Updated DNA Results and Commentary
with the first 2 results fron Family Tree DNA. Total results is
now 25.
From my research, I have built many Warburton family trees. My
objective is to document as many Warburton trees as possible, to
determine which ones can be linked together, and to learn as much as
possible about Warburton origins. 1. I
would very much like to hear from you, so I can identify your
Warburton ancestors and share information with you regarding your
family tree from my extensive research. Just click here
to send me an email telling me any information you may
know about your Warburton ancestors. To
order a test kit, visit this page. The recommended
test
is a Y-DNA 37 marker test. If you order fewer markers, you can
upgrade
later, though this costs more. 4. If you see anything
wrong, either with my information, or problems withthe website such as
broken links, please let me know here. You can also join the Warburton Society and receive
regular Newsletters, or join the Friends
of the Warburton One-Name Study, which is a private group set up
to share information on Facebook, in addition to receiving the
Newsletters. To join The Warburton Society just click here to send me an email and tell me your Warburton story, and request to join. As a minimum I would like to know the town or city where you live, and the name dates and place of birth of your oldest known Warburton ancestor. To join the Friends of the Warburton One-Name Study group you will need to be registered on Facebook. Then just ask to be friend of Ray Warburton and to join the group. II am looking forward to
hearing from you. If you have any questions, or comments about anything
on this website please click here
to send me an email.
This site contains the
following sections.
Home of The Warburton
One-Name Study.
This is this section, and it includes an introduction to the site, the
study,
and the name of Warburton Warburton Clans. The main focus of
a
One-Name Study is to document occurrences of the name throughout the
world, and
regardless of whether the holders are actually related. The Warburton
One-Name
Study will tackle this by grouping occurrences into clans, documenting
them as a
Descendants Report (in PDF format) for the earliest known ancestor of
that clan,
and assigning a DNA profile to the clan where possible. This section
introduces
the clans and provides links to the Descendant Reports where they exist. Warburton Resources.
This site is also offered as a repository for any useful information on
Warburtons that might exist. The initially items are from my own
research.
Typically items will be presented in either Spreadsheet of PDF format
to allow
their downloading. This section provides a description and link to each
resource. My Genealogy. This section describes my
own
genealogical research and findings and includes a link to My
Family Tree,
an Ancestor Report in PDF format, and some essays on interesting
aspects. The
whole of the text of the section and its associated essays can also be
obtained
as a PDF file called Warburton Genealogy Notes. The DNA Project. The Warburton Surname DNA
Project has been running for 3 years. This section covers participation
in the
project and results to date. The text is also available as a PDF
document called The Warburton Surname DNA Project. About DNA Testing. This section contains a
description of the science of DNA testing for genealogical purposes and
includes
some references. The text is also included in The Warburton
Surname DNA
Project PDF document. My Old Home Page. This is a legacy of my
former life. I have difficulty throwing things away. By registering this study
with the Guild of One-Name
Studies I commit to two things: ·
To
collect references to the Warburton name on a world-wide
basis ·
To
deal promptly with enquiries. The tree will include the
spouses of female Warburtons, and a note of their children where known In addressing the first I
do not intend to repeat
basic information that is available elsewhere on the Internet in
censuses, BMD
sites or IGI. My emphasis will be refined, or more obscure information.
The main
refinement is to present the Warburton clans. These are groups of
related
Warburtons with a common ancestor. However it is open for anyone to
provide
information for inclusion, and all relevant information will be
accepted. By presenting information
in PDF or spreadsheet format
I hope to make it readily accessible to researchers. Hopefully this
will help
with my second commitment, to respond promptly to queries. There are
several
points in the site where you are invited to email
me. I hope the many of you I have
already corresponded with have found me diligent in this respect,
though perhaps
not always able to provide the information you seek. Also I do take
holidays on
a regular basis so the occasional delay is unavoidable. Central to the Study will
be the Warburton Surname DNA
Project. Data collected so far indicates a number of distinct Warburton
clans
with different DNA profiles. The Study will aim to establish the
descendants of
the earliest known ancestor in each identified Warburton clan, and to
associate
a DNA profile to that clan, or to part of it. Clans
are documented in both textual (PDF) format, and as an on-line Tree.
There is als a name Index. Guidelines for using the the various
forms are included on the Warburton
Clans page. The Guild of
One Name Studies has an arrangement with LostCousins.
Because of the size of the Warburton Study use of this facility will
involve a
large data entry activity. There are over 1500 Warburton heads of
family in the
1881 census before considering overseas censuses. I will keep this
option under
review for now pending feedback or offers of help. I do not intend to
provide a discussion board on this
site. There are already Warburton discussion boards on Ancestry, Rootsweb,
and Genealogy.com.
The following story of
the founding and naming of
Warburton is taken from Warburton: The Village and the Family by
Norman Warburton, published by The Research Publishing Company in 1970.
The book
is out of print and the publishing company is no longer in existence. I
have
located copies in the British Library, the Chester Records Office and
at the
Family History Centre in Salt Lake City. A nephew of the author has
arranged for the text to be placed online. In 626AD, Mercia defeated
of
the kingdom of Northumbria and established the river Mersey as the
northern
border of the kingdom. Subsequently Wolfere became the first Christian
king of
Mercia. His daughter Werberg devoted her life to the community, and
became Lady
President of Weedon and Abbess of Ely. She died in 700AD and was buried
at
Hanbury near Repton. In 875AD she was canonised and her body was moved
to
Chester. Queen Ethelfleda (daughter of King Alfred and wife of Ethelred
of
Mercia) built a monastery in her name. It
was situated just west of the Lady Chapel of Chester Cathedral, where
St.
Werberg’s tomb can still be found. In 915AD Ethelfleda, now widowed,
was
fighting the Danes who were on the Wirral peninsular. She built a
series of
forts, one of which was situated by a ford on the river Mersey. This
she named
after St. Werberg (also spelt Werburgh or Werburghe). This settlement
became
known as Werbergtune and is so recorded in the Doomsday Book. In 991AD
it paid
Dane geld of ten shillings, suggesting a prosperous settlement. The
name ending
of “–ton” or “–tun”
implies a farm enclosed by a ditch, moat or fence. The village of Warburton
still exists today, though it
is little more than a hamlet, and it is no longer on the banks of the
river
Mersey which was diverted during the building of the Manchester Ship
Canal The surname Warburton is
therefore a locative surname.
In the 13th and 14th centuries
the growth of feudalism and the associated
requirement for record keeping was
causing the common man to adopt surnames for the first time. A man
might use his
father’s name, the name of a trade, or in the case of locative names,
the name
of his home or birthplace. Only one adopter of the
Warburton name is known,
though the situation is slightly different in that Sir Peter (or Piers)
de
Dutton was not a common man, and he already had a name which he changed
when he
adopted the name de Werberton in the 13th century, because
he lived
on his estates there. Two hundred years later the family moved to Arley
Hall in
Great Budworth, where their descendents still live today, although the
inheritance has twice passed through the female line and so the
Warburton name
has been lost. In his book Warburton:
The
Village and the Family, Norman
Warburton details the descent of this aristocratic Warburton family
from Adam de
Dutton, a descendant of Lord Odard, and suggests that all modern
Warburtons may
be descended from one of its many branches. Locative surnames may well
have a
single ancestor, but it is probable, particularly in the light of the
DNA
results discussed below, that a number of individuals adopted the
Warburton name
in medieval times. The origins of the de
Duttons are explained in the
following quote from "Leyester's Historical Antiquities", pp. 248-260,
published in 1673. Sir Peter Leycester of Tabley was himself a member
of an
ancient Cheshire family with links to the Duttons. The Warburtons claim consanguinity with the ancient
blood-royal of
England,
being descended from Rollo, the first Duke of Normandy, through
William, Earl of
Eu, who …. married a sister of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Avranches,
(afterwards Earl
of Chester) named Jeanne, and niece of William the Conqueror. There was
Issue of
this marriage (besides William's successor in the earldom of Eu and
another
child) six sons, named Nigel, Geffry, Odard or Huddard, Edard, Horswin
and
Wlofaith. These six brothers accompanied their uncle, Hugh Lupus, into
England,
in the train of William the Conqueror, their great-uncle; and on the
establishment of the Norman power had various estates and honors
conferred upon
them. Nigel was created Baron of Halton and constable of Cheshire;
Geffry was
Lord of Stopfort; Odard, Lord of Dutton; Edard, Lord of Haselwell;
Horswin, Lord
of Shrigley; and Wlofaith, Lord of Halton. Odard, the third son, was
the
ancestor of the Duttons, now extinct in the male line; the Barons of
Chedill,
also extinct, and the Warburtons. The following extract
from "The History of the
City & County Palatine of Chester" by George Ormerod in 1882 is
based
on Sir Peter’s work: WILLIAM FITZ-NIGEL, 2nd
Baron of Halton, Constable of
Cheshire, was by right of office ranked above all subjects of the
Palatinate,
next to the Earl of Chester. With the father of this
William, Nigel Fitz-lvon (1st
Baron of Halton) , came five "supposedly brothers" from whom descend
the DUTTON'S, WARBURTON'S, HATTON'S, and other ancient Cheshire
families, and
from circumstances of tenure, united to similarity of arms, it appears
probable
that the LYMME'S and DANIELL'S were also of this noble stock. However it must be noted
that there is no contemporary
evidence of this link to William the Conqueror, and Sir Peter Leicester
himself
cast doubt saying in his section on the Duttons: The ancient Roll of the
Barons of Halton saith that with
Hugh, Earl of Chester, came one Nigell, a nobleman; and with Nigell
came five
brethren, to wit: Hudard, Edard, Wolmere, Horswyne, and Wolfaith, a
Priest, to
whom Nigell gave the Church of Runcorne; and unto Hudard, the same
Nigell gave
Weston and Great Aston, (now divided into two Townships, Aston Grange
and Aston
juxta Sutton,)….; and from this Hudard came all the Duttons. And in the
Record
of Doomsday, Odard held Aston under William Fitz-Nigell, Baron of
Halton; and
also Odard and Brictric held Weston under the said William, Anno Domini
1086.
Whether those five Brethren aforenamed, were Brethren to Nigell, is a
doubt; for
then methinks he should have said Quinque Fratres sui: whereas he says
onely,
cum isto Nigello Venerunt quinque Fratres, and so names them. Lysons' Magna Britannia,
Vol. II. says that Odard,
son of Yvron, viscount of Constantine (Cotentin) ….. was the Immediate
ancestor of the ancient and numerous family of Dutton of Dutton. A
number of
genealogies can be found on the web showing that Odard, and his
brothers were
the sons of the Viscount of Cotentin. Alas there is no contemporary
evidence for
this either. It would seem that claims
of consanguinity with
William the Conqueror have a hint of family legend, and aggrandisement,
about
them. A link to a viscount sounds more plausible, and there may well
have been
five brothers (though it cannot be discounted that hey were simply
“brothers-in-arms). The establishment of a DNA profile for the only
existing
Warburton family which has a claim (albeit undocumented) to kinship
with the
descendants of Odard gives some support to the link to Cotentin. The DNA profile has a
haplotype of J2. The
distribution of J2 derives from its role as a marker for the post Ice
Age
Neolithic expansion which brought farming to Europe.
J2 is virtually absent from Scandinavia, and both Wales,
NW
England, and Ireland, but it is present SE England, and
across the Channel in
France. If we assume this haplotype
is inherited from Odard then how did he get it? It certainly is
difficult to
explain in terms of the various family claims of kinship with the Dukes of Normandy. Much
more believable (though still
lacking contemporary documentary evidence) is the story that Odard and
his
brothers were sons of the Viscount of Cotentin. It seems likely that to
be part
of Hugh d'Avranche's retinue, and to receive the favours they did, they
would be
part of at least the minor nobility in Normandy. It
is also conceivable that they might
be of original French stock who, maybe as a result of intermarriage,
managed to
prosper under the Normans. Now
Cotentin, or the Cherbourg
peninsular is the sort of maritime area that coastally migrating
Neolithics
might end up in. Conjecture I know, but the most likely explanation of
how Odard
might have got the J2 haplotype. Some interesting
statistics (if anyone has numbers for Australia, New Zealand or Canada
please let me know): ·
The
UK
National Health Service Register has 10,069 Warburtons in the UK in
2002. ·
The
US 2000 census shows there were 2,610 Warburtons
representing 0.001% of the
population, which ranked 11,150 in the list of most common names.
1841 3670 1851 4194 1861 5190 1871 5997 1881 7373 1891 8064 1901 8829 1851 Census – Cheshire
Warburtons: A total of 996 Warburtons were living in Cheshire, of whom
493
were male.
There were 190 Warburton heads of family, of whom 158 were born in
Cheshire.
However 207 heads of family born in Cheshire were living anywhere in
England. The following maps show
the UK distribution of the
Warburton name in 1881 and 1998. They are taken from the National
Trust Website, now superceded by the .
The origin of the name on the Cheshire and Lancashire border is clearly
indicated.
The same site describes
the geographical spread of the
name. The highest concentration of Warburtons in Great Britain is in
Bolton,
Lancashire. The highest concentration outside Britain is in Australia,
with the
top state being Western Australia. However it is known that there is a
large
colony of Egerton Warburtons, a distinct if related family, in Western
Australia, particularly around Pallinup which is described as the top
standard
statistical division. The Egerton Warburtons are descended from the
Warburtons
of Arley Hall, Cheshire through the female line. There are also numbers of
Warburtons in New Zealand
(Marlborough is the top Province), Canada (there are 250 entries in the
Canada
411 directory), and the United States (Utah is the top State).
Interestingly the
concentration in the Republic of Ireland is very low although one of
the more
interesting and widespread Warburton families has its origins there in
the
seventeenth century. |
 LinksThere are a number of links scattered through the text on the various pages. They are listed here for quick access.IntroductionMessage Boards:Ancestry Rootsweb Genealogy.com LostCousins Warburton: The Village and the Family by Norman Warburton UK National Health Service Register US 1990 census National Trust website Warburton Clans
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