Hi Jonelle!
I think you are probably my 6th cousin once removed!!
Thank you for all the information - especially for giving the names of Simon and William's
parents. William was as far back as I had been able to get. Do you have any birth or death
dates for Robert and Amy?
Sadly the Warren name is now dying out on my branch of the family as Mark's son Richard's
descendants are all girls.
Thanks again
CG
Hey cousin CG,
I just noticed that you have just 3 posts to your name !! Welcome to Rootschat.
I'm glad to have helped you with the Warrens.
I have questions for you now about your William. Have you found his marriage? anything about his wife Ann, and were there any other earlier children, maybe baptised elsewhere for them, than John the shoemaker 1803 and William junior 1802?
Are you familiar with the area of Devon / Somerset border that the Warrens came from? Clayhidon and Churchstanton are in the Black Down Hills below the M5 and Taunton. Churchstanton is easy to research online but Clayhidon is hit and miss. Clayhidon is
very important to solving the Warrens.
A previous vicar and churchwardens of that parish reclaimed and held onto the registers, away from Devon Records Office, until very recently, and so FindMyPast did not have them to photograph and transcribe when they did most of Devon. I have not found out when or if FindMyPast will be doing anything about this, but was told that they are now (safe again
) at DRO aka Devon Heritage Centre.
The Clayhidon local history group
http://clayhidon.org/home probably has a digital or microfilm copy now. I did not had a nice time dealing with the chair back in 2015. Maybe it was me...
I have had email contact with another cousin of ours descended from the generation further back, amongst the of siblings of our common Robert Warren. This lady volunteers at Honiton's Allhallows Museum (which also has microfiche of Clayhidon), and has also worked out our rellies.
I bought a copy of the fiche back in 2015 from DRO, and she and I have conferred and agree on the same tree, hehe
Because the younger Robert Warren that I descend from named Clayhidon as his birthplace in census, and came back from Brompton Regis to live at Callers farm when he "retired" at 60yrs, I googled "Robert Warren of Clayhidon" and come across the website for Devon Freeholders which helped me understand the origins of the Warrens
http://www.foda.org.uk/freeholders/QS7/56/hemyock.htm... but I have not found Robert's baptism and so can not be 100% satisfied that he is the eldest son of my Simon.
With the Clayhidon registers on fiche it has been very simple to solve the Warrens, because they stay put back thru time to the first pages. Beautiful marvelous. So if you can view them at your leisure you can have the enormous fun of finding the baptism of your William and his siblings, and almost everyone else. If however you wish me to help you further with Clayhidon, send me a personal message and we will take it from there.
Salute,
Janelle