Hi Nick, I've been to the library today and read in the Appendix in a translation of the Doomsday Book: "At the time of Domesday Book the County of Cheshire included the coast of North Wales, which the English held or claimed, and also South Lancashire. Lancashire north of the ribble, with the southern portions of the future counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, were still included in Yorkshire, Northern Westmorland and most of Cumberland were not yet English; they were still part of the Kingdom of the Clyde, recently annexed to Scotland. The Clyde Kingdom was Welsh, its people called Cymry (anglicized Cumbri) in their own language, and the English knew it as Cumbria or Cumberland. It was permanently conquered by the English in 1092, six years after the Domesday Survey. The modern counties of Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland were brought into being soon after, probably in the first half of the 12th century. As a result the entries in Domesday which refer to north west England reflect the unclear political situation, and most of them were not yet arranged in the normal manner of English administration." Did you know this? When I go to Ohio State's library, I always wondered why they put Lancashire and Cheshire together! Because L and C do not follow one another, I thought they were a little NUTS!!! In a genealogy I found yesterday at the Ohio Historical Center: Geffrey, son of Adam, temp. Hen. III....resided at Budworth, and was written, Sir Geffrey de Budworth; Geffrey, his son, was also of Budworth; but, Peter, his son, removed to Warburton, temp. Ed. II. and thence wrote himself de Warburton; which name hath been ever since retained by his posterity, who removed to Arley, temp. Hen. VII...." If you would like a copy of this genealogy, I could mail a copy of it to you. Although I did not see a Thomas Warburton listed, it might provide your with some leads to check out Carole __________________________ Nicolas Blackhurst wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have just joined this list. Please excuse me, but I may be taking a bit > of a liberty here. As yet I do not have any DUTTON connections, but as the > DUTTON name changed to WARBURTON when a branch of the family moved to > Warburton in Cheshire during the 13th century, if I can connect my > WARBURTON's to the WARBURTON's of Arley and Warburton, I will therefore > also be connected to the DUTTON's. All my WARBURTON's come from Lancashire, > but I have found out that the coat of arms for the Lancashire WARBURTON's > is the same as the Cheshire one, except that the cormorants are red instead > of black. I think that it is therefore reasonably safe to assume that the > Lancashire branch descended from the Cheshire branch, especially as > Warburton is right on the border with Lancashire. > > If anybody can help me with the connection between the two I would be > greatful. > > Regards, > > Nick