On Jan 29, 2006, at 22:07, QUAKER-BRITISH-ISLES-D- request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Click on the Question Mark by his father and 'Other Spouse' to see > children > of the first marriage. > > For the Will try looking under > http://www.sleepyfrog.com/me/herbertfa/index.html then under Wills > then John > is the second one down. Thanks for the help Margaret. I was able to get to the places we discussed. > I love that bit about 'liberty to drive sheep upon > occasion at any time between the fifth of September and the middle > of April > through a Close called Little Intack to my son Richard for ever'. > Did you > inherit that right perhaps? Isn' t that strange? It must be something to do with seasonal rural rituals I suppose. Being a mere townie, I wouldn't really know what it is about and if I had inherited it - and to the best of my knowledge, I didn't - I wouldn't know what on earth to do with it! Seriously, though, the will appears to support the view that John is an ancestor in my line of Burtons. Wasn't that implied by your last comment too? If the parents of John 'the surgeon' are Richard & Ann [WINN?] BURTON the will you introduced me to is further supporting evidence. Am I right in believing that although Richard's daughters are mentioned in the will and their brother John isn't, this would be accounted for by the fact that at the time of the testator's death. young John would not have been born. I believe that John the elder died in 1766. Do you know if I am right to believe that his wife was Ann THISTLETHWAITE [b 1685]? This is the way 'my' line seems to be panning out: John of Warescale, Dent, Yorks. b 1682, father of Richard of Dent b 1716, father of John 'the surgeon' b 1768, father of James of Crawshawbooth, Lancs. father of Jonathan b 1844, father of Ada Elizabeth BURTON b 1872 [married Edmund TATTERSALL in1892 ] From James onwards all is well documented but how does the earlier part look to you? Vanessa, from a chart she has received, suggested that the father of John of Warescale was William BURTON of Dent b 1650/1 who married Isabell [sic] THISTLETHWAITE B 1653. I would be interested in your views Margaret - or those of anyone else on the List. Cheers Henry