At 10:59 PM 2/24/99 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >Hi Elizabeth, > >Do you have a connection to my Whitakers? > >Here is what I show: > >1. Aaron Whitaker b. ca 1640 (not sure of this name - need more proof) > 2. John Whitaker b. ca 1660 Warwick, England d. 27/30 nov 1713 Baltimore Not that I know of: according to what I've been able to find out, I'm descended from William, b. 1547, Lancashire, d.1595 in Cambridge: his sons, Alexander and Jabez went to Virginia at an early date, and I am descended from Jabez (1595-1624). However, an ancestor left Warwick in the 14th century and married a lord's daughter -- so goes this information -- thereby gaining the manor of Holme. I found out that there had been two villages, High Whitaker and Nether Whitaker in Warwickshire during the Middle Ages. (One is mentioned in The Anniversary (Jubilee?) History of Warwickshire: these were part of a series of *huge* red-bound volumes on the English counties published, I think, for Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897.) In a gazetteer of the English countryside, published in 1846(?) (likewise fouond in my college's library), High Whitaker is mentioned as a village between Tamworth and Coventry that was dying (or dead) due to having been bypassed by the railroad. (NOTE: I do NOT own either volume and I am more than 300 miles from the library in question.) William had eight kids, but I only know what happened to Alexander and Jabez. I believe, if anyone seriously pursued it, that the Whitakers who publish the almanac in England (Whitaker's Almanac) could be traced back to him. I did a college term paper on William and will put it on my web site once I find it again. Elizabeth Whitaker [email protected]