Think you are right Lance. >From the link that was sent by Roy: The Washington shield at Selby probably represents some kind of benefaction made to the Abbey to commemorate John Wessington, Prior of Durham (1416~1446) the most distinguished collateral ancestor of George Washington. http://suite101.com/article/george-washingtons-family--and-their-ancestral-homes-in-england-a270434 Lin A true friend walks in when the world walks out > From: roy.stockdill@btinternet.com > To: yorksgen@rootsweb.com; SirLancelot37@talktalk.net > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:22:24 +0100 > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Enough is enough > > Date sent: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:38:48 +0100 > > > I must have missed something - I was never much good at history > > scoring only 6% in an exam, but > > the ancestral home of the Washington family was Washington Old Hall > > in Co. Durham surely? > > There is a plaque in Durham Cathedral's cloisters to John Washington > > who was Prior there 1416 - 1446. > > > > William de Wessyngton was a forebear of George Washington. George > > Washington's great grandfather, > > John, left from Essex for Virginia. > > > > Lancelot > > Middlesbrough> > > Hi Lance > > See: http://www.selbyabbey.org.uk/washington_link.htm > > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ..... > Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; > www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; > www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message