French Warburtons and Josiahs

On a recent trip to visit my sister-in-law in France, a friend of hers offered me an opportunity to use her account on Filae.com, a site of French genealogical records. I have been using the opportunity to document records of Warburtons in France. I have now placed that document in the Parishes section of the website.

Most of the records related to short term visitors, and a number of these were known to me already. Where possible I have included information about these links, and also updated my trees where required. These updates will be put on the website in my next batch update.

Some families were long term immigrants. I wrote previously about my French cousins descended from Leonard Warburton, who went to work in a Bowler Hat factory in Conte. Curiously my sister-in-law’s friend actually taught one of his descendants in school.

Another established family was that of a Josiah who married in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1840. I recognised him from my list of Josiahs on the Papers page of the website, but hadn’t known he emigrated. Furthermore his parents, including his mother’s maiden name, were recorded, providing a direct link to the Warburton family of Stoke on Trent. This is a further incentive to document that family.

However I realised my Warburtons Named Josiah paper could do with an update, not least because I had referred to some Josiah’s by their number in the list, and these were not always now correct due to insertions. So I have gone through always referring to Josiahs by their dates, and also where possible indicating their clan.

Nineteen of 47 Josiahs belong to my Hale Barns clan, thirteen belong to the Ashley and Morley clan which is genetically separate, but it originates in pretty much the same area on the boarder of the Bowdon and Wilmslow parishes. There are number of Presbyterian baptisms, including some at Hale Chapel, so they must have been aware of my six times great grandfather, the original Josiah, and his prominent role in the Hale Presbyterian movement. Of course the Josiah in France may well have been named after Josiah Wedgwood, who was a friend of his grandfather.

I was able to establish that a couple of previously unattached Josiahs are indeed part of the Hale Barns clan. In one case that seems to introduce quite a large new branch of blacksmiths in Cheadle, which I am working on at the moment.