Warner Surname Study

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Some History of the Warner Name

In America: The origin for Warners in America may have been from England, Ireland, Germany, or they may even have been Jewish.

English Warners From England came Augustine Warner, who arrived in Virginia in 1628 at the age of seventeen. He was the progenitor of the Warner Lewis family of Warner Hall, one of Virginia's leading colonial families.

Another early Warner line began with John Warner from Essex who arrived in New England in the 1630's and was an early settler of Farmington, Connecticut. Son Andrew was one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut (Lucien Warner's 1919 book The Descendants of Andrew Warner covered this line). Descendants of these Warners included Colonel Seth Warner of the Green Mountain Boys, a Vermont militia group at the time of the Revolutionary War.

Warners settled in Pennsylvania as well. Captain William Warner came in 1675 and started the Blockley plantation (named after his English home in Worcestershire). Twelve generations of his family have been traced. Hayward Dare Warner's 1971 book A Warner Family Narrative recorded this history.

Benjamin Warner began a bookselling company in Philadelphia which expanded in the 19th century to a very large book publishing business. He and his brother Joseph owned the Chamonix mansion in Fairmount Park. They are believed to have been descended from the Joseph Warner who arrived in Philadelphia in 1726.

Irish Warners From Dublin in Ireland came Wettenhall Warner sometimes in the 1760's. He married, settled, and raised a family in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Later Warners moved onto Louisiana and Texas. A descendant J.T. Warner compiled a genealogy of the family in 1894 which was incorporated into Russ Williams' 1968 book Kinsmen All.

Some later Warners from Ireland were: Henry Warner from Dublin who, it was said, "ran away and enlisted as a common sailor before the mast" and ended up in Pittsburgh Warners who left Macroom in Cork for Boston in the 1830's and a Warner family who went from Cork to Texas in 1852. http://www.selectsurnames2.com/warner.html

Another source states the following: The early colonial records show that there were five immigrants of the name of Warner who came to America in or before 1639. The first was Andrew Warner, who was residing in Cambridge in 1632. Another was John Warner, who came on the ship Increase in 1635, and settled in Providence, R. I., in or before 1637, at which time he signed a "Compact" in that place. Later he went back to England with his family, but his son John returned to Rhode Island in 1655 where he afterwards resided. In 1676 he was married to Ann Gorton.

The third was William Warner, who came from England in 1637 accompanied by his two sons, John and David, and settled in Ipswich, Mass. This family has a large number of descendants residing in New England and scattered throughout the states.

The fourth was John Warner, who appears among the original proprietors of Hartford in 1639 and later was one of the original settlers of the town of Farmington. He died in 1679, when he was planning to remove to Waterbury. Colonel Seth Warner of Revolutionary fame is descended from the line of John 1 Warner of Farmington, Conn. ; John 2 of Waterbury, Conn. ; Doctor Ebenezer 3 and Martha (Galpin) of Woodbury, Conn.; Doctor Benjamin 4 and Silence (Hurd) of Woodbury and Arlington, Vt.

Colonel Seth 5 , born May 6, 1743, died December 26, 1784, mar- ried Hester Hurd. Colonel Seth Warner was third in command of the forces at the taking of Ticonderoga by Colonel Ethan Allen, May 10, 1777, was in the battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, and was in command at the taking of Crown Point. A monument has been erected to him in his native town, Roxbury, Conn., and another is in Bennington, Vt.

The fifth was Captain Augustine W T arner, who came to Virginia about 1628 and settled in York County. Later, in 1656, he removed to Gloucester County, where he acquired a large estate and was prominent in the affairs of the colony. His son, Colonel Augustine, was educated in England and succeeded to his father's estate and influence in the colony. He married Mildred, the daughter of George Reade, and their daughter, Mildred, married Lawrence Washington the grandfather of General George Washington.

No direct relationship has been traced between any of these families, but the fact that the John Warner who settled in Hartford was a fellow townsman of Andrew Warner in both Hartford and Farmington makes it probable that he was connected with the Hatfield Broad Oak family, perhaps a brother or cousin of Andrew Warner. This probability is strengthened by the names of his four children: John, Daniel, Thomas and Sarah, as John and Thomas were the names of two of the children of John W'arner of Great W^altham and also of his son John 2 Warner of Hatfield Broad Oak, while John and Daniel were the names of two of the children of Andrew Warner. http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofand1919warn/descendantsofand1919warnTHE DESCENDANTS OF ANDREW WARNER, compiles by LucienC. Warner, M.D.,LL.D. and Mrs. Josephine Genung Nichols The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. New Haven, Conn. 1919 Vol 8 (pages not identified)

Warner Family History Warner Name Meaning: English (of Norman origin) and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements war(in) ‘protection shelter’ or ‘guard’ + heri hari ‘army’. The name was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Warnier (Old French Garnier). Compare Garner and Werner . English (of Norman origin): shortened form of Warrener (see Warren ). Irish (Cork): when this is not the Anglo-Norman name (see above) an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane ) found in medieval records as Iwarrynane from a genitive or plural form of the name in which m is lenited. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022 Similar surnames: Werner, Garner, Barner, Warnes, Marner, Wapner, Arney, Wainer, Warne

Note:My personal interest is in the family of John Warner, among the original proprietors of Hartford and an original settler of Farmington.

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