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    Help with Tartan Ferret Please?

    I've been trying to look up a surname on Tartan Ferret at STA, but my computer times out before a result comes up. Could someone out there with a faster connection please look up the surname Warthen?

    There is a Walter Warthen in my mother's line who was in Virginia around the late 1700's. Recently I was looking at census records from Scotland from about 1860 and found a lot of Warthens in Perthshire. Makes me wonder if Warthen is a sept of a larger clan.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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    I used Tartan Ferret and also house of tartan tartan finder with no tartan found for Warthen.

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    A quick google for "warthen" and "clan" comes back with Moffat......?

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    Tom, I went to the site and looked at the alphabetical list and could not find Warthen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A_Hay! View Post
    I've been trying to look up a surname on Tartan Ferret at STA, but my computer times out before a result comes up. Could someone out there with a faster connection please look up the surname Warthen?

    There is a Walter Warthen in my mother's line who was in Virginia around the late 1700's. Recently I was looking at census records from Scotland from about 1860 and found a lot of Warthens in Perthshire. Makes me wonder if Warthen is a sept of a larger clan.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Tom
    Tom,

    I just did a quick search on the Ferret and nothing turned up.

    There are two tartans associated with Perthshire; The Drummond of Peth tartan (that should make Scotus happy!) ca. 1819, Wilson's of Bannockburn and a Perthshire tartan designed in 1988 by Peter MacDonald.

    I moved the thread to the heraldry & tartans section, btw.

    Regards,

    Todd

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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    A quick google for "warthen" and "clan" comes back with Moffat......?
    have you got a link for this?

    i can't seen to find anything about it


    thanks

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    Might possibly be a phonetic variation of "Warden". Try looking that up. Meanwhile I'll ask my pal Tom what tartan he wears.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bjproc View Post
    have you got a link for this?

    i can't seen to find anything about it


    thanks
    I ust googled Warthen and clan, and came up with several, and especially ..this..

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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    I ust googled Warthen and clan, and came up with several, and especially ..this..
    thanks for that link, i just couldn't see anything

    edit on this

    not being picky here, sorry if it looks that way, but i'm sure clan moffat has only these septs

    MOFFAT. Moffatt, Moffett, Mofitt, Maffatt, Maffett, Maffitt.

    i searched that site for my name and it also turns up, and i'm not a sept of them, i think it's just a genealogy thing with marrage names as well.
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