Where is the ancestral home of the first American president?

fosse4

My reference has Feb 22 1732 ( Feb 11 1731 old style) Wakefield, on Popes Creek , Westmoreland County Va. Aug 26 03, 5:19 PM

Brainyblonde

There are dozens of links at this site: http://www.presidentsusa.net/washington.html Sulgrave Manor is the ancestral home in England of George Washington's family. The property is in the rural village community of Sulgrave, near to Banbury and about 30 miles from both Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford. http://www.stratford.co.uk/sulgrave/ Born: February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html Aug 26 03, 5:52 PM

TabbyTom

The family's ancestral home is the Old Hall at Washington in the county of Tyne & Wear in north-east England (for old-fashioned people like me , it's in County Durham). The building now belongs to the National Trust, which describes it as "a modest and unpretentious 17th-century manor house, incorporating the 12th-century remains of the home of George Washington's ancestors." It's open to the public in the spring and summer. President Washington's earliest recorded ancestor, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Surnames, was William de Hertburn, "who served the bishop of Durham and in 1185 was granted the manor of Washington in return for the service of attending the episcopal hunt with four greyhounds. The family lived on the estate for 400 years, but in 1613 it was sold back to the Church." Aug 26 03, 5:53 PM

TabbyTom

On the other hand, Sulgrave Manor (mentioned by Brainyblonde), which was acquired by Lawrence Washington in 1539, seems to be fairly well preserved (to judge by the Blue Guide to England), whereas the Old Hall at Washington just has fragments of the original structure. I think you can make a case for both. Aug 26 03, 6:07 PM

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