Beyond any doubt is that the first Augustine Warner was the builder of Warner Hall in Gloucester County, home to the Lewis family of Virginia as Shirley is home to the Carters. As with Philip Rootes, so with Augustine Senior. Earlier facts about the family are sketchy at best, and the Virginia progenitor is identified as a "gentleman", fixing his status (whether rightly or wrongly) as a member of the English gentry legally entitled to use a coat of arms. Though the benefit of that is, particularly at this late date, moot.
[Sources: Sorley, Lewises of Warner Hall; Virginia County Record Series, Crozier, vol 5 p 58; Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1619-1658; Hening Statutes, vol 1 pp 369-71]
Thomas Warner, born 1514
William Warner, born 1540 in Hoe, Norfolk. Married Mary Hunt [?], perhaps in 1579 at St. Botolph, Colchester, Essex, perhaps October 16, 1574 in Gretton, Northampton.
[Source: Boyd's Marriage Index 1538-1840]
Thomas Warner, christened March 14, 1581 in Hoe, Norfolk. Married Elizabeth Southerton October 15, 1602 in St Mary's, Helleston, Norfolk, daughter of Augustine Southerton and Ann Peck.
Augustine Warner Sr., born September 28, 1611 in England, died December 24, 1674 in Virginia. Married Mary Towneley, daughter of Lawrence Towneley and Jennet Halstead, born May 13, 1614 in Stone Edge, Lancastershire and died August 1, 1662 at Warner Hall.
Speaker Augustine Warner Jr., born July 3, 1642 in York Co., Virginia, and died June 15, 1681 in Warner Hall, Gloucester Co., Virginia. He married Mildred Reade, daughter of George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau. She was born October 2, 1643 in Williamsburg, Virginia, and died October 20, 1686 in Cumberland, Virginia.
Elizabeth Warner was born November 24, 1672 in Chesake, Gloucester Co., Virginia, and died February 5, 1719 in Warner Hall, Gloucester Co., Virginia. She married Councillor John Lewis, son of John Lewis and Isabella Miller, born November 30, 1669 and died November 14, 1745.
Mary Warner, born 1665, was the oldest children in her family of three brothers and four sisters. Married John Smith of Purton on February 16, 1680.
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