[Sources: Isa Garteray Urquhart Glenn research 1900; Sorley, The Lewises of Warner Hall, pp 804-5
The first Warner in Virginia was Col. Augustine Warner, Senior, so-called in contradistinction to his son Col Augustine Warner, Junior—although the latter is well identified by the customary designation of "Speaker" Warner. Little is know of the English origin of the Warner famiy; but, as in the case of the Lewis family itself, a few facts appear out of the obscurity of time. All the contemporary records of which we know give to the first Augustine Warner the heraldic title of "Gentleman"—which of course fixes his status as one of the English gentry, legally entitiled to the use of a Coat-of-Arms; and the Arms themselves identify him as a member of the Welsh family of Warner. Beyond this general statment it is impossible to be more definite about the ancestry of the first Col. Augustine Warner."
According to his tombstone at Warner Hall he was born November 28, 1610. He came to virginia at a very early date in the colony's history, and the historian Crozier fixes the date of his emigration [Virginia County Record Series, Crozier, Vol. 5, p. 58] at 1628; certainly he was in Virginia before his son's birth in 1642, which is perhaps the earliest extant record of the facts. Sallie Nelson Robins, in "The Commonwealth of Virginia", states that the first grant in Gloucester County (then part of York) was to Capt. Augustine Warner in 1635. Augustine Warner married a ldy whose maiden name is unfortunately unknown, though her Christian name of Mary is given on her tombstone at Warner Hall along with the dates of her birth and death. She was born May 13, 1614, and was certainly married to Augustine Warner not later than 1641. No definite proof of her origin or parentage has come to light, [1935] but it is thought that her name may have been Mary Markas.
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