The Home Of George Washington's Ancestors: Sulgrave Manor

[@mountvernon]

Who else has visited Sulgrave Manor?

[@unhooked25]

George Washington's Mount Vernon: I would just like to add this part of George Washington's background is still very under credited and needs more recognition.

[@amancalledjim5382]

I did when I was at school

[@unhooked25]

You're lucky. Must have been interesting.

[@kaylacapps1934]

I visited with my spouse and children when we were stationed in UK. Admission was free to Americans on Washington’s Birthday. That was a great day! :-)

[@unhooked25]

@@kaylacapps1934 So admission is free for Americans on Washington's Birthday huh? Well I'm not American but I still think that's a good idea, If I was running the place I would have it that way also. However I'm happy you got to go and visit the place. I hope you found it interesting.

[@astrohaterade]

Love and gratitude to these amazing and gracious persons across the Atlantic commemorating George Washington. I’m honestly humbled by such an acknowledgment given to our country’s first president. Here’s to another century of peace and partnership. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

[@Panda74gofaster]

I live right down the street.... I run by there almost every night.

[@theresadowns3457]

In the USA 🇺🇸 all George Washington ‘s statues have been pulled down and destroyed by BLM riots!!! So no one touched yours?

[@miscellaneous_man756]

@@theresadowns3457 absolute arseholes

[@faulltw]

@@miscellaneous_man756 No one realizes GW saw his mistake in owning slaves and before he died stopped buying and selling them. Additionally , he was trying to find a way he could free them with out breaking up the slave’s families because they did not all belong to him. The man made a mistake, saw his error and tried to correct it as best he could.

[@IanP1963]

@@theresadowns3457 I don't believe you.

[@23eourytbn82]

They weren't lying. They actually tore some Washington statues down during the riots.

[@tiffanysanchez9184]

I would love to visit Sulgrave Manor one day.... As much as I am a proud American woman I am even more in love with the British background in my family history..... I'm very grateful for this video thank you for making and sharing it with us!

[@LarryNathanielPhoto]

My DNA test says I am 63% British. Another 14% Scotch-Irish. With that being said, it is time for a cup of tea.

[@tonyt7948]

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[@tonyt7948]

@@LarryNathanielPhoto America can join the comman wealth The Royal Commonwealth Society Look it up

[@Mark-nf8gq]

Before Washingtons family moved to sulgrave, they lived for hundreds of years at Washington, Tyne and wear ( formally Country Durham) North East England. That is the ancestral home he refers too when he mention s "northern counties"Jimmy Carter visited Washington hall in the 1970s on a state visit.

[@unhooked25]

james Goodwin: That place you're referring to up in Durham County is known as Washington Old Hall. which was built by the Anglo Saxons back around the 9th or 10th century....And believe it or not they were just about to demolish the place, but the historical society came storming in and ordered them to stop and informing them that this place has major historical value. And I must say, Well Done.

[@gwizzuk]

The WASHINGTON family spent a good few hundred years living near Preston, Lancashire.

[@themanftheworld8439]

Washington Old Hall is in the city of Sunderland,North East England.

[@TheAnn2shoes]

What a shame Jimmy Carter didn’t divert to the village (chipperfield in Hertfordshire) of his ancestors on that trip. He would have been warmly welcomed.

[@waynetodd1641]

Bang on!!!!! I love this comment!! Video was good but no research was done! Our Washington was his home, our Washington was the basis of the American flag, our Washington was the original.

[@indyminded5473]

Here's to another 200 years of peace between America and Great Britian.

[@Sarah-nd2gy]

It seems ironic that George Washington's ancestors were such staunch royalists during the English Civil War and that it was this that played a part in them going to America in the first place

[@janebeatty9472]

Sarah The Washington family was good friends with their neighbor...the Spencer family at Althorp. Yes...Lady Diana Spencer’s ancestors.

[@janebeatty9472]

Sarah George the III was mentally ill and did some tyrannical things to his people.

[@pedanticradiator]

@@janebeatty9472 no he didnt that is Ameican propaganda the king did suffer from bouts of mental illness but he was not a tyrant plus by the time he was king the true power in Britain was held by parliament and the cabinet

[@timmo491]

@@janebeatty9472 sorry Jane that is completely untrue.

[@janebeatty9472]

Carl the Adopted Yorkshireman Sending soldiers to kill unarmed citizens is tyrannical. Making their lives unbearable using taxes is tyrannical. Killing women and children of militiamen is tyrannical. Torturing and killing people without trial is tyrannical. I AM the daughter of several American patriots and the niece of 23rd signer of the Declaration of Independence. If this was not so, Washington would never have been able to pull together the state’s militia’s into the Continental Army.

[@veronicaroach3667]

Thank you - I'm a Brit living in the US for 35 yrs and I had never heard of this little bit of history - well done - it's always good to get more information about who-did-what & where people's heritage is. The Washingtons were also good friends of Diana's family at Althorpe which is something else I didn't know until today - the video about her home goes into that history - which is how I arrived at this video - Youtuube keeps me busy !

[@Armed-Forever]

nice! what’s your surname?

[@russwentz3957]

Thank you for this well laid out history of the father of our country. I really enjoyed it and hope to one day visit these sites.

[@lagneuk702]

The Traitor of our country. The Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown to Washington in 1781, was the surrender of a Battle but not the War. The War ended in 1781. Then Why was a Peace treaty with the British, negotiated from a position of weakness, in 1783? The Constitution and Bill of Rights were drafted by Lawyers and Freemasons, that had a bloodline relation to the British Royal Family. In 1783, they negotiated terms with the King, in exchange for privileges, for the Founders and their groups, but not for the Common people. Yes, many did give there lives and fortunes to throw off the British Crown, but they were sold out by the Founders, who were all Loyalists to the British, including Franklin, who as " Esquire " negotiated the treaty, Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, and John Jay, just to name a few. Today the US is still a corporation, under the British Crown, with privileges, but not a Free Nation with Rights. The Constitution was drafted by British Bloodline Loyalists as a Backroom deal, while the British still controlled the Colonies thru the National Bank, created by Hamilton, a cousin to King George. The USA has been a Corporation, under the British till this day. The people today in the Military that go to fight wars in the Middle East that believe it's in the cause of Freedom, have been lied to and Sold Out, the same way, that the Colonists who pledged their lives and fortunes, all on false pretense, and all in the name of Profit for the Banks and the British Crown, which appoints their Bloodline relatives, as our Presidents, to carry out the orders from London. Our Presidents are SELECTED, not elected. Voting in elections and congressmen voting is all a sham, and for a show. This video explains it in a nutshell, kzbin.info/www/bejne/fImpe41uf9mdirs

[@tonyt7948]

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[@HistoricalWonder720]

Thank you very much for taking the time to make this interesting, detailed historical video.

[@cvnastner4010]

Amazing video! Thank you for taking time out of your vacation to make this for us!

[@judithmctaggart4282]

An English friend brought me to Sulgrave Manor. It was a wonderful tour, lots of information, and explanations of terms we use today, like threshold and pot luck there was one of Washington’s tricorn hats and a coat as I remember. . They were very knowledgeable. I highly recommend it.

[@blooelmo]

How interesting! Thank you for a piece of GW’s family history that I’d never even pondered. How silly that I’ve never thought of his European ancestors!!! Really enjoyed the bit about Virginia soil under his statue, and the description of the coat of arms was amazing.

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@Gavin Lim not British English

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@Gavin Lim never said that but english is far more accurate considering Washington family immigrated to America before britian was created in the early 1700s

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@Gavin Lim britian never exist as a nation before the 1700 you aren't clever are you

[@tesstickle7267]

@M O sorry but it was the English smashing the vikings, French and Spanish. Scotland was always trying to get France to protect them from so called little England,England hits very hard indeed. There are 3 different countries in Britain,England and Wales even at a time didn't get along, but now they are inseparable thick and thin

[@tonyt7948]

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[@bswins9648]

Very informative. Thank you for taking time from your trip to produce this video.

[@keighlancoe5933]

The man who wrote the US national anthem is from my hometown of Gloucester, and so was one of your founding fathers (Gwinnet Button) There's a war memorial plaque in our cathedral, it has the names of the men who fell in the Revolution who came from my city. What struck me, was that it includes names of men who fought for the continental army as well as the British army; there were Englishman from Gloucester fighting for both Britain and the US. The Revolution was a civil war in many respects.

[@aliciastephens1159]

Thank you for the video. I am a descendant of George Eskridge. So glad I found this channel ! Recommended it to my son and grandchildren.

[@ComfortsSpecter]

Incredible History Immaculate coincidences Beautiful work

[@dylanlcreser]

As someone from Northamptonshire, come visit! Sulgrave Manor is only one thing, there's also Princess Diana's family estate in Althorpe

[@janebeatty9472]

Dylan Lewis-Creser The two families were good friends.

[@johnstanton8499]

Also Two of the Adams Presidents ancestors came from the village of Flore in Northamptonshire Benjamin Franklins ancestors also came from Earlsbarton in Northamptonshire

[@MrIcecolddd]

Benjamin Franklins family are from Ecton near Earls Barton. George Washingtons family also lived in a town called Higham in Northamptonshire before moving to Sulgrave

[@parkviewmo]

This is very interesting! Thank you for doing this!

[@msjannd4]

Thank you! I didn't know this significant piece of history. I'd love to go there myself when we can travel again.

[@lisabeth479]

This was very informative and enjoyable! Thank You! I am a direct descent of John Washington (as many are!).

[@rayevans596]

He had no children, but you could be a cousin.

[@lisabeth479]

@@rayevans596 You're correct! There is a relation of Brother's, Lawrence and John.

[@thepatriot8514]

British history is American history too. We are all brothers and sisters now.🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@wendysmith2255]

ThePatriot yes WWG1WGA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@alanwatson3233]

England is our mother country...

[@timmo491]

We always were related its true.

[@gamernorcal]

Many people today forget that from the beginning of the USA, many Americans and those in the US gov distrusted the British. Andrew Jackson hated the British the most. And a lot of immigrants that came to the US in the 1800s came to escape the British Empire. This distrust was prevalent all the way until WW2. After WW2 , the distrust for the British gov waned and a more positive/friendly attitude emerged.

[@timmo491]

@@gamernorcal that was because Jackson had repeatedly has his arse militarily kicked by the Brits and was part of the US forces that ran away when the Brits turned up in 1812 (a war the US started and lost) and burned the White House to the ground. The Allies of the British had every reason to 'trust' them because we stand up for our allies, the enemies of the Brits such as the French didnt. Thats how things go mate.

[@Breezy11harvard]

Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@Farrukhsiyar159]

I just want to see what life would have been for a family like this in those olden days.

[@dazonghka3402]

I am from Pennsylvania. My ancestors were English Quakers who established PA along with William Penn

[@timm55]

Very cool and helpful information!

[@LeatherneckJoe133]

I love George Washington especially a million of them...

[@LeatherneckJoe133]

@Richard Schiffman you must be the younger generation who are Marxist and who voted Democrat, or a English dude who believes we stole our Independence ,your type is trying to change history by tearing down everything including our history and the country

[@LeatherneckJoe133]

@Worzal Gummidge I smell a little anti- -American with that remark…

[@einefreunde]

The coat of arms dating from the Battle of Crecy (1346). Thats real history.

[@Pius-XI]

Why?

[@sgabig]

I suppose it's ironic that the Washington family crest was awarded for fighting against the French in the 100 Years War then one of their descendants allies with the French king to fight the British king

[@Davo-007]

Mildred - George Washingtons grandmother came back to England and lived in Whitehaven Cumbria where she died. She lays at rest in St Nicholas Church grounds but the exact grave site is lost.

[@americanpatriot6938]

I'm looking forward to visiting this one day!

[@tonyt7948]

America can join the comman wealth The Royal Commonwealth Society Look it up

[@americanpatriot6938]

@@tonyt7948 Seems like a thing for people in the UK only

[@EvangelistNickGarrett]

Great video - I recently wrote "Shipwrecked in the Land of King Tobacco: The First Washington Immigrant to America" about John Washington and submitted to your library. It's around there somewhere. There are two copies floating around there currently. Let me know if you want one - I'm glad to send it over to you. Warmest regards!

[@causticchameleon7861]

How cool. I was just doing some research on my ancestors (the same as Geo. Washington’s) Washington, Warner, Ball, Lewis and Sulgrave Manor.

[@sherribuell7048]

I, too, am of that line. I am down the Lewis line. President Washington and I share G Grandparents, Augustine and Mildred (nee Reade) Warner.

[@causticchameleon7861]

@@sherribuell7048 same here. One line of mine is the Lewis line. Same grandparents too. Lol

[@paulfranciosi8155]

I live in Washington northeast England George Washingtons ancestral home is 5mins away and I live in sulgrave.

[@magnusjmvc8895]

Amazing job well done indeed 🇺🇸⚔️🇬🇧

[@johnwilletts3984]

To begin to understand the complex relationship between Britain and Revolutionary America, can I suggest you google ‘Victory Arch Parlington Hall Yorkshire’. This monument was built in 1783 to celebrate American Liberty! Britain during this period was politically torn in half between the ruling Tories who opposed independence and the Patriot Whigs who pushed for reform at home and a free democratic America. They believed trade with a free and friendly America would be good for the economy, whilst maintaining it as colonies was too expensive. My home town of Rotherham Yorkshire was Whig and is still overlooked by a monument to the Boston Tea Party, called ‘Boston Castle’ Rotherham was home to men like Lord Effingham who supported American independence. He is remembered today in the names of US cities, counties and warships. But most influential of the Rotherham Whigs was the Marquess of Rockingham. In 1781 with the Whigs gaining power in parliament, Rockingham was invited to become Prime Minister. He agreed on two conditions - Economic reform at home and that he be allowed to set America free. This was just after Yorktown, the Tories were planning to send more troops. Rockingham stopped the fighting with the colonies, but continued the war against France and Spain until the 1783 treaty. Britain deliberately offered better terms to America than France was demanding. This effectively cut the Americans away from the French and that profitable trade started immediately. Those Brits who physically fought or struggled politically for American Liberty have now been largely airbrushed from history, but this explains why it is not uncommon to find 18th century monuments to America in England.

[@theheartoftexas]

John Willetts Interesting! Can you recommend a book for further reading?

[@johnwilletts3984]

@@theheartoftexas ‘English Radicals and the American Revolution’ by Colin Bonwick published by The University of North Carolina. Then please as I said above check out Wikipedia on the Victory Arch and Boston Castle Rotherham. My own local history book called ‘Rotherham and the creation of the USA’ published by the Rotherham Civic Society comes out a little before Christmas. Also good to check out the monument to Lord Effingham outside the museum at Effingham Illinois. Then the origins of counties in Georgia. My main sources where original newspapers and books available on eBay and letters from Thomas Paine to the Walker family in Rotherham held in Rotherham Museum were I volunteer. It is my ambition to have American historians visit Rotherham to see the documents and monuments.

[@theheartoftexas]

John Willetts Thank you for your kind reply. I will start with "English Radicals..." and continue exploring. I've always wondered what the English reactions were to the split, before during, and after the war. What their thoughts and attitudes were towards the ideas and principles espoused by the framers and founders. Particularly when you consider that trade was reestablished so quickly, and we all just seemed to get on with life. I have a number of ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War, but sadly no letters or diaries survive. Thanks again and I'll look for your museum on the internet.

[@johnwilletts3984]

@@theheartoftexas Sorry, but I could not resist adding this contemporary Newspaper story dated 5th June 1775 . The newspaper - The Public Advertiser of London:- “ At a special meeting this day of several members of the Constitutional Society, during an adjournment, a gentleman proposed that a subscription should be immediately entered into for raising the sum of one hundred pounds to be applied to the relief of widows, orphans and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects who faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King’s Troops at or near Lexington and Concord in the province of Massachusetts on 19th April.” The sum was collected immediately and sent to Benjamin Franklin. That said British Whigs were very disappointed with the first American constitution. The President was selected by an electoral collage. Senators were selected by the state assemblies. Representatives were elected by white property owning men forming only 6% of the population. The right to own slaves was written into the document. The whole thing could have been written by the hated Tories. Having gained power in Parliament our Whigs focused on changing Britain’s unwritten and so flexible constitution.

[@theheartoftexas]

John Willetts Thank you for bringing this newspaper article to my attention, I honestly had no idea that there was any support in England for the American colonialist grievances. The rest that you've added is, of course, all correct. I understand the reasoning behind the Electoral College at that time. They were trying to balance power and influence equally between large states vs. small states, highly populated states vs. lesser populated states, richer states vs. poorer states. But, in my opinion, the need for that has passed. So much so that it is now doing great harm to the electoral process, and needs to be abolished. I fear this will prove very difficult considering the high level of power entrenched in this process. Regarding the appointment of Senators, that has been changed to a popular vote. And of course voting rights have been extended to all citizens over 18 years of age. Slavery was abolished in 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. I would never have thought that I would have doubts about the purposeful ridgedity of the American Constitution vs. the flexibility of the British, as that very ridgedity prevents abuse of power, and corruption - something that many Americans are dumbstruck by in the current environment. All of that said, I really appreciate the very interesting information you have brought to my attention, and more so, the very interesting conversation.

[@caseymartin6692]

Thank you!

[@unhooked25]

I didn't get a chance to actually check out the place the first time I was in England but will do so if I ever go again.

[@NeTxGrl]

I"m fascinated by GW. I had quite a few ancestors that fought in the American Revolution, some of them under him. Most of my ancestry is English, some of them coming from the same town as his ancestors did. I'm a distant cousin of Washington, I share a few great great great ect grandparents but have to go back to England for those.

[@stargazer5073]

Wow, great unknown history

[@mytoylife5354]

Thank you, I enjoyed it..

[@mjbucar]

Interesting - thank you.

[@chrollolucilfer8618]

Would really love to visit there.

[@teukurajahitam8225]

Washington's family crest or family shield is three red stars and two stripes. The District of Columbia flag is based of his family crest that

[@gwizzuk]

The WASHINGTON 'family crest' is "From a crest coronet a raven rising wings elevated and addorsed proper". That is distinct from the coat of arms.

[@sarahdavis5070]

I am a direct relative of Augustine Washington sr through his son Augustine JR. Thank you for this !

[@curlysue3620]

Glad to see Washington Sunderland my home town was mentioned.

[@biggorilla1216]

I’ve been to sulgrave manor on a school trip

[@biggorilla1216]

I have also been to Washington county durham

[@nora22000]

Good to know that Virginian George Washington was of Cavalier background. It explains a lot.

[@prissymcc]

It certainly explains why he thought he was entitled to enslave human beings for his own personal wealth.

[@saltynameredacted9117]

@Urien Rheged It isn't her fault she's uneducated. Give her time. It is bound to hit her at some point.

[@janebeatty9472]

Lorraine Mccullough Mount Verano was owned by Martha Custis whom he married. They were her deceased husbands workers and some were indentured White people.

[@janebeatty9472]

M O Mount Vernon was owned by Martha Custis because her husband died.

[@nora22000]

@Urien Rheged Yet no one in the Barbary region designed financial instruments with black slaves as collateral. Or set up insurance policies making it pay to whip slaves to death. These were just a few of the 'peculiar institution' features of US slavery making it worse and more entrenched than any other.

[@IanP1963]

I saw a house with a link to GW in Lancashire many years ago with the Washington coat of arms on the front !!!!

[@Panda74gofaster]

Awesome!!!

[@scottkerrison2913]

The original ancestral home was in the north east Washington Sunderland

[@Oxley016]

Washington isn’t in sunderland it’s in Washington

[@shawnmichaelduncan5951]

Many of the founding fathers ancestors were from England.

[@theheartoftexas]

SHAWN MICHAEL Duncan England and Scotland.

[@tesstickle7267]

Think a few were also enlisted,royal navy officers and such

[@wendysmith2255]

SHAWN MICHAEL Duncan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@christopherbenjaminwalker8600]

Even more interesting is that "English" ancestry is actually the largest ethnic group in the USA to date and more than German.

[@realanti-jewish8154]

@@christopherbenjaminwalker8600 Are you Jewish?

[@bettydoughtery3920]

Thank you

[@ChopinIsMyBestFriend]

I am 7th cousins twice removed from George Washington. Mildred Reade and Colonel Augustine Warner II are my 9th great grandparents. Mildred Washington’s sister would be my 8th great grandmother Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis who would marry Colonel John Lewis III and have Elizabeth Lewis who then had a son who served in the revolution. Also those Lewis’s are indeed related to Merriwether Lewis. I have extensive documentation of this. Just putting it out there. I love history. Actually used to work in Andrew Jackson’s home The Hermitage giving tours. George Washington is an insipiration to me.

[@truthmediarebel5816]

They were Mackem's, from Washington, County Durham. Look up the Geordie song "I rather be dead than a Mackem".

[@sohinishukla6048]

Thanks for your Support here ! Dr Sohini Shukla

[@Benya9400]

I'm going over there on Tuesday actually, as a matter of fact I went to College in this English county and my late Grandfather was stationed there with the USAF during WW2.

[@thebuddhaofknowledgemichae2486]

Washington's ancestors came from one Knight who served William the Conqueror

[@Weesel71]

Check out Selby Abbey church in Selby. Don't know if it's still there, but I was surprised (ca. 1980) by the "bicentennial" star emblem in the church and the accompanying story.

[@christopherdenniston9798]

So George Washington's family where originally Geordies, like Neil Armstrong's & Charlton Heston's. No wonder he was so stoic, they breed them tough in the north of England

[@joybroyles7788]

That is do heat! Thanks!

[@jamesmcmurrough3811]

In Washington in Sunderland, north east England (Tyne and Wear) I'm sure there is a house where his family also lived

[@benk9397]

Yeah Washington old hall :) in Washington Village, two mins from me

[@Oxley016]

Correct, apart from Washington isn’t in bloody Sunderland

[@gregorybrennan8539]

I have been there . Americans should go. It is interesting to see how people's lives changed and flowed, especially now.

[@glenwhiteheart458]

George Washingtons ancestral home is Washington old hall , in Washington England.

[@saxx001]

And here is a member of this clan, me, just ask and I'll give you answers as I'm the keeper of the Family Washington archives.

[@theheartoftexas]

Alto Saxx How interesting! Do you know what the family attitude ,as well as George Washington's in particular was, towards the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War?

[@tonyt7948]

America can join the comman wealth The Royal Commonwealth Society Look it up

[@kimberlybates6261]

George Washington is a distant cousin because him and I share the Washington who owned the manor. I'm descendant from his daughter the gggggg grandfather who owned the manor . she's like a great great great great grandmother.

[@markrainton3320]

As a relative you can go see the house probably stay the night for free it's worth a try anyway but this has not come from me.

[@i4long]

@@markrainton3320 Descended from Washington, Taliaffero line my ancestors Grandfathers and Grandmothers are buried at Mount Vernon.

[@fetengineer9151]

I'm a person of color with Indigenous & colonial connection to Charles County Mayland. Seriously, I'm too a DNA certified relative of GW by way of West Ford who was a mixed race ancestor of mine who is believed to be GW son.

[@E30Tur]

George Washington's Great Grandad was a massive lads fan. Had a season ticked in the clock stand. FTM.

[@MrIcecolddd]

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington all of their ancestors hail from Northamptonshire. Benjamin Franklin’s ancestors come from Ecton and George Washingtons family had a house in the village I grew up in (before Lawrence moved to Sulgrave). It’s so weird how a county such as Northamptonshire, which isn’t really known for anything in England except shoe making. Was essentially the cradle for the United States of America

[@sanjitsaha5000]

Went there with my school when I was a kid go take a look at the chapel windows they are outstanding

[@carlthornton3076]

Great!!!

[@bjmorgan4232]

Earl Spencer (princess Diana's brother) has personal items belonging to the Washington family. They lived on Spencer land.

[@darlac10155]

They were distant cousins .

[@SantaFe19484]

Wow, what a story. So ironic that a royalist was the ancestor of a rebel.

[@veganwinter2090]

We're very interested in the African family of Aquito,Venus, and Ford West also.

[@Molz333]

Could you please help me research this further?

[@janebeatty9472]

The Washington family were close friends and neighbors to the Spencer family of Althorp. Yes...those Spencers. Althorp has a lidded chest that, when opened, has the Washington crest inside.

[@kimberlybates6261]

Yes they were.

[@janebeatty9472]

@Worzal Gummidge I don’t believe I said they were backyard neighbors or on the same societal level. The Washington’s were not wealthy but comfortable. The Spencer family enjoyed the Washington family’s company and we’re good friends.

[@johnbaldock6353]

So maybe not a war for Independence but a civil war??🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸

[@nikkolettguyer4913]

It was a civil war as many family’s were split

[@janebeatty9472]

It would be a Civil War if all parties were from the same country but that wasn’t the case. There were Germans, Swedes, Scots, Finnish, ect colonists there as well and each set up their own community standards. They were initially local then state militias later becoming the Continental Army. It’s why the flag with the snake cut into parts was used by Washington during the Revolutionary War. The snake was useless unless all parts, or states, were united.

[@siyabongamngomezulu9743]

@@janebeatty9472 Many royalist foreigners fought for the crown as mercenaries.

[@wolverineeagle]

Jane Beatty Vast majority were British and English.

[@janebeatty9472]

wolverineeagle Site your resource for your answer.

[@jsc5492]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Old_Hall Washington is in County Durham, effectively a Northern County. I should say that Northamptonshire is a Midlands County!

[@SoundSista222]

They came from Warton in Lancashire you can visit their home and church

[@colinraine2604]

The Washingtons were a Norman family, but in those days they were called Hertburn. Sometime in the 11th century Sir William de Hertburn wanted to buy an estate called Wessyngton, a bit further to the north of where he lived near Teeside. Wessyington was a Saxon village and estate, and when Sir William bought it, he found that by law he had to take the name of the estate, so he became Sir William de Wessyngton ! Over the years the name changed to Washington, though no-one seems to know why; it was probably due to the local dialect being Saxon and Viking influenced. The family lived in The Old Hall, whicb still stands today, and is a popular tourist destination. Hundreds of Americans visit and on the 4th July there is a celebration and the stars & Stripes flag is hoisted at The Old Hall. Sometime back in the middle ages the Washington family chose to move South, to Sulgrave in Northamptonshire, where they built an "Old Hall" in sandstone like the one in Washington. From then on the story is as you tell it. Because the Normans were of Scandinavian origin, living in France by a decree with the French Royalty, they were of Viking blood, and so, George Washington, on the male bloodline was a Viking !

[@IanP1963]

Make sure that English link is part of MV history now !!!!!

[@Garbeaux.]

People don’t realize the Queen and Washington are related. So strange.

[@veronicaroach3667]

George Washington’s second cousin Rev. Robert Porteus, his daughter Mildred married Robert Hodgson, and their son was Robert Hodgson, Dean of Carlisle. His daughter Henrietta married up into money, to the son of the director of the East India Company, and their daughter Frances Dora Smith married up into nobility, to Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Their son was the 14th Earl. His daughter was Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Her daughter is the Queen.

[@1956paterson]

I am really surprised that you did not know about Sulgrave Manor.

[@owenmccord5078]

How surprised are you that some people actually believe that he wasn’t aware of its existence until now?

[@HeatherP419]

God bless the USA.

[@biggorilla1216]

my grandmar lives in washington county durham she says it the posh area

[@ryanbell4952]

It’s not.

[@glenwhiteheart458]

Washington , is pronounced by locals as "Weshintin" or " "Wessington". There is a road in Sunderland called "Wessington Way" which is the way to Washington

[@giovanni6636]

His grandmother is buried in St. Nicholas graveyard in Whitehaven in Cumbria

[@elemdy914]

I’m from Sunderland in the northeast of England (Washington is part of Sunderland) I had no idea there was a link between George Washington and Washington! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸 *Edit* The Washington’s house down south was called Sulgrave manor... in Washington north east England there is a huuuge neighbourhood called sulgrave. Unfortunately it’s probably the roughest place in Washington so I wouldn’t recommend visiting 🤣

[@sacradotjoannes]

Hard to believe that Washington's mother was alive to see the Republic established!

[@geoffpriestley7001]

I've not been but I've slept in john pauls jones garden in scotland .we went to a celebration to 260 years since he was born . We camp in the garden and the caretaker left the cottage open so we could use the loo

[@craigmignone2863]

The Washington's came originally from Sunderland in Durham which had section called Washington their shied appears on Hilton Castle with those of other families of the north' which was built circa 1399........

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

George Washington Turner is a repeated family name that was connected to Harewood House, West Virginia, where George Washington was married, so I do not know if I am related.

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

@Chet I did not mean to say George Washington was born in West Virginia. I said he was married at Harewood House in Harewood, West Virginia. I meant to say where he was married and corrected my comment.

[@gandhithegreat328]

Where else would his family have come from? They weren’t Native American

[@gilgalbiblewheel6313]

WHy is it that there are several Vanderbilts named after George Washington? Are they related?

[@brianrussell8656]

Cool John McCain was related to whashington some way or another cool.

[@timmo491]

McCain is Irish so how can they be Washington is English. Probably by marriage then?

[@vice4134]

That's where the American flag came from... from Washington's family coat of arms along with the color inside of one of his jackets from England.

[@jasonshumate6456]

Is that house 500+years old?

[@Cocoa887]

The Washington family crest is also the flag of Washington D.C

[@IanP1963]

I am amazed you didn't know about Sulgrave Ethan, are you all at MV only knowledgeable about American affairs ? Anglo-American history is your history is our history is your history !!!!!

[@Malia2277]

Ancestry shows George Washington being my 2nd Cousin 10x removed. This is so interesting!

[@jagdpanther1944]

You should have gone up to Washington in Tyne and Wear...the locals would have said "way aye, Geordie boy, haway tha' lad"

[@zsplatoon2489]

Actually, we don't-

[@toddy505]

Same as Glasgow folk all say, see you Jimmy, i don’t think so lol

[@haidershahid8810]

Absolutely ! Absolutely !

[@Oxley016]

Well personally I’d say traitor but if you say so

[@lavillablanca]

Great video. Thanks for sharing.. since the communist Chinese virus, has attacked the entire world, no chance I will ever be able to visit Sulgrave Manor. Thank you.

[@MCLARENracerful]

You sound like an absolute twat

[@lavillablanca]

Whatchuwant - you offer a rebuttal of high level intelligence. Feel free to fly to Wuhan.

[@MCLARENracerful]

lavillablanca I rather fly to Wuhan than the shithole that is the Mismanaged States of America