General Notes

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Source: Richard Washburn Family Genealoby by Ada C Haight
        The Ancestors & Descendants of Abraham Daniel Washburn and his
                wife Flora Clarinda Gleason-Utah Pioneers 1805-1962
                by Ella L. Turner
        Washburn Family Foundations in Normandy, England & America
                by Mabel Tacher Rosemary Washburn
        The Washbourne Family by Reverend James Davenport, Vicar of
                Wichenford (lst published in 1907)

!It has been said that the first ancestor in England (Urse) was knigh ted during
the Battle of Hastings by William the Congueror. (1066)  He is said t o have
been created Earl of Worcestershire in 1076 and is also mentioned a s Earl,
Viscount and as the Sheriff of Worcestershire.  He had far-spread lan ds in
England  and he was considered tenant-in-chief (the King owned all th e land and
under Feudal law, he held them directly from the King)  Tenant-in -ch ief's
were also known as Barons.  Such Lordships he possesses in Worcesters hire,
Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Warwickshire.  In the Domesday Su rvey,
1086, he is called Sheriff of Worcestershire.  From history, his pers onality
seems to show deep-rooted conflict of soul.  Despotic seizure of wha t they
wanted, outbreaks of barbaric fury, even ferocious cruelty, these evi l traits
sometimes demoralizing them to the worst of sins, sacrilege, were a w ild storn
in the beings of these near descendants of the fierce Vikings. With t he Viking,
heathen blood, however, they had the Christian heritage from their Fr ench
mothers, for the Northmen who invaded and won the land named for the m brought
few Scandinavian women to Normandy, and married daughters of the Frnk ish
people, Christianized for centuries.  When their conversion to Chris t brought
them into the influences of civilization, gradually, they learned t o respect
Law in itself, for all people. The only wrong doing that can be foun d to be
contributed to Urse is one act of sacrilege.  It seems that Urse di d "lawlessly
and sacreligiously, encroach on the Monks' cemetery adjoining Worcest er Abbey,
in order to build there the ditch of his great castle.  Urse, was a s upporter
of King William (the conqueror) and helped to put down a rebellion th at the
Earl of Hereford had hatched.  Urse d'Abitot was the Founder of Malve rn Priory,
one of the beneficient religious institutions of the Monks of Saint B enedict.
The foundation of the Prior by Urse d'Abitot was in 1083 .  The Prio r Church
was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Michael the Archan gel.
Urse died sometime between 1108 and 1112.[Direct Linage1.FTW]

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Source: Richard Washburn Family Genealoby by Ada C Haight
        The Ancestors & Descendants of Abraham Daniel Washburn and his
                wife Flora Clarinda Gleason-Utah Pioneers 1805-1962
                by Ella L. Turner
        Washburn Family Foundations in Normandy, England & America
                by Mabel Tacher Rosemary Washburn
        The Washbourne Family by Reverend James Davenport, Vicar of
                Wichenford (lst published in 1907)

!It has been said that the first ancestor in England (Urse) was knigh ted during
the Battle of Hastings by William the Congueror. (1066)  He is said t o have
been created Earl of Worcestershire in 1076 and is also mentioned a s Earl,
Viscount and as the Sheriff of Worcestershire.  He had far-spread lan ds in
England  and he was considered tenant-in-chief (the King owned all th e land and
under Feudal law, he held them directly from the King)  Tenant-in -ch ief's
were also known as Barons.  Such Lordships he possesses in Worcesters hire,
Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Warwickshire.  In the Domesday Su rvey,
1086, he is called Sheriff of Worcestershire.  From history, his pers onality
seems to show deep-rooted conflict of soul.  Despotic seizure of wha t they
wanted, outbreaks of barbaric fury, even ferocious cruelty, these evi l traits
sometimes demoralizing them to the worst of sins, sacrilege, were a w ild storn
in the beings of these near descendants of the fierce Vikings. With t he Viking,
heathen blood, however, they had the Christian heritage from their Fr ench
mothers, for the Northmen who invaded and won the land named for the m brought
few Scandinavian women to Normandy, and married daughters of the Frnk ish
people, Christianized for centuries.  When their conversion to Chris t brought
them into the influences of civilization, gradually, they learned t o respect
Law in itself, for all people. The only wrong doing that can be foun d to be
contributed to Urse is one act of sacrilege.  It seems that Urse di d "lawlessly
and sacreligiously, encroach on the Monks' cemetery adjoining Worcest er Abbey,
in order to build there the ditch of his great castle.  Urse, was a s upporter
of King William (the conqueror) and helped to put down a rebellion th at the
Earl of Hereford had hatched.  Urse d'Abitot was the Founder of Malve rn Priory,
one of the beneficient religious institutions of the Monks of Saint B enedict.
The foundation of the Prior by Urse d'Abitot was in 1083 .  The Prio r Church
was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Michael the Archan gel.
Urse died sometime between 1108 and 1112.