Help with Tartan Ferret Please?

[A Hay]

I've been trying to look up a surname on Tartan Ferret at STA, but my computer times out before a result comes up. Could someone out there with a faster connection please look up the surname Warthen?

There is a Walter Warthen in my mother's line who was in Virginia around the late 1700's. Recently I was looking at census records from Scotland from about 1860 and found a lot of Warthens in Perthshire. Makes me wonder if Warthen is a sept of a larger clan.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Tom

[James MacMillan]

I used Tartan Ferret and also house of tartan tartan finder with no tartan found for Warthen.

[James MacMillan]

A quick google for "warthen" and "clan" comes back with Moffat......?

[A Hay]

Thanks James,
That was quick!

Tom

[bjproc]

A quick google for "warthen" and "clan" comes back with Moffat......?

have you got a link for this?

i can't seen to find anything about it


thanks

[James MacMillan]

have you got a link for this?

i can't seen to find anything about it


thanks

I ust googled Warthen and clan, and came up with several, and especially ..this..

[bjproc]

I ust googled Warthen and clan, and came up with several, and especially ..this..

thanks for that link, i just couldn't see anything

edit on this

not being picky here, sorry if it looks that way, but i'm sure clan moffat has only these septs

MOFFAT. Moffatt, Moffett, Mofitt, Maffatt, Maffett, Maffitt.

i searched that site for my name and it also turns up, and i'm not a sept of them, i think it's just a genealogy thing with marrage names as well.

[macwilkin]

Moffat is also a Borders surname, and was a Border family. It's only been in recent times that the Lord Lyon recognised a Chief of the Moffats (Francis Moffat, if I remember right).

T.

[SteveB]

A have at my fingertips a rather large index of families, septs, and clans compiled by several noted experts on Scot history. None of these volumes shows the Warthen family as a sept of any clan. The only reference I can find is the family name appearing on recent documents.
My professor of Scottish Studies is not familiar with the name either

[Mael Coluim]

Tom, I went to the site and looked at the alphabetical list and could not find Warthen.