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[[Category: US President Direct Ancestor]] [[Category: NSSAR Patriot Ancestors]] == Biography == ===Grandmother of President George Washington===Mildred Warner, born 1671, in Warner Hall, Gloucester, Virginia, United States was the daughter of Augustine Warner of Gloucester Co., Virginia, Speaker of The Virginia House of Burgesses. She first married Captain Lawrence Washington, in 1685, having three children from that union: John (the eldest), Augustine, the father of President George Washington, and daughter, Mildred. Upon Lawrence's death, in 1699, Mildred married Colonel George Gale, a merchant, in 1700, with the family relocating to Whitehaven, located on the west coast of England. It is said that on January 24, 1701, [http://www.whitehavenandwesternlakeland.co.uk/people/mildredgale.htm] while nearing the end of her pregnancy and possibly acquiring a fever, Mildred made out her will. Then, on January 30,1701, after experiencing a difficult childbirth, she died, followed by the burial of her newly-born daughter, on May 26, 1701. Inasmuch as she died in Whitehaven, England, with a commemorative plaque placed on the wall at her Warner family ancestral cemetery, in Naxera, Gloucester County, stating that she was buried in St. Nicholas Churchyard, Whitehaven, England [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=117265765], she was, in fact, buried at the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=647093&GRid=21513&] Initially, her husband, George, was given custody of her children, as stipulated in her will. However, after petitioning the courts, John Washington, Lawrence Washington's cousin, was eventually granted guardianship of her children, and subsequently, returned them to Virginia, in 1704 [http://kenmore.org/genealogy/washington/lawrence_washington.html] [http://www.whitehavenandwesternlakeland.co.uk/people/mildredgale.htm] ===U. S. Sons Of The American Revolution=== SAR Membership: 40793 Name: Mildred Warner Spouse: Lawrence Washington Children: Augustine Washington [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=SARMemberApps&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-d&gsfn=mildred&gsln=warner&msbdy=1671&msbpn__ftp=virginia&msddy=1701&msdpn__ftp=england&_F0006399=40793&dbOnly=_F0006399|_F0006399_x&uidh=543&msddd=30&msddm=1&pcat=39&fh=1&h=495610&recoff=&ml_rpos=2] SAR Membership: 80145 Name: Mildred Warner Spouse: Lawrence WashingtonChildren: John Washington [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=SARMemberApps&h=835374&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2204] SAR Membership: 55283 Name: Mildred Warner Spouse: Lawrence WashingtonChildren: Mildred Warner Washington [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=SARMemberApps&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-d&gsfn=mildred&gsln=warner&msbdy=1671&msbpn__ftp=virginia&msddy=1701&msdpn__ftp=england&_F0006399=40793&dbOnly=_F0006399|_F0006399_x&uidh=543&msddd=30&msddm=1&pcat=39&fh=4&h=1180736&recoff=&ml_rpos=5] == Sources ==[http://www.whitehavenandwesternlakeland.co.uk/people/mildredgale.htm Mildred Gale (1671-1701) aka Mildred Warner, Mildred Washington] [http://kenmore.org/genealogy/washington/lawrence_washington.html The George Washington Foundation] [http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/washancestry.html "The Ancestry of George Washington", by Sons of Liberty Chapter-Sons of the American Revolution] == Acknowledgements == WikiTree profile Warner-1433 created through the import of GerkeFam.ged on Jun 14, 2012 by [[Gerke-8 | Matthew Gerke]]. This profile edited by Leslie [[Ridley-388]] 20 Mar 2014 See the [http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Warner-1433 Changes page] for the details of edits by Matthew and others.

Birth	1671	Warner Hall, Virginia, USA
Death	1701	Whitehaven, Cumberland, England

Father	Augustine Warner (1642 - 1681)
Mother	Mildred Reade (1643 - 1694)
Sibling	Mary Warner (1663 - 1700)
Sibling	Elizabeth Warner (1672 - 1720)
Sibling	Elizabeth Warner (1672 - 1719)