Ancestry of Cometan

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Img 5851 original — Warbrick family picture.

Cometanic Ancestry — Cover of 2020 book on Cometanic ancestry.

For the immediate family members and other relatives of Cometan, visit the Family members of Cometan.

For the genealogical ancestry of Cometan, visit Genealogy of Cometan.

The ancestry of Cometan, or Cometanic ancestry, is the branch of Cometanology dealing with the ancestral lineage and relational contemporaries of the founder of Astronism. It is a twin branch to Cometanic descendantry which studies the descendants of the founder of Astronism.

Phases

Main article: Ancestral investigation phase

Cometan's endeavours to understand his ancestral lineage can be split into distinct phases or time periods with each phase possessing different themes and topics of interest.

Cometanic ancestral investigation phases
Title	Period	Theme and topics covered
Ancestral Investigation Phase One	March 2019 – July 2020	Exploring Cometan's immediate maternal and paternal ancestry, establishment of the eight major Cometanic ancestral lines, identification of Cometanic ancestors going back to medieval times.
Ancestral Investigation Phase Two	October 2020 – June 2021	Moon family emigration and life as Mormon pioneers, Cometanic ancestry stretching back to ancient times, identification of historical or otherwise notable figures in Cometanic ancestry.
Ancestral Investigation Phase Three	July 2021 – 19th October 2021	A much clearer delineation of the direct lineage of Cometan stretching back to 16the century in most lines; a focus particular to Cometan's paternal ancestry which had previous seen a lack of attention; development of the Cometanica Archives to compile all Cometan's ancestral information in one place as part of the broader Grand Astronist Archives.
Ancestral Investigation Phase Four	20th October 2021 – 6th January 2022	The fourth Ancestral Phase began when Cometan met with his Auntie Therese and received many photos from his paternal ancestry and also received a copy of Derrick Taylor's Sceptre Bulletin Interview. Another job to complete is collecting the birth and death certificates of various ancestors in order to either confirm dates or to gain further information, such as cause of death.
Ancestral Investigation Phase Five	7th January 2022 – 25th March 2022	A new phase of ancestral investigation was launched by Cometan after confirming that much of his paternal grandfather Derrick Taylor's ancestry he had made mistakes with, thus causing new branches of his ancestry to have to be formed. This phase was filled with much greater information and photographs about the lives of Irene Mary and Derrick Taylor as well as Cometan's discovery of a large collection of newspaper clippings from his great-aunt Monica.
Ancestral Investigation Phase Six	26th March 2022 – 31st August 2022	Phase six of Cometan's investigations into his ancestry began following a third visit to his great-aunt Monica's of 2022.
Ancestral Investigation Phase Seven	1st September 2022 – 4th January 2023	Phase seven of Cometan's investigations into his ancestry began shortly following his grandmother Hilda's 85th birthday.
Ancestral Investigation Phase Eight	5th January 2023 – 24th March 2023
Ancestral Investigation Phase Nine	25th March 2023 – 4th September 2023	Phase Nine began with Cometan's discovery that his ancestor John Moon (1620-1689), a Quaker, had written and published religious writings including a claim to divine revelation. During this phase, Cometan wrote his journal article "The Quaker Moons of Lancashire."
Ancestral Investigation Phase Ten	5th September 2023 – 11th January 2024	Phase Ten began when Cometan returned from his summer trip to Milan and returned to some new death and marriage certificates which had been delivered. During this phase, Cometan wrote his journal article "The Mormon Moons of Lancashire."
Ancestral Investigation Phase Eleven	12th January 2024 – present	Phrase Eleven began when Cometan got access to a large number of birth and death certificates for different branches of his maternal ancestry which he was then able to include in his upcoming work A Compendium of the Life and Genealogy of Cometan.

Classifications

There are five different classifications:

Contemporary of Cometan – those individuals alive at the same time as Cometan.
Ancestor of Cometan – those individuals in the 3rd and 4th generation retrogrades.
Distant ancestor of Cometan – those individuals in the 5th generation retrograde and earlier.
Medieval ancestor of Cometan – those ancestors of Cometan recorded as having been born before 1453 and as such, lived in whole or in part during the Middle Ages.
Notable ancestor of Cometan – non-grandparental ancestors of Cometan considered of particular interest and notability by the Institution.

Statistics

The Astronist Institution is conferred with the responsibility of studying Cometanic ancestry and classifying individuals as Cometanic ancestors. Below are the current number of ancestors of Cometan

Ancestors of Cometan =
Distant ancestors of Cometan =
Notable ancestors of Cometan =

Also split between core and peripheral:

Core ancestors = 1,138 (direct line ancestors, recognised ancestors, notable ancestors)
Peripheral ancestors = 10,000+ (non-direct ancestors e.g. aunts, cousins, unrecognised ancestors)
Verified DNA Matches to Cometan (extended family and distant relatives) = 10,836

Paternal ancestry

Hardacre family

Richard Hardacre, father of Irene Mary Taylor

McKerney family

Edith Hardacre, mother of Irene Mary Taylor

Taylor family

Frederick Taylor, father of Derrick Taylor

Stringfellow family

Ellen Stringfellow, mother of Derrick Taylor

Maternal ancestry

Farnworth family

Elizabeth Alice Turner (1886 - 1970), grandmother of Hilda Warbrick.
Elizabeth Farnworth (c. 1867 - c. 1949), great-grandmother of Hilda Warbrick.

Turner family

Jane Cottam (née Turner) (1909 - 1942), the mother of Hilda Warbrick.
Raymond Turner, the half-brother of Hilda Warbrick.
Joseph Turner, the grandfather of Hilda Warbrick.

Cottam family

Richard Cottam (1904 - 1954), the father of Hilda Warbrick.
Nicholas Cottam, the grandfather of Hilda Warbrick.
Mary Cottam, the grandmother of Hilda Warbrick.

Moon family

Elizabeth Prescott (née Moon), the grandmother of Bill Warbrick.
John Moon, the father of Elizabeth Prescott.
Agnes Moon, the mother of Elizabeth Prescott.

Prescott family

Mary Warbrick (née Prescott), the mother of Bill Warbrick. Married Henry Warbrick.
Joseph Prescott, the father of Mary Warbrick and hence, the great-great grandfather of Cometan.
David Prescott, the father of Joseph Prescott and hence, the third great grandfather of Cometan.

Lancaster family

Elizabeth Warbrick (1868 - 1899), grandmother of Bill Warbrick. William Warbrick (1861 - c. 1933).
John Lancaster, the great grandfather of Bill Warbrick and hence, the third great-grandfather of Cometan.
Isabella Lancaster (1846 - unknown), the great grandmother of Bill Warbrick.

Warbrick family

Henry Warbrick (1896 - 1972), the father of Bill Warbrick.
William Warbrick (1861 - c.1933), the great-great-grandfather of Cometan.
James Warbrick (1822 - unknown), the father of William Warbrick and hence, the third great-grandfather of Cometan.
Ellen Warbrick (née Tootell), the mother of William Warbrick.

Family line

Main article: Cometanic family line

A family line is a unit of vertical classification used in Cometanic ancestry to denote the eight main lines of ancestry derived from the great-grandparents of Cometan. The eight family lines of Cometan include:

Paternal family lines

Hardacre family line
McKerney family line
Stringfellow family line
Taylor family line

Maternal family lines

Cottam family line
Prescott family line
Turner family line
Warbrick family line

Generation retrogrades

Main article: Generation retrograde

A generation retrograde is a unit of horizontal classification in Cometanic ancestry used to divide ancestors of Cometan into groups according to the generation to which they belong.

List of generation retrogrades

Contemporary

Ancestral

Distant ancestral

Medieval ancestral

Notable people

Anastasia Arrowsmith –– married Jack Arrowsmith, descendent of Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, a Roman Catholic priest and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Edward Southworth –– English poet.
Harry Prescott –– English World War One soldier.
John James Warbrick –– English wheelwright and undertaker.
Thomas Warbrick –– English World War Two sapper killed and buried at Salerno Beach, Italy.
Thomas Warbrick –– English cotton weaver and Ministry of Defence policeman
William Warbrick –– English wheelwright

Ancient ancestors of Cometan

In the study of Cometanic ancestry, one of Cometan's paternal lines stretches back to ancient times and includes the following famous figures:

Magnus Maximus
Saint Elen
Anna the Prophetess
Vortigern
Brân the Blessed

External

Ancestors of Cometan on Geni