Associated Claims & Citations

1. sourced

   The earliest documented man of the name is a 1672 York County tithable and the 1682 headright on the Claibornes' patent. No 1608 arrival, and no passenger on the second supply, is documented under any spelling.

   Virginia Patent Book 7, p. 154, abstracted in Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, vol. 2, p. 236, by three transcriptions; the project's surname research; the 1608 claim has no record behind it anywhere in the tree or the research

2. unverified

   The Scottish origin traces to David Dobson's 1984 directory of Scottish settlers, and Dobson's entry rests on an unverified query sent in by an amateur. Nothing contemporary says where Michael Wardrope came from. The 1670 date is close to the 1672 levy and may descend from it.

   the project's surname research; the record neither confirms nor contradicts, so the square stays open

3. unverified

   Nothing found. No burgess of that name is recorded, and the family's one documented man in the period was a headright, which is what a man was called when somebody else got land for bringing him.

   the project's surname research; the project's contradictions file

4. inferred

   Those four men span a century. Franklin was born in 1706 and Davis in 1808; no one generation was contemporary with all of them. The family was contemporary with all four in the sense that it existed, which is true of every family.

   from the dates alone

5. sourced

   Not on the direct Waldrip line. Michael Waldrip (born circa 1770) was a child during the Revolution, too young to bear arms. His candidate father, Michael Waldrop of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, served in Roebuck's Regiment during the war, but that parentage remains unverified, and no direct military enlistment on the line has been established.

   NARA and South Carolina Revolutionary records; 1790 Spartanburg census; the project's Richard Michael Waldrip research; no enlistment on the direct line

6. unverified

   Nobody has looked. The answer is in the probate inventories of Wayne and Tishomingo counties and the 1850 and 1860 slave schedules for Smith and Henderson counties, and the page will carry whatever they say.

   the project's index of the recording; no search has been made

7. sourced

   Not on the direct Waldrip line. Anderson Marion Waldrip lived as a civilian stock raiser on the exposed Texas frontier in Coleman County and has no enlistment in Confederate or Union compiled service records (NARA M323, M380) or Texas pension rolls. His sons were infants or small children during the war (George Thomas was born in November 1858).

   National Archives M323 (Confederate) and M380 (Union) compiled service records for Texas; Texas State Archives Confederate Pension Application Index; the project's military service research

8. unverified

   The tree carries a note that George Thomas "served in Texas Rangers during Indian Wars". The Texas State Library's Ranger rolls index no commission for him. If he rode, it was with a frontier posse in the 1870s, and a correction to retract the note is pending.

   TSLAC Texas Ranger service records, no entry; the project's pending corrections list corr-20260908-035; the project's military service research

9. unverified

   The route is in the record, county by county, and chapter III draws it. What they travelled in is not recorded anywhere.

   the project's migration research; the wagons are the family's

10. unverified

    In 1930 John Franklin is a stockman and Floyd a labourer on a cattle ranch at Young. Anderson raised cattle on the Colorado in 1870; George Thomas was a cattle raiser at twenty-one. The twins were born on that ranch in 1938 and Floyd later worked as an operating engineer in Phoenix.

    1870 Coleman, 1880 McCulloch, 1930 Young census rows; Floyd's death certificate, 1976; none opened

11. unverified

    She states the epistemics herself, and the page agrees with her statement. Two Cherokee notes in the tree have nothing behind them; the 1830 to 1880 censuses enumerate Anderson and his parents as white; no Indian roll, agency record or vital record carries it. It stays on the page as what the family remembers.

    the project's research on this man; the project's migration research, dead end 4; corrections pending as decisions, not edits