THE WARDRIP'S FAMILY GENEALOGY GROUP:

Wardrip's Family Motto: "Supera Sequor"
Which translated: "I follow heavenly things"

Welcome to the WARDRIP's FAMILY GENEALOGY GROUP. This group is for WARDRIP'S to share family history or to pass along news, photos, up-dates or other information to others. When posting please give as much detail as you can, you may have the missing link or a lead that may help in learning our family history.

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*Group's Moderator: Stanley G. Wardrip Jr. {Wilmington NC}
E-Mail: Aquamedic9@aol.com

**The WARDRIP's FAMILY GENEALOGY GROUP has won the "2005 Ann Morrow's Kentucky Genealogy Award", "2006 Ancestry Connections Genealogy Award" & "2008 PYFT Award of Merit"!

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Spelling variations include: Wardrop, Wardrope, Wardrobe, Waldrop, Waldroppe, Waldrope, Waldropp, Waldrep and many more.

First found in Scotland, where ROBERT DE WARDEROP witnessed a charter by Countess Margaret of Buchan in favour of the Abbey of Arbroath in 1210.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: MICHAEL WARDROPE, born in Scotland 1640 and settled in Virginia in 1685; JOSEPH WARDROPE, who immigrated to Georgia in 1734 with his wife and daughter; and JAMES WARDROPE born 1725, and died 1790 in Wake Co., N.C. He sold supplies to the Patriots during the Rev. War.

YOUNGER WALDROPE SR. {son of JAMES WARDROPE} went from N.C. to KY in 1810. There a teacher taught his children to spell thier name "Wardrip", and every Wardrip in this country is descended from him.

From the book: "The Wardrip's Family History" by S. G. Wardrip Jr