Smith607 conjectures that this John Warren may be the father of Robert and Thomas Warren. John Warren “appeared in the Military Survey list of 1522 for Babergh Hundred in the town of Wiston, Suffolk, England. At that time he was called a husbandman and credited with lands there valued at £1 per year and with moveables valued at £6 (1522 Military Survey, 66). He appeared again in 1524 in the Subsidy Return for Wiston with valuables again rated at £6 (1524 Subsidy Return, 21).

“The Warren family has a long history in Nayland and adjacent parishes. In the Subsidy return of 1327, a ‘Waltero Waryn’ was rated at £3 in ‘Neylond.’ In 1441 two wills for men named John Warren were probated, one dated 11 July 1441 for John Warren of Stoke Nayland, fuller (Archdeaconry of Sudbury 2:60) and one dated the penultimate day of November 1441 for John Warren of Nayland (Archdeaconry of Subdury 2:20).

“Only John’s proximity to Robert and Thomas suggest that he may be related. He could as easily be a brother as their father.”